North Fulton March 2006 Newsletter

“It Takes Power to Lead”

From the President:

Fellow chapter members and associates,

It is a great time to be a North Fulton Jaycee!

So far this year has started with a board retreat, we planned out the year, and the vice presidents have many incredible projects planned along with chapter favorites. Big Thank You to Wendell Whitfield for training us. He was awesome!

Our blue chip was completed and sent in to the state to be submitted to the National organization. Thank you to Andrea Perry and Jessica Rich.

The board is working hard and of course they are the greatest. I can brag can't I? I'm a proud president!

YOU WERE CHOSEN TO BE ON A DIRECTOR’S LIST, not just a number on someone’s list. If you have not received a director’s call, please call me so I can verify your phone number is correct. The directors will be calling each week to inform you of upcoming projects.

Also a Calendar of events was sent out this week, (disregard the previous Calendar you received.) if you do not receive the Calendar, perhaps we do not have your current address. If you have email, you can email me at power2lead06@yahoo.com or you can leave me a message at 770-401-2524.

Our new website will be up and running by March, our Webmaster is Dusty McKeon with help from Tony Crespin. Both gentlemen are doing quite a bit of work to get the website looking its best, please let them know your input for our latest public relations tool.

The Year End Awards, Installation Banquet and Valentine’s Social (Cassie Crocker) and Chili Cook Off (Casey Basting) were both chaired by First time Chair-people. You all were great!

Our State President and First Lady Dave and Connie Brooker attended our Year End Awards, Installation Banquet and Valentine’s Social. Thank you so much for attending and Thank you to Dave for swearing the President and Board of Directors for 2006. Big Thank you to Woodstock, Macon, Kennesaw and Marietta for attending our Banquet and /or Chili Cook Off! Thank You to Robert Mentus III for judging at the Cook Off. And Thank you to Region Director Stacia for “making” me sing Karaoke to Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.” Well I had to do that fearless leader thing… The funniest was Corey Parson’s version of Cartman doing Come Sail Away! What a hoot! It was great to see Eric and Corey Parson at the Chili cook off.

Richie Judd, It was a pleasure to have been on your board. I have learned a lot from this past year and I hope I can make you a proud Chairman of the board.

Please welcome with me our Newest Members: Jay Adams, Bonnie, Wayne and Cassie Johnson.

The next time you attend a membership meeting, you will be asked to stand when we have new members getting sworn in. And if you haven't gotten re-dedicated to become a New Generation of Leaders, you too can get sworn in again! (ID Project Idea> Tony Crespin) This is what we did tonight and it was totally awesome!

Leadership Development is the greatest gift anyone can receive in a lifetime. This organization teaches us these principles through the community or the volunteer opportunities we participate in, through the management or money making projects we conduct, through the haunted house process or chairing and co-chairing rooms, through the friends we have made or the new ones we are going to meet, through the fun we have at social functions or the bettering of ourselves in the individual development area, its all of these attributes that constitute leadership development. I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for allowing me to be your local president. It is my hope that this family continues to grow in numbers, to strive to make many great impacts in the Alpharetta Community, and for everyone to achieve through the process of leadership development.

My presidential challenge for members and associates (not including the board of directors) this trimester: “We all bring something unique to this family, what is your gift? And how can you help in making this family-chapter grow as “A New Generation of Leaders”? What you do today as members, mentors, and associates, helps to ensure leadership development continues to move forward.

WE achieve nothing without YOU.

Congratulations to Pam (Wright) Hubble and Amanda Clark for having girl babies! Welcome Emily Hubble and April Clark!

Sincerely,

Julie Papp

Management Vice President

Hello North Fulton!! In management we are keeping busy.  First I want to thank Casey Basting, Wendell Whitfield and Tony Crespin for a GREAT chili cook off.  Also a big Thank you to Robert Mentus (Our State VP), Stacia Mentus (Our Mountain Region Director) Kennesaw, Marietta and Macon for coming to visit us.  We enjoyed having you and hope you enjoyed your time with us.  We were able to finish raising the money for St. Jude and had fun doing it.  In the month of March we are having our Play Station 2 Tournament coming up.  It will be held on March 16^th at 7:00pm at the Whitfield house, the cost is $10 to enter.  Kenny Buckles is the chairman on this project.  So if you are a video game junky and want to come to show your skills give him a call. Also on March 25 we have the State Bowling tournament in Macon if you are interest please let me know and we will get together to bowl and have fun.

