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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1950)
5 District No. 2 Presidents Plan for Membership By ROBERT M. ASHBY District Director The first meeting of the Chapter presidents representing those chapters comprising District Number 2 of the OSEA was held at Nohlgren’s restaur ant on January 30, 1950. The meeting started with a luncheon at 6:30 P.M. The keynote was OSEA membership and the ways and means to increase the same to at least 6000 in 1950. Three m ajor procedures for, increas ing membership were discussed and resulted in the adoption of the follow ing: 1. That each chapter be instructed to select a membership chairman and submit the name to the head office. This procedure would re lieve the chapter presidents of some of their load and perm it the state membership Chairman to co ordinate his activities by working through the district director and he in turn through the chapter chairmen. 2. Gene Schmidt and the writer were instructed to establish an equitable potential membership for each chapter and set up a quota toward which each should work. Consideration of an appro priate prize for the chapter that first, reached its quota was dis cussed but a definite decision on the prize was tabled for study at the February meeting. 3. Gene Schmidt was instructed to mail a report to each chapter president, monthly, as to the standings of all chapters on their progress towards reaching the es tablished quotas. This report will also include the current total OSEA statewide membership. Following conclusion of the above action it was stressed by the state membership chairman t h a t every chapter secretary should be furnished with an adequatersupply of pamphlets explaining the benefits to be derived by membership in this association. It was further stressed that every effort should be made by each chapter to carry out programs that would be of help in keeping all th e old members as well as assisting in gaining new members. Miss Nolan gave a very in teresting talk concerning her activities ■ chairman of the SIAC membership committee setting forth the successful methods she had utilized in the past in securing the interest of the new mem bers in joining the association, In spite of the inclement weather practically every chapter of this district was re presented and the interest shown was exceptionally encouraging. It is, z the plan of this group to meet <?nce a month in the future. Those in attendance were: Joe Wil son, S.U.CC., state membership chair man; Gene Schmidt, Ass’t. Exec. Sec’y of OSEA; Robert Ashby, SIAC, Direc tor of District No. 2; James Bank, Pres. Capitol No. 19; John Susbauer, Pres., SIAC, No. 20; Alvah Brown, Pres., Oregon No. 22; Clarence L. Tomkins, Pres., OCE No. 43; JessiL. Baker, Pres., Deer Park No. 47; Clarence Tandy, Pres., Hi-way No. 1; James Singleton, Pres., Willamette No. 21; Lyle Beyers, Pres., Forestry No. 25; Olive Mallery, Pres., MVSW No. 32; Frank Hutchison, proxy Marion No,. 18; Geo. Kayser, Sec’y of SJiop & Field No. 38; and Miss Nowlan, Membership Chairman, SIAC No. 20. The government is suing the A&P because it buys and sells groceries too cheap, and is too big. Not likely to catch the housewife vote. Now ¿that the British have devalued the pound we hope to see more of those small British cars and fewer' of those big British loans.
