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EXCHANGE CALENDAR1
2008
SEPT. 14 -29, 2008  TO  Cornwall, England,   New Castle, England…….Barbara Walter, ED 
2009

MARCH___,  2009 TO Curitiba and Belo Horizonte, Brazil….Pete & Paula Chambers
MAY____,     2009 HERE Sydney, Australia….Wally & Barb Zust EDs Bob & Carol Beasley asst. EDs

THIS NEWSLETTER HAS   PAGES  7  BE SURE YOU READ IT ALL!

At this time the slate of nominees for officers for the September election is not ready


EXCHANGE DIRECTORS
ENGLAND
UK Exchange
The group traveling to the UK had a get together on the 6 of August. 
Most details of the exchange are taken care of and we are all ready and excited to be on our way!
Barb
BRAZIL EXCHANGE
All planning to go on the Brazil Exchange must pay their fees of $430.00 per person at the September meeting.
Thanks,
Pete and Paula Chambers
AUSTRALIA
South Sydney Exchange in May of 2009:
1. There is a new ED, Kay Graves. We have been in regular correspondence. Because of the costs involved, the have scaled down to a 2 week visit rather than 3.
2. I have queried her if, on arrival, they would want to visit FFI, whether they are arriving individually or as a group on the week-end.
3. I have explained the extra costs involved if they desire to spend a day at the Biltmore which I am encouraging.
4. I am working on presenting as interesting a variety of functions as possible for their enjoyment.
5. Ultimately I will be looking for help with some functions like "Guess who's coming to dinner".
Wally Zust

INCOMING NEW ZEALAND...needs an ED(s).... step up and volunteer to do it......call Bobbie Jones

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
     It's good to be home! Traveling is wonderful but it's always great to get home, especially after a long trip.
    I want to thank Bobbie for taking over for me while we were gone. It's good to have someone like her that you can rely on in a situation like this. We have spoken by phone and exchanged emails while gone and she certainly has everything under control. We have not spoken since last weeks meeting but I'm sure that the election process was extended to accommodate our missing the normal schedule. Bobbie advised me of the nominating committee members and I want to personally thank them for their efforts. I hope the members they contacted about being nominated seriously considered their response. The club is dependent upon each and everyone of us to play a part in it's existence.
    I also spoke with Pete Chambers about the Floats. He indicated that several different groups had had a good time on the dock. I hope we will have the opportunity to attend one before summer slips away. Thanks Pete and Paula for making your facilities available for all of our enjoyment.
I have not spoken to Darrel Panner regarding the western exchange but several people who attended indicated that they had a very enjoyable time. I look forward to reading his report and hearing from more of the ambassadors. There are always some interesting stories that come out of an exchange. Thanks Darrel for EDing a successful exchange.
    The UK exchange is just a month away and everyone involved is ready to go. New airline restrictions and fees on air travel are facing us but I'm sure we will all deal with them as best we can. The fuel situation has compromised all of us in many ways but we will manage. We are very excited about visiting the United Kingdom for the first time and making new friends as we do!
    I will keep this message short after being out of touch for a couple months. I'm sure Bobbie will cover everything that had happened in her VP report.
    Good to be back!  
Skip Walter   e_walter@hotmail.com    864.225.0666

VP NOTES
Many thanks to Richard Brister, Paula Chambers and Brenda Dixon for agreeing to serve on our Nominating Committee!  They will be working on a slate of 2009 club officers to be voted on at our
September meeting.  Thanks, too, to Chuck Thorne for all his work this past month on our website.  It looks great! If you have any thoughts/suggestions about information to be added, please contact
Chuck.
Merilee Brister is hard at work on "New Member Night", scheduled for our November general meeting.  We appreciate this special effort to share information about the work of the Friendship Force in our communities.  It promises to be a fun and informational meeting for not only our guests, but members as well.  So mark your calendars now for Monday night, November 3 and plan to bring
along a friend or better yet, lots of friends!
Our UK Exchange Group will be departing before our next newsletter so we wish them happy travels and may they find many new friendships along the way.
Bobbie Jones

MEMBERSHIP 
In case you haven't heard the news, WE ARE HAVING A MEMBERSHIP DRIVE / BRING A GUEST TO A MEETING/ LET SOME FOLKS KNOW WE HAVE A F.F.O.L.H. SERVING
SOUTH CAROLINA/GEORGIA DURING OUR NOVEMBER MEETING!  We are really planning more of a SOCIAL with some of our "seasoned" members sharing some of their experiences.  Some of our talented E.D.'s  will have a station to talk with our guests re: their process, results & scrapbooks
Recording the experience.  No Business Meeting!  Probably, instead of a normal potluck, we are discussing having hearty finger foods.   TO ALL MEMBERS:  Please make plans to attend and start thinking now about someone from your church, work life, neighbor, sports buddy etc. that you could bring to the November meeting. 
 
