Darelene: All of this sounds great--I even have an idea for an addition, and I would like to do it! How about a section for "Book Review." I am an architectural historian/historian and keep up fairly well with what is new in the field. what do you think? Patty Sackett Chrisman On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 04:48 PM, Darlene J Sackett wrote: > SO, I have been starting to think about the newsletter that I have > volunteered to put together (Mary Lou emailed me and said she was > really > busy and would prefer not to work on this project necessarily). I was > thinking of making it a quarterly event with the first issue covering > October thru December of this year. > > I was thinking of coming up with several categroies that would be in > each > newsletter so that people would know where to look for which thing. > Here > are some of my ideas: > ON THE FRONT PAGE > - A front page article on whatever we want it to be on. > - The names of all the board members and their positions > - A list of dates of upcoming events. > ON THE SECOND PAGE > - Board member bios. The reasoning behind this is that I think people > might be interested to know a little bit about who is steering the > association. We could also make this a biography section for > members if that is more interesting. Maybe with a picture so people > have > faces to go with names? > - A news section where we write an article about what has been > happening > since the last issue came out. For the first one it could be about the > Salt Lake City meeting and the starting of the group. > ON THE THIRD PAGE > - A section for geneology tips or somekind of information on a specific > geneaology research site. > - A section I was thinking of calling "A Sackett in History" where we > ask > a Sackett descendent who knows something about one of their ancestors > to write a little bio about him or her. This could also be the > section where we put our miscellaneous articles each issue if there is > no > offering on a Sackett in history. > ON THE FOURTH PAGE > - Some sort of joke or cartoon about geneology (I don't know of any > but > that one about you know you are a geneology buff if, but I'm sure > there's more out there. > - A Tales from my childhood section where we can continue some of > Thurmons works and ask for input from others. > - A Disclaimer. I was wondering if this was something we should > include. > You know the kind of thing where you say "the opinions stated in these > articles are not necessarily the opinions of the sackett family > association ...." > - A place where I put my name and email address (?) for those who have > comments, suggestions, articles, ideas, etc. > > What do you all think? > > > Darlene > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! >