The President’s Report - Spring 2025
Your Board has been very busy in recent weeks organizing events and making our association run smoothly. As you know, we have successfully completed several new initiatives, including upgrades to our website and communication methods for our members. We have also made some financial changes to the way we bank to make our money work for us and secure a sound, financial future.
By now, all active members should be receiving blast emails from our listserv. Emails were sent introducing this process and to update members with St. Patrick’s Day parade lineup information. A recent email was also sent with details for the Spring general meeting held in April.
If you have not received any of these messages, there are a few things to check:
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Do we have your correct email address?
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Have you paid your dues for 2025?
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Check your spam/junk email box and add our address to your contact list to prevent incorrect routing.
We do have some members with no email contact info, and we will continue to reach out to you via USPS mail. However, you are always welcome to share your email contact information with us by sending an email to svhalum@gmail.com.
At present, we currently have 1,043 active members. 203 members are scheduled to be purged from our mailing list as of May 15th for non-payment of dues since 2023. We would never deny membership to anyone unable to financially meet the $50 fee. It this is the case, please send a note or message to Pat Costello at pcostellosvh@gmail.com or to her home. If you have just been busy and overlooked paying dues for this year, it is still not too late to be reinstated. Our website is the most convenient way to make a payment. If you have not looked at the website in a while, treat yourself and pop in: https//www.stvincentsschoolofnursingalums.org
As I have announced in the recent weeks, I believe we now have enough interest to place an order with Wayne Silversmith to cast a gold SVH cap charm. Anyone who has already reached out via email will be contacted with more info. If you are interested, please send your request to svhalum@gmail.com. Pricing will be available at the time of the order.
Our Spring Meeting was held on April 24th,2025 at 7:30PM via Zoom. Seventy members and guests enjoyed a lively exchange with our keynote speaker, author Adriana Trigiani. Thank you to everyone who attended and a special big thank you to Adriana, who has always championed SVH and its nurses. Adriana’s address will be available on our website to enjoy again. We want to present topics at our general Alumnae meetings that everyone will enjoy, so I ask that you send us suggestions of what may be of interest to you in the future. Please leave us a message on our website or email us with your ideas.
Save the Dates:
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Saturday, September 20, 2025, Fall General Meeting via Zoom at 12:00PM
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Saturday, November 8, 2025, 95th Annual Mass and Luncheon
Marilyn Lynaugh Strafer, President
Class of 1980