We would like members to make personal cards with the f.f.o.l.h. web site to share with contacts.
Chuck Thorne has created a very exciting website for our club.  The site is: www.ffolh.com
  Please make yourself familiar with the website it is very easy to navigate.  In fact, Chuck is now working on our brochure to update the information.  He tells me that he should have the new brochure ready for members to download and print by the time you are reading this text.
 
Our publicity chairperson Jeanne Howe is working hard to get the word out to newspapers!  We will be working on getting a message on cable television and a radio message on WYFL. 
 
Many of you have submitted some suggestions and we appreciate that so much.  It takes all of us to create an exciting club that new people would like to join.  Do not hesitate to call or email
Us with any thoughts you may have!  
Merilee & Richard Brister
706-376-7618  ml7777@yahoo.com or merilee@ffolh



POT LUCK!!  Bring Entree, salads or sides. The food hosts provide dessert
SEPT.  FOOD HOSTS
Bobbie and Jim Jones (sub is the other Jones)**
Jackie and Shelley Kuppersmith (sub is Pursell )**
Mary Lou & Dave Leverette (sub is Sanfilippo)**

OCT.  FOOD HOSTS
Joan and Tom Neville
Christine and Darrel Panner
Candy and Michael Pufall

NOV. FOOD HOSTS
Candy and Dave Pursell
Marti and Rich Reckdenwald
Gayle and Bob Reynolds

FOOD HOSTING
If you cannot do your food hosting it is up to you to find a substitute. The substitute’s name will not be printed in the newsletter. **If you inform the newsletter who your sub is the subs name can be entered beside yours.  It is up to you to check and make sure the substitute will be there for you. If there are extreme problems contact Judy Sanfilippo  706 376-7788


WEB SITE
Check it out!!!!!  www.ffolh.com  Look it over. Fill in name and email and hit subscribe to register so you can get into member information (it doesn’t cost anything to subscribe).

For those of you who might have missed the email, Friendship Force of Lake Hartwell has a new website.  The web address is now FFOLH.COM (no longer ffolh.org).
Chuck Thorne volunteered to help revamp our website.  Chuck has completely overhauled the site.  He has applied his true webmaster skills and given us one of the best sites of all the Friendship Force web sites.
Please visit the new web site and let Chuck know what you think might make the site even better.
Thanks, Chuck.  You did an outstanding job.
Tom Christman
I would like everyone to subscribe to the website so they can get access to information in the "Members Only " section of the website. This is an important section and will assist us in keeping track of membership and providing information for our directory.
Thank You.
Chuck Thorne

 

 

WAYS AND MEANS....I want to thank everyone for their continued support of the 50/50 raffle.  Each month we raise approximately $50 toward the support of incoming exchanges.  We couldn't do it without the majority of the members supporting it!  Thanks a bunch. There was no winner of the raffle for August... Oh wait, yes there was!  It was Candy Pursell.  She was the winner finally, of the $53. 
*** There will be 30 hats with the FFOLH club logo available at the September meeting.  We sold out of the 50 that had been ordered.  These items make very nice exchange gifts if you are not inclined to wear one yourself.  They are a tan cotton with a small navy strip on the bill of the cap.  The logo as usual looks great.  The cost of the hat is $10 and the profit goes to Ways & Means.
See you at the September meeting.
Susan Schafer

HISTORIAN
The Historian is looking for pictures from Santa Barbara and Wyoming Exchange.
 Thanks
Marti Reckdenwald

SUNSHINE
Please contact me with information for any SUNSHINE need. I can’t respond if I don’t know the need.    Phone:   706 376-4631      email:   jkcleveland@hartcom.net  
Snail mail:  1243 Cleveland Mill Road    Hartwell, GA 30643
Kay Cleveland

SPECIAL PROJECTS
Miscellaneous
There were some shirts left over from the last order.  If you are interested in any of the below items, please let Bill Schafer know.
Women's wind shirts, size large, one in black and one in light blue
Women's polo shirts, size large, one in royal blue, one in white
Bill Schafer

BOAT / DOCK FLOATING
Dear boat/dock floaters:
We will not be able to have the float at our dock this week. ( AUG.13)  I have an eye appt. in Atlanta that day.  Maybe next week.....AUG. 20
Or, if somebody else wants to do it.
Pete and Paula Chambers

WEB SITE
Check it out!!!!!  www.ffolh.com  Look it over. Fill in name and email and hit subscribe to register so you can get into member information (it doesn’t cost anything to subscribe).

