· The
Annual Meeting will be held on January 9,2018, in the OLLI Room at USCB at 4:00
We
will begin promptly, call the roll, and have our business meeting. Then we will
have a “pop-up social” -- just fun together! We can visit with each other since
we will not have a presentation.
· Here
is a list of the upcoming months and the presenters - just as a “reminder.”
February
- Donna Armer Mosaics
March -
Melba Thomas
April -
Barbara Hathaway Social
Media-What is
It?
May -
Patsy Deer
September
- Nimmie Huber
October -
Carla Marsh
November
- Carol Lauvray
*Please
send me your topic when you decide. Thanks.
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· Here
is the Annual Meeting Agenda so that you can be prepared to discuss the items
listed.
Annual Meeting
1.
Proposed By-laws changes
a)
Article
V Officers
The
officers listed in the By-laws are:
Outgoing
President
President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer-Historian
Member
–at- Large
It
has been proposed that we do away with the office of Vice-President.
Rational:
There
is very little business in addition to the presentations. The President and
Secretary-Treasurer-Historian are the primary officers that keep track of the scheduling,
guests, minutes, and the Blog. If the
President is unable to attend a meeting, either the Outgoing President or the
Secretary can conduct the meeting.
The
current officers suggest that we remove the office of Vice-President from the
officer list.
We need a vote from the
membership to change the by-laws.
b)
Article
IV Length of term for officers.
Originally,
the officers were scheduled to be elected each year at the annual meeting for a
one-year term.
It
has been proposed to change the term of office to a two-year term.
Rational:
Since the duties of the officers are very
“limited”, it has been proposed that the officers serve a two-year term.
We will need a vote
from the membership to change the by-laws. (Note: The
current officers have agreed to serve for the second year if the by-laws are
changed.)
NOTE:
The procedure in place to nominate and elect officers will be amended to take
place on even years instead of every year if the by-laws are changed
c) The
President will adjust the Duties of Officers and the Calendar/Timeline notes
for the officer notebooks to reflect the By-law changes. These updates will be
sent to officers before the February meeting to put in their officer notebook.
2.
Dues
a) The membership will pay dues of $25 in CASH at the annual meeting. These dues
will be dispersed to Born to Read, the organization that was selected at last
year’s meeting by the membership. Geni
Flowers will deliver the funds collected to the organization within a week
after our meeting. Currently we have 17 members. $425 will be donated from Sage
Society to Born to Read this year.
b) The
membership will nominate and vote on the charity that we will sponsor with our
dues collected at the January,2019 meeting.
Send
me your suggestion for the 2019 dues money.
Come to the meeting prepared to “promote” your cause.
3.
Nomination
and election of new members.
Members
had until the end of December to nominate potential new members.
We
have 4 openings. We have three nominees.
(That will bring the membership up to a total of 20 members. Currently our “cap” is Twenty-One (21.)
The
following have been nominated:
ü Sandra
Atkins……Martha Weeks
ü Grave
Cordial……Geni Flowers/ Stuart Heath /Jerry
Stocks
ü Gen
Moneagle……Jerry Stocks /Stuart Heath
4.
Enlarging
our group
We
need to talk about the possibility of enlarging our group.
§ The
next multiple of seven (seven presentations per year) would be Twenty- Eight,
with the possibility of seven new members in January 2019…. plus, the 4 slots
that are open to add in 2018.
§ We
are nominating only three (instead
of four) new members for 2018. If we
decide to enlarge our group at this time, we could add 8 new members to raise
the “cap” to a total of 28 members.
§ Enlarging
our group would mean that each member would present once every four years.
5. Additional business
Tell me if you have
additional business for the group. I will include it on the agenda.
- If you have an objection to any of the nominees, please contact Stuart or Geni.(President and Secretary)
- We will vote by secret ballot. The By-laws state that two negative votes will remove the nominee from consideration as a member.
- The prospective new members with the highest number of votes will fill the corresponding vacant slots. Those not elected to membership can be put on a waiting list and may be nominated again.
***I am just stating the procedure so that we get used to what our By-laws state. We only have three nominees this time, so the "waiting list" will not be necessary at this point. This will be necessary as our group grows.
I look forward to seeing everyone.
Stuart
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Biographies for the potential new members.
1.
Sandra
Atkins (nominated by Martha Weeks)
Sandra
L. Atkins
540-222-2499
Graduated from George Washington University
Lived for 40 years in the charming village of Middleburg, VA
where I raised 2 daughters
Licensed as a CPA in Virginia -
25 years as a principal in a
public accounting firm I started in 1976
15 years as a Registered
Investment Advisor and financial planner in Focus Wealth Management, a fee-only
advisory firm I started in 2001
Retired in 2016
Widowed in 2000; now married to James Atkins
Retired to Beaufort in 2016
Current pursuits:
Fiber
artist – needle felting
Show
work at Beaufort Art Association and SC Artisans Center in Walterboro
Member
and Treasurer of Fiber Artists of Beaufort
Board
Member, Hopeful Horizons
2.
Grace
Cordial (nominated by Geni
Flowers and Stuart Heath)
(Bio to be sent separately)
Grace is with the
Beaufort Branch of the Beaufort County Library. She is head of the Special
Collections Department of the Library. She will be a fabulous member! And she
will help the rest of us with research.
3.
Gen
Mondale (nominated by Jerry Stocks and Stuart Heath)
Jennifer T. Moneagle
Born and raised in Ohio,
I attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and graduated magna cum laude, Honors in English with a B.S. in Education. After teaching middle school language arts
for three years I joined Ford Motor Company’s Sales and Marketing Division in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Over the course of my career with
Ford I held leadership positions in brand development/management, advertising,
merchandising, sales promotion, product/sales training, communications,
franchising, human resources, major fleet sales/account management, field sales
and Ford Credit marketing plans and relocated multiple times to Chicago,
Detroit/Dearborn, Atlanta, Memphis and Irvine, CA.
In 2009 my husband, who is also a
retired Ford executive, and I relocated permanently to Beaufort where we had
previously built a home. That August I
joined Marine Corps Community Services as the Marketing Director where I
proudly supported the Marines on both MCRD Parris Island and MCAS
Beaufort.
Having retired in July of 2017 I
currently serve on the Board of the Historic Beaufort Foundation and volunteer
at Auldbrass and with the Friends of Hunting Island. I am the guardian of four
rescue cats and am passionate about animal welfare. I also enjoy reading, gardening, history,
needlework, card making, art journaling and learning to watercolor.
