Funeral
Consumers Alliance of Western Massachusetts
Summary of the 2004 Annual Meeting
held Sun., Oct. 17, 2004 at Loomis House, Holyoke, MA
The
meeting featured a presentation "Funeral Prepay Pitfalls", presented by
Mr. Byron Blanchard (Treasurer and Clerk of the Funeral Consumers
Alliance of Eastern Massachusetts) exploring how to find the least
expensive and safest way to secure the final arrangements you want -
without burdening your family when you're gone, .To see the slides that
were shown during that presentation, click on the following link:
preneed1-bw.pdf.
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above.
Trustee
elections were completed successfully, resulting in a full nine member
Board of Trustees. However, there were no nominations for the officer
positions specified in the bylaws (President, Vice President,
Secretary, Treasurer). Since the bylaws mandate that officers be
selected from among the elected trustees, it was decided to give the
trustees authority to make a final attempt to select officers from
their own ranks at their first official Board of Trustees Meeting, to
be held within two weeks following the annual meeting.
The Board of
Trustees of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Western Massachusetts met
on October 27, 2004.
New officers
were elected:
President: John
Fatherley
Vice President:
Harley Unger
Secretary: Tom
Wilson
Treasurer: Ceil
Lewonchuk
John Fatherley's
appointment as a trustee was approved by the Board (following the
acceptance of the resignation of a trustee, newly elected at the annual
meeting, who found that she would be unable to serve).
New trustees
Sylvia Kriebel and Linwood Dodge were welcomed to the meeting.
Continuing
trustees (in addition to the officers listed above) are Ed Brown, Carol
Coan, and Randee Laikind
Logistical
arrangements were made for the assumption of duties by the new officers.