VASSAR President Brennan,
VASSAR 1st Vice President Williams, Past Chapter President Kelley,
Compatriots and ladies. I wish to start
by first thanking the members of the Thomas Jefferson Chapter for granting me
this great honor of being your President.
I pledge to serve you faithfully
and ask that you keep in touch with me, advise me, and support me as we go
forward together in service to the remembrance of our ancestors and their great
legacy of Republican Governance in
2012. Secondly I thank outgoing
President Kelly for his leadership and dedication to the Thomas Jefferson
Chapter. I would ask that you join with
me in giving him three huzzahs for his extraordinary efforts in guiding us
these past three years.
Now I turn to the
year ahead of us. We have a very busy
schedule this coming year with both our normal activities and some additional
tasks. In February, I hope many of us
will attend the VASSAR Annual meeting in Richmond and see our friend and
Compatriot Phil Williams elevated to the post of VASSAR President. Then on March 3rd we will hold our first
Chapter meeting scheduled in 2012 and at that time we will install the rest of
our officers for 2012.
It is however, the
month of September which will require our most significant efforts. On September 14th and 15th we will host the
Mid-year meetings of the State Society here in Charlottesville at the
Holiday-Inn University. This is both a
challenge and an honor for us and a task with which, we can only be successful
if we work as a team.
So we have much to look forward to as we begin the 73rd year
of the Thomas Jefferson Chapters' service to our community. May it be a profitable and rewarding year for
each of you. Thank you for coming out this evening, and may God grant you a safe trip home at the
end of the evening.
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