Well, we made it to 100%!!!! But do not stop now, we have until June 30, 2024, to obtain members for this year.  So, if you still have some applications sitting on your desks, please send them in and we can get them into the auxiliary. If you have some members that are in your auxiliary and they have not paid yet, send them a letter, and let them know that they are not a member in good standing and cannot come to meetings until they are paid. If they are in nursing homes or in some financial issues, please send in their per-capita money so they can keep their membership current.

One of the other aspects of the membership program that I have been working on is the at large members that we have. We have over 500 members that are at large life members and we have 59 at large members that are annual members. Right now, those members are paying almost double that members in an auxiliary to be members. So, National’s per-capita for all members is going up in July and if the resolution that comes up on the Department convention floor in June passes, all the dues for our members will go up on January 1, 2025. Many members will have a harder time paying these dues so if we can get them back into auxiliaries, it will be easier for them. I have compiled a list of the at large members by where they live and if you would like a copy of the list, I can send it to you, and you can send them a letter and an application to join your auxiliary. That will make it good for you and the members. I do have a letter written to send to them if you would like it.

Please go over your applications before you send them to me, when they do not have all the information that is needed on them, it takes more time to get them processed. Make sure that their birthdate, zip code and I had one the other day that I had to figure out if they were a girl or a boy, because it was not marked in the box. I know that if the credit cards have to go through more than once, National gets a fee if they have to go back through. So please make sure the expiration date is correct and for most cards they have 16 numbers in the account. It helps to speed up the process if everything is on the application.

End of the year reports are due on April 5^th so that I can get my report into Cookie. If I do not have the report in time, you know that I will be calling to get the information that I need. You have done a great job this year with membership, and many have sent monthly reports to let me know what you have been doing for this program during the year.  Many of you have used other program times to have membership paperwork out for potential members. Another opportunity is coming up when you are distributing poppies. Keep applications and scholarship paperwork out for the people to see, it is a good selling point for potential members. Hope to see some of you at District meetings and Department Convention. Thank you all for what you have done.