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President's Message Can you believe it? Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday. Don’t forget to move your clocks forward! And instead of lamenting our lost hour of sleep, focus on the fact that the days are getting noticeably longer – a sure sign that spring is just around the corner. Last month I made a plea for volunteers in 2 key areas; · AV support for our monthly meetings · Management team member – a four year term requiring the incumbent to progress from 2nd to 1st VP, to President, then to Past President Great news – Tony Dittenhoffer stepped up to the plate and will be joining our AV team. He will be trained by John Steele, who is stepping down after many years of service. Thank you John for all you’ve done and welcome to the team Tony! Tony will be sharing this position with Mel D’Souza who assumed this role late last year. We are still looking for someone to join the Management team. This position is critical to the success of our Club. We absolutely need an ongoing infusion of fresh ideas, perspectives, and energy in order to remain healthy, and we also need to ensure that whoever takes on this role has the time to become familiar with the processes that make Gateway the incredible club that it is. Please consider joining the management team. I can tell you from personal experience, it’s a lot of fun and very rewarding. Speaking of an infusion of new ideas and perspectives, we currently have room for almost 30 new members. We intend to close this gap by marketing our Club in the community. We will do our best to entice retired or semi-retired people to attend one of our monthly meetings and see for themselves if our Club is a good fit for them. Your input would make this recruitment initiative more successful. If you have ideas on where/how we should be promoting our Club, please reply to this email with your suggestions OR stay for about 30 minutes after our March 18 Monthly Membership Meeting for a brainstorm session on this topic. We will meet in the room on the other side of the legion right after our monthly meeting. Enjoy the lengthening days. I hope to see you at the March meeting and at the short Recruiting brainstorm session that will follow. Joan Meleskie |
