Message from NER Director
Autumn 2009
The mission of the Embroiderers' Guild is to stimulate appreciation for and celebrate the heritage of embroidery by advancing the highest standards of excellence in its practice through education, exhibition, preservation, collection, and research.
This year has flown by and now Lorie Welker is our National President, elected and inducted at the Annual meeting. Congratulations, Lorie! I hope I can almost fill your shoes as Region Director. I will be happily working with Sue Andrews who is now the ARD (she and I were elected to start in September when Lorie resigned) and the rest of the officers elected at the November Board meeting The new Chairmen are also listed in the newsletter.
We have events and classes to fill our next year. Many of you have signed up for the Correspondence Courses and the Education Committee will be processing those so that the classes can start in January. We will also be planning a Region Day for next Fall.
The Southern Maine Chapter is hard at work on our next Seminar but that is almost two years away. "Hands to Stitch" was so much fun that I hope many of you will start saving your pennies for "Pining to Stitch". Registration and class fees make wonderful Christmas and birthday gifts.
The trials and tribulations continue at National, with the staff working from home beause of water problems at headquarters. We hope for everyone's peace of mind that this can be resolved soon. In the meantime, please send all correspondence to National via email or phone.
I am looking forward to working with all of you to keep all our Chapters growing and running smoothly.
Wishing you all a wonderful Fall and Happy Holidays.