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Fall 2016 · Torch:U.S. · VOICES
convention and convention contests), created the state service competition, added Delegation of the Day to the spirit competition, worked with Michael on National Classics Week, worked to improve communication, set up a Google Drive folder structure for states to share materials in addition to other projects. Whether you submitted deduce to me or simply told me about a project, you personally increased my capacity to love, learn, and grow. My heart has grown infinite fold because you inspire me to serve more, care more, and love more.
Thank you for all the lessons whether academic or social. Thank you for all the friendship and camaraderie. Above all, thank you for the love, no matter the circumstances. I'll always be a JCLer at heart, but now I must join the ranks of the SCL.
Keep it PG (Purple and Gold),
Hanna Seariac
2015-2016 Second Vice President
Everlasting
Last year was a blur of
exceeded expectations
and incredible humility.
I've said this many times
before, but being able to
see for myself all the
amazing things that the
NJCL does and creates on
a national scale is an
experience like no other. I
knew that I would learn
much and be impressed
and I was still unprepared for what I witnessed. Last nationals felt like no other. It was my fourth - and my last as a JCLer - and although I knew so many people there in comparison to my first nationals when everything was new and bizarre, it had a sense of new wonder to it that the others didn't. I think that it's a natural result of having worked and been a part of something for a whole year. Seeing its realization unfold in front of me for a week was a giddy experience. Everywhere I went I remembered being there months and months earlier. We walked into rooms and across campus for hours on end, wondering where the dance would take place, or the academic tests. Returning to Bloomington in the summer felt like revisiting an old friend, catching up on the past and having a new week-long adventure with one another. It was oddly nostalgic, comforting, and triumphant. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. If it was your last one as a JCLer - as it was mine - I hope you will consider returning another year (and maybe one day claim your bowl?)
Jon Nozik
2015-2016 Communications Coordinator
Happily Ever After
Salvete omnes,
It is bittersweet to be
writing about my last year
and convention as a JCL’er
and to be completing my
last article as NJCL
Parliamentarian.
Nevertheless, I would like to
happily announce that the
three bylaw amendments
presented at convention
were ratified. I am also glad to report that the elections proceeded swimmingly this year. Many expressed interest in running throughout the year, with fourteen individuals pre-filing for office by June. After a week of a flurry of campaigning at convention, with nominations from the floor of the Nominations Committee Meeting, numerous speeches and introductions, and an abundance of flyers posted onto the windows of Indiana University, your new 2016-2017 National Officers were elected. I am pleased with the hard work of the candidates thus far, and am confident they will serve the JCL well this upcoming year.
Before signing off as parliamentarian, I must say thank you to the entire National Committee for
National Committee Honorary and Emeritus
National Committee Emeritus Members
Francis O’Brien, 103 Livingston Ct., North Wales, PA 19454
Marcella Stitt, 700 Monterey Place 211, Hutchinson, KS 67502
James F. Minter, 200 West 79th St. #4J, New York, NY 10024
Anne B. Covington, 1305 Canterbury Ln., Colonial Heights, VA 23834
June S. LeRay, 7265 County Route 13, Bath, NY 14810
Terrance E. DePasquale, 501 Stirrup Dr., Greensburg, PA 15601
Judith L. Hahn, 9037 Grosse Point Circle, Tampa, FL 33635
Richard J. Beaton, 648 McLaurin, Griffin, GA 30224
Elaine K. Tears, 211 E. Washington St., Bath, NY 14810
Sherwin D. Little, 3727 Cornell Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45241
Prudence P. Moreland, 926 Oak Hills Parkway, Baton Rouge, LA 70810
Sue T. Robertson, 12211 Diamond Hill Dr., Midlothian, VA 23113
Kathy Elifrits, 19 Brandywine Court, Highland Heights, KY 41076
Laura M. Giles, 6824 Rochelle Lane, Amarillo, TX 79109
Liz Bouis, 1575 Ridenour Parkway NW #2313 Kennesaw, GA 30152
Penny Cipolone, 253 Lincoln Ave, Woodbury Heights, NJ 08097
Stephen Gentle, 10770 Wellerwoods Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45242
Gaylan DuBose, 1304 Fairbanks Drive, Austin, TX 78752
Edward Long, 615 Harper Road, Clarksville, TN 37043
Susan Marquis, 7082 N. Garfield, Gladstone, MO 64118
Jim O’Neil, 37 Flint Road, Acton, MA 01720
Martha Altieri, 31442 Old San Juan Road, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Christine Conklin, 5614 Queensbury Avenue, Springfield, VA 22151
David Volk,1122 Oak Street North, Fargo, ND 58102
Jeremy M. Walker, 209 Maple Street, Crown Point, IN 46307
National Committee Honorary Members
Donna J. Gerard, 12235 Cross Creek, Dallas, TX 75243
Susan H. Bowman, 627 Joan Circle, Salem, VA 24135
Joseph Gilpin, 6418 Glen Abbey Lane, Bradenton, FL 34202
Susan S. Schearer, 300 Westminster-Canterbury Drive, Apt. 201, Winchester, VA 22603
Kendra Henry, 3908 Coral Point, Colorado Springs, CO 80917
Virginia M. Jones, 3050 Crooked Stick Drive, Cumming, GA 30041
Randy Thompson, 1703 Encino Spring, San Antonio, TX 78259
Nora MacDonald, 10715 Durland Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98125
Dobbie Vasquez, 2112 Myrtle Place, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
Kevin Fu, 1395 Folkstone Court, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Photo Credit: Ryan Vinson
Photo Credit: Ryan Vinson