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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">HISTORIC FREDERICKSBURG CRIER – February 8th 2021</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Crier is
going out to share a survey requested of chapter presidents. I will include the
content of that e-mail at the bottom of my short thoughts on the current state
of localand national <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>affairs.</font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are just about
finishing one year of time since the virus struck our country. There has been
much finger-pointing about fault and reaction to the pandemic. Some blame the
President who was vilified when he first raised the alarm while others in
Washington said the virus was no big deal. If you want to lay blame, feel free
but I think we all need to pull together and help those hurt by the pandemic.</font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not a big
fan of Zoom even though I like technology. As the president of our chapter
during this bad year, I feel that I have failed all of you. Our meetings via Zoom
have been overall lackluster and not well attended or probably very useful to
most of you. Based on the survey sent out by the affiliate, other chapters
probably had similar problems. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sue and I are
getting our shots this week and I hope all of you can get yours as soon as
possible. I would like to try to meet in a masked and socially distanced
setting at our regularly scheduled meeting <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saturday morning, February 20. Meeting details
will be sent out Thursday, February 18. If that is too soon for many of you, I
understand. Maybe you will be more comfortable in March.</font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Please be safe</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Dick<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>804-238-5608</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><a><font face="Calibri" size="3">rtbyrne@aol.com</font></a></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Below are the questions
from the affiliate. Please send me or them your responsas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can also bring responses to our Saturday
meeting.</font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'>You may ask your
chapters whatever questions you like, but the responses I believe should go on
our data collection should be </span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'>1. What are the
positives of your chapter in its current state?</span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'>2. What did
your membership identify as areas for improvement?</span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'>3. What lesson
did the chapter learn from 2020?</span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'>That’s it. If
anyone would like to reword, delete, or add other questions, I’m open to
suggestions. I’m hoping we can collect ample responses to give us a fair idea
of where chapters are in their current state. If you have suggestions though,
please share them here by this Sunday evening. I’d like to work with Sean on
creating the form next week so that chapters can begin registering their
responses throughout the month. You may delegate the completion of the form to someone
else in your chapter if you so desire, as long as it gets done by March 1st at
5 PM.</span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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any questions whatsoever, or concerns, please ask them here or contact either
myself or Domonique. Don’t wait until the deadline please.</span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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