We're on Our Way to a Great Year!

by Jean Fudge

Greetings, SWO! Our year is up and running! I’ve got a lot of news to share, and a few opportunities to pass along:

Special Event!
Please mark your calendars for Dec. 12, when our chapter is headed to La Comedia Dinner Theater to see “White Christmas.” This is designed to be just plain fun. See the story, or go to our Web site for info. Because it’s a group registration, we need to sign up and pay by Nov. 5. So … before it has a chance to slip your mind, please check your calendar and then go to our Web site sign up! I think it’s going to be a lot of fun.

Active Member Program:
I’m very pleased that our Active Member Program continues for its fourth year, under the leadership of Crystal Dunson-Watson, SWO member. The goal remains the same, however: recognize and reward SWO members who are active members of the chapter. See the story.

Membership:
I am also very pleased to announce our new Membership coordinator: Jackie Watkins, SWO member. Many thanks to Jackie for joining the SWO leadership team! And thanks to Karen Stille, SWO Secretary, who also wore the Membership “hat” until we could find a new coordinator.

Job Leads from Cincinnati:
Each weekend, filtered job leads from the Cincinnati Enquirer arrive in our email boxes via the SWO STC web site. John Biederman, SWO member, entered appropriate keywords and gathered the job offerings each Sunday. After many years of performing this valuable service, John is ready to pass his keywords on to someone else. Thank you, John, for providing exceptional consistency and doing a wonderful job at a very valuable task!

Opportunities:
Our chapter has a few opportunities for leadership and service:

• Webmaster: We need someone to update text on the web page and review applicants for our bulletin board. The web page is all set up; we just need someone to make edits when necessary. For the bulletin board, we need someone to review the database and discard the spam (99% of the “applicants” to the bulletin board are actually digital robots). Investigating spam-blocking options would also be appreciated!
• Job Ad Gatherer: We need someone to go to the Cincinnati and/or Dayton newspaper web sites on Sunday and send a digitally filtered list of jobs to a member list. We have clear and simple instructions from the person who previously performed the task.
• Meeting Check-In: We need someone to sit at the door at a meeting and check in the attendees. You would mark them off the list, accept their payment, and write a receipt if necessary. You would need to show up a few minutes earlier than the networking starts.

If anyone is interested in these or other opportunities, please contact me at president@stc-swo.org.

Our chapter has some exciting events coming up. I hope you will be able to join us!