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Oklahoma Home & Community Education

President/Editor Glenda Busby 413-3508

Editor Freda Cunningham 722-0719

Vice-President Glenda Hargis 721-2983

Secretary Lynda Arnold 812-1806

Treasurer Paul Cunningham 722-0719

FCS Advisor Lisa Hamblin 713-1125

OHCE websites:

Extension http://oces.okstate.edu/oklahoma

State http://ohce.okstate.edu

Genealogy Group. www.ohcegenealogy.com

CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES Group President begin planning for end of year reporting due Dec. 27 to Extension Office. Nov. 2 OHCE Trip to Chickasas Center Nov. 15 10 am Leadership/Group Officer Training Nov. 29 Reservations for Holiday Luncheon due to County Treasurer Dec. 5 9:00 am VA Stocking Stuffing at Soldier Creek OHCE Building. Delivery at 1:00 pm. Dec. 7 9:30 Decorate for Annual Holiday Luncheon 11:30 Annual Holiday Luncheon 2019 OHCE County Officer Installation Outstanding Member Award Recognition Dec. 27 4th Qtr. Grp.Volunteer Hours due to Ext. Ctr.

A DECEMBER NEWSLETTER WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED DEADLINE FOR JANUARY. NEWSLETTER

Third Thursday, Dec. 20th

Begin now making plans or ask for help

for finalizing your State

Report Books which will be

due to Lisa before Jan 24.

PRESIDENT’S COLUMN

Glenda Busby

I don't know about you but I cannot believe it is November. Where did 2018 go? I hope you have plans to spend time with friends and family in the remaining days of 2018.

Are you the Resource Management or Membership Chair for your group? If so, make sure you attend the Leadership Training on Thursday, November 15th. We will have speakers focusing on these areas. We also need group officers, especially new officers, to attend as well. Please RSVP by Nov. 9th to Lisa at the Extension Office for a lunch count.

I also want to make you aware of some vacancies we have on the county level. We have many who have served their two-year term and will rotate off for 2019. Would you be willing to step in and help OHCE at the county level? Our work is easier when everyone does a little to help. Would any of these areas be of interest to you: Newsletter Editor, Social Committee Chair, Cultural Enrichment Chair, or Family Issues Chair? If you want more information or would be willing to serve, please let me know ASAP at gsbusby6@gmail.com.

I hope to see everyone at our Holiday Luncheon on December 7th.

Nov, 2018 Ninth Email Edition Vol. 26.11

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We will be collecting small bottles of hand sanitizer for the month of November. Please bring any items you have to the Nov. 15th Leadership/Group Officer Training. We need to get all items in so we can purchase the items we still need. Thanks!

MEMBERSHIP 2019 New Members began July-1

1. Ginny Meek 3 E’s

2. Dave Newell Genealogy

3. Barbara Sies 3 E’s

4. Carol Henson NW Seekers/ Council

Grove

5. Susan Hart 3E’s

HOLIDAY LUNCHEON Pat Smith

All OHCE members and their guests are invited to attend the annual Oklahoma County Holiday Luncheon. The luncheon will be held Friday, December 7, 2018 at 11:30 am in the OSU Extension Conference Center, 2500 N. E. 63rd Street. The theme for the luncheon is “Christmas through the Eyes of a Child” and you may decorate your tables any time after 9:30 am on December 7th. At this luncheon we will install new officers for 2019, vote for Outstanding Members for the year 2018, enjoy good food and fellowship with members from all the Groups. The food for the luncheon is being provided by Catering by Bill Finley, with brisket and baked chicken, several vegetables, salad, rolls dessert, iced tea and lemonade. The cost per person will be $14.00 and is to be paid to your Group treasurer, who will send County Treasurer Paul Cunningham one check for each Group by November 29, 2018. Getting your Group checks to

Paul as early as possible will be a benefit, as the Groups will be invited to go through the serving line, based on when your Group’s check was received by the County Treasurer. The entertainment will be several of our members sharing the Life Stories that they wrote this year. The Social Committee will need help after the luncheon to put the room back in the regular

configuration. Please stay and help, if you can.

