Newsletter - September 2017

The Sage Society                                     

September   Newsletter

·       Our next Sage Society meeting is on Tuesday, September 12 at 4:00 in Room 124 of the Sandstone Building (the OLLI Room) at USCB.  Come early to socialize!  

·       Martha Weeks will give her presentation on Bondage. 

*** I am reading Martha’s book, Tidewater Rip, and judging by her fabulous writing style, this should be a wonderful paper! Interesting topic!

·       Katherine Brown – Member -at-Large:

1.    You will need to call for volunteers for the Nominating Committee at this meeting. (Member-at Large plus 2-4 others – odd number)

2.    Your committee will meet  later  and determine the slate.

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

4.     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 the outgoing president (Stuart) in November to formulate plans for the next year.  The slate will be officially voted on and installed at the January Annual Meeting and the new President takes over then.

5.    Please be prepared to volunteer to be on the Nominating Committee. Thank you!

6.    Please be prepared to serve as an officer if asked. The duties are “minimal” and the responsibilities are spelled out on a monthly calendar. EASY!  The club is designed to be “very low key!”

·       Everyone: Please 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 these paragraphs 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 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. The others will remain on the waiting list.

5.    We have three openings now. Filling those vacancies will bring us up to our “total” of 21 members.

·       I am attaching the May minutes. Please read and send any corrections to Geni. We will approve the minutes before our speaker is presented.

·       I hope that everyone had a grand summer. I have missed seeing you.

Stuart Heath                                          Friends of the Library Book Sale                              

          President, Sage Society                                    September 22 -24

          September 5, 2017                                              Waterfront Park

Meeting Minutes - May 9,2017

Sage Society Minutes

May 9, 2017

OLLI Classroom 124 - USCB

MINUTES

Sage Members in Attendance:

                                                                                   

Stuart Heath, President

Donna Armer, Vice President

Jerry Stocks, Past President

Geni Flowers, Secretary/Treasurer/Historian

Kathryn Brown, Member-at-Large

Patsy Deer

Diane Gallagher

Barbara Hathaway

Nimmie Huber

Carla Marsh

Melba Thomas

Martha Weeks

Carolyn Witkosfsky

Larry Koolkin, Honorary Member

Members Absent:

Claudia Cornett

Rebecca Davenport

Carol Lauvray

Julie Schmidt

Andrea Sisino

Stuart Heath called the meeting to order at 4:00 pm.

The roll was called and those present answered with their favorite summer time activity.

The minutes of the April 11^th meeting were approved.

Special guests, Patsy Hand, Amy York and Terri Knight were introduced.

Geni Flowers presented her paper on the History of the Beaufort College which was followed by a brief question and answer period.

The meeting adjourned at approximately 5:15.

The next regular meeting of the Sage Society will be held on Tuesday, September 12th at 4:00 pm in the OLLI classroom (room 124 of the USCB Sandstone building.) 

Updated list of upcoming programs, presenters and topics:

September 12^th            Martha Weeks                        Slavery

October 10^th                Julie Schmidt                          Frank Lloyd Wright

November 14^th                    Diane Gallagher

TBD                            Donna Armer                          Mosaics

2018

February 13^th                        Claudia Cornett

March 13^th                              Melba Thomas

April 10^th                    Barbara Hathaway                  Just What Is Social Media?

May 8^th                                       Patsy Deer

September 11^th            Nimmie Huber                        TBA

October 9^th                  Carla Marsh                            TBA

November 13^th            ** will be a new member 2019 or Carol Lauvray

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

Respectfully submitted by Geni Flowers, Sage Society Secretary

August 31, 2017

The History of Beaufort College - Geni Flowers

The History of Beaufort College was the title of the presentation given by  Geni Flowers on May 9, 2017.  Along with photos, stories, and historical articles, Geni entertained us with the College's history.

The Beaufort College was chartered in 1795 as a local school for the sons of wealthy planters who preferred not to send their sons away to Europe or up North. The first college chartered in SC was the College of Charleston in 1785 and the Beaufort College was second, chartered ten years later. The founders of the College were among South Carolina’s most influential men.

Instruction began at the Beaufort College in 1803. The College boasted an excellent faculty, full classes and an impressive list of alumni. When the economy did well, the school thrived but hard times reflected negatively on enrollment. Beaufort College became widely regarded as a first rate preparatory and feeder school for SC College, later to become the University of South Carolina, and premier colleges of the North such as Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Columbia. 

Though the College never functioned again after the Civil War as it was originally intended, the trustees reorganized in 1866 and have remained active for the past 221 years in promoting higher education in Beaufort and designating the board as the oldest incorporated body in Beaufort. A brief history of the Beaufort College can be viewed in bas relief on the façade of the Sandstone building on the USCB campus.

 

Newsletter - May 2017

The Sage Society 

                                     

May 2017  Newsletter

·       Our next Sage Society meeting is on Tuesday, May 9 at 4:00 in Room 124 of the Sandstone Building (the OLLI Room) at USCB.  Come early to socialize!  

·       Geni Flowers will give her presentation on The History of Beaufort College. 

·       Donna Armer is our current Vice President.

1.    She has not been well.

2.    She continues to progress and will attend when she can. *** We look forward to seeing her when she can attend. She will retain her membership.

3.    Donna feels that she needs to step down as Vice President.

4.    The officers have discussed how to progress with the rest of our year. (September, October, and  November)     *** Elections are in January.

5.    The officers would like to give a “willing member” the opportunity to a volunteer to step in and complete the year as Vice President.

6.    If you would like to volunteer, please let me know. I am inserting the Description of Duties.

Description of Duties

Vice-President:

a.       Serves in the President’s absence

b.       Schedules the speakers.  (This is already in place for this year and the next.) *If there are date or presentation changes, the speaker will notify the VP or the VP notifies the speaker. (The President is also notified.)

c.       Keeps a log of speakers and topics. Gives to the Historian at the end of the year for her notebook.  (Geni , our Sec/Historian/Treasurer, already has this.)

d.       Meets with the new members after the February meeting to sign up for monthly presentations for this newly elected group of members. (That is after our next election.)

          Explain to New Members:

1.    presentations are 30-45 minutes

2.    a/v is available

3.    Larry Koolkin can assist with the a/v

4.    After their presentation, they need to give the historian 2 copies of a paragraph that briefly details their presentation for the BLOG  - that Larry will update monthly. The other copy is for the Historian’s notebook.

e.       Gives the Secretary and President a copy of the Presentation Schedule. The Secretary will communicate the schedule to the membership when she sends the Annual Meeting Minutes to the membership. (February) (Done!)

f.        Contacts the President with any schedule changes. (Basically, this would be your job. We want the membership to continue to contact the VP with any changes. We want to keep this procedure in place so that we don’t deviate from our established procedures. AND….. Hopefully, the volunteer will be happy be placed in nomination for the following year. This opportunity will be “advanced training” for the role of Vice President.!) 😊

·       Guests are welcome. We ask that you invite the same guest only twice in the presentation year (February-December). Please notify the President and secretary so that we can welcome your guests.

·       You can nominate someone for membership at any time. Turn any nominations in to the secretary, Geni Flowers. We will solicit brief biographies of potential new members in November. 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. The others will remain on the waiting list.

We have three openings now. Filling those vacancies will bring us up to our “total” of 21 members.

·       I am attaching the April minutes. Please read and send any corrections to Geni, our Secretary. We will approve the minutes each meeting before our speaker is presented.

Stuart Heath

President, Sage Society

May 3, 2017