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DAC NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2017 Directory Alumni Council Hello to All!! PO Box 828 “HELPING MEMBERS KEEP IN Byfield, MA 01922 TOUCH” Email: [email protected] We’re on the Web! WWW.YPALUMNI.ORG 2017 Alumni Events Published February 2017 New Year is the time to celebrate a new beginning, 1 Inside*201 this7 Alumni Issue Events a time to wish all your *Openings on Board 2 Happy Groundhog Day! friends and loved ones a happy new year. * New Members 3 *Membership Dues Update Happy New Year to All!! 4 *Bobbie’s Chat Room 4 *Jim’s Jems *Marcy’s Florida News 4-5 Holiday Luncheon 5-6 *Mail-A-Thon 7 *Annual Holiday Luncheon 7 *Red Sox vs Cleveland Indians 7-8 *In Memory of 9 *Connecting Job-Seekers Annual Meeting With Employers Wednesday, April 19 10-25 * We’ve Got Mail! 26 *Sudoku Puzzle Mail-A-Thon Wednesday, May 17 27 -28 *FYI 29 *CLASSICS- Revisit Red Sox vs Cleveland unforgettable images 30 -32 *CURRENTS- Images of this Indians year’s events We sincerely appreciate your continued Wednesday, August 2 interest and support of our charitable 33 *The Garden Club and social activities. Holiday Luncheon— *January-June Events 34 Angelica’s Claire M. Palmer, Chairman 34 * Puzzle Solution Tuesday, December 5 9-17 - *Support our Advertisers 35 36 * Mail-a-Thon form* 38 * Annual Meeting form* February 2017 The DAC Board of Directors. We are looking for additional people to come on the Board of Directors to fill current and future openings! This is your opportunity to get involved in planning social activities to continue the camaraderie enjoyed by directory employees during their days with the Directory department; to assist in the publishing of a membership directory, newsletter and web site allowing members to keep in touch with friends made over the years. The lifeblood of the Directory Alumni Council is its membership and its heart is the volunteer Board of Directors. If you are the type of person who seeks out and acts on solutions, works well both independently and within a team, this may be a great opportunity for you. It is the membership that votes to put people on the Board, for a three year term, and voting takes place at the Annual Meeting in April. Some positions on the board have set responsibilities, such as Treasurer, Secretary, Chairman and Vice-Chairman, and these positions are decided each term by the Board of Directors. For most new Directors, their responsibilities include running 1 event per year, assisting one of the other Directors with large projects from time to time, and familiarizing themselves with the working of the Board with an eye to taking on more responsibilities in the next term. The DAC Board of Directors meets one day a month from January to June and September to November. Meetings generally run from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Are you able to accept this commitment? Check out our web site for details regarding Officer and Board Member position responsibilities. http://ypalumni.org/about-us/ Officers are elected through an official election process at a board meeting. Board Members nominate candidates for election to the Board of Directors at the Annual Meeting in April. If you are interested in running for the Directory Alumni Council Board of Directors, please contact our Chairman, Claire Palmer, at [email protected] or [email protected]. Tell us your area of expertise or areas of interest, such as: Organizational, Sales, Financial, Nonprofit Management or Nonprofit Board Experience, Computer Expertise, Event Coordination, Other area (please specify). What can I do to increase membership? Our Directory Alumni Council was founded on November 23, 1987 by a wonderful group of people like you, who thought it might be nice to stay in touch with some of their friends after they have left the company. You don’t have to be of retirement age to join. If you ever worked in Directory, at any time, we welcome your membership in the Directory Alumni Council. While the duties of the officers are spelled out clearly, it is incumbent upon everyone to recruit and help grow the DAC. The DAC helps meet the social and communications needs of retirees. Every member can help by spreading the word about the DAC, and by personally signing up former Directory employees who have not yet heard of the Directory Alumni Council, and therefore have not had the opportunity to join. Many people transferred to other companies as NYNEX/Bell Atlantic/Verizon/Idearc/SuperMedia/DexMedia altered its business model, and lost contact with their membership opportunities. The company will not help us toward this end by supplying former employee names or addresses (as a matter of confidentiality), nor will they advise active employees that we exist. Therefore, membership growth is a real priority as we face the issues that the future is certain to present. We welcome your friends and family members to join the Directory Alumni Council. Give them the form on the last page of this newsletter to fill out, or send us their name and address and we’ll send them an invitation to join the DAC. You may also go to our web site http://www.ypalumni.org/how-to-join/application-form/ Just remember....."We were the best of Directory!" 