Unfortunately, I will not be attending. I am starting my EdD program this fall and have classes during the week that I cannot miss.  


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Luis A. Gonzalez
Director, Upward Bound Program
phone: 805-756-2301
fax: 805-756-5122
"A good leader is a person who takes a little more than [their] share of the blame and a little less than [their] share of the credit." John C. Maxwell

 

-----Original Message-----
From: CENTRALCAL [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Wendy White
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:46 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Urgent PDS
Importance: High

Greetings Cencal Family,

I"m sending you this email as a friendly reminder for our annual PDS scheduled for October.  I just received an email  from out events coordinator  at the Doubletree in Rohnert Park that so far the only reservation made has been for myself and the deadline is fast approaching for people to receive the $145.00 rate (Midnight Sept. 7th).

Myself and a few other committee members have been working hard to provide our chapter with a quality, and worthwhile PDS, however, our hotel reservations are evidence of our committment to attend the event.
 I have firm committments from Judge Cerena Wong and Efren  Carrillo, who is a ETS alumni from Sonoma State and currently running for a
political seat in Sonoma County to be our Welcome/Plenary speakers.   As
of date, I still have not received any interest emails for speakers to conduct various workshops.

I realize that schools, community colleges, universities have just started back up and that everyone is running around with  their heads cut off, but we need to decide as a chapter if this event is going to go off as planned.  I have confered with the hotel events coordinator  and have instructed her to reduce our block to 39 rooms based on participation from last year.  I had forecast for a room block of 60 which may have been a little ambitios, but remember that CenCal has a tradition of breaking records and setting the bar high!!!!

I am also on the threshold of starting back full-time into my  primary position as a counselor for ETS  next week  and I want to ask upfront for everyone's "yeah or nay" in pursuing this venture any further.  Time and money are at stake and I need programs/individuals to state their committments at this time.

Please know that I realize budgets are tight for everyone, so if we need to pull the plug on this one, then the majority should speak.  Remember, we voted to have PDS this year in October instead of December, so we may need to revisit this issue again.

Thanking you all in advance for your consideration, support, and constructive comments.

 

"Success seems to be connected with action.  Successful people keep moving.  They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

-Conrad Hilton