Vice President's Page - March, 2010

March 2010

March Membership Madness is here ----I can’t wait to see how many lodges participated in this membership drive.

What was your lodge’s program about and how many members did you get? Hope the ideas and pictures are posted on the 3D website for all the District lodges to see how creative every lodge can be. It will be interesting to see the Membership Activity Report for SON for the month on March.

An excellent resource to show off our Scandinavian lifestyle is Land of the Vikings (LOV) and your support is a vital key to its continued success.    I hope all the lodges get to visit the facility in Sherman, PA.  Supporters of LOV have seen many changes take place during its first 30+ years.  We are concentrating on making it the “Cultural Center” for the Third District.  Our hope for the future is to have it represent all that is “good and noble” in the Sons of Norway.  Like to see what the place looks like?  Visit the 3D website and click on to the LOV link.  Be sure and check out the calendar of events.

Another way to get involved with the SON is the Annual Convention.  All lodges should have elected their delegates for the convention and forwarded the names and resolutions to Sister Marci Larson so she can start putting together the Resolution Book.  June will be here before you know it!  Be nice to see if we have more lodges represented than at the 2008 convention…Brother Ralph will keep me informed of this, he loves to do statistics.

Also, in March, our Irish friends celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day—a culture intertwined with Norway.  The largest find of Viking ships were uncovered in Ireland!  And after all, we did give you your national dish— Lutefisk!!! Erin go braugh!!!

Remember:  2 A’s  -  Ask & Advertise  -  to get a member.

                   2 M’s  - Mentor and Mingle  -  to keep a member.

Alt for denne gangen,

Gail

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