Bulletin # 3 Section Meeting in San Bernardino
On Saturday, August 1st, the Board and Chapter Presidents of the Southern Section took advantage of the kind invitation of Janice Roselius, our Leg Chair, to hold their Section Meeting at San Bernardino Adult School. It was a very well attended meeting held and there was excellent discussion among the participants.
In brief, the section will be looking to maintain/enhance membership, keep the information flowing between members, Chapters, Section, and State. We will be holding an Awards and Installation Event in October in Escondido. A small committee was formed to organize this. We need to keep the costs down and make it more accessible to more members and at the same time raise some money. As our Treasurer, Teresa Loftis, pointed out, there will be no Section rebates from the State planned this year! Andrea Haendiges our Awards Chair will be sending out nomination forms shortly to Chapter Presidents.
It was good to see Charlene Bader from Grossmont and she was voted on to the Board as a Member at Large. Also, we were pleased to welcome Janet Elmore from Riverside and Susan DelaCruz as the new president from San Bernardino. Tom Overdurf and Denis Johnson were there from Palm Springs and Steve Niemeyer, our President Elect, was in attendance from Grossmont.
It was gratifying to see such a good turn out at the meeting and to see the committment to CCAE from the Board. News was received of more cuts proposed at Grossmont and Sharon Howell Sawyer, our Secretary, spoke eloquently of the leadership of Collette Flemming, the now retired Director of Adult Education at Grossmont.
As I drove home to Escondido, my mind started to conjure up images of the October Awards and Installation Event. Perhaps we should call it "Adult Education Octoberfest" , perhaps I should hire an Ompah Band, have dancing, games, beer and order funny green hats, make it a rally to gladden the hearts of all CCAE members in the Southern Section along with guest speakers etc...... Perhaps I had better find a hall rather than the district conference room? We will see. Don't get too carried away now, Brian.
In brief, the section will be looking to maintain/enhance membership, keep the information flowing between members, Chapters, Section, and State. We will be holding an Awards and Installation Event in October in Escondido. A small committee was formed to organize this. We need to keep the costs down and make it more accessible to more members and at the same time raise some money. As our Treasurer, Teresa Loftis, pointed out, there will be no Section rebates from the State planned this year! Andrea Haendiges our Awards Chair will be sending out nomination forms shortly to Chapter Presidents.
It was good to see Charlene Bader from Grossmont and she was voted on to the Board as a Member at Large. Also, we were pleased to welcome Janet Elmore from Riverside and Susan DelaCruz as the new president from San Bernardino. Tom Overdurf and Denis Johnson were there from Palm Springs and Steve Niemeyer, our President Elect, was in attendance from Grossmont.
It was gratifying to see such a good turn out at the meeting and to see the committment to CCAE from the Board. News was received of more cuts proposed at Grossmont and Sharon Howell Sawyer, our Secretary, spoke eloquently of the leadership of Collette Flemming, the now retired Director of Adult Education at Grossmont.
As I drove home to Escondido, my mind started to conjure up images of the October Awards and Installation Event. Perhaps we should call it "Adult Education Octoberfest" , perhaps I should hire an Ompah Band, have dancing, games, beer and order funny green hats, make it a rally to gladden the hearts of all CCAE members in the Southern Section along with guest speakers etc...... Perhaps I had better find a hall rather than the district conference room? We will see. Don't get too carried away now, Brian.
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