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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1951)
7 News From the Chapters SALEM CHAPTER No. 1 At the January, 1951, m eeting the following officdg | were duly installed for the coming year: PresidenH V. G. O’Neil; Vice-President, Floyd Query; Jr. Past President, C. W. Tandy; Fin ancial Secretary,: Lowell Shinn; Treas urer , Cecil L. Hobbs, and Correspond ing Secretary, Deloras Davis. The m a o in e s and books brought to the December Christmas party were taken to the Chemawa Indian school. Zelma Sweeney, chairman of the entertainm ent»m m ittee‘l§dvised that the children ^df the school were most appreciative of the gift. The general policy of cash dona- tions by the Chapter:‘to organizations such as Red Cross, Community ChestS et cetera, wasArought up for discus- sion and it was decided H R on re cord as not favoring cash donations to any eleemosynary organizations. Var ious phases of the 1951 legislative session were discussed by Floyd Query, with emphasis,placed on sucH legislation as affects state employees. A t ’the February meeting the Chap ter was thanked by M r.;F. C. Gast, MarioiWounty chairman of the Easter Seal campaign, ,fqr its cooperation in assisting to address envelopes for dis tribution to the general public. Again, a review of legislative bills as affect ing state employees was brought be fore the group and considerable dis cussion centered around this over-all subject. Entertainment, for the even ing was furnished by Salem high stu dents, Salem high string quartette; with humorous reading given by John Bone and vocal selections by Alice Waters. ChapterZPresident Virgil O’Neil in troduced several new thoughts into Chapter operations for the current year, which should stimulate attend ance' and membership in OSEA. The following chapter m em bershave been appointed to serve ag\ committeemen by President O’Neil for 1951: Mem bership and Grievance, Floyd Query, fghairman; Entertainment, Ruth Raw lins, chairman; Public R elatioiS J. A1 Head, chairman; RuleOand Regula- tions;|E. A. Pease, chairman; Refresh ment, Alice Schmidt,. chairman; ® ivil Service Advisor", Gene Huntley,* jand ReW em eSA dvisor. Carl Hobson. BEND CHAPTER No. 3 Members of OSEA, Bend Chapter Nd,; 3, held “a whirl-away meeting to start 1951 off with a bang! T h ^ ie w for ’51 were installed and started their directorship with gusto. Mrs. A. C. Lubcke, Haines,; Alaska, lectured on Alaska and British Col- umbia, illustrating her talk with pic- Duri®, ,the winter months^rbrrrr— ChapteMmembers in'outlying districts are hard pressed to attend meetings, but our February 13th meeting was1 highlighted, by the presence of several hardier souls — congrats, all! As en- tertainment, Park Supervisor Wei- precht showed a pictorial travelog of Our March 13th meeting had as special attraction’a pot luck dinner. ¡-Mountains of delicious food rapidly became molehills — with sighs of con tentment from all. Local talent (and I doigmean talent) .was the .“order of the evening. George W, I Ross, with h O son , Garry,1 duetted through two softgs (Swell voice, Garry) — Steel guitar solo by capable Herb Ricks — Sweet Adeline sung as it should; be sung by C. G. Springer — an im- fewjjftpwjfeading in Norwegian dialect bwjtlrs. J. F. Weisser titled “My First Bridge Party” — as a rousing climax, hill-billy Specialist Bilk Simpson, sing ing and playing on his Spanish guitar. Interested; in raising pedigree cats? We have a member (Cal Massee) who