We are updating our chapter website.  Dusty McKeon and Tony Crespin are working hard on us a new look for our website.  This should be up and running in March.  We will be having our newsletter on the website each month.  If there is anything that you would like to put in the newsletter I will need it by the 28^th of each month for the next month, any Jaycee member can enter an article in the newsletter.  Just email it to me at aandbperry@hotmail.com. So get your articles to me by March 28, 2006 for April’s newsletter.  I want to hear from everyone.

This past month I have done some training and visiting.  I will have to say that I have really enjoyed the month of February.  My son and I attended the Marietta meeting, Kennesaw Chili cook off, and Woodstock and Marietta installation banquet.  I have attended the Relay of Life captains meeting, LOTS, ROTS and the National JCI meeting in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.  I have received a lot of good training from both LOTS and ROTS, good going State staff and Region staff.  I am a proud member of not only the North Fulton Jaycees, but also of the Mountain Region Jaycees and the Georgia Jaycees.  In Gatlinburg, oh my what can I say, that was a fun time and I will do my best to go back next year.  And Tennessee knows that the Georgia Jaycees are alive and kicking there were more Georgia Jaycees there than Tennessee, from what I hear.  If you are interested in visiting other chapters let me know, because I love to visit my friends and make new friends, my only prevision is that I don’t travel far during the week, because I do have to get my son in bed on time and make sure homework is done.

A look ahead for April for the Management area:

April 10- Chapter meeting

April 19- CPG Training

April 22- State Headquarter workday, CPG Judging and Executive meeting in Perry

April 24- Start Pizza and Etc. sales and Chapter meeting

April 28- newsletter article due for May newsletter

April 29- North Fulton Poker Tournament

Thank you,

Andrea Perry

Management VP

Chapter Directors

Hello Everyone!  I just wanted to say hello and to let you know that I am one of the Directors this year.  I look forward to working with everyone this year.  We have an exciting year planned so I hope we will see you at some if not all our projects. 

If there is anything you need, please don’t hesitate to call me.   I can be reached at 770-649-0340 (home) or 404-578-6002 (cell).

Yours in Jaycees,

Karen Whitfield

Individual Development Vice President

Hey North Fulton, Tony here, we are off to a great start for 2006. For the month of March, I have got a couple of Great ID projects. The first of two will be a Basic Computer Maintenance Class held by our very own WEB-MASTER Dusty McKeon. He will teach you the know how on small maintenance to fix your computer and to uphold the battle against Viruses and Trojans.

Later in the month we will take the time to think about our families and start to plan for the unexpected. As a chapter, we will be filling out a Living Will. This is not just important only to us, but to our families as well. So they are not left with a tough decision to make in unexpected times. If you are interest

If you are interested in competing in any of the competitions please let me know: Brownfield, Armbruster, Family, Jeopardy, Write Up, Speak Up and/or Debate.

Hope to see you all out in support of North Fulton and its New Generation of Leaders.

Tony Crespin

Jc_termite@yahoo.com

Community Vice President

Hello North Fulton

We have had a great and exciting start to the New Year.

Our first community project was a great success. I want to thank everyone that helped with the Valentine’s Day Social. We had a lot of fun and as always there was great comradely. Thank you to President Dave and Connie for coming out to join in the fun and for swear us all in. As I have grown in the Jaycees, I see how important it is to have people that you admire and respect installing the chapter officers. Thank you Marietta for coming out and supporting us. We were able to raise half of the money that we committed to the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital Radio-a-thon.

On March 29^th we will be visiting one of the local nursing homes, Bill Clark’s favorite project, we will be playing games with them and just keeping them company. If you are interested in joining us please call Cassie Crocker for more information. We are trying to have an Easter Egg Hunt on April 15^th. I am still looking for a chairman for the project. If anyone is interested please contact me. We will be celebrating everyone’s birthday that is between January 1^st and June 30^th on April 1^st. There will be more information to come.

I want to wish everyone that is going to Myrtle Beach and safe and fun trip. We will be thinking about you.

I hope to see everyone out to projects this year and if there is anything that I can help you with please just call.

Jessica Rich

Community Marketing VP

Membership Vice President

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WE BELIEVE:

THAT FAITH IN GOD GIVES MEANING AND PURPOSE TO HUMAN LIFE;

THAT THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN TRANSCENDS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF NATIONS;

THAT ECONOMIC JUSTICE CAN BEST BE WON BY FREE MEN THROUGH FREE ENTERPRISE;

THAT GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE OF LAWS RATHER THAN OF MEN;

THAT EARTH’S GREAT TREASURE LIES IN HUMAN PERSONALITY;

AND THAT SERVICE TO HUMANITY IS THE BEST WORK OF LIFE!!!