CHANGES TO THE BOARD OF JASNA-SW
President and Regional Coordinator:
JASNA-SW held its election at the Winter Meeting, Saturday, December 13, 2008, at which time Nancy Gallagher became our new President and Regional Coordinator.
Nancy is a past Regional Coordinator, Co-Coordinator (with Claire Bellanti) of the 2004 AGM, and was most recently Recording Secretary.
Retiring co-coordinators Claire Bellanti and Mimi Dudley have kindly agreed to remain active on the Board as Ex-officio Members. Many thanks to Claire and Mimi for their four years of service as co-coordinators of JASNA-SW and for their continued devotion to our Region.
Other Changes to the Board:
Both Pat Cross, who served as Treasurer and Membership Secretary, and Alice Villaseñor, who served as Co-Vice President for Programs, have resigned from the Board due to personal commitments. We are very grateful to Pat and Alice for their service to JASNA-SW.
The Board has made several interim appointments to replace Pat and Alice:
Jana Bickel, who served as our first-ever Email Coordinator, will take over as Co-Vice President for Programs from Alice. In addition, Jana will become President-Elect, facilitating a seamless transition at the end of Nancy’s term.
We are very grateful to Jana Bickel for her willingness to step into this role and for bringing our organization's communications into the twenty-first century through her work as Email Coordinator.
Carol Krause will assume Jana Bickel's role as Email Coordinator and continue working on Newsletter Production.
Carla Washburn will assume Pat Cross's role as Membership Secretary in addition to continuing as Co-Vice President for Programs.
New to the Board is Jody Gunn, who will assume Pat Cross's role as Treasurer with Claire Bellanti serving as her mentor. Jody has been reading Jane Austen ever since she discovered
Pride and Prejudice browsing through a Westwood bookstore her freshman year in college. She has a very modest collection of 19th century editions of various of Austen's novels and is currently reading
Pride and Prejudice in Spanish.
Also new to the Board is Terry Ryan, who will assume Nancy Gallagher's role as Recording Secretary. Terry has been a member of JASNA-SW for over ten years and actively participates in the Santa Monica Reading Group and the San Fernando Valley Reading Group. She served briefly as the steward of the JASNA-SW library until its dissolution and managed the silent auction of the contents to the membership.
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All roads lead to Austen. (photo by Diana Birchall)
