June 2010

There are many who deserve our thanks for the success of our conference. First and foremost our full conference sponsor: Pentera, Inc. Second to our track sponsors including BNY Mellon Wealth Management, Kaspick & Company and State Street Global Advisors. Third, to our numerous exhibitors: Bay Path College, Crescendo Interactive, Inc., Endowment development Services, Inc., eTapestry, New York Life, PG Calc and The Stelter Company. Finally, to those who attended and were members throughout the year. Many of our organizations have had to deal with reduced budgets this past year. Our goal at PGGNE is to provide programs of interest to our very diverse membership at a reasonable cost. To this end, you can help us by identifying speakers and programs that you feel would be of value to our members. We invite your input to www.pggne.org.  

PGGNE is governed by an all-volunteer Executive Board supported by the Center for Association Management (CAMI) in Waltham, MA. Throughout the year Eileen Healy and Beth Blanchard of CAMI have provided steady support for PGGNE and we thank them for this. Stepping off the Board this year are several individuals who have given countless hours over the years to PGGNE. They include Hugh Montgomery, Wendy Chou, Sarah Carothers and Suzy Kendrick. The Board will miss both their wisdom and their enthusiasm. Coming onto the Board will be Pete Congleton from the University of Hartford, Charlie Gordy from Harvard Law School, Alasdair Halliday from Harvard University, Rebecca Scott from Tufts University and Teresa Voght from Hebrew Senior Life. We bid these newcomers welcome!

The PGGNE Board Officers for the 2010-2011 year are as follows: President - Carolyn Flynn, UMass Foundation; President Elect/Government Relations – John Curran, Maine Medical Center; VP Programming – Anne Forsyth, Elderhostel; Treasurer – John Grandin, Brimmer and May School; Recording Secretary – Ana Alvarado, College of the Holy Cross; Membership Secretary – Susan Joyce, State Street Global Advisors; Director of Communications – Bob Barr, St. Paul’s School; Programming – Kathleen Duffy, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Again, we rely on the input from our members in regard to the numerous sessions that we present over the course of the year. You can send your input either directly to PGGNE as mentioned above, or to any of our board members. We will begin planning for the upcoming year at the end of June, and our first session is scheduled for September 15, 2010. We look forward to seeing you then!