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We want to thank our members (we apologize in advance to anyone we forget to mention − there were so many of you!) who volunteered their time and expertise in 2008 as:

Speakers and/or workshop presenters:

• Jeanette Cezanne (Optimizing Your Web Presence)
• Louise Dunlap (Expressing Social Consciousness Through Writing)
• Peter Gerler, Judah Leblang, Lee Ann Hoff, Artemis March and Cynthia Winfield (Cautionary Tales: Lessons from Bad Publishing Experiences)
• Richard Hoffman (Memoir Workshop)
• Rick Holton (Promoting Your Home-Based Business)
• Helena Halperin & Eve LaPlante (International Women's Day Program)
• Sue Katz (Writing & Publishing Sex)
• Jean Trounstine (Writing & Compiling Collections)

Project organizers:

• Lucy Sutherland (National Member Networking Directory)
• Louise Dunlap and Miriam Stein (Social Issues Group)
• Sue Katz (Writers Life)
• Maria Termini (Dance Friday, Book Party, NWU banners)
• Melita Nasca ("The First Book" TV project)

Grievance officers and contract advisers:

Christine Ammer, Archie Brodsky, Leslie Brunetta, Elaine Gottlieb, Barbara Mende (coordinator), Shirley Moskow

Defenders of fairness and transparency by publishers and in NWU:

Sherry Argov and Gema Gray

Greeters and helpers at events, writers conferences, book fairs:

Shelby Allen, Jeanne Cosmos, Peter Gerler, Elaine Gottlieb, Jim Hall, Maria Judge, Yleana Martinez, Eve Sullivan, Lucy Sutherland, Madelaine Weiss, and Cynthia Winfield

Election/bylaws organizers: Gema Gray, Jim Hall and all who voted!

ENews & all-member email distribution: Leslie Brunetta and Barbara Brandt.

Event reports & career tip writers for eNews and www.nwuboston.org:

Rick Holton, Thomas Kilduff, Ruth Nemzoff, and Susan Oleksiw

Steering Committee members who did the invisible work behind all we did in 2008:

Anne Brudevold, Jeanne Harnois, Stephen Holmes, Chris Kenneally, Jason Pramas, Barbara Mende, Shirley Moskow, Wayne Soini, Lucy Sutherland, and Maria Termini.

Again, thanks − Co-Chairs Barbara Beckwith and Charles Coe