NJCL 2008

Fall Planning: Nuts and Bolts Part 2

Posted by Brian at 12:13 pm on Friday, October 26, 2007

Before I get into the Fall Planning meeting itself, I want to say something about the site for Graphic Arts.  This was probably the hardest activity for which to find a spot, and the the reasons were twofold: 1) It has to be big.  You’ve got the main body of projects, then you’ve got scrapbooks, then you’ve got multi-media; and 2) It has to be off-line the whole week, because those projects aren’t going anywhere and they need to be secure.  So, you have to make sure there’s a space that

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Fall Planning: Nuts and Bolts

Posted by Brian at 12:25 pm on Thursday, October 25, 2007

OK, time for a peek inside the sausage factory.  The thing that the local committee does most, from the moment they know when convention is up until Fall Planning, is work on scheduling.  We’ve dealt with the schedule three separate times in the last month, with two of those being back-to-back days at Fall Planning.  Truthfully, though, there isn’t much else you CAN work on except for the Invitation- so many details are decided at Fall Planning that affect Convention that you really can’t

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Fall Planning Wrap-up

Posted by Brian at 11:17 am on Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Whew!  Fall Planning meeting is over.  It was the first time I’d ever sat in on one of these, and the amount of detail that goes into planning the schedule is amazing.  For example, we tried reorganizing the events of the last day, starting with GA and then doing Day in Old Rome (much like we used to).  We then ran into a snag with contests and awards- Certamen was too close to the start time of GA, and errors from the awards assembly in the morning would just be getting fixed, meaning

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Spirit Themes Decided

Posted by Steve at 06:32 pm on Saturday, October 20, 2007

Just back from a meeting where your national officers decided this year’s spirit themes for the 2008 NJCL Convention. They are as Read More

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Semi-Live Blogging the Fall Planning Meeting

Posted by Steve at 06:50 am on Friday, October 19, 2007

Here we are in lovely Uptown Oxford, Ohio, getting ready for a day of tours, agenda discussions, and other items of planning goodness. As time warrants, we’ll be posting items of interest about our tours.

We actually were in town yesterday with such NJCL luminaries as President Grace Jeong, Secretary Emily Calder, national committee chair Martha Altieri, creative contest chair Amy Elifrits, and the incomparable Geri Dutra, doing an initial campus tour, an extensive walkthrough of the

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