Thank you all for your support as I take over the reins from Rebecca Bottoms as the new senior state president, supporting the new state president Daisy Dolicker and her program year “Helping Our Veterans Heal”!
I’d like to express the thanks of the NCSCAR as a whole to Mrs. Bottoms and her cadre of officers and chairs for their two years of amazing work in helping this state organization thrive! Next, welcome and thank you to all of our incoming senior officers and chairs in anticipation of the next two exciting years of helping our membership grow in both number and involvement.
At the state level, of course, we are just here to help: it is the members, officers, and chairs in the local Societies that make the CAR program exciting, interesting, educational, and fun… where the traditions and history of our country and organization come alive. We started off the year with a series of one-on-one phone calls with senior Society presidents to discuss Society issues and supporting programs to be sure that Societies are receiving the support they need and deserve; and an opinion survey that everyone should have received to take your pulse on the annual state conference so we can make it a better experience and the best use of your time… a real can’t-miss event!
The state president defined 4 goals for her program year:
- Increase statewide membership by the equivalent of 1 new member per society.
- Increase member participation in national activities, state functions, and in their local societies.
- Enhance engagement with the parent societies of DAR, SAR, and SR.
- Raise funds to fully provision 3 additional trained service dogs to disabled veterans in North Carolina (the president’s project)
You can read more about the goals elsewhere in this issue, and you’ll see that there is already exciting news on a number of those goals! For example we want to focus each Society now on submitting for both the state and national merit awards. If you review the requirements now, you can use those award requirements to help you in planning out your society’s program year for fun, excitement… and both State and National gold merit awards at the end of the year! You’ll be surprised how the merit award goals make event and meeting planning easier!
We’re going digital… at last… this year! You can read more in this issue of the Tarheel Tattler about the new digital format of this newsletter, about easier contest entry, and better communications via email, social media, and our website.
I’m looking forward to a great C.A.R. year with more fun, better communications, and some great programs! Stay tuned!
All the best,
George Doicker
Senior State President