Newsletter - January 2018

·       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

atkins.sandralynn@gmail.com

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.