2 . NEWSLETTER Welcome to New DAC Members! “SPECIAL OFFER” 2016 A Multi-Year Membership Renewal Offer Barbara Yee Amirault Expires April 30, 2017 Lisa Brennan During this year’s membership renewal period, give Kathy Hatch Margaret Melanson yourself a gift of sustained membership at a savings! Take Cindy Dragon-Speropolous advantage of this Offer of a Multi-Year membership Mike Walor renewal, now! You can renew your membership for one, two or three years - but only until April 30, 2017. After Invitations to join the Directory that date, we will offer only one-year memberships as Alumni Council in 2016 were sent to: before. If you have already paid your 2017-2018 Lisa Castracane Chris (Ellis) Tentindo membership dues, see the enclosed form for more details. Sally Tirabassi Check your mailing label, it contains the expiration date of your current DAC Membership. If you know of others who worked in CIRCLE THE MEMBERSHIP PLAN YOU CHOOSE Directory, at any time, send us their name and address. We welcome their membership in the Directory Alumni 1 year - $15 2 years - $25 3 years - $35 Council. Renewals must be received by April 30, 2017. Mail your check and the enclosed form to: Directory Alumni Council PO Box 828, Byfield, MA 01922 ANNOUNCEMENT The Board of Directors Thank You for renewing If you are interested in joining the DAC Board of Directors please your DAC membership. We appreciate your contact any member on the confidence and support of this great organization. Board. DAC Membership Benefits DAC Membership signifies that you are: Dedicated to the Directory Alumni Council Committed to the success of the DAC Want to learn about all that we Enthusiastic about maintaining contact with your are planning? As a paid member former colleagues you are invited to join us on DAC membership also provides tangible benefits that include: Facebook so you can get up to the DAC Newsletter mailed to your home three times a year, date information and read what our members are saying. We an updated DAC Membership Directory, invitations to DAC would be greatly honored to have events, access to the YPAlumni.org web site* and DAC you as a Facebook fan! Find us at Facebook page and timely Email notification of news of Directory Alumni Council on interest to Alumni. Facebook. *While the YPAlumni.org web site is open to all, it is 3only publicized in our DAC Newsletters . and. DAC. Membership . Directory. February 2017 The Directory Alumni board in order to take care of her elderly aunt in Florida. All the best Council to you Marilyn. The Telephone Company, like other I'm pleased to announce that Marie major corporations consists of many Jim’s Jems Nardone has agreed to rejoin the divisions. Our division, the DAC Board of Directors. Marie was Directory Department, also known By Jim Mullaney as Yellow Pages and SuperPages, a former member of the Board and former Treasurer. We are thrilled to services the business community by have Marie back on the DAC Board selling Yellow and White Pages My Best to all of you! of Directors. advertising. There are various groups within Directory: sales representatives, artists, clerical personal, public affairs, legal, Jim finance, marketing, information A Note from Claire Palmer: systems, customer relations, As I think about Jim’s connection to network, and real estate. Through the DAC I’m reminded that our teamwork these groups expand the good friend Jim Mullaney has company into new domestic and written a column for the DAC global markets. Newsletter since the first edition So it was that on November 23, Hello!! went to press. That's 70+ columns 1987 a group of 8 Yellow Page What’s up? over 25+ years. WOW! sales people who truly loved their I can speak with surety that all of profession, decided they would Bobbie’s Chat Room the Alumni membership thank Jim always enjoy being a part of this By Bobbie Gifford for his longtime devotion to helping exciting business, even after they the Alumni "Keep In Touch" by retired, by keeping in touch with I’m taking some time off from writing in the newsletters about his their past. gathering news for the newsletter. personal contacts with our members. Before too long I’ll be getting back This desire to stay connected lead into the swing of things and chatting Jim is the ultimate role model for to the formation of the Directory with you.