For those of you who might have missed the email, Friendship Force of Lake Hartwell has a new website.  The web address is now FFOLH.COM (no longer ffolh.org).
Chuck Thorne volunteered to help revamp our website.  Chuck has completely overhauled the site.  He has applied his true webmaster skills and given us one of the best sites of all the Friendship Force web sites.
Please visit the new web site and let Chuck know what you think might make the site even better.
Thanks, Chuck.  You did an outstanding job.
Tom Christman
I would like everyone to subscribe to the website so they can get access to information in the "Members Only " section of the website. This is an important section and will assist us in keeping track of membership and providing information for our directory.
Thank You.
Chuck Thorne

GOLF
August - Zust Open in McCormick SC (2 day event)
September - Tom and Pat Christman
October - Dennis and Jeanne Andrews
November - Ken and Gretchen Fuller
2009 Golf Hosting Schedule
February - Beazleys
March - Boylan
April - Bristers
May - Chambers
June - Christmans
September - Zust Open
October - Fords
November - Howe
Hit 'em long and straight
Ken Fuller                     

MINUTES FROM THE FFOLH August 4, 2008
Vice-President, Bobbie Jones called the meeting to order at 7 PM and thanked food hosts Jeanne Howe, Gretchen & Ken Fuller, Jim Jones and extra helpers Candy Pursell  & Pat Christman.
 Jerry Cleveland gave the blessing.
August Birthdays & Anniversaries were celebrated with song.
Treasurers Report – Bob Reynolds gave his report and said he is working on our financial projection for the remainder of 2008.
Historian – Marty Reckdenwald asked for pictures concerning the recent Wyoming/Montana & Santa Barbara exchanges.
Exchanges:
UK – Gayle Reynolds assistant ED was asked to set a meeting of the ambassadors in order to finalize the travel arrangements.  The meeting will be this Wednesday, August 6th at El Arrcero.
 Brazil – Pete Chambers  ED - has been in touch with the ED’s from Brazil and has finalized the dates as follows:  March 7-14 Belo Horizonte, March 14-21 Curitiba, and March 21-27 a tour of Iguasso & Rio de Janeiro.  The tentative costs are $l,590/person for airfare, $517/person for the third week tour, and around $450/person for FFI costs.  He will be e-mailing the information he has received to all of the people signed up for the trip.
Australia – Wally Zust  - Hopes to have finalized the dates of visit by next month.  He would like input on what to do during the exchange.
New Zealand – still is in need of an ED
Newsletter – MaryLou Leverette is asking newsletter contributors to get their info in to her by Tuesday the 12th as she is going out of town.

Sunshine – Kay Cleveland – Please call her with any news of people needing a cheering-up card.  She is sending the Montana Exchange Director a card of condolence with regard to one of the ambassadors recently killed in an automobile accident.
Membership – Merilee Brister is working with Chuck Thorne (Web Page) and Jeanne Howe (publicity) on our Membership Drive for the meeting in November.  She asked all members to bring a guest.

Web Page – Chuck Thorne has agreed to redo our web page.  If you haven’t been to the site, go to “www.FFOH.com”
Publicity – Jeanne Howe is trying to develop an eye-catching spread with pictures of past exchanges along with information about our sort of “open house” meeting for guests and prospective new members in November which would be published in the Journal and/or Independent Mail along with other local papers.
Baseball – Bill Schafer – Bill has tickets for a 7 PM Greenville Drive game on August 25.  The hats and shirts are in.  The hats are $10.  If he has enough interest, he will order shirts & wind shirts again.
Ways & Means – the 50/50 was reluctantly won by Dave Pursell
Golf – The Zust Open is August 20-21.   We have 16 people signed up to play.  Call Wally if you are interested.
New Business:
Normally August is the month when we vote our slate of officers.  Since the nominating committee was just appointed (Richard Brister, Paula Chambers & Brenda Dixon) they will try to have the slate announced in the August newsletter so we can vote in September.  Bobbie Jones asked for a motion to move the voting from August to September.  The motion was passed
The meeting was adjourned at 8:27 PM
Respectively submitted,
Jeanne Andrews, Secretary
















To find the FFOLH 2008 / 2009 new brochure go to
www.ffolh.com

look under resources
then under general
you will see the 2008 2009 brochure listed