Vermont Jaycees Vermont JCI Senate

Fellow Senators, Families and Guests,

Welcome to our updated website. It has been awhile since this has been updated, but hopefully our website will be changed and updated on a more regular basis now.

PRESIDENT
Robert King # 36581
robtking@comcast.net

VICE PRESIDENT
Richard Reed #23553
rrprfiremed@globalnetisp.net

VICE PRESIDENT
Ben Washburne #12243
gwashburne@hotmail.com

SECRETARY/EDITOR
Steve Rowe #40470
mtbelliesdeli@verizon.net

TREASURER
Norma Dailey # 50954
norma.dailey@benjerry.com

CHAIRMAN OF
THE BOARD

Richard Hebert #47131

CHAPLAIN
Reg Welch #22182 regwelch@aol.com

Greetings to all my fellow Senators.

The Vermont Senate continues to meet with a small but active part of our membership. During the past year we have been without a Chaplain. I'm extremely pleased that this vacancy was just filled by Senator Reg Welch. My thanks go out to Reg for stepping up when he was needed.

We in the Vermont Senate are nearing a crossroad with our organization. It seems that fewer and fewer Senators are willing to be involved in the Senate. Some are more than willing to sit back and criticize or complain but have not been seen at a Senate function for some time. The Senate in some ways is like our democracy. Some vote and participate while others don't vote but want to find fault after the votes are counted.

What to do is the question. Do we continue or attempt to continue with the organization as is? Or do we look for other means to continue our Senate traditions? This question is before us now. I don't believe that Vermont stands alone in this conundrum.

Our annual meeting will take place in May. This will be an opportunity for the Vermont Senate to make some decisions concerning our future. If you would like to express your thoughts and concerns by participating and voting, we look forward to sharing those thoughts in the best tradition of the Senate.

Our organization has been a proud one and as time has evolved we have become more and more a means to offer our members a chance to socialize with others who share their deep commitment to the Jaycee Creed and all that it embodies.

We believe that Faith in God and faith in our fellow senators will give us the answers that we seek. We look forward to those discussions that will lead us to a new day in the Vermont Senate.


Thanks again for your trust and support for me and your officers of the Vermont JCI Senate.

Yours in the Senate,

Bob King

 


Introduction
The Vermont JCI Senate was formed in November, 1967 by former Vermont Jaycees who had received the JCI SENATORSHIP award. A JCI Senatorship is the highest award given in the Junior Chamber(Jaycee) organization. It is given out of respect to those local chapter members who have given above and beyond to the local chapter and community.

The purpose of the organization then was the fellowship of it's members, through periodic meetings and newsletters. Membership was limited, as it is today, to those Jaycees who are Senators. The total number of Vermont JCI Senatorships awarded is approximately 130.

As the organization has grown and evolved we now are afflilated with the New England JCI Senate and the United States JCI Senate. We attend regional and national meeting on a regular basis and are involved as individuals and a state organization in the USJCI Scholarship Foundation. We became a non profit tax organization in June of 2002.

We publish a quarterly newsletter to our members, and hold regular meeting around the state of Vermont for the betterment of our members and friends. We award 2 scholarships yearly to high school seniors and then forward the winners to the USJCI Foundation Scholarship program. Our focus continues to be friendship and fellowship of our members.

As you look around our website, you will find information from our Chaplain regarding health news of our members, our recent newsletters, Vermont JCI Scholarship applications and information, news regarding our upcoming meetings and various links to Jaycee and JCI Senate sites.

We hope you like our website and will visit it often. You comments can be sent to any of the officers listed on the side of this page. We hope to see our fellow JCI Senators at a meeting in Vermont soon.


THE JAYCEE CREED

WE BELIEVE:
That faith in God gives meaning and purpose to human life;

That the brotherhood of man transcends the sovereignty of nations;

That economic justice can best be won by free men through free enterprise;

That governments should be of laws rather than men;

That the earth's great treasure lies in human personality;

And that service to humanity is the best work of life.


- C.William Brownfield JCI Senator #197

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