| LETTER FROM THE CHAIR |
Jan. 2010 HWNT had an interesting 2009 with some good and some bad events. We lost our Chair Elect, Barbie Hernandez, in early December 2009 after a brief but valiant battle with Leukemia. We will all miss her and acknowledge her long dedication to HWNT. We send our deepest sympathy to her family and will post the information for a memorial account set up by her family. Other members of our organization have had illness and death in their families and we want to include them in our thoughts and prayers. We have created a position for an Executive Director on a part time basis. We are growing so fast and so much is happening that we are in need of the services of an Executive Director to help our organization. We are in the process of hiring Lupe Morin to fill that position for this first year. More later! We have a full State Executive Board with the election In October at our annual meeting of :
Hope Rangel- Development Chair (San Antonio) And the appointments for 2010 to fill unexpired terms :
Mary Ann Kellam- Chair Elect (Dallas) Our chapter membership continues to grow. We have interest from El Paso, Lubbock, Kingsville, Abilene, and Waco to establish a chapter in their city. Laredo is inactive at this time, but we will continue to work with them to help them get started again. Our Membership Chair will be traveling this year to visit these areas and help them activate their chapters. The Chair also plans to visit as many of our chapters as possible this year between her own travels. I know many chapters are having their annual retreats and meetings in January and the Board would welcome any ideas and suggestion you have to make this a better organization The Education Committee is working to establish a State Education & Scholarship Program in all of our chapters under the State guidelines. We are writing proposals for scholarship funds and want to be able to share these funds with all the chapters who have established a program. Our State Conference will be October 8-9, 2010 in Fort Worth. The State Board members are responsible for the planning and production of that meeting and we will be calling on everyone for help. Please make sure your State Representative is communicating with you about the planning. We had an annual Retreat and Board Meeting in Seguin on January 15,16,2010, we reviewed and revised our 2009 Strategic Plan , look for calls from our committee chairs who are working on the plan. We will revisit the plan at every quarterly meeting to make sure we stay on track. Communication is still high on our priority list on the plan and you should be hearing from the State Chair on a regular basis to keep everyone informed. This will be done through our Memberclicks program. It promises to be an exciting year with a lot of changes and growth onto to the national stage. Come join us on our adventure of the 2010 journey! State Chair |
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