Newsletter of the East Bay Chapter of STC
May/June 2003
President's Message
by Melody Brumis
EBSTC President
Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you'll be
criticized anyway. –More quotations on The Quotations Page. |
This is my favorite quote. And, I’ve found it to be true in almost everything I do. I start with it to applaud all of the East Bay STC volunteers who have made this year so successful. The setting was strained—terrorist threats, high unemployment, and even a war—and yet we persevered.
Many of our members have been looking for work. Some of these job seekers formed the Employment Networking SIG, which meets for lunch and has an active Yahoo group. The Jobs page on our chapter website continues to post new jobs. And, we have been promoting our profession and personal skill sets with informative programs and even a Dreamweaver class.
Our
chapter, which is known as the “friendly chapter,” hosted
a well-attended membership orientation. There I had the opportunity to
meet new and transferring-in members, as well as long-term members who
wanted to get more involved. We also published a member directory.
Our web site is always evolving—of late a powerful search feature was added. Do a search and you might even access articles from our award-winning newsletter. Our Technical Literacy Project continues to be effective. See T.R. Girill’s article Confronting Illiteracy with Scientific Communication in Exchange, the quarterly newsletter of STC's Scientific Communication Special Interest Group (SIG). Finally, our chapter participated in both the NorCal Leadership Conference and Sacramento’s Writer in the Workplace Conference.
The Fun Continues
This is not a definitive list of all our accomplishments. You can see,
though, we’ve been busy! Good news is that the fun continues. New
East Bay leaders are ready to take over. If you have ideas for doing something
new or better, come join in. I am sure the new year will be exciting.
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