Hospitality & Membership
2014
The primary function of this committee
is to contact and welcome new members to the Section. New
members are welcomed by letter and by listing their names in a
monthly column in the newsletter. The letter contains a brief
history of the section, an explanation of how they became a
member of the section, and information of our activities and
committees. To encourage them to become active, we invite
them to attend a dinner meeting or event as a guest of the
Section. To encourage our new student members, we offer them
free dinners each month. The Section continues to extend a 50%
discount for the cost of the dinner to members who are currently
looking for employment. The networking may help them in their
job search. We have always discounted the dinner for our 50-year
members.
A part of
the responsibility of this committee that has developed over the
years is to arrange the locations and menus for the monthly
dinner meetings. In 2014 we varied our dinner meeting venue
somewhat. We had four dinner meetings in a central hotel, one at
a community college, one jointly with the CA section at a
theater in San Francisco, another at the San Francisco
Exploratorium. The annual Summer Awards, wine
tasting, and catered picnic that is held on the Stanford campus
is always our most popular event with about 75 attendees.
--Sally Peters
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