2010 January Newsletter: Happy New Year!

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2010 January Newsletter

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January Luncheon
From the President
New Member Spotlights: Laurina Anderson and Michal Angel
Grapevine: News and Notes about WEC Members
Book Club
Cannon Circle
GEM
WEC Table and Reservation Policies
Closing Thought
WEC Board of Directors
Luncheon Dates
Membership Attendance

January Luncheon

Date: Time:	Wednesday, January 20, 2010 11:30 Networking 12:00 Luncheon
Place:	Tower Club, 28th floor One Financial Plaza in the Regions Bank Building Click here for directions
Program Speaker:	Cindy Krischer Goodman: Journalist, Miami Herald
Guest Cost:	cost $30. Members are responsible for Guests.
Menu:	Chicken Parmesan or Vegetable Wellington with Marinara SauceSave room for dessert: Cookies
RSVP to:	Please RSVP (including your menu choice) to rsvp@wecftl.com We appreciate your RSVPs! To assist Suzie administratively, please put “WEC Lunch” in the subject line. Guests can pay below with credit card or Paypal. Checks or cash only at the door: Guest Payments and Reservations
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~John Burroughs

Guest Speaker

Cindy Krischer Goodman writes a weekly column called The Balancing Act that appears in the Business Section of The Miami Herald and 40 other newspapers nationwide. The column explores the conflicting demands of balancing a career and personal life. She also draws a national audience through her blog called The Work/Life Balancing Act, her website on work/life balance and a weekly email newsletter. She is the mother of three children and brings her personal experiences to her beat. Cindy specializes in coverage of women in business and workplace issues and contributes regularly to a variety of publications and websites such as Money Magazine and MomsMiami.com.

From the President

Happy New Year! Hope everyone had a nice holiday season. It’s always hard to believe a new year is just starting. Anyone set a new year’s resolution?

This year’s Holiday Luncheon was a blast! Was it the wine? We had quite the rowdy crew. Thank you to Susan Kingsley for finding our musician Mark West. Thank you to Susan Kissinger for providing us with goodie bags, thanks to all the members who generously donated pens, journals and gift cards to Pace. Thanks to Suzie King for sending us the “right” story and to Carol Metevier for reading the “right” story. It was one of our most memorable meetings.

Congratulations to the following members who celebrated an anniversary:

Dee Moustakas: 25 years; Lee Sheffield: 20 years; Ann Meacham: 15 years; Melissa Rapkin: 5 years; Patricia McCarthy: 5 years; Suzie King: 5 years; Pam Dearden: 5 years; Jennifer Kelly: 5 years

It’s inspiring to see so many long-standing members in our organization.

We had a wonderful evening at Betsy Grant’s Cannon Circle. The Party Girl did not disappoint—her house was beautifully decorated as always. The champagne flowed, she had delicious pulled pork sandwiches and the most beautiful chinchilla. Betsy was the consummate holiday hostess!

Upcoming events in January include a Cannon Circle at Emily Rushin’s home on January 14th. Please rsvp to her asap as there is limited space. First come first served. Our speaker at the January 20^th luncheon is Miami Herald Work/Life columnist Cindy Krischer Goodman, who will be speaking on Balancing Work and Life in the Digital Age.

Please keep checking the website (wecftl.com) for more updates.

New Member Spotlights

Please Welcome Laurina Anderson

Read all about Laurina’s biography in our new WEC blog! Feel free to comment on her member

profile and personally welcome her to WEC!

Please Welcome Michal Angel

Read all about Michal’s biography in our new WEC blog! Feel free to comment on her member

profile and personally welcome her to WEC!

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The Executive Grapevine: News and Notes About WEC Members

Read all about the exciting adventures of our WEC members in our new blog! Feel free to comment on any post that strikes your fancy!

Read the Grapevine, news and notes about our members …

Book Club

WEC Book Club: THIS MONDAY – January 18^th at 6:30pm.

We’re reading “To Have and Have Not” a classic by Ernest Hemingway set in Key West during Prohibition. It’s short (only 272 pages!) and intriguing with incredible characters – SO you have plenty of time to read it!

We will meet at Emily Rushin’s home, 2636 Barbara Dr., Ft. Lauderdale.

Bring a dish to share – Emily will provide the wine and tea.

Please RSVP to Emily at wisemily@bellsouth.net or call 954-523-6342.

