I bring you greetings from your board of directors. I’m your new Pres., and my focus will be to keep you informed of the issues that the BOD discuss (approving, or not). It is my commitment to the members of the Association that you be both informed and involved in your organization.

 

In our meeting of March 6th, Suz Gentiluomo came to the meeting to present her educational program for 2005. There will be something for everyone with emphasis on an advanced carving project by some of our experienced sculptors. She envisions this as a continual venue for the years to come with different artists participating each year. Differing from past group pieces, Suz’s thought is to sell the group piece to a community in the surrounding areas of Washington.

There will also be a Children’s hand carving program during the hours of the Art Walk. This is an attempt to get em’ while they’re young and involve them and their parents in the Art of Stone. Verna Dice did this at the Lake Oswego show we had last year, and had a huge and happy turnout.

 

Verna, our El Capitan of registration, was also assuming the role of Director for Camp B. This combined role, coupled with health issues, was much too stressful and so June Bloye will assume the role of Director for the rest of 2005. We welcomed June and are sure that she will do a superb job. This will allow Verna to devote her time to her role as registrar. It is not the goal of our Association to use individuals to the point of burn-out, and there has been some of that. The Board will tackle the thorny issue of policy guidelines for symposia in the coming months, updating the old and instituting new ones.

 

Sabah, our current web master, is getting busy and then busier with his art and teaching and is retiring as web master. Gus Schairer, a new board member, will be our new web master and is going to work on re-designing our web site to make it more user-friendly and of greater use to members.

 

Gus was also elected to take the place of Karl Hufbauer as treasurer and Karl will assume the role of vice-president. So your new officers are Elaine M. Mac Kay: president, Karl Hufbauer: vice-president, and Gus Schairer, treasurer. Sharon Feeney will continue in her role as secretary. The other Board members are Ken Barnes, Verena Schwippert, June Bloye, Rick Johnson, and Pete Pere.

 

Any member of our Association can have access to the Board of Directors. We work for you and with you to make NWSSA the best it can be. My e-mail is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. As president, I’ll still be your field flunky at Camp B and Silver Falls. And I think most of you know the camo. Queen on the field, so if you’ve got issues, let’s chat.

 

Elaine Mac Kay