Spring 2016
MOUNTAIN MESSAGES FROM THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CHARLESTON, WV
President’s Message Tiffany Hoke, JLC President My first President’s Message this year included a story about our Sustainers reflecting on lessons they learned in the JLC. I challenged our current active members to find what they were enthusiastic about so that we could have legacies many years from now that are equally as meaningful and memorable. I would like to share a few hallmarks from my Presidency of which you may not be aware: • I insisted we have two guest speakers at the General Membership Meetings. As a result, the first meeting was 90 minutes long and people had to leave early. The following month, I figured it had been a fluke with our speakers and decided to try having two speakers again. The meeting was 90 minutes long again. • I decided our board meetings were not always productive and that we didn’t need to have one every month. Two months later, I polled the whole board on what we should do and found out most of them thought we should meet every month. • This Spring, I referred to a copy of our placements that wasn't final and assigned two people from the fundraiser committee to another task. Then, when our Ronald McDonald House committee needed extra help, I moved another person off the spring fundraiser committee and left us short-handed.
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