President’s Message
OPCC PRESIDENT PEG HANSON in action.
Happy New Year!
HAPPY NEW YEAR from President Peggy Hanson and my husband Jim. As far as we know, we are not related to former OPCC President, Rebecca Hanson, but I am personally grateful to her for holding my hand during this leap I’ve decided to make...
Yes, volunteering as your new club “President" is a big leap for me and I ask for your patience while I get up to speed on club business, past history, and my new responsibilities.
I’d like to share with you why I choose to volunteer, in any capacity, but rather than take up precious online meeting time, I’ll briefly share it with you here:
Before moving to Sequim in 2018, I served as Program Chair, for The Boeing Employees Photographic Society; Newsletter Editor/Webmaster/Photographer, West Seattle Yacht Club; Photographer/Newsletter Editor, Navy Yacht Club Everett; and Photographer/Secretary, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Renton. After retirement in 2007, both my husband and I volunteered with the USO (we’re both veterans), Washington State Parks, and the Renton Parks Department.
Those experiences were a lot of work, but also very rewarding and a lot of fun. Because of that, we were encouraged to volunteer wherever, and whenever we could - and it’s simply what we do!
Obviously, it’s not always going to be fun now, but I hope to make your experience with OPCC a more positive one, and one that will inspire you to someday volunteer as well.
MY VISION FOR OPCC: Help to make OPCC more responsive to members, enjoyable and community minded.
YOUR INPUT: I want to know what you want from OPCC and that is why I have developed a survey I will be sharing with you soon. I truly want to pick your photographic brains and find what encourages you to attend club meetings and get togethers - and what simply turns you away. I know of no better way to do that than with a survey. Therefore, please make good use of your time by answering it, then we can make good use of our time by responding to your wishes. This is my first step in making your club more responsive to you and more enjoyable!
YOUR CONSCIENCE: Give me your input on how OPCC can help Sequim and Clallam County recover and succeed during the aftermath of the pandemic and with whatever we may face this year. Host your photos on the walls of local restaurants; donate a photo as a raffle to generate much needed funds, or ??? This is my first step in making your club more community minded, and obviously, I need your help!
WEBSITE ADDRESS: Communication is key to a club’s success as well as to bringing in new members. OPCC has been communicating online for years, but with a website address of www.olympicpeaks.org. It was an address that literally said nothing about our affiliation with photography! Therefore, with the help of our website gurus, our new website, which will be launching very soon, will be www.olympicpeakscameraclub.org. This address will be printed on our new business cards, along with our new logo (see below). Both will not only reflect what we do and love, but the area we live in as well.
BRANDING: a successful club has a logo, a symbol that represents it and what it does. Our symbol needs to be present on our new website, and in our communications with the public. It’s long overdue and I seek your help in developing it by entering the Logo Contest mentioned in the last issue of In Focus. You are the artistic communicators who can design it. And to encourage you even more is the $25 prize gift certificate to your favorite local restaurant for the winning entry! That’s another step in helping to make OPCC more community minded.
I look forward to “seeing” everyone at our January 7 Zoom meeting!
- Peg Hanson