The Ninth Year - 2006:

Officers:

Elected:

President: Irene Jackson
Vice-President: Becky Collins
Secretary: Nell Wiggington
Treasurer: Gwen Thigpen

Appointed:

Required:

Librarian: Vacant
Parliamentarian: Chuck Jackson
Historian: Vacant

Optional: (and may not always exist)

Publicity: Paul Trew
Chaplain: Ken Wade
Newsletter Editor: Marcia Atkins & Irene Jackson
Web Master: Tom Rogers

January:

Newsletter: On file.
Dual Program:

1 - The Lash Family in Tennessee and North Carolina by Marcia Atkins.
2 - The Trew Family and their Cherokee Ancestors by Paul Trew.

February:

Newsletter: On file.
Dual Program:

1 - My 40 year Search for Mattie Smith by Roger Smith.
2 - Finding My 7 Grandfathers by Rhett Williamson.

March:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: The Family of Colonel Joseph S. James by Gleda James.

April:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Photographs and Artifacts from Douglas County in the early 1900s, drawn from the collection of Florrye Jeanette Chatham Spivey and presented by Curtis and Donna Spivey.
Contest to name the Douglas County Sentinel transcription series is announced.  This transcription series contains the local news from the Sentinel (births, deaths, marriages, etc.) for the years 1918 through 1922 and is expected to run to some 10 volumes or so when complete.

May:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: No Program, reason unknown.
John Fuller's sister-in-law passes.

June:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Memories of Douglas County by Frances (Toots) Stewart Thompson, a life-long resident of Douglas County and a descendant of the counties first Sheriff, Thomas Hurt Selman.

July:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: No Program, reason unknown.

August:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: No Program, reason unknown.

September:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: No Program, reason unknown.
23^rd - The Society mans a booth at the September Saturdays Festival at the Douglas County Courthouse.

October:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Cursory introduction to The Art of Organizing, Dating, Preserving and Publishing Your Genealogy with Photographs, a seminar scheduled for November 2006.
21^st - The Society participates in the Pioneer Days Festival held at the Clinton Farms Nature Preserve on Ephesus Church Road in western Douglas County.

November:

Newsletter: Lost or Missing.
Program: No Program.

December:

Newsletter: On file.
Program: Annual Christmas Dinner, held at Chuck and Irene Jackson's Home.  Not well documented, as there was no official Historian at the time.  We are fortunate that I was able to dig up a few personal photos.
NOTE: The Historian is one of the three Required Appointive Offices established by the Society Constitution, as are the Librarian and the Parliamentarian.