Regular emails or phone calls are made to all members about upcoming events and activities.
Pre-Covid we had 240 members and an average of 110 attending the luncheons. This year our membership is rebounding to about 230 members and the numbers attending luncheons is rising to 100+ . Approximately 80% of our members attend at least one or more, of the luncheons each year.
Linda Freeman served as a Co-President with Mary Maxwell for the previous two years and has now undertaken being President alone. She has an extensive background in education from teaching adults at Fanshawe College and teaching teenagers at Medway High School. She served as Trustee for 15 years on the London Board of Education and more recently, she taught the TESOL program in partnership with Kings College.
Mary Maxwell will now serve as Area 3 Director and will represent our Branch and 4 others at the Provincial level.
If a potential member is interested in joining our Branch, they may wish to contact our Membership Chair, Karen Tierney by email and arrange to attend one of the luncheons before making a commitment to join. If so, you will likely meet former colleagues from one of our local school boards, or private schools and definitely meet new friendly acquaintances.
Once a year a newsletter, Chalktalk is published at the beginning of February and emailed to members with an email address and a paper copy is mailed to about 40 members without access to email. The newsletter describes all the activities of our Branch that have taken place in the previous calendar year which is useful for potential members to read as well as members who were unable to attend some of our meetings and activities.
