And the winner is...

...Altrusa of Montrose
...Altrusa of Montrose
...Altrusa of Montrose
...Altrusa of Montrose
...Altrusa of Montrose
...Altrusa of Montrose
...Altrusa of Montrose
...Altrusa of Montrose
...Altrusa of Montrose

No, the above repetition wasn't an accident.  And no, the slide show isn't showing duplicate award presentations.

Our club President, Roberta Hoey, got plenty of exercise during the awards luncheon at our annual District Ten Conference walking up to the podium again and again as our club received 9 awards.

Teaser:  We won't post the details on the awards won until after our Club meeting this Tuesday so that the members who did not attend the Conference in Colorado Springs can still enjoy some surprises!

And the winner is...

District Ten Governor-Elect Donna Herman presents outgoing President Lorie Bollig
with the Distinguished Club Award

Altrusa of Montrose had another year to be proud of, as the club received 6 awards during the 2008/2009 District Ten Conference held in Albuquerque, NM recently.

Distinguished Club Award - this is our 16th consecutive year to earn this award (still a perfect record!) 

Outstanding ASTRA Leadership Award for our sponsorship and support of the award-winning ASTRA Club at Montrose High School

Dr. Nina Fay Calhoun - International Relations Award - 1st Place for our ongoing projects promoting literacy in Nepal by sending school supplies to an impoverished school, and for supporting Central Asia Institute with programs about "Three Cups of Tea", helping to build schools with a focus on educating girls in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan 

Communications - Web Site - 1st Place

Communications - Yearbook - 1st Place

Ethel Fritch & Letha Brown Literacy Award - 3rd Place for creating and furnishing a library at Passage Charter School

District Ten Governor's Newsletter - February 2009

District Ten Governor Rhoda Struhs sends out a newsletter to Presidents and President-Elects thoughout our District.  Our own President, Lorie Bollig, passed along the February 2009 issue of 
What's Up?
(133 kb, PDF)

In it, Governor Rhoda provides information about the District Ten Conference in Albuquerque, highlights the updated websites for District Ten and Altrusa International, and talks about Grant applications for clubs to "fundraise" through grants from our own International organization.

District Ten Awards earned by Montrose Club

Nine members of Altrusa of Montrose attended the annual District Ten Conference in Clovis, NM this past week, and a great time was had by all. We found the workshops and presentations very informative, renewed friendships and made new ones with Altrusans from other Clubs in our District, and had fun as well.

At the Awards luncheon, our Montrose Club was honored with several awards:

• Distinguished Club Award (2007/2008) -- for the 15th consecutive year!
• Communications: Web Site -- 1st Place (altrusa.blogspot.com)
• Nancy Taylor Environmental award -- Honorable Mention (Garden & Composting project at Passage Charter School)
• District Membership: Most New Members -- 1st Place (7 new members)
• Dr. Nina Fay Calhoun Award (International Projects) -- 1st Place (Pennies for Peace, Nepal clothing project, and Mexico Water Filter project)

Our entire Montrose Club is very proud of what we've been able to accomplish for our own community as well as communities in other parts of the world.

District Ten Governor visits Montrose

We were very pleased to welcome Governor Rhoda Struhs to our meeting on September 25, 2007.

Governor Struhs spoke to our group about a number of topics of interest to Altrusans. She encouraged us to visit the international website as it continues to be enhanced with information, publications, and inspiriation for all of us. She congratulated our Montrose club for our history as a "flagship organization," and commended us for our numerous projects, active participation in Conferences, and our numerous awards.

Rhoda also gave an interesting presentation based on a workshop at the 2007 Convention discussing the differences among 4 major "generations" -- Traditionalists (born 1925 - 1945), Baby Boomers (1946 - 1964), Generation X (1965 - 1980) and Generation Y (1981 - 2002). Our differences in priorities and goals sometimes make it difficult to understand and motivate one another; yet each generation has much to offer to Altrusa.

President Susan Woody announced that Altrusa of Montrose is making a donation in Rhoda Struh's name to the International Foundation.

52nd Annual District 10 Conference awards

We are proud to announce that our Montrose chapter won several honors at the 52nd Annual District 10 Conference this year:

Mamie L. Bass Service Award - for our E-Waste Community Service Project (recycling of electronic waste, such as computers, TVs, and batteries)

Nina Faye Calhoun Award for International Service Project - for our support of a water purification project for a community in Mexico

Jen Henson Environmental Award - 2nd place - for the E-waste project

We were again recognized with a Distinguished Club Award