Letter from Mid-West Tennessee Executive Director, David Hicks - February 2019

Happy February to all the Mid-West Tennessee chapter volunteers! I hope this newsletter article finds you well and you’re all having a good start to 2019. We’re especially thankful for our new volunteers who joined us back in January during our chapter recruiting push! I’ve enjoyed getting to know many of you. It’s been a pleasure to hear your background stories and what events led to you becoming members of the American Red Cross through our local chapter. You each bring numerous skills and resources to our chapter that we’ll be able to utilize in the months and years to come. I can’t wait to see what chapter accomplishments await us in the coming months that are a direct result of our newest volunteer recruits.

Speaking of new volunteers, we have been so fortunate to have three women serve as the front desk coverage for our chapter over the last several months. Pam Shumate has been a fixture for us for almost two years now and then were blessed to have Murla Williams join us for a few months. A new part-time job came calling for her and, although we grieved to see Murla leave, we knew the part-time opportunity was too good for her to pass up. And, how could we have ever known that another quality volunteer, Deborah Taylor, was waiting in the wings to join our team and help relieve our loss of Murla?

If you haven’t already had the chance to do so, please take a moment to drop by the office and welcome Deborah to our office team! She covers the front desk for us on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of each week and Pam still serves the chapter in that role every Thursday and Friday. They’re not only willing to be the voice and hostesses of our chapter office but they help make sure the chapter birthday and anniversary cards are distributed each month, assist me and Heather with various assignments, and even clean up the chapter building on occasion to make sure it’s presentable to the community and fellow volunteers during visits! To say we’re lucky to have them doesn’t event do it justice.