GOLF TOURNAMENT!!!

Monday, May 17th, 2010

We’re hosting a golf tournament!! I’m thrilled that at our May membership meeting the Western Maryland Jaycees voted (unanimously) to host a golf tournament in 2010 – August 7th, at the Fore Sisters Golf Course in Rawlings, MD to be exact.

This is going to be a huge step for our chapter. We will be putting on an event that will garner a large amount of attention from the community and raise a large amount of money for us to put toward our many community efforts. Hosting this tournament will combine our abilities in organizing details, reaching out to the business community, public relations, motivating our membership and everything else we have been learning how to do as members of the Jaycees. The Western Maryland Jaycees Golf Tournament will become another signature event for us. I can’t think of a better way to crown the achievements and growth we have been working so hard to accomplish the last several years.

In addition to raising a lot of money for the chapter, the benefits of hosting a golf tournament will be manifold. Here are just a few that come to my mind:
1) Publicity – We get to promote this tournament, and in doing so we will be saying “Western Maryland Jaycees” an awful lot to an awful lot of people in an awful lot of ways over the course of several months. We get to show our logo, post it on signs and place it on flyers that promote the tournament. We get to explain to everyone we talk to about the tournament what it is that we do and why we do it.
2) Respect – We don’t do anything half-assed in this chapter, so when the community sees that our group can organize and execute an event of this magnitude at the high level of competency with which we will it will be unmistakable that the WMD Jaycees has its act together.
3) Membership – With publicity and respect comes membership. Not only will we see residual effects of greater publicity in the community come back to us in new members over time, watching us work so well together (as we will) and achieve so much (which we will) in a one-day event, word will quickly spread from the golfers and other participants and I fully expect see a noticeable bump in membership directly attributable to this tournament.
4) Tons of Fun for Everyone – Working hard together and watching our efforts turn into a successful event is at the heart of what it means to be a member of the Western Maryland Jaycees. Here, ladies and gentlemen, we get to do it again! Plus, we get to spend the day together enjoying each others’ company and creating lasting memories. I am excited, I simply cannot wait!

Ofcourse, an event of this magnitude will require the full support and participation of the entire chapter. We will need to pull support from our friends (a great opportunity to rope in prospective members), roosters who have aged out of the chapter and those who in the community have supported us in the past. As the Fundraising Committee works at getting the details of this event put together and begins to assign duties to the rest of us we will have a better understanding of what will be asked. But, I can assuredly say, the entire chapter stands ready and willing to do whatever is necessary.

While it will be a massive project for us to get of the ground this year, the highly competent team heading this effort has the unconditional confidence and support of the BOD and the entire chapter. It’s going to be a tremendous process of planning the tournament, and after the last put hits the bottom of the cup on August 7th we will all be very proud that we were able to be a part of it.

I already am!

– Joe Harman, President

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Membership Committee Meeting 5-10-2010

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

We will be having a Membership Committee meeting on Monday May 10 at 7 o’clock at El Canelos in Cumberland.  Anyone can attend!  Plus you can have dinner or an alcoholic beverage with chips and salsa.  Any questions just pop me an email at brookem_@hotmail.com.  Thanks

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