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My slogan this year is
“Expand Lodge’s Key Strengths”. A common strength shared by our Lodges, the
State Association
and the Grand Lodge is our members. The Key to our continued Strength,
success and growth is an Expansion of the
leadership in our committees and officers who develop and carry out our programs
of service and charitable works.
Our greatest weakness is our willingness to do these things, with the best of
intentions, with a minimal amount of people
sharing in the planning and implementation of these programs and services. Our
programs and services, in the short term,
have been very successful. If these programs and services are to continue and
to grow and Expand, we must bring new
people into their planning and implementation. I encourage all of our Lodge and
State Association committee chairmen
and officers to Expand your support base. With your commitment to this
Expansion we will be stronger tomorrow than
we are today.
“Sharing” has always been
the cornerstone of the success of our Order. We have many avenues available for
us to
communicate our events, services, plans and successes. Telephone, U S Postal
Service, emails, our State Web Site’s
Message Board, Web Calendar and Email Directory, your local newspapers, your
Lodge Newsletters, the West Virginia
Elk Newsletter and our Public Relations Committee are all means by which we can
communicate with each other and with
the world. I encourage all of you to utilize these avenues to their full
potential.
As Rhonda and I visit with
each of you in your Lodges and with our neighboring state associations, we
pledge to the
best of our ability to make you proud of our representation of the West Virginia
Elks Association.
Fraternally,
Ashley M. Martin, III
President West Virginia Elks Association
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