President's Message

March 9, 2009

We have had a great season!! We have lots of new members, we have lots of returning members with
new enthusiasm. We have utilized our new teaching area at East Center almost continuously to great success.

Our last meeting before our winter visitors fly north is this Wednesday March 11th. It will be held in the new
Ocotillo Room at Las Campanas. We will have a sale starting at 5:30, bring heavy hors d'oeuvres,
we will eat at 6:30 and the meeting begins at 7 PM

Fall and Winter Craft Fairs

We need at least two, but preferably 3 co-chairpersons to take over from Donna Cornejo and John Vandegrift.
We have someone who has agreed to do the publicity, which is a huge job. Please, please consider
helping us out with this. It is fun, and we already have a well organized system.

Winter classes

Our classes given through GVR are full and overflowing. The students are enthusiastic and wanting more.
My sincere thanks to all of our many instructors who volunteer their time and energy to teach.
Without you, our club would not continue to show the enthusiasm and growth that we have experienced this year.
Those of you who do not teach, let me recommend it to you as a fun, stimulating experience,
sharing your skills with those of others. We are always looking for more teachers to give some of our
overloaded instructors a break. Volunteer to be an assistant. It is a great way to learn and further your own skills
without taking on the lead instructor role. (Besides, you get rewarded with a free lunch every year). This year our
Volunteer Luncheon will be held April 5th at the Elks club. It gets larger every year because more
and more members are helping to teach and we are expanding our classes.

SIG Classes (Special Interest Group)

Our SIG classes that we had this spring were a great success and we will continue those in the fall.
We are looking to add classes so if you have any suggestions, please let me know.
We will repeat some of the classes we had this spring so people who were unable to attend
or want a refresher can partake of the amazing talents of our members.
My thanks to all who taught and especially Pete Irish, Max von Isser, Dr. Sam Tuthill, Barb Hagen,
Linda Kucera and others. My thanks to Harry LaFavor for organizing the design and geology classes.
We have started having work sessions in wire wrap and PMC for those people who
have taken a class in those two areas. They have been very well received.

This summer we are offering many of our classes given during the winter season.
Year round members can take advantage of classes at a little slower pace
when there are not winter visitors vying for space.

My email address and phone number are on our website so please feel free to contact me with your ideas
and concerns. Communication is what makes a club vibrant and interesting to its members.

Sincerely,
Nancy Klapak, President (520-625-0687)
beadfantastic@hotmail.com

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