Vermont Jaycees Vermont JCI Senate

Fellow Senators, Families and Guests,

Welcome to our updated website. Our website will be changed and updated on a more regular basis.

PRESIDENT
Leroy Furman # 34321 lcfurman@comcast.net

VICE PRESIDENT
Robert King # 36581
robertking1947@gmail.com

NEWSLETTER EDITOR
Steve Rowe #40470
mtbellie@sover.net

SECRETARY

Jim Barber # 53341 AFYNDragon@copper.net

CHAIRMAN OF
THE BOARD

Steve Rowe # 40470

CHAPLAIN
TBD

SCHOLARSHIP
Gary Lazetera # 22078 glazetera@comcast.com

UPCOMING EVENTS

OUR ORGANIZATION - OUR CHALLENGE

2011 – 2012 will be a year of challenges and successes. Remember the good old days and the projects you were involved in. There were Jaycee chapters all over the state. There was pride in accomplishment and recognition (reward) by the communities you lived in. Many of us benefited from the training and development that resulted from being involved as Jaycees. Over the years some of us earned and were awarded a JCI Senatorship for our dedication and commitment to the Jaycee organizations we belonged to. For many reasons Jaycee chapters disbanded and eventually Vermont was left with no active chapters.

That was then, this is now. VTJCI provided a way for people to stay in touch and many friendships continue to this day.

That brings me to my main point. There are advantages and disadvantages in membership to be addressed:

-Advantages: The opportunity to gather at social functions and meetings (specifically the annual meeting), reminisce about the good times and talk about families, etc. The opportunity to continue friendships, relationships and involvement for those who have moved away and return occasionally or for the summer months.

-Disadvantages: We have no control over time. Members that move away lose touch and move on to other venues. Time has a way of taking members away. We learn of that through communication.

None of us are immortal. Families change. The reducing pool of candidates for membership makes it harder to keep membership up. Lack of attendance at the annual meeting has a negative impact.

Most of you know me. I now live in Florida full time and return to Vermont for the summer months. I was asked if I would accept the nomination and accepted the Presidency of this fine organization. Most of you are more skilled than I am in current communication methods. However I am willing to serve and I am committed to turn negatives into positives. We have been blessed with leaders who have been willing to step up to leadership positions and assure that VTJCI continues to exist. It gets harder and harder to do this when there is a lack of involvement. I remember when being a Jaycee meant that you were willing to be involved.

I am asking each of you to make an attempt to attend one or more of the scheduled meetings. I am asking each of you that can, to attend the annual meeting, date and place to be announced. I am asking any of you who is willing to step up and give the dedicated members that have held this organization together a break. I know many of you have the talent and willingness. Now I am asking you to put your pride as JCI Senators and dedication as members of VTJCI to the forefront. Let me hear from you. Let me hear that you are interested in preserving this organization.

Leroy "Buster" Furman

 


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 try to 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. In 2008 we also established the Ernie Chadderdon Memorial Scholarship which is based strictly on need. 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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