The Red Pencil 
Newsletter of Watauga Unit, NC Retired School
Personnel
Vol.XVII, No.3 March
2017____________________________________steelebecky58@gmail.com
March Meeting
When: Thursday, March 16, NOON, $10, check made payable to Watauga
County NCRSP
Where: Deerfield
Methodist Church
Why: To
hear from student representatives of ACES (Appalachian Community of Education
Scholars), the university’s replacement program for the now-defunct Teaching
Fellows program.
With: non-perishable food for the Hunger
Coalition, and, as always, let’s load down that long table in the Fellowship
Hall with INDIVIDUAL SIZES of fruit,
heatable meals, cereal, and everything else for the more than 400 backpacks our
school kids take home every weekend. Don’t forget all the lovely, noisy, loose change you’ve been collecting for
the Scholarship Fund, and don’t forget the plastic bags and medicine bottles!
Remember that we’ll be
selling take-home meals for $5.
If you don’t RSVP via
our email survey or receive a call from one
of our volunteer callers, please call
Becky
Steele at 828-295-3045 before 8 PM on Saturday, March 11, or email her at steelebecky58@gmail.com by
March 11.
AND, if you have time,
please plan to stay for just a few minutes after the meeting to help clean our
meeting space.
President’s Message
Winter seems to be passing us by –
but who’s complaining? These warm spring temperatures are calling nature to
announce itself, as if to say, “Ready or not, here I come!”
Spring is a time of fresh beginnings, which brings us to the
opportunity to vote for new NEA-R
delegates. Voting will take place at our
March 16 meeting, so please make it a priority to be there.
Our NCRSP State Convention is March
30-31 in Durham. If you’d like to attend, one or both days are optional and
should prove to be informational. Contact me by March 9 mdooley999@gmail.com for
reservations. Carpooling is available!
Finally, our Region 1B Convention is
April 7, in Morganton. In the past, I have found this to be enjoyable,
informational, and an opportunity to meet our neighbors. Good prizes too!
Both Watauga and Avery members are
included in all information and opportunities!
Our
program for March features ACES (Appalachian Community of Education Scholars). These students are the answer to the
now-unfunded Teaching Fellows program. Please join us as several of the
education students will share information about this new program.
It takes many kind souls to make
this organization run smoothly. Becky Steele is doing a magnificent job as
editor of our Red Pencil newsletter.
Linda Seamster is doing a terrific job managing our finances with a fine tooth
comb! We appreciate Kathy Moorman as she brings interesting programs each
meeting. Thank you to Beth Carrin, our Care Coordinator, who has been sending
out notes to our members who are experiencing illness or the passing of a loved
one. Contact her if you know of someone who needs a note. Thanks to Janice
Burns for baking her wonderful coconut pound cake for the Scholarship raffle at
the last meeting, Also, thanks to Karen Crotts, who has volunteered to decorate
our tables. There are, of course, many others who contribute regularly to our
success, but I’ll save some of them to thank next time!
Watauga
NCRSP makes us PROUD!
Mary Linda Dooley
Treasurer’s Report for Watauga Unit of NCRSP
March 2017
Shares
Account $ 32.53
Money
Market $ 2249.65
Checking Account
Beginning Balance
$6305.89
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Income:
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Expenses:
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Interest
(Nov) $ 1.20
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Ck#1063 USPO: M. Dues
& Postage $ 25.27
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DEP. Breakfast Collected: Dec
$ 475.00
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Checking Account Fee (Nov) $ 1.00
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DEP.
Scholarship Donated $
197.00
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Ck#1064 Precision Printing $ 36.83
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DEP.
Scholarship “Change” $ 41.90
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Ck#1065 USPO: Postage $ 29.00
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Interest
(Dec) $ 1.24
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Ck#1066 G. Wellington: Catering and Food $375.00
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Ck#1067 DUMC: Venue $ 30.00
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Ck#1068 M. Sigmon: Table Décor $
2.14*
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DEP.
Assoc. Due $ 10.00
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Checking Account Fee (Dec) $ 1.00
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DEP.
1st Quarter Dues $ 526.01
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Ck#1069 USPO: Mailing Dues $ 2.45
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Interest
(Jan 2017) $
1.79
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Checking Account Fee (Jan) $ 1.00
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Total
Income: $1254.14 Ending Balance $7056.34
Dedicated Amounts
included in Ending Balance:
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Total
Expenses: $ 503.69
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Grant
Funds: Committees $1596.99 -0:
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Balance $1596.99
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Scholarship
Funds $
1065.86 +$238.90: Balance $1304.76
Grant
Funds: Avery $ 441.54 -$33.99:
Balance $ 407.55
Prepared by Linda Seamster, Watauga Unit Treasurer
Approved by
Executive Board
Watauga Unit Scholarship
News
Special
Raffle Included
Each year,
as you know, we give $1000 to a graduating senior who plans to become a
teacher. Our March meeting is the last chance we
will have
this year to contribute to the scholarship fund, and we’re hoping you’ll bring
all your loose change and maybe a check or two.
Also, we hope you’ll consider making a donation to the fund in honor or
in memory of a colleague. If you will not be attending the March meeting, you
may mail this donation to Linda Seamster, Treasurer, PO Box 2963, Boone,
NC 28607.
For the past few years, our raffle
to benefit the scholarship fund has been such a
success that we’re doing it
again. To support our $1,000 scholarship
we are raffling off a gift certificate to Stick Boy Bread Company. Tickets are
$5 each.
