Regional Ramblings

By Bob Cox, RVC Region 9

The National NomComm has announced its list of candidates for the up-coming election. Those that we are able to vote for are Bob Beatty and Tony Jackowski for Chairman, Jean Becker and Linda Hathaway for First Vice Chair, Russ Bakke and Bob Cox for Second Vice Chair, Dan Burg for Secretary, Jim Werdell for Treasurer and Barbara Lytle for RVC Region 9. There is
still plenty of time for Petition Candidates, so all positions are wide open at the moment. You may even want to run for one yourself.

National Testing Day has been set for November 11. This will be our third such event and has become our biggest recruiting tool. Testing is conducted all around the country on this day. This creates a lot of media coverage nationally and for Local Groups. Most of our groups are taking part. Encourage your friends to take the test. After all if they are your friends they probably qualify for Mensa.

At the AMC meeting in Boise Idaho we approved splitting off Florida to form a tenth Region (that is not like splitting off Northern California to be another state). Since then the Election Committee has said that we can not do that at this time, so we are not quite sure where this stands at the moment. We should have things sorted out by the end of the December AMC meeting.

Inland Empire Mensa was approved to host the AMC meeting next September. They will hold a Regional Gathering in conjunction with this meeting. You have probably just missed (or enjoyed) their 2000 RG.

There are no RGs in our region this month but it is time to sign up for the Sin City RG in Las Vegas,
December15-17. Registration is $55:00 till 11/15. Registrar: Ruth Gorman, 3642 Boulder Hwy #26, Las Vegas NV 89121. The hotel rooms are $25:00 plus tax.

It is also time to register for the Leadership Development Workshop that will be held in Long Beach,
February 23-25. Registration is free but you need to register with Julia Meyer, 4547 Maybank Ave. Lakewood CA 90712. This event is open to all members who have an interest in making their local group function more effectively. I hope you will consider attending.