THE MEGAPHONE – JUNE 2014
Our June meeting (7 pm Thursday, June
5) will be an enlightening experience as we visit Niagara Hospice, 4675 Sunset
Drive, for tours and refreshments. We will meet in the conference room of the
Administration Building. Hostesses will be Anna Beth Kinyon and Mary Finn.
The speaker will be
Tricia Degan , director of Marketing and Public Relations. The cost will be $ 5, with visitors welcome. Be
sure to reserve with your telephone gal by 8 pm Sunday, June 1.
Also in June:
- The slate of officers for 2015 will be presented. President Patty Russell reminds us that some vacancies remain, and there is still time to volunteer before the meeting.
- The proposed budget for 2015 will be presented.
- Discussing ideas to increase our membership. One might be accepting women with associate degrees – or stepping up pressure on our daughters and granddaughters to join.
Our May
meeting, besides a yummy dinner, included the opportunity to meet Brianna
Darnell, our newest scholarship winner, presented by Scholarship Chairman
Michelle Brockman. One of five children, Brianna is 8th in her
Lockport High School class; with an average of 100.2%. She will attend Grove City in Pennsylvania, a
small liberal arts college. She hopes to help the needy in other countries.
Accolades
to the hard-working Scholarship Committee: Mary Beth Gammack, Molly Niland,
Danielle Priest, and Gail Niparts
Our
long-standing members were honored: Beverly Utter-Whitmore for 50 years, and Terry
Carbone for 25 years. Judy Cummings, also a 25-year member, will be honored at
another meeting.
A new
Directory Booklet will be published, so if you have any changes, please contact
Dee Morotchie.
The next Board meeting will be at 7 pm June 12 at Monica
Pullano’s, 43 Grasmere Rd.
