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~NODHA Presidential Message~
To all members and non-members of NODHA, Hello to everyone. I would like to thank all of our officers who have worked so hard this past year and let you know how excited I am about the year ahead! I am looking forward to serving you as president and I am thrilled to be welcoming two new board members as well. Jill Peres is our new secretary. Jill and I are seeking to expand our database of contacts so that we can reach more hygienists in the GNO area. If we do not have your email address, please send it to me or her. We truly want this organization to work for you and be a great way to network. There is definitely strength in numbers. Leslie Lagrange, our new vice president and membership chair, will be in contact with ADHA membership division to facilitate the process of signing up new members. We are hoping to expand our membership numbers above and beyond what they were pre-Katrina. In addition, we will be raffling two ADHA memberships away this year at two different CE courses. Jennifer Hew, our social chair/student liaison, hosts two SADHA/NODHA socials for the second year LSU dental hygiene students each year. One of which is in the fall to welcome them and another is in the spring before graduation. We feel it's very important to maintain contact with the students in order to build the membership, and the students really enjoy and appreciate the socials. One very important person to the organization is Shauntelle Sliman, our treasurer. She keeps the checks and balances. Each component of the state is assessed a monetary amount each year to pay expenses such as our lobbyist Jane Burgin. This money is also used for the executive secretary, Debbi Mitchell, who is responsible for all correspondence throughout the state. Jane has had a very busy year tracking bills and hosting our day at the legislature. Jane is also monitoring the nitrous oxide bill for us. This bill will license us to administer nitrous to our patients. NODHA also supports scholarships for dental hygiene students locally and nationally. Your dues are working hard and Shauntelle is keeping up with them. Lynn Scarengos, a past president and our current CE coordinator continues to do an outstanding job of scheduling the CPR class and the CE’s, all of which are listed on the web. We strive to have a variety of speakers, and in the past we have tried to keep the usual CE time and place, Zeke's Restaurant, the same for all meetings for your convenience. However, we welcome ideas and suggestions for topics, information, and locations. We will work to handle the menu choices, and are open to new ideas. At each meeting a suggestion sheet is available. Connie Comiskey, our fundraiser chair, has helped secure a new CE venue: Mandina’s! I am hoping to work with Connie this year on our next fundraiser- a bowling tournament at Mid City Lanes Rock and Bowl. Connie has chaired our charity golf tournament in the past raising $1,500 for charity. We are much obliged to Gaynor Denmark, the website editor who continues her dedication to the NODHA website, despite the fact that she lives in Kentucky! We are so appreciative of her! Lots of praise to Michie Bissell! She is our past president, who collaborated with the past president of the New Orleans Dental Association about having a joint meeting/CE with the dentists. This will occur in January 2011. She, along with Cora Oufnac, will be working as an “Advisory Board” to this year’s board. Cora is hoping to take photos at some CE’s and NODHA events which we can post to the website and Facebook page. We have been doing our best to keep these current with informative links and such. Also, the board will continue to offer postings of job opportunities via email blast. You can email me carrie_daigle@yahoo.com. In closing, I'd like to welcome everyone to the 2010-2011 year, especially our new members and graduates. This is your organization so let us hear from you! Respectively summitted, Carrie E. Daigle, R.D.H., B.S.
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