January 2008 Monday Morning Memo

Jeff — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:15:59 +0000

Arkansas Jaycees Board of Directors Meeting & Year-End Awards in Paragould February 15-17, 2008

The Arkansas Jaycees will meet the weekend of February 15th-17th in Paragould at the Quality Suites. We will have First Timers, Write, & Speak-up to begin the day followed by Local Officer Training School, to give all local Board members from President to Director useful information on how to make their chapters better with exchanges from members of other chapters. That afternoon will continue with local officer training and then we will host a State Board of Directors training and first meeting of the year. The evening will include a year-end awards ceremony and words from your outgoing and incoming State Presidents. Meals on Saturday are included, please visit http://www.arjaycees.org/2007/12/27/february-2007-board-meeting/ for the registration form and check back there for updates.

Arkansas Jaycees Executive Committee Training on Saturday, January 12th in North Little Rock

Your new State Officers held a six-hour training this past Saturday in North Little Rock to prepare for the upcoming year. Officers included were President Baine, Chairman Gilbert, & Vice Presidents: Gill, Minor, Phillips, & Shipley. We covered the upcoming Calendar, Budget, Plan of Action, Parade of Chapters, Paragould Board prep, US Jaycees meeting in Memphis, Jaycee Race Day, Ten Outstanding Young Arkansans, and much more. More on our meeting at Paragould.

Arkansas Jaycees Book Judging

We did not receive any books at the Year-end book judging. We will reschedule an additional judging day if there is a need. If you have a book for judging please contact State President John Baine.

Arkansas Jaycees Race Day & Ten Outstanding Young Arkansans

The Arkansas Jaycees have a traditional race day at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs each Spring and at the Fort Smith Board meeting it was decided to bring back TOYA (Ten Outstanding Young Arkansans). Both projects are under way and we will have a date for Race Day in the next few weeks and will have a proposal at Paragould Boards for the 2008 TOYA Awards & Banquet. If you have questions about either event contact State BDVP Bradley Phillips.

New Jaycee Chapters

We are actively working on new chapters across Arkansas all the time. We have an Extension Task Force with Co-Chairs State MDVP Amber Gill and Chairman Gilbert. They are working with Jaycees around Arkansas to help create new chapters. If you know of someone that would be a good candidate to become a Jaycee or to start a chapter contact him or her. If you know of anyone in the greater Little Rock area or the Fayetteville/Springdale corridor please let us know now as those extensions are already in development.

Upcoming Events:

You can add events by e-mailing them to webmaster@arjaycees.org.

Published January 14, 2008 by the Arkansas Junior Chamber.