Minutes from September 8, 2007

Democratic Women of Johnson County
Regular Monthly Meeting
Saturday, September 8, 2007
10:00 am
JCMC Community Center
Presiding: Katherine Hegemann, Secretary

Meeting to be called to order at 10:00 am

Katherine Hegemann: Reading and approval of the minutes from August 25, 2007

Carole Maulden: Treasurer’s report of a bank balance of $329.83

Meeting items presented by Katherine Hegemann

• Fund raiser
• Cranberry Festival will be October 13
• Social for December to be discussed in committee
• Announcements to media suggestion and approved to send to the Watauga Democrat, Johnson City Press, Bristol Herald Courier, and television stations

Judy Walsh has a new granddaughter, Ivy Katherine Lakatos

Committee meetings

Program: Judy Walsh and Bobbie Smith

• Belinda Gelman and Kathleen Gehr will have the program on Obama in October
  
• Judy Walsh will discuss a program on the History of the Democratic Party in Johnson County with Tommy Walsh.
  
• The December social should be a brunch on December 8 at our regular meeting time. It should be a covered dish brunch. We might want to defer spouses attending the social until our May picnic.

Membership: Carole Maulden and Kathleen Mount

• Two members of the Membership Committee were present at the Sept. 8 meeting of DWJC. They divided the membership list and will call current members who are not regularly attending meetings, to encourage them to do so.

Publicity & Public Relations: Katherine Hegemann, Karin Bell, Louise Hamm, Belinda Gelman, Flo Bellamy, Kathleen Gehr, Romayne St. John

• The group edited the newsletter and the directory (to be distributed in January).
• Evelyn Cook has donated an heirloom quilt to be raffled off to help raise funds for the DWJC.
• Romayne volunteered to create and print the raffle tickets. The cost will be $5 per ticket and the raffle will run until after the Sunflower Festival next summer.
• Karin Bell will try to have vests for those who will man the booth at the Cranberry Festival. She showed the pattern and took some measurements.

Schedule for the Cranberry Festival, October 13, 11 am-5 pm
11 am-2 pm: Romayne St. John (Evelyn Cook), Karin Bell (Evelyn Cook), Louise Hamm
2 pm-5 pm: Helen McQueen, Belinda Gelman, Wanda Payne

Adjourned meeting at 10:46 am
Minutes compiled September 9, 2007
Minutes to be submitted for approval on October 6, 2007
Submitted by: Katherine Hegemann, Secretary