COMMENTS FROM SEC/TRES

December 2017

“Together we can do great things.” ~Mother Teresa

I hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving! I wish a warm and loving rest of the holiday season to all of you.

Thank you for your patience with me through October as I finished my very challenging web development class. The class is over, and I can now spend my free time on horseshoe pursuits again. My learning has just begun, though. I need to practice A LOT on coding little apps – maybe some for horseshoes – so that I can keep improving my skills and my coding efficiency.

So far for the new 2018 season I have processed 84 memberships: 7 new members and 77 renewing members. Last year at this time we had 20 new members and 66 renewals. But I do have 19 pieces of mail that arrived today that I still need to process so we are a little ahead of where we were in 2017. Its good to see that we’re at least holding steady.

If you haven’t yet sent in your membership dues, please put it on your calendar as you’ll need to have your new 2018 card for your first tournament in January. Tournament directors will be checking to be sure that you have your new card.

I haven’t been able to pitch at any tournaments yet this season, but I will this coming Saturday in Orlando. Wish me luck! I’ve had all of 2 league nights as practice. I will probably be giving all my opponents an early Christmas present!

I look forward to seeing a lot of you at the Club Team Tournament in January at Beverly Hills. My home club, Oviedo, is a little thin on members so we need to recruit some new blood so we can have a team. Too bad we don’t have more retirees settle in Oviedo. They all seem to go to the coasts!!

Please be sure to reach out if you have any questions about membership, tournaments, medical exemptions or about using HSMaster. You can call or text my cell phone 407.399.4908. Or you can email me marcysantoyo@hotmail.com. I work full time, so I may not be able to answer when you call but leave me a message and I’ll return the call as soon as possible. I am here to help with all your FSHPA needs!

Finally, I do plan to run for office again in 2018 but that doesn’t mean that you can’t throw your hat in the ring, too. We haven’t had any elections recently because it seems that no one wants to jump in. I think it would be great to have elections again. Please consider serving on the Executive Council.

Marcela Santoyo

Sec/Treas