Directions to Emily’s: Take I-95 to exit at Davie Blvd. Go east and turn right on Route 1, continue south to 17th Street Causeway, make left and go east to Harbour Inlet Drive, immediately east of the Intracoastal Waterway, turn right going south two blocks until you must turn left onto Barbara Drive. Emily’s house is the next to last on the right at the far end of Barbara Dr., with a brick and wood entrance light.

Here is B&N’s review:

Synopsis

Hemingway’s classic novel about contraband, intrigue, and love

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair.

Harshly realistic, yet with one of the most subtle and moving relationships in the Hemingway oeuvre, To Have and Have Not is literary high adventure at its finest.

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All WEC members are invited to become “bookies”, where women meet in each other’s homes once a month to share in the love of books. Please contact Emily Rushin at wisemily@bellsouth.net or Deb McLaughlin at dmclaughlin@duncancenter.org for more information about WEC’s monthly book club meetings.

Cannon Circle

Along with the monthly luncheons, members also get together in a more informal atmosphere during the year. These evening socials are called “Cannon Circles” and are hosted at members’ homes or businesses. The Cannon Circle is named for Past President Shirley Cannon who was known for her gracious and uplifting spirit.

The next Cannon Circle will be held at Emily Rushin’s home on January 14th. Please contact Emily Rushin at wisemily@bellsouth.net to RSVP.

GEMS: "Greet, Eat, Meet"

Happy New Year Ladies!

I hope everyone is looking forward to a year of great opportunities to form new and stronger friendships and business alliances. You have already received an email from Susan Kingsley with the January-February GEM groupings. Hosts, please send me an email with your selection of date, time and place so that we have a central clearing house. Also, after the gathering, please email me the list of attendees.

Attendees, please be quick to respond to your host’s email. If you should have a change of plans, please advise your host as soon as possible. If you would like to attend a current GEM event, you may contact me by email or phone to see if there are openings at the other hosts’ gatherings.

Kindest regards,

Liz Mendel

GEM Coordinator

P.S. For those of you new to WEC, here is an introduction to GEMs:

Formed in November 2002, members of WEC who choose to get together for an informal meeting are selected at random in small groups to greet, eat and meet. A Lead person is selected to set a time and place for breakfast, lunch, dinner or whatever. This is a great opportunity to get to know each other on a more personal level. If you would like to be a host, please email Liz Mendel at dolphintravelinc@aol.com.

WEC: Through the Years

Joni Rosenthal, one of WEC’s cherished and esteemed members, wrote a moving article on how WEC remains at the forefront of women’s business organizations, primarily due to the love, warmth and comraderie its members have for each other.

Joni has been a part of WEC for 23 years now, and has volunteered in many capacities, most notably as WEC’s on-the-scene photographer, public relations coordinator and historian. Click here to read her article:

WEC Table and Reservation Policies

We have several club policies which we need to remind everyone:

Regarding items on the tables at the luncheons, the only things permitted are: official club business such as flyers about social events, items from the speaker, and items from the member doing the business showcase. Thank you for your cooperation.

RSVP to luncheons ….Any member who fails to cancel a luncheon reservation within 48 hours or who fails to attend a reserved luncheon, will be billed at the current rate by VP of Finance. Each member will be entitled to one courtesy “no-show” per club year.

Closing Thought

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions. ~Joey Adams

WEC Board of Directors

President	Jenny Kelly, Ritter’s Printing
Past President	Vanessa Koutalidis Island City Chiropractic Ambassador Committee Canon Circles Business Showcases
President Elect/ VP Membership	Jan Bullard, JP Financial Services Membership Committee Membership Luncheon Directory Webmaster
VP Corporate Records	Diana Fairbanks Coldwell Banker Agent Corporate Records Historian By-Laws Committee
VP Finance	Karen Rowe Fort Lauderdale Acupuncture, Inc.Budget Dues collection
VP Community Involvement	Chadia Meroueh Auto Tech and BodyMentorship (FX) Program Women Empowering Women (WEW) Community Outreach Public Relations
VP Internal Involvement	Pam Morgan Body Centered Psychotherapy Programs Committee Greetings Committee Newsletter, Book Club
VP Events	Susan Kingsley www.susankingsley.biz Social Committee Fun raiser or Fund raiser GEM Events

Luncheon Dates

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Membership Attendance

The membership requirement is to attend a minimum of five (5) club events every year in order to maintain regular membership. This is calculated on a fiscal year basis (i.e. August-June, not calendar year).

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