Inclement
Weather Policy
Despite the
recent spring-like weather, we all know that Watauga County weather can “turn
on a dime,” so we’d like to remind everyone that on the day of our NCRSP
meeting, if schools are closed, our meeting will be cancelled. If schools are
on a delay, however, the meeting will go on as planned.
Member Directory
If you’re looking forward to having either a
digital or print copy of a directory of our members, please be patient just a
little bit longer as we attempt to include as many people as possible. We appreciate those members who took the
time to fill out the online survey indicating whether or not they want to be
included in the directory, but, unfortunately, some people who said they want
to be in the directory neglected to include their names.
For that reason, we’ll do yet another quick questionnaire at the March
16 meeting. In the meantime, if you want to make sure you’re included in the
directory, email Becky Steele at steelebecky58@gmail.com
to clarify if you’re okay with us including your phone number, physical
address, and email.
Heartline -
News from our NCRSP Family
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Roger Harwood fell recently and broke his right arm. Please
keep him and Linda in your thoughts.
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We send our condolences to Sharon Brooks, whose older
brother died in late February.
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Stan Smith has been moved from Baptist to the rehab center
at Forsyth Hospital. He has not started rehab because of medication to regulate
his heart rate and blood pressure.
Prayers are appreciated.
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Please let me know if you, or one of our members, has a special event (a new grandchild, a special trip, a special need, a hospital stay, the loss of a family member), or anything else relevant for this section of the newsletter. You may send the information to Becky Steele at steelebecky58@gmail.com.
Come See Who
Will Receive the 2017 Red Apple awards
The Watauga Unit of NCRSP recognizes
exemplary service to the unit with the Red Apple Award, a special pin that
recipients wear with pride. Our first presentation,
last August, recognized our members who have been a loyal part of our unit for
decades.
At our meeting on March 16, we will
be making the second
presentation, again honoring members
who have served with
! distinction. We hope
that you will be present.
Back 2 School Festival is Aug. 12
The Back 2 School Festival will be held on Sat., Aug. 12. The
first planning meeting was held at the beginning of this month, but keep your
eyes open for additional emails about future planning meetings, and mark your
calendar now if you’d like to volunteer to help the day of
the festival.
Voting
Procedure for NEA-R Delegates
Watauga members AND Avery members: Please try
to be at the March 16 meeting to vote for NEA-R delegates. As you come into the
meeting, you will be handed a ballot listing all the names of the
candidates. Take the ballot to your
table, where you will find pens and a printed list of the names of candidates
with whom your Watauga
Unit
Executive Board is familiar. Mark your
ballot USING THE INK PEN and someone will come around to collect ballots at
your table. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIST IS SIMPLY FOR YOUR INFORMATION. IT IS NOT A
SUGGESTION FOR HOW YOU SHOULD VOTE.
ACES Students to Speak at March Meeting
Students
from ASU’s ACES program will speak at our March 16 luncheon. With the loss of
funding for the N.C. Teaching Fellows Program, ASU decided they wanted to
continue “a diverse community that is rich in tradition and school spirit.” The
ACES program “provides a four-year program for future teachers, focusing on
mentoring, leadership, service, and
professional development.” Their members are “active participants and
leaders within the Appalachian Educators Club,” while the program “provides a
sense of camaraderie for future educators that promotes a passion for
teaching.”
Recipient of Grant Looking for GAL Volunteers
According to www.nccourts.org, a Guardian
ad Litem (GAL) advocate “is a trained community volunteer who is appointed,
along with a Guardian ad Litem attorney, by a district court judge to
investigate and determine the needs of abused and neglected children petitioned
into the court system by the Department of Social Services.” They help to
investigate what solutions would be in the “best interests of a child.”
Lynn
Presnell, a retired teacher and college professor, has been given a 9-month
grant-funded job to recruit more Guardian ad Litems (GALS) for our Judicial
District 24. She hopes to double the number of current GALS in each county of
the district.
Anyone
interested in volunteering to be trained as a GAL, or anyone who would like
more information, should contact Lynn at 828-278-0231 (H) or 828-773-4646 (C). 
Keep
up with those volunteer hours!
Candace Hall
has totaled our 2016 volunteer hours and found that as a unit, we donated 5252.5 hours! Of those hours, 1734.5
were in Education and the remaining 3518.0 were in other activities. Forty-nine members submitted forms, an
increase of nine over last year. Our
Volunteer of the Year, once again, is Mary Hazel Farthing Mast, who volunteered
407 hours at Caldwell Community College, Glenbridge Nursing and Rehabilitation
Center, and Valle Crucis School.
Candace will
be collecting your form for January, February, and March at our
March 16 meeting. Complete the form and
bring it with you to the meeting, please.
Please
note that activities for which you are paid (honoraria/stipends) and activities
performed in caring for grandchildren, elderly parents, or other family members
DO NOT COUNT toward your volunteer hours.
The
state NCRSP is particularly interested in the number of hours you volunteer IN
EDUCATION.
VOLUNTEER SERVICES:
Candace Hall
NCRSP Community Participation - Volunteer
Hours 2017
Name
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Category
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Jan
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Feb
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Mar
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Apr
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May
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Jun
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Jul
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Aug
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Sep
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Oct
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Nov
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Dec
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Total
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Education
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x
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x
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x
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x
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Other
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x
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x
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x
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x
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x
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x
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x
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x
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Total Hours in All Categories ________
Candace will be happy to take your information by phone at 264-5763 or
by email to mcandacehall@gmail.com.
!
The Red Pencil
Watauga County NCRSP
PO Box 2963
Boone, NC 28607
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