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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1950)
17 Chapter News (Continued from page 13) i O R E G O N CH A P T E R 22 F A C E S A T T E N D A N C E P R O B LEM Like most chapters we h&d the prob lem'„b’f how tp get the m e m b § S p to come to the mb^a§g^| We didn*t want to finj« w pie for not attending. We wanted them to come beca^ Q ^ thev wanted to be there. This became the theme of our board discussions. Our previous procedure wpfs’.'tehave the meetings immediately after work and the attendance^ was terrible, at most 10 to 20 members nr esen t, even when there^were important subjects to be discussed.’Somebody had to build a better mouse trap! So our meeting plans were formul ated. Our held in the evenings , are a combination of businejsWnd social activities. Members were urged to come and tot® w | along husbands, wives, and guests. B H re- sponsibility^for each I meeting was shared B a section of the agencQ m a Ig ta w g M ^ ^ M In this way it' was hoped that we would get more inter est and a^y/ider B r j etv of ideas. As an example, our last meeting was run by the business management section and the next one, by the benefits section. I m M H duty ° f the designated section to plan and organize the social part of the evening which has developed into sort of a pattern: after the business meeting perhaps a movie, donated by a local business; always refreshments; then some games. The bingo game has developed into quite a pastime, for those not interested in bingo, other games are planned. A t our last meeting one of the members volunteered to teach canasta to an interested group. As an added incentive, it'was decid- ed'iby the membership to have a cash door prize from the general fund, the amountUto, ^be five dollars. Originally it Was drawn for., by taking two names only. If neither person was present, the money was added to the following month’s prize’. '^Thisi meant however;" that the amount became too large at times, so.it was decided that if|tieither person’ was ^^¡"^V^H n^rnue drawing names for half of the five dollars until a winner was found. The remaining $2.50 was then added to next months prize. We have tried to keep the necessary busineÿmeetings brief and to encour age ■ participation in the meetings by all. The officers of the chapter plan to have a speaker at each meeting to bring the members^-current informa tion on problems affecting state em ployees. We feel that our efforts have gone a long way towards improving attend ance records. Last year before this change,, the average number of mem bers at a meeting was 10 to 20. Imme diately after changing the program it jumped 50% and at the last meeting, we had 70 people present. We do not feel that the problem is solved by any means and it will con tinue to be a job requiring constant effort. We’d like to know how other OSEA chapters have met this prob- lem? —Clarence Baker W OODBURN CH A P T ER No. 45 Woodburn Chapter No. 45, put on a very gay White Elephant party at the new Woodburn->Legion club and wound up their 1949 social calendar in true fashion. Square dancing was- very much in order and the dancing lessons that have been given- on Wednesday evenings, readily showed who had been attending the -classes. The party was officiated by President Don Tabler and ^ M g g r y Bill Nuckols, with the cap able assistance of their wives. The gtfpsts included Mr. and Mrs. Lamb, superintendent .of Woodburn School g S H B o B , Forrest V. Stewart, O SEA E x e c u t S Secretary and his Assistant Eugene Schmidt. Everyone appeared B IB h U spirits and with the large turnout it will .onl^ f e ad to bigger and be M M parties from the Woodburn Chapter, I ’m afraid. Keep on plugging, and the chances; are-that you will stumble on some thing, perhaps when you are least ex pecting it. I have never heard of any one stumbling on anything ^ sitting down.—Charles F. Kettering.
