Membership News

by Steve Neville

This month's membership news encompasses both both new members and senior members who receive this rank when they have been members of the STC for five years.

New Members

Welcome to our new members!

Fei Min Lorente lives in Guelph and is a Senior Technical Communicator at Dspfactory. She also has her own technical writing business called Articulated Concepts. Although Fei Min has been a member of the STC for over 10 years, she only recently moved joined our chapter. Prior to this, she was an active member of the Alberta chapter where she also served on the executive. Most of her spare time is taken up with her family, but she also makes time for karate, swimming, and some stress-relieving baking.

Anne Marie Parks joins us from Lambton Shores, which is often referred to as Grand Bend. She has been an English as a Second Language (ESL) literacy tutor for 14 years, and is also a part-time technical writing student at Humber College. In addition, she also volunteers her writing services at a local London park, where she is creating a procedure manual. Like many STC members, Anne Marie joined the STC to increase her contacts and to access the STC’s resources. Anne Marie’s hobbies include shade gardening and hiking.

Dina Abramson lives in Hamilton and just completed the technical writing program at Humber College. She joined the STC to help get her career off the ground and to get valuable information. Dina currently works as a Systems Consultant who provides application maintenance and support for mainframe legacy systems. Dina is interested in starting her own home-based business as a technical writer. Since she has Lupus, she wants to manage her time to benefit her health and quality of life. She also wants to meet other communicators and independent consultants who are doing similar ventures so that she might gain some insight and advice.

In addition to these three new members, we also welcome Tim Grantham and Gail Major to our chapter.

Senior Members

In addition to new members we also have four new senior members. Congratulations to:

• Catherine L. Arthur
• Lynn M. Coulthard
• Martin C. Eisenloeffel
• Stephen Van Esch