As the year winds down so does my term of office.
But our association is moving forward and we are ready to “Embrace the
Change”. We have Miss Juliana Tu returning as President, after 17 years
since her last term. Her dedication to our association and her
motivating spirit has installed new enthusiasm to our returning board
members and the new board members as well. With planning meetings
already taking place we are positioning ourselves for a new and exciting
year. Fresh ideas and prior experience from newbies and veterans alike
are guaranteeing 2009 will be another great year for EASGV.
This year at the CEA Conference we took, 3rd
place in Newsletter, 2nd place in Community Spirit and 1st
place in Education. I would like to give a special thanks to Chris
Hathaway for coming in mid year and taking over the Awards Committee and
her extra effort to get our submission packet to CEA to qualify for this
year’s awards. And it was an honor to walk up and accept the awards on
behalf of our association. I know in the year coming we will do as well
or better, because of our leadership and our membership. We are a
strong region and are so because of the many volunteers that give their
time, experience, effort and a lot of heart. So join the many who give
to give back, it is very rewarding and provides a service to our
community by making all us better for what we achieve together.
I say good bye, but not farewell and thank you for
allowing me to have the honor of being your President for the last two
years. I did not achieve all that I set out to accomplish and know that
as much as I learned, there is so much more to learn. Thank you for
patience, your compliments and your constant encouragement.
Thank you to the entire membership, the Board of
Directors, Committee Chairs, CEA Directors and AEA Delegates, together
we were EASGV 2008.
Take a moment, put down the file you are working on
and reflect upon the following;
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some
poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning,
middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the
moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen
next. Delicious Ambiguity.
Gilda Radner
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be
the beginning.
Ivy Baker
Priest
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every
circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every
end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean
beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are
only middles. Robert Frost
Sincerely,
Randy Caruso
2008 President
