Membership News

by Leanne Rollins, Membership Manager

170.

Is this:

• The estimated price of gas by summer’s end?
• Our current membership count?
• The number of times I’ve asked for member profiles?
• All of the above!

Unbelievably, our chapter membership rose to 170 members this month. At the beginning of the year, I stated that my goal was to increase membership by 5%. At the time, our membership count was 151, so I needed to get another 8 people to join. Well, we certainly blew that number away! With 19 new members since September, we must have broken some kind of record. Unfortunately, I really can’t take the credit for it. It’s really because of our chapter’s stellar reputation, excellent publications, and the quality and frequency of our meetings.

And yet, despite having 19 new members, my pleas for membership profiles have fallen on deaf ears. I’ll just have to be satisfied with meeting new members at our monthly meetings and learning a little bit more about members through private email conversations. Our membership clearly prefers its privacy. I can respect that.

Welcome this month to new STC members January Ford and Bob Steele. Also welcome to transferring members Norm Steinhauser, Rob Hanna, Maggie Lichty, and Brian Patrick Shaw. Transfer members are those who are already STC members, but who have recently chosen to affiliate their membership with our chapter. In some cases this means that they were previously associated with another chapter, and in other cases it means that they have chosen to be affiliated with two chapters — our chapter and another one. This second scenario is the case with new members Norm Steinhauser and Rob Hanna, who are also members of the Toronto Chapter.

Welcome to you all, and I look forward to meeting you in person.

About Leanne Rollins

Leanne recently became a self-employed contractor, escaping management roles for the first time in years. This newfound freedom has allowed Leanne to take on extra-curricular activities such as a more active role in the STC. When not writing or playing with her kids, Leanne enjoys running and soccer.