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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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