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<div dir="ltr">Barbara Hammel</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Mar 22, 2021, at 17:01, emejia--- via DSM-Iowa <dsm-iowa@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is just a quick update. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am writing to you from the gold coast of Southern California!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As I write this I am enjoying sitting here in my sisters porch next to a very sleepy puppy.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I hope that you are all doing well. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I do not have an update on Michaels health. Never the less, please continue to pray for him and his family.
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<p class="MsoNormal">At our last chapter meeting we talked about committees. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As a refresher here are the current options. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Fund raising committee. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ambassadors committee. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Host committee. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Committee to determine what welcome package we can put together for new orientation center students.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you are interested in helping with any of these please let me know at your earliest convenience.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Heads up the LEAP program is just around the corner. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So I think we need to start planning an event to reach out to the students attending LEAP this summer. Hopefully we can have an in person event.
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<p class="MsoNormal">In either case I think that it would be great to plan something that allows us to reach out to these students.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Senior week is also around the corner and I think that there is an opportunity to plan something for that group as well.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:yellow"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:yellow">I am on vacation until next week, and will take some time to catch up on email.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:yellow">So if you are someone who has written to me I am sorry for the delay and hope to get through all the emails I have in my inbox during this week.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:yellow">Hope you are all doing well.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:yellow">Enrique Mejia</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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