The first QCWA Chapter 79 meeting of 2020 will be at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 25, at our usual place, Spear’s Restaurant, 4323 West Maple St., Wichita.
We will not have a program.
We will have an all-member forum to discuss the future of the chapter, its leadership, what members want in future activities and meetings, and how to improve both our membership rolls and meeting attendance.
We are hoping that we can elect three people to assume leadership positions in our chapter at this meeting. We need all three officer positions: president, vice president, and secretary-treasurer.
Will you please nominate yourself to help our chapter? You can nominate someone else who is willing to serve if elected.
All members are encouraged to attend this very important meeting and bring their thoughts and ideas on how to keep our chapter alive.
Please note: We will be meeting one week earlier than usual, due to the Christmas holiday.
Joe Pajor, KBØKFH, has lined up another great program for us for our last meeting of the year. It will be of general interest in connection with the Christmas season.
We need to elect officers for 2020 since we didn’t have time to do that at the October meeting. All offices are open for nominations: President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer.
We hope to see you there. As always, you are welcome to bring your spouse or another friend.
The meeting started at 19:00 with Troy and Joy
Pulver performing familiar Christmas music for our program. Troy
played the guitar and harmonica, and Joy played the hammered
dulcimer. We enjoyed their music, and they enjoyed playing it for
us. They both play in The 37 Mile Band that performed for our
December 2017 meeting program.
Chapter President Harold Childress called the
business meeting to order at 20:00.
Minutes of the October meeting were approved.
Motion by Don Sharp; second by Gary Essells.
Treasurer’s report was approved. Motion by Don
Sharp; second by Bryon Cannon.
Harold read an announcement from Sharon Hohlfeld, NØIXB, wife of David Hohlfeld, WØKFS. David is still doing pretty good. He walks to the table three times a day. As of December 10 he had been on hospice for 5 months. He has home health care, too.
Harold asked for someone to serve as vice
president for 2019.
Nominations for officers for 2019 were:
President: Harold Childress
Vice President: none
Secretary-Treasurer: Larry Cannon
Joe Pajor moved to accept the officer nominees.
Second by Don Sharp. Motion passed.
Joe Pajor asked if the roster of Chapter 79
members could be listed on the club web site, QCWA79.com with name,
call sign, and other information such as address, telephone number,
e-mail address, year joined QCWA. After discussion, Harold asked
Larry to poll members as to what information they are okay with being
posted.
Joe Pajor recognized Harold Childress for his
years of service as Chapter 79 president and presented him with a
Spear’s Restaurant gift card.
Dale and
Esther Puckett provided a pretty snow globe for the prize for a
drawing. It was won by Charlie Harris, K2CEH.
Attendance: 10 members; 7 guests.
Meeting adjourned at 2015.
The following images, taken at the Christmas meeting, are courtesy of Dale L. Puckett, KØHYD.
Joe Pajor, KBØKFH, presents a certificate of appreciation to QCWA Chapter 79 President Harold Childress, KBØLFH, at the chapter’s Christmas meeting Tuesday, December 18, at Spears’.Charlie Harris, K2CEH, and his wife, Donna, open the QCWA Christmas Door Prize at the Chapter 79 December meeting. The door prize was donated by Esther Puckett, XYL of Dale, KØHYD, who decided it would be fun to have a door prize at the club’s Christmas meeting.Donna Harris (left), wife of Charlie Harris, K2CEH, takes a closer look at Joy Pulver’s hammered dulcimer. Joy and her husband, Troy, entertained the group at the chapter’s Christmas gathering.
We will have a musical program for our last meeting of the year. Troy and Joy Pulver will perform Christmas music on acoustic instruments. They played for us last December with The 37 Mile Band. Troy plays guitar and banjo, and Joy plays the hammered dulcimer. As always, please bring your spouse or another friend.
Also, please RSVP to Secretary-Treasurer Larry Cannon as soon as you can so we can let Spear’s Restaurant folks know how many tables to set up. Tell him if you are coming alone, 1, and if you are bringing your spouse or a friend, that will be 2. If you see a former Chapter 79 member invite him or her to join us again, and ask them to RSVP, too.
We are still taking nominations for all offices.You may make nominations for each office, but please be sure that the person(s) you nominate will serve if elected. You may nominate yourself (i.e., volunteer) for an office. We really need someone to be the vice president as that office has been vacant this year. We appreciate your help so we can vote at the December meeting and get a good start for 2019.
QCWA Chapter 79 will meet at 6:30 p.m. October 30. Our speaker is expected to be someone from the Civil Air Patrol.
At this meeting we will have nominations of officers for next year. Our officers are President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer. We need to nominate a complete slate of officers so we can function efficiently.
We especially need to nominate and elect a Vice President. He chairs the meeting if the President is unable to attend the meeting. He is also the person who secures a program for each of the meetings. Throughout the year he will be happy to hear from members who are willing to present a program or who know of someone who will do a program for a meeting.
Self-nominations are allowed and even encouraged. But if you are a bit shy, ask someone else to nominate you. Please check ahead of time with anyone you wish to nominate to be sure they are willing to serve in an office.
The 37 Mile Band performed Christmas music for us as our program, before and while we ate. The 37 Mile Band is an old-time acoustic string band. The band members are, from right to left, Troy Pulver, banjo and guitar; Joy Pulver, hammered dulcimer; Teresa Bachman, mountain dulcimer; and Marc Bachman, electric string bass. Thanks to Lloyd McCombs, KØLM, for making the arrangements for the band.
President Harold Childress, WBØLFH, called the business meeting to order at 1915. The minutes and treasurer’s report were approved.
An election of officers was held. Officers for 2018 are: President, Harold Childress, WBØLFH; Vice President, Don Sharp, WBØQFR; Secretary-Treasurer, Larry Cannon, KØSFV.
Everyone introduced themselves.
President Childress asked that we try to think of ideas of how to recruit new members. He asked the secretary to make a list of members and past members.
Our December meeting is a week early due to Christmas.
Our annual chapter election of officers for 2018 will be at this meeting.
We’ve been operating without a Vice President for the past year so it is imperative that we elect someone for this important office. Nominations for all offices will be accepted, and we welcome folks to nominate themselves. If you nominate someone else, that person must be willing to serve if elected. Please e-mail your nominations to Harold Childress, WBØLFH, wb0lfh@cox.net, by December 17, if you haven’t already done so.
Lloyd McCombs, KØLM, has lined up a very good musical program for this meeting.
Troy Pulver and his 37 Mile Band will entertain us with Christmas music and maybe some other songs.
The 37 Mile Band is an old-time acoustic string band. They play barn dances, coffee houses, farm and art markets, private parties, etc. They feature a variety of stringed acoustic instruments, and play folk and Celtic music, and at this time of year some Christmas music.
Bring a friend, and if you see a former Chapter 79 member ask him or her to join us again. If you have an idea for a program for one of our meetings, let Harold know.
