{"id":10977,"date":"2025-06-05T09:19:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/?p=10977"},"modified":"2025-06-05T09:19:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:19:43","slug":"wtb-president-expresses-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/?p=10977","title":{"rendered":"WTB President Expresses Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WTB President <strong>Lorraine Markley <\/strong>wrote a letter for the WTB Retreat. She reviewed the year and thanked all who are so dedicated to making this Interfaith group meaningful and successful.   You can read it here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>              <em>I joined WTB shortly before Covid and have been truly impressed by the<br>WTB mission and devoted members, especially our founders. <strong>Betsy Wiggins<\/strong> and <strong>Danya<br>Wellman. <\/strong> I sincerely thank so many of you that kept us afloat.<br>          First and foremost is <strong>Barbara Bova<\/strong> who keeps us all in touch with her email announcements;<br>she tirelessly sends zoom links, takes care of deposits, memberships forms and much more. I<br>think we all need to hear a round of applause for Barbs service despite her personal struggles.<br>           Additional thanks to <strong>Daryl Files <\/strong>and her envisioning group for pulling us into a focused and<br>collaborative conversation. Her persistence is commendable. Planning this retreat with<br>leadership and commitment is exceptional.<br>         Our revised bylaws were diligently written by <strong>Ann Port<\/strong> after our committee met and discussed the various amendments. Maintaining the membership roster and managing WTB legalities are most essential Thank you Ann.<br>           <strong>Carol Lipson <\/strong>is our outstanding secretary has delivered copious minutes after each council<br>meeting, maintains the membership list, updating the list serve and other essential tasks. Thank you Carol.<br>           <strong>Cindy Rahrle<\/strong> did an extraordinary service meeting with the Blankethon. And setting up<br>Shumais and hospitality at meetings . Thank you Cindy<br>             Danya Wellman and <strong>her granddaughter<\/strong> helped bring us into the 21st century with social<br>media. Thank you Danya!<br>             Thank you <strong>Betty Lamb<\/strong> for completing the nominations with diligence.<br>             And a huge thank you to <strong>Luann Healy<\/strong> for he tirelessly maintaining our finances. As <\/em>treasurer <br>this is an awesome task and we all truly appreciate her thorough attention To this sessional<br>service.<br>             All have all contributed substantially to our success this past year. My gratitude to them is truly appreciated. If I left anyone out please forgive me.<br>           As president, what I enjoyed most was the satisfaction of knowing I made a helpful contribution to our council meetings over the year. And hoped that I was able to move us along with productive functional meetings.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTB President Lorraine Markley wrote a letter for the WTB Retreat. She reviewed the year and thanked all who are &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wtb.org\/?p=10977\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10978,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977\/revisions\/10978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}