JANUARY
Well, we have made it to the
beginning of another year. I hope that
you all had a great holiday spent with family and friends. We are doing very well with membership this
year, every time I look at our numbers they have gone down again and so we are
getting our annual membership into National. Thank you very much for working on this and getting our members paid
for. At this time all the officers that
are annual members have been paid so that will help with more points for the
Circle for next year.
At this time our membership is at
95.39% for the year. We need 207 members
to be 100% so please continue to get your dues in and get new members in
also. Right now, we have 17 auxiliaries
that are already 100% or more for the department. Thank you all for getting your dues before
the end of the year. We have several
auxiliaries that only need one or two members to be 100% right now. Please discuss this with your members at your
next meeting. Remember they are now
members not in good standing and they shouldn’t be coming to meetings or
functions in your auxiliary. Also, their
cancer grant won’t be any good until they renew, and, in a year, they can get a
grant.
Please let me know in an email or
at Mid-Winter if you used my suggestion for getting new members by sending out
applications to people that you know are eligible with their Christmas
Cards. That was a program thought up by
the National Membership Ambassador and we would like to know if the program
worked.
Please anyone that has people
that were dues angels for your auxiliary this year, please send the names and
the names of the members that they paid for to me so that I can get the
paperwork done before Mid-Winter. So far,
I have only got a few members that have let me know and one Auxiliary that has
sent the names to me. I would like to
have those names before I get to Mid-Winter.
Once the winter is over, please
let us know if you are going to be having any membership drives in your
area. We would be very happy to send
someone in line to come and help you. Make sure that you have people in your auxiliary lined up to be at the
drive with us and would love to be able to help with that.
Please make sure that the
application is FULLY filled out before you send it to the treasurer so we can
get them processed quickly. Every time
that we have to look up an auxiliary number or call someone to find out their
birthdate just takes a little longer to process.