DSA 2011 Chicago Newsletter
Volume 1 – March 1, 2010
Greetings from the DSA 2011 Chicago Conference Team!
Hello, my name is Pamela 'Pammie' Wojcik. I am a
retired teacher from Whitney Young High
School in Chicago after 31 years. I am enjoying my retirement ever
since June 2007! I also have spent some
time in the Phoenix suburb to visit my mother for a few weeks from
time to time.
I am the chairperson for the DSA 2011 Chicago
Conference. I am lucky, because I do have a
wonderful team to work with me. I would like to
introduce our team:
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Finance
Manager: Mark Feder |
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Asst.
Manager: Terry DeBoer |
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Secretary:
Stephanie Visscher |
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Registration:
Genevieve Bright |
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Workshop:
Laura Thomas |
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Exhibits:
Andy Ban |
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Food
Planning: Eileen Rozborski |
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Tours:
Debbie Verraros and Carol Ban |
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Interpreting:
Sally Koziar |
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Security:
Vicki Lynn Gratzke and Richard Lewis |
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Media
/Technology: Hugh Fung |
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Webmaster:
Teri-Lyn Calhoun |
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Hospitality:
Sue Etkie |
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Public
Relations: Sarita Phadke (local) |
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Sponsors:
Pamela Wojcik |
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Fund
Raising: Jorjan Stoops |
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Special
Needs: Drucilla Ronchen |
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Program
Book: Charles Bright |
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Vlog: Gary
Etkie |
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Correspondent
Secretary Kathleen Lewis |
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Camping:
Patti Phadke |
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City
Liaison: Katie Kubey |
The conference headquarter is located at the
beautiful Sheraton Hotel in downtown Chicago!
You will learn a lot about our team in our future
newsletters!!
I want to thank you all for purchasing our combo
tickets! We have over 1,200 registrants.
At this time, I only send emails to the first 1,000 registrants. I
promise the rest of the others will be
getting our newsletters as soon as possible.
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ATTENTION: URGENT MESSAGE:
Our registration committee has been working hard to
keep accurate information of everyone
in our file. Since the 2009 DSA Conference in Las
Vegas, many people were having problem
with their
866 VP numbers. Please help us update our
information by sending us your
current VP number (not the 866). If you have moved,
changed your e-mail and/or pager
addresses, please do send that to us as well.
Send all information to Teri-Lyn Calhoun at
webmaster@dsa2011-chicago.org
To have all correct information in our data base
will enable us to send you all the
registration kit by late summer/early fall.
We greatly appreciate your help on this request.
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I would like to share something about DSA Membership
(these are already posted on our
FAQ’s section of the web site):
Q: If I purchased a combo ticket for DSA 2011
Chicago Conference, is my DSA membership
due included?
A: Yes it is included. Your DSA membership does NOT
start until the DSA 2011 Chicago
Conference. It will expire at the DSA 2013 Baltimore
Conference. To stay up to date with
DSA till the DSA 2011 Conference, we encourage you
to join DSA now. Their newsletter will
have our most recent conference information in it!
Q: How much does it cost for the DSA membership
dues?
A: It is $20 dollars (per person) for two years:
from conference to conference which is
always held in the odd numbered year.
Q: How do I pay for the dues?
A: Click here to go to
Deaf Seniors of America's Membership web page. Print the form. Fill
out the form and mail it with the check of $20 (per
person) to Joe Rose (DSA Treasurer).
Q: What are the DSA membership benefits?
A: You will receive quarterly newsletters "New
Horizons". There may be periodic new
release through the web site.
There will be a list of registrants in each state on
our web site as soon as possible (this
month). You will check and find out if your friends
are going or not!! If you don’t find them
listed, check back again as we’ll be adding more
names. While waiting for us to update that
page, please DO convince them to join us by sending
in their combo soon.
Please check our web site:
www.dsa2011-Chicago.org to read our updates.
In our next newsletter, we will explain about
Sheraton Hotel and the room reservations. You
will have all details!
Talk to you in three weeks!!!
Pammie
- If you have any questions, please email me at:
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Pwojcik@dsa2011-chicago.org
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- Thank you!
- Pamela Wojcik
- DSA 2011 Chicago Chairperson
