Newsletter -- January, 2010

The Sage Society                          

       January 14, 2020 Newsletter

·       Our Annual Meeting is January 14, 2020, in the OLLI Room at USCB

Roll call is promptly at 4:00 P.M followed by the business meeting. Since there is no presentation, we will discuss the new calendar of presenters.

·       The following is the upcoming list of presenters:

          February    - Peggy Pickett

          March        - Alvesta Robinson                          

April          - Mary Ann Mikell                                    

May           - TBD

September - TBD

October     - TBD

November - TBD

2021 – totally open             

·       Please put the Beaufort History Museum tea at Dataw on your calendars. The date is March 19, 2020, time 1:00. The theme is Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. It’s nice to put a table together. 

·       Please review the Annual Meeting Agenda that follows.

Sage Society Annual Meeting Agenda

January 14, 2020

1.    Welcome by the President

2.    Secretary calls the roll (quorum needed)

3.    Approve November minutes

4.    Make sure everyone has received and read the newsletter.

a.     Review of presentations by month

Feb. 11 - Peggy Pickett

Mar. 10 - Alvesta Robinson

April 14 - Mary Ann Mickell

May, Sept., Oct., Nov., 2020 and all of 2021 are available

5.    Dues: $25 in cash due at annual meeting  

2019 dues of $425 will go to Born to Read

Select new organization to support with 2020 dues

6.     Election of new members

a.     Sponsor nominates candidate and speaks briefly about the potential new member.

1.Ruth Ann Lawson

b.    Secret ballot vote: Member at Large and Secretary will hand out, collect, and count the ballots

c.     Announce the new member/s

d.    The person who nominated the candidate will notify her of the invitation to join and will invite her to next meeting.    

e.     The President will send a “welcome” letter to nominee and will request contact information for the directory.

f.      The President will forward the contact information to the Secretary to update the directory.

g.    The Welcome letter will include a request to sign up for a month to present in 2020. This can be finalized at the February meeting.

7.    Member-at-Large/Nominating Committee: Diane Gallagher

a.     Member at Large chairs Nominating Committee

b.    Currently, this is a one-year position (discuss)

c.     Need two volunteers to replace vacancies

6.     Additional business?

7.    Next meeting: February 11 – Peggy Pickett presents

8.      Dismiss  

Meeting Minutes -- Novemer 12, 2019

Sage Society Minutes

November 12, 2019

OLLI Classroom 124 - USCB

Sage Members in Attendance:

Martha Weeks, President

Geni Flowers, Secretary/Treasurer/Historian

Stuart Heath, Past President

Jerry Stocks, Past President

Donna Armer

Rebecca Davenport

Debbie Gray

Barbara Hathaway

Carol Lauvray

Carla Marsh

Maryann Mikell

Peggy Pickett

Alvesta Robertson

Larry Koolkin, Honorary Member

Members Absent:

Sandi Atkins

Grace Cordial

Diane Gallagher

Jen Moneagle

Julie Schmidt

Melba Thomas

Meeting called to order at 4:05 pm by President, Martha Weeks.

Guests: Gina Baker, Anne Kennedy, Ruth Ann Lawson and Kathy Mixon were introduced and

welcomed.

Minutes of the October meeting were approved.

Nimmie Huber has withdrawn from Sage. We now have an opening for the position of Member-

at-Large. This person will chair a committee with current committee members, Stuart Heath and

Jen Moneagle, to decide to what charity we will donate our dues in 2021. A clipboard was

passed around for suggestions of worthy charities.

Stuart shared a flyer for the Museum Tea to be held May 19, 2020. Be sure to mark your

calendars.

Carol Lauvray showed a video and gave her presentation on the History of Beaufort and the

shaping of US History, including the Beaufort Arsenal and Beaufort Artillery. It was entertaining

and enlightening. A brief question and answer period followed.

We were reminded that there is no December meeting.

The meeting adjourned at 5:15.

The next meeting of the Sage Society will our annual meeting held on January at 4:00.

Remember to get member suggestions and bio to Geni ASAP. Don’t forget to bring your Sage

dues of $25.00 cash to the meeting.

Updated list of upcoming programs, presenters and topics:

2020

January 14 th Annual Meeting

February 11 th Peggy Pickett SC Women in the American Revolution

March 10 th Alvesta Robertson Mather School, Beaufort, SC, 1868-1968

April 14 th Maryann Mikell History of Spanish Moss

May 12 th

The Sage Society blog can be found at: https://thesagesociety.blogspot.com/

Respectfully submitted by Geni Flowers, Sage Society Secretary, December 10, 2019.