March, 1987
Dear Members:
I look forward to working with the society members and the officers as your new President. I will work to keep MHS on its path of educating the membership and the public on the care and captive propagation of herps, the ecological role of these animals, and to promote the study and conservation of herps. I wish to thank you the members for your interest in MHS. I feel with your continued help and the efforts of our new board, we should have a very good year. The following members: Andrea Oster, Jim Gerholdt, Bob Duerr and Dan Keyler, deserve our hardy thanks for their work over the past year(s). These people are stepping down as officers of our society. They will be missed but I will be calling on them for their continued input and help. I would like to welcome the new officers: Melissa Hyatt, Tom Schmitz, Aaron Hampton and John Meltzer to the MHS board. New people are very important to the growth and continued existence of a society. After our first board meeting, I am pleased to announce that they are all eager to dig in to the business of running MRS. And last but not least, are those members who believe in our society enough to work at a second term as officers. A special thanks to: John Moriarty, Bruce Haig, Fred Bosman, Fran Frisch and Bruce Delles for their continued work. Their past experience will help guide us through the ~oming year. We are planning no major changes in the running of MHS. Meetings will continue to be the first Friday of every month. They will be held at Borlaug Hall and will start at 7:00 p.m. There are some things that we should be concerned about. Please be courteous to your neighbor. People come to the meetings to listen to presentations and share information. This is hard to achieve when there is alot of disruptive noise and talking going on. We all have the right and the time to express ourselves. Please use it accordingly. Also, for your own safety, please do not stand or walk around the front of the' room while animals are being presented for critter of the month. We would hate to see anyone bitten by an excited animal. Wait until the end of the presentations and the meeting, then feel free to come down and view the critters. Another safety concern we have is over people running up and down the aisles. The danger of someone tripping or falling against a sharp desk corner could be very unpleasant. Why have a good evening end in disaster. One of our committees is in need of help. Our refreshment chairperson, Helen Schave (835-6001), is in need of 2 to 3 assistants. They would help her to set up the refreshments and work on cleaning up after the meeting. With these duties spread over a couple of people, the work would go fast. We also need people to volunteer to bring cookies for a snack at break time. It is a lot easier if two people bring each month, that way no one should feel pressured about what they bring. Since the attendance at meetings has been in the 80's, that is alot of cookies to expect from one person. It is not a requirement that the snacks be home made. Store cookies work just as well. It is suppose to be just a little something to tide us over. Thank you for your help and support in this coming year. society ... let's keep it going. Sincerely,
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