Newsletter -- October 2019

The Sage Society                                            

November 2019 Newsletter

·       Our next Sage Society meeting is on Tuesday, November 12, at 4:00 in Room 124 of the Sandstone Building (the OLLI Room) at USCB. 

 

·       At our November meeting, Carol Lauvray* will give her presentation on Reconstruction in Beaufort.

·       If you would like to socialize, please arrive a bit early.  

·       We do not meet in December.

·       Our Annual Meeting will be on January 14. At that meeting, we will:

 1.  determine where to donate our dues collected for 2020.

 2.  vote on new members.

*Carol, please give Geni a brief paragraph about your presentation for the archives. Geni will share with Larry who will post on the Blog.

·       Everyone: Give Geni Flowers Bouquet, Secretary, names of potential new members from the November meeting to the end of December. Include a brief biographical paragraph.

1.    I will share these names and bios 10 days before the January meeting.

2.    You are encouraged to invite your potential new members to one or two meetings.

3.    Let the Secretary and President know who you will bring as a guest. Geni will prepare a name tag for her.

4.    All potential new members will be wait listed, then voted on at the annual meeting in January. Top vote recipients will be invited to join SAGE while others will remain on the waiting list.

5.    We have one opening now. Filling this vacancy will bring us up to our “total” of 21 members.

·       I will share the October minutes before the meeting.  

Martha Thwaite Weeks                                             

          President, Sage Society                          

          November 6, 2019                   

Meeting Minutes -- September 10, 2019

Sage Society Minutes

September 10, 2019

OLLI Classroom 124 - USCB

MINUTES

Sage Members in Attendance:

                                                                                   

Martha Weeks, President

Geni Flowers, Secretary/Treasurer/Historian

Stuart Heath, Past President

Jerry Stocks, Past President

Sandi Atkins

Grace Cordial

Rebecca Davenport

Diane Gallagher

Carol Lauvray

Carla Marsh

Maryann Mikell

Jen Moneagle

Melba Thomas

Larry Koolkin, Honorary Member

Members Absent:

Donna Armer

Debbie Gray

Barbara Hathaway

Nimmie Huber

Peggy Pickett

Alvesta Robertson

Julie Schmidt

Meeting called to order at 4:00 pm by Martha Weeks, President.

Minutes of the May meeting were handed out and approved.

Guests, Gina Baker, Patsy Hand and Ruth Ann Lawson were introduced.

Stuart gave her interesting and informative presentation on the Beaufort National Cemetery.  A question and answer session followed.

The meeting adjourned at 4:50.

The next regular meeting of the Sage Society will be held on October 8, 2019 at 4:00.

Updated list of upcoming programs, presenters and topics:

2019

October 8^th                 Debbie Gray                           Army Laboratories at Watertown, MA

November 12^th            Carol Lauvray                         TBD

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 13^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,  October 3, 2019.

Stuart Heath -- The Beaufort National Cemetery

The Beaufort National Cemetery is one of six national cemeteries established in 1863 by President Lincoln for the re-interment of Union soldiers and sailors who died in the region. 

The presentation, on September 10, 2019, highlighted the following topics to tell the story of the Beaufort National Cemetery. It was an updated encore presention by Stuart Heath, and originally presented by her at Sage on November 8, 2016.

Beaufort National Cemetery has more than 7,500 Civil War casualties-- both Union and Confederate-4,019 are unknown.

 

 

Newsletter -- October, 2019

The Sage Society
October 2019 Newsletter

Our next Sage Society meeting is on Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 4:00 in
Room 124 of the Sandstone Building (the OLLI Room) at USCB. Come
early to socialize! Due to an appointment that I am unable to cancel, Stuart
will hold this meeting

Debbie Gray will give her presentation on The Army Laboratories at
Watertown, MA.

Everyone: We do not meet in December, so there are only two meetings
before the holidays.

Larry Koolkin is kind enough to keep our Blog site current so please visit it:
thesagesociety.blogspot.com

Geni will send minutes of the September meeting for your approval.

Martha T. Weeks
President, Sage Society

Newsletter -- September 2019

The Sage Society                                      

September 2019 Newsletter

·       Our next Sage Society meeting is on Tuesday, September 10, 2019, at 4:00 in Room 124 of the Sandstone Building (the OLLI Room) at USCB.  Come early to socialize!  

·       Stuart Heath will give her presentation: The Beaufort National Cemetery 

·       _________________ – Member -at-Large:

 

1.    At the meeting you will call for two volunteers to join you on the Nominating Committee.

2.    Your committee will meet and determine the slate.

3.    The officers are: President, Secretary/Treasurer/Historian, and Member-at-Large. Officers serve two-year terms.

4.    You will present the slate of officers to the membership at the October meeting.

5.     After the slate is presented, I will send the slate out (by email) to the membership and ask if there are any objections.   *** If there are no objections, the slate will meet with their counterpart to train and get notebooks before the January meeting.  The slate will be officially voted on and installed at the January Annual Meeting and the new President takes over then.

6.    Members: Please be prepared to volunteer to be on the Nominating Committee. Thank you!

7.    Members: Please be prepared to serve as an officer if asked.

Duties are minimal, and the responsibilities are spelled out on a monthly calendar. The club is designed to be low key.

·       Everyone: Do we want to increase our membership over twenty-one or are there current members who wish to resign?

In the event that we have openings due to resignations, give Geni Flowers Bouquet, Secretary, names of potential new members at the October, November, and December meetings. Include a brief biographical paragraph.

1.    I will share the nominations and bios with the membership before the January meeting.

2.    You are encouraged to invite potential new members to one or two meetings.

3.    Let the Secretary and President know who you will bring as a guest. Geni will prepare a name tag for them.

4.    All potential new members will be put on a waiting list and voted on at the annual meeting in January. The top “vote getters” will fill the open spots and the others will remain on the waiting list.

5.    We currently have 21 members which was the goal.

·       Reminder of topics to come:

October:  -TBD

November: Carol Lauvray - Reconstruction in Beaufort

January 2020: Annual Meeting

February: Peggy Pickett -TBD

March: Alvesta Robertson -TBD

April: Maryann McCracken -TBD

May: OPEN

There are two open dates. If you have not signed up for a talk or if you need to change dates, please let me know your wishes as soon as possible.

·     

        May minutes will be read at today’s meeting. We will approve the minutes before our speaker is presented.

·       I hope that everyone had a wonderful summer.

Martha T. Weeks                                

          President, Sage Society                                    

          September 10, 2019