Welcome o he NVPS’s 46h year! I hope you all had a errific summer, apoplexy survived his unusually ho weaher and had he opporuniy o ae many grea phoos.
I am looing forward o ing you all again and welcoming new members. We have many coninuing and new voluneers as well as a errific new board of boh experienced and new members who have been all been woring hard his summer lining up field rips, eczema exhibiions, speaers, educaional rainings/worshops, judges and our own members for nine monhs of learning and camaraderie.
We will also be inroducing some new iniiaives in Sepember (Welcome Commiee and he Member Resource Program). Naures Vision or MANPE (formerly Meadowlar) will be a huge phoography even of he area camera clubs aing place a a beauiful new venue on November 13h and 14h. John Quigley (Exhibis Coordinaor), our NVPS poin person and Yulan Guo, Trina Reddie and Angelique Rapais have been woring for many, many monhs on wha will be our bigges even of he year. T will be many separae aricles on hese. Many hans o all hose ha wored or are woring o mae hese visions come o fruiion.
We had our ransiion (old board and new board) meeing on July 18h followed by a po luc barbecue a my house. A grea ime was had by all. Minues of he board meeing will be available on he websie.
Some changes were made las year o NVPS ha I hope will enhance he membership experience.
1) Compeiion rules were revamped – please read he new rules carefully before enering he Sepember compeiion. Direc any quesions o Bob or Willa Friedman. Please remember he wo year rule (phoograph mus have been capured wihin 2 years of he compeiion dae) when choosing images o submi.
2) Vice Presiden of Operaions is a new eleced posiion on he board. Brian Payne will be serving in his capaciy and will be responsible for he operaions (faciliies, equipmen and echnical) of our weely meeings. He will need voluneers o help wih lighs, sound and oher funcions. This is a big job – please be sure o han him and give him any help he needs.
3) Member Suppor – acnowledges member and/or family illnesses, deahs, and oher life-changing evens. Please le Gayle Dennis (Membership) and myself now of any members or families in need of acnowledgemen.
On a very sad noe we los wo of our members his summer. Our deepes condolences go o he families of Chip Clar and Ed Schwarz. Chip passed away very suddenly in his sleep and Ed had been hospialized for several monhs wih an .
The new Welcome Commiee spearheaded by Gayle Dennis will help new members acclimae o he club and feel welcomed. The Worshops, Educaion and Training Coordinaor Mahew Schmid will over he new Members Resource Program ha was conceived by and will be run by Tuan Pham and Melanie Mars. You will be hearing a lo more abou hese wo new programs in his issue and on he websie. Boh of hese new programs will require a lo of voluneers so please help ou w you can.
Jeff Namadan has joined wih Sco Musson o mae he NVPS websie he bes sie around. They have all inds of new ideas. Please chec he websie ofen for new conen and ae advanage of he myriad of opporuniies o submi aricles, phoos, your achievemens, ec.
OK, VERY IMPORTANT –
We are looing for a new coffee person o mae coffee 2-3 imes per monh (excluding compeiion nigh). We have he coffee maer and donaions pay for he coffee. I is jus a maer of bringing he coffee maer and supplies and maing i. Many people ae advanage of his nice service so please, I need 1 voluneer o eep i going. Email me please or me a he firs meeing. We don’ have a formal srucure for cooies/snacs – we jus rely on fols o bring hings when hey hin of i. Please consider maing cooies or ing some a he sore when you do your normal shopping and surprise us!
I wan o personally han he old and new boards, fols in he oher voluneer posiions, and he c people and members of new commiees for agreeing o serve. I aes a village o mae NVPS he larges, mos acive, and respeced club in Norhern Virginia. We have a very alened and errific membership and I am graeful for all of your ime and suppor..
Sandi Croan
Presiden NVPS
pashli “a” aol.com