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| November 2004 | The
Monthly Newspaper of the NYSSCPA |
Vol.
7, No.14 |
Message From the President
By Timothy N. O’Connor, Northeast Chapter President
Through our executive committee and our executive board’s leadership, the Northeast Chapter continues to meet via teleconference on a monthly basis with quarterly board meetings scheduled for 2004–2005.
Our goal is to increase chapter member participation and bring new members into our chapter’s activities. We continue to strive to communicate, educate and advocate for our membership.
We would like to establish a continuum of service through the committees, through the board, with eventual officer and executive committee responsibility. We believe that consistency of the leadership’s thought process, committee operations and board involvement is the key to serving our entire membership.
We recognize that the very nature of volunteer service and our bylaws, which encourage planned turnover, can mitigate building upon the ideas and efforts of each and every past board. We think this is a good thing, but we want to maintain some link to past efforts and successes so as to carry on our work from year to year. We therefore are documenting our discussions and decisions, establishing levels of oversight, and communicating across the boards and committees.
We are simultaneously attempting to become involved, under the guidance of our immediate past President Beth van Bladel, with the managing partners of firms in the area, because we believe that their influence over their respective firm members and employees is paramount to bringing younger professionals into chapter involvement.
We have also gone so far as to encourage clerical and support staff from various firms to become involved in such areas as marketing and communications.
We try very hard to find the formula to getting back to the days when our chapter events were both educational and social in nature. I can remember meetings and even dinner dances with over a hundred people in attendance and a lot of camaraderie and goodwill.
I guess I just have dated myself and documented it! Have a good and profitable busy season, everyone.
Recent Events
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The Mayor’s Summer Institute for Career Exploration, combined with our Career Opportunities in Accounting Program (COAP)
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Young CPAs Annual Picnic
Future Events
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Nov. 17: Capital Region CPA and Banker Dinner at Wolfert’s Roost Country Club (There’s still time to register for this event. See details below.)
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Dec. 2: Annual Tax Seminar
We welcome any and all questions and comments.
Editor’s Note: Timothy O’Connor, who tragically passed away on October 12, submitted this president’s column in early October. The Trusted Professional chose to run it as a tribute to his leadership of the New York State Society of CPAs, Northeast Chapter members and his community.
