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.

Meeting Minutes -- October 8, 2019

Sage Society Minutes

October 8, 2019

OLLI Classroom 124 - USCB

MINUTES

Sage Members in Attendance:

                                                                                   

Geni Flowers, Secretary/Treasurer/Historian

Stuart Heath, Past President

Jerry Stocks, Past President

Sandi Atkins

Grace Cordial

Rebecca Davenport

Diane Gallagher

Debbie Gray

Barbara Hathaway

Carol Lauvray

Carla Marsh

Peggy Pickett

Alvesta Robertson

Julie Schmidt

Melba Thomas

Larry Koolkin, Honorary Member

Members Absent:

Martha Weeks, President

Donna Armer

Nimmie Huber, Member-at-Large

Maryann Mikell

Jen Moneagle

Meeting called to order at 4:00 pm by Stuart Heath, filling in for Martha Weeks.

Minutes of the September meeting were approved with a correction. The date of Maryann Mikell’s presentation in April is on the 14^th not the 13^th as was noted in the September minutes. 

The nominating committee will not need to meet this year but will be meeting around this time next year. Please be considering anyone you would like to nominate for membership in Sage and get their brief biographical sketches to Geni by December 26^th. 

Born to Read has us on their mailing list now. If anyone would like to contribute, their address is 703 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC 29902.

Debbie Gray enlightened us with her scholarly presentation on the Army Laboratories at Watertown, MA. She fielded many intriguing questions afterwards.

Stuart reminded us that there is no December meeting.

The meeting adjourned at 5:10.

The next regular meeting of the Sage Society will be held on November 12, 2019 at 4:00.

Updated list of upcoming programs, presenters and topics:

2019

November 12^th            Carol Lauvray                         Beaufort History

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, October 9, 2019.

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