A Note From the President
Another three months have passed us since my last newsletter... and what a busy three months it has been! Our Fort Bend Chapter has enjoyed great speakers, a successful Basket Auction and an Informative Tech Tuesday! Just in case you missed any of it, here's a quick re-cap:
We started things off in May with our Annual Basket Auction headed by Cathy Simeone and Sherrie Fontenot; which raised over $1,500. All of which went directly back to our Chapter! Many thanks to these two ladies for once again making the Auction a succes!
At that same meeting, Chris Lesak spoke to us about the New WCR Fort Bend website (www.FortBendWCR.com), as well as how to utilize the tools on the WCR App! We learned the importance of keeping our profile up to date to encourage those all so important Referrals!!If you haven't had the opportunity to check out the new website, please be sure to do so. It is loaded with useful information for our members! We were also honored to have our WCR Area C Governor, Marty Chrisman join us for the meeting... Thanks again for making the trip to Ft. Bend Marty!
June started out with our quarterly "Tech Tuesday" event entitled "Marketing Strategies that Work" presented by Richard Smith and coordinated by Luba Shuckers. This event was held once again at the beautiful Town Square Office Suites in Sugar Land. Richard taught us so much about cost effective ways to market ourselves and our businesses in this Tech Savvy Environment!
The topic for our June Business Resource Luncheon Meeting was "News You Can Use" by Gary Maler, Director of the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University. He talked about the trends in Real Estate and the most important question on all of our minds... "How long will this upswing last?"If you missed this meeting, you missed a good one!
Amongst all of that, JoAnn, Joan, Theresa and I loaded up our bags and headed to the National Meeting in Washington, D.C. We spent 4 full days in WCR meetings and trips to the Capitol. As a highpoint, we were invited to join U.S. Congressmen John Culberson in his office to talk about current issues in the Real Estate Market and enjoyed lunch in the Congressional Dining Room. What a wonderful trip it was! We toured the many sights of Washington, learned allot and met some wonderful people.
Once again, Texas took honors in the awards program by wining the 2012 Mega State Chapter of the Year award! But that's not all, we, here in Fort Bend won the Gold award for our local chapter yet another year! Way to go Fort Bend!
GOOD LUCK JOANN!
If it seems that we've been busy recently, it's nothing compared to what lies ahead of us next quarter! Here's a little bit of what we have in-store:
July: "Safety on Steroids" (Lt. AJ Gwen)
August: Cooking Class with Beatrice Keller
"School District Reports" (Joint meeting with HAR)
Sept: "Keeping your Nose Clean" (Chuck Jacobus)
Waiters of the Old West Celebrity Waiter Event
Look to our website and our Facebook page for all the details on these upcoming events.
Stay cool this summer and Sell On!
K
