Thank you everyone for working with me to make the workshop a success. I've had loads of help with everything from planning the workshop to finishing it up today. John Hines, Darrell Waugh, and Ted Wolfe ran the book table. Ruby Casto had family obligations today but was still there to pick up donuts this morning and help out when she could. She also helped get publications ready for our book table. Jerry Hawkinberry has been working hard on the workshop registrations and ran the registration table with the help of Polly Dennison. Jerry also helped out with lunch. Elaine Post and Betty Rinehart served the coffee and donuts. June Conrad and Diane Johnson worked on the planning committee along with the people mentioned above. John Nuzum was to work at Waldomore and cover the hours regularly scheduled on Saturday morning. Darrell, Ted, John and Dave Heise stayed and helped at Waldomore as it was open from 3:00 until 6:00 for those wanting to do research. A special thanks to David Houchin who has worked on such various jobs such as stapling books, helping clean the cemetery, making streetmaps, helping with publicity, taking phone calls from potential workshop participants and last but certainly not least leading four sessions today. If I left out somebody, I apologize. I'm a little tired. I figure we all are. The day begin with some heavy clouds. I was confident that it would clear up later in the afternoon (the Weather Channel said it would!) but unfortunately it did not. My apologies to those who wanted to go on the I.O.O.F Cemetery Walking Tour. Jack Sandy Anderson and Laura Goff Davis were at the cemetery at the scheduled time. Hopefully, we can do the tour another time. In just the few minutes I spent with them, I heard enough that I knew that I wanted to learn a lot more. Most of the feedback I received from participants and speakers has been positive. The Caperton Center was a really nice place to have the workshop. Bev Johnston and Jr. Adams are easy to work with and very helpful. Jr. really helped make things runs smoothly today. I enjoyed meeting all of the speakers in person though I didn't get to attend the classes. A couple of them offered us some help with publicity for future events. We had around forty-three registrations. Although we would have liked more, I think that it was a nice size for classes. From what I heard, the computer sessions were a little crowded. This was exacerbated by the cemetery walk being canceled. I did hear that the speakers for the computer class were very good. This was the most requested class. Maybe sometime in the future we could schedule one for the entire day. We had coffee mugs made up with a picture of the Waldomore and the HCGS seal printed on them. We presented these to our speakers. Also, they were given as door prizes to winners Suzanne Viglianco and Miriam Stevens. An HCGS publication of their choice was the door prize given to winners Polly Dennison and Billy Masterson. The Grand Door Prize, The Harrison County Heritage Book, was awarded at 3:00 to winner Patty Rushing. If I got that last name wrong, I apologize. Ruby told me to write everyone's name down. Did I listen? No, I did not. I'll have to double-check on that with Jerry. I'm looking forward to our next big event. We're planning to have a bus trip to D.C. in October. Maybe this time, I'll actually do some research. Patricia Dennison

Patricia, Thanks to you and your committees for a well planned workshop. About the only thing I could see that could be different is to have the computer class extend over two sessions with the same people. Possibly have one two session beginner class and one two session advanced class (those who use the program and want to know how to do some of the advanced things - and to help presenter maybe the participants could send in what they'd like to know how to do or how to handle some of the features). The classes definitely need to be limited. The food was good (donuts and lunch). I had hoped you would have had more vendor participation, but that is often hard to come by. All of the presenters seemed willing to meet after session for one on one questions. I really liked that. Barbara