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2010 QUILTER OF THE YEAR – ARLENE GOLDBERG
This year’s QOY has made “outstanding contributions to the Ocean Waves Guild, through elective office, committee work, volunteering, and being active in Guild activities”
Ladies and Gentlemen, this year’s Quilter of the Year was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Her parents divorced when she as very young and she was raised by a very loving mother and grandmother. She attended three universities before getting her BA in psychology from Wayne State University.
This lady had several different jobs before coming to Miami…she was in radio broadcasting, and worked at AAA before going back to school, at her brother’s suggestion, to study accounting.
She moved to Miami and while working here as a CPA, she met her husband, Arthur. They celebrated their 23rd wedding anniversary on July 5th, 2009.
This quilter joined Ocean Waves in December 1995 while we were still meeting at the Olympia Heights church. She has served as VP for Membership and Treasurer. She has worked tirelessly for the Guild for many years as the Newsletter Editor, which involves many hours each month. She has worked on many QuiltFest Committees and has won numerous award ribbons for her work.
She loves trying new things like felting, making dolls and art quilts and is a gourmet cook. She is a member of the Miami Art Quilters and Friendship Stars.
She loves to travel, often making quilts depicting her trips. She has been to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Yellowstone, Puerto Rico and, last summer, to Alaska. Her household includes her husband Arthur, mother Suzanne and three cats, Molly, Mocha and Munchkin.
While there are many in our guild who are worthy of this honor (and we are lucky to have so many)…
This year’s QOY is quite a force in the background, doing a lot of low profile jobs but very important ones, like the newsletter, which binds us all together. When we decided to have pictures in our yearbook, she volunteered again. She is a wonderful quilter too.
Presented by 2009 Quilter of the Year, Rosa Brito.
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Janet Swan, LaVerne Johnson, Betty Moss, Bonnie Askowitz and Bea Esplin.
At the 25th Anniversary of the Ocean Waves Guild. Jan 2010
2010 Board of Directors
Leslie Pope, President Kasha Abbott, VP Membership Paulette Hinton, VP Advance Planning Judy Momenzadeh, VP Programs - CurentJanet Hodges, Treasurer Carol Roach, Secretary
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HELP WANTED
Committee and Ad hoc Committee Chairs Historian: This position has been inactive for a while.
NQA Liaison: Ocean Waves is a chapter of the National Quilting Association. We need a liaison to keep up with the NQA website and news, and to see what opportunities there are to promote the guild within the national organization.
Promotionals: This committee promotes guild identity by selling shirts, pins, coffee mugs, etc. with the guild name and logo at the guild meetings.
Special Events: Several aspects of the guild’ s mission statement (have you read it lately?) are satisfied when the guild holds a show. This has ranged from QuiltFest to the special display at Art South last year. Whatever form the show takes – it needs an organizer (or two or three).
Show and Help: The quilts that we share at our meetings don’t just hold themselves up. We need someone to direct the flow of participants, and several assistants for holding.
Chapter Quilt: We are all selling tickets now for this year’s beautiful quilt, but it is not too soon to think about the next one. Should it be another hand quilted piece? Should we experiment with machine quilting or with a wall hanging sized piece? Can the next one be finished in time to perhaps display at the World Quilt Show, which will be returning to West Palm Beach in November 2010?
Volunteer, and help answer these questions.
Bylaws amendment: This position was filled last a few years ago when a major update of the bylaws was done. The committee is one of several ways that bylaws can be amended.
Nominating: This committee helps ensure continuity of guild functions by finding and encouraging members to serve as officers in the guild.
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