NLGJA Philadelphia Relaunch

From your Chapter President, Matthew T. Patton:

As some as you may know, the Philadelphia chapter of NLGJA has been seemingly inactive for the past couple of years. Prior to that, the chapter representing the nation's fifth largest city was extremely active, with studio tours, brunches, mixers, holiday parties and other fun events. We can, with your help, become active again -- and emerge better than ever!

I've been charged with breathing life into the "new" chapter. To get started, I'd like to set up a coffee shop meeting (coffee's on me) for anyone who'd like to meet me in Center City (in the next 2 or so weeks) to talk about how we can work together to re-establish NLGJA Philadelphia, whether it's through mixers, outreach or other social venues.

To give you a little background, I joined the organization in 1999 after I was a student in the student project at the Atlanta convention. Since then, I've served as student mentor at national conventions and have, along the way, been involved in local activities. I've always been a "behind-the-scenes" member, so I'm looking forward and embracing this new role as chapter president.

In the meantime, let me hear back from you with your ideas for reinvigorating the chapter, and look for details about our upcoming coffee talk gathering. Finally, don't forget that I'll need a volunteer to help me relaunch the Web site.

Looking forward to hearing from you.