Hello, Sorry the Presidents Message is late. It was my birthday this weekend and time got away from me. Presidents Message is as follows:

Hello, Chambersburg BPW members,

I hope everyone is keeping warm, and safe this winter. Our January meeting hosted a great speaker from Women In Need, and we started our "Emblem Pledge" In which members wear their pin or donate 25cents to the club. We hope that it will promote unity and awareness within the organization.


We have a lot of great things planned for our February meeting and hope that all can make it!

We've decided to give to the "Brown Bag" charity and hope that you can bring a non perishable food item to the meeting to help families in need. Wilma Fritz our membership chair will continue donating a portion of her Avon orders to BPW through the end of may to help with our scholarship fund. If you would like to order online please go to www.youravon.com/wfritz. We are currently planning a membership drive to coenside with our scholarship fundraiser in the beginning of may. We will be discussing, and voting on details at the February meeting.

I look forward to seeing you all very soon,

Jill Ann Yaich
President
Chambersburg BPW

Ladies, 
Welcome 2014! We ended 2013 with fun holiday music and wonderful companionship. I hope 2014 brings much more of the same.  Next up our January meeting, and hopefully a couple more great speakers, new members, and new ideas. 
January's speaker is Lisa Dougherty from our local Women in Need. I hope we learn more about the organization we have been donating to for the past couple of Christmases. 
I am looking forward to a great planning meeting, and a lot of great ideas on how to get new members, and fund raise for our scholarship. 
Don't forget to read and sign the permissions to have your image, and fill out the short bios for the website. It is important for us have a united, and clear web presence. The web is a great way for us to get our message out to business and professional women in the area, and for them to learn more about us. 
I look forward to growing, and experiencing the future with all of you in 2014. 
Jill Ann Yaich  President  Chambersburg BPW

Ladies, 
Hello, I hope everyone is enjoying the start of their holiday season. I hope that you all attend our December meeting were we will all be able to socialize, be merry, and enjoy a pianist from the Cumberland Valley School of Music. The newsletter also contains the information for our holiday charity please see a following page for details. Our charity this year is Women in Need. We will be donating toys for the children who are housed there over the holidays. 
Our January speaker. Barbara Mistick has had to postpone her speech until our March Meeting. Luckily our March meeting was to be determined, and we will still be able to hear Dr. Mistick of Wilson College. I will be looking for a replacement speaker for our January meeting, and welcome any suggestions. February we will be learning about adult literacy from our very own Marie Steinbacher. 
I look forward to seeing all of you at our December meeting, and hope that you all bring friends and colleagues so we can continue to grow as an organization. 
Jill Yaich President  Chambersburg BPW

Hello, Chambersburg, BPW:  
Thank you everyone for your well wishes during my recovery. I'm up and at 'em and making plans for our Christmas Charity and entertainment for our December  10th meeting. 

I hope everyone had a great time at our first speakers meeting with Ashten Parker from Franklin Family Services. You will be able to pick up cookie dough from our fall fundraiser on our November 12th meeting. 

Please everyone remember to look at our facebook page,  and website for information, as well as the state website to keep up to date  with current topics in BPW. 

I look forward to seeing  you all at our November meeting, and hopefully meeting new potential members as  well. 

If you have a sense of  purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy  isn't just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people  as well. 
Margaret  Thatcher (1935- ), English chemist, attorney, political leader; prime minister of Britain, 1979-1990; first  woman to head a major government in modern Europe; took up lifetime seat in House of Lords, 1992, Quoted in Twentieth-Century Women Political Leaders by Claire Price-Groff, 1998Thatcher (1935- ), English chemist, attorney, political leader; prime minister of Britain, 1979-1990; first  woman to head a major government in modern Europe; took up lifetime seat in  House of Lords, 1992, Quoted in Twentieth-Century Women Political Leaders by Claire Price-Groff, 1998

Hello, Everyone. 


I hope you've been getting my email correspondence. Attached to the last
email was the order form for our Cookie Dough. A fundraiser for our 
scholarship. It is due back to the club by the latest October 26th. 
Dough will be able to be picked up Nov 12th at our meeting. 


Looking forward to the District 7 meeting, and National Business Women's 
week. Think too about a charity we would like to support at Christmas Time.
Last  year we supported Hefer International and WIN. Looking forward to some
good  ideas!
 
Lots to do this year to get new members in, and raise funds for our 
scholarship. 


Quote of the Month: 
"For any of us in this room today, let's
start out by admitting  we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers
lived in, our grandmothers  lived in, where career choices for women were so
limited."
Sheryl Sandberg 

Hello everyone, 
I hope we all had a wonderful and relaxing summer. Our Picnic was held on August 13th. We had 6 
members in attendance, and had a wonderful time catching up and playing the "white elephant" game that has become quite a tradition. I hope more members attend our September business meeting at Hoss's on September 10th. 

We hope to have wonderful speakers this year talking about women in the military, mental health
issues in the community, and hopefully one or two local business women sharing what they do for our community. 

As it states in our PA State Presidents theme, "We've come a long way, Baby" but we still have many 
obstacles in our path. 

Membership is key this year. We need to have more members to help chair committees, and spread
the  message about what BPW Chambersburg can do for our community. I hope that everyone comes to the table with ideas of how to reach out to our fellow business and professional women and work toward a sustainable future. 

See you soon. 
Jill Yaich