CULTURAL ENRICHMENT Jan Beattie

Road Trip to the Chickasaw Cultural

Center November 2nd!

The Cultural Enrichment Committee is sponsoring a fun excursion to the Chickasaw Cultural Center on Friday, November 2nd. Transportation will be free from the Extension Center. Cost will be about $25.00, including all fees and lunch. We will leave at 8:30 a.m. and return late afternoon. A stop in Norman for a pick-up can also be arranged. Guests are welcome. Don't miss this exciting outing! Please get your reservations in to Jan Beattie by October 30th to reserve your spot on the van. You may email her at jankb80@sbcglobal.net or call (405) 513-4014. There will also be a sign-up sheet at the Educational Lesson and County Business Meeting on October 25th. Or, Group Presidents may email me a list of who plans to come from your group. The weather will be perfect and a wonderful way to enjoy the fall foliage. It promises to be a memorable experience so don't miss out!

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Chickasaw Cultural Center

OHCE GROUP NEWS

3E’s Kay Holzman

The Quilts of Valor presentation was made by 3 E's to Marwan Shahin, a Marine veteran. The presentation was done at his workplace, Hudiburg Toyota in MWC. His son was also veteran, who after returning from the war in Iraq, committed suicide.

MODERN HOMEMAKERS Burchie Smith

Our Vice President, Dianne Lee, called the meeting to order, beginning with the flag salute led by Paula Kelley. Our President Georganna Childers is recovering from back surgery. She sent word that the pain from the surgery is so much less than the

pain she suffered before the surgery that she isn’t complaining at all. After the flag salute, Mary Watson gave a devotion about promises from God and the growing of a vegetable garden with the promise of food from the planted seeds. The 12 members present answered roll call by telling about an experience they had with cookies. After the roll call, we slipped right into the program and Surprise, Surprise, the program was changed at the last minute to photography!! Lucky for us Gwen Smith had taken a couple of classes on photography so she gave us a few pointers on how to take good pictures. She then sent around several photographs that she took while she was in the class and some pictures she had taken at random, just to point out what was wrong or right about the photos. We had one guest who slept through it all. Maybe it was because she was only 7 months old! On the first Wed. of October two members delivered Mobile Meals. We will have two more delivered on the first Wed. of November. Club members were reminded to bring stuffed animals in December for the Police Department to give to traumatized children. Dianne Lee also reported that David Barton, America’s Historian, will be in town speaking Nov. 5th. She also encouraged us all to vote on Nov. 6th.. We finished our meeting with a wonderful cookie exchange. We have many good cookie bakers in our group!

GENEALOGY Jan Beattie

Another successful genealogy workshop is in the books! We held our Fall Genealogy Workshop on Saturday, October 13th at the Extension Conference Center. Most of the registrants were first-time attendees. We received great feedback and gained two new members, with several others expressing an interest in joining us. We have all our 2019 programs already set. We provided a brochure to all attendees and hope this will result in some new members as well. Our webmaster, Robert Smith, has also updated our website:

www.ohcegenealogy.com with the upcoming programming information. County Membership Chairman. Kay Holzman, was also there. In addition, we had

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representatives from the Oklahoma Historical Society with unique gift items and maps for sale and information on many of their projects. Our special guest, Dawn Hopkins, is a professional calligrapher and demonstrated her original artwork and custom one-of-a-kind family and lineage charts that she designs. FlipPal mobile scanners were demonstrated and sold, as well as several kinds of family tree charts. Everyone enjoyed the delicious lunch and interesting lectures. We are in the process of ordering proof sets of our recently completed Oklahoma Cemetery Directory. We will be fulfilling our promise of books and DVDs to those who helped make this update possible by providing us with information and photographs. Soon we will be ordering the new set for the Oklahoma History Center Research Division and sending it to the DAR Library in Washington D.C. The DAR Library prefers to receive an electronic file and will print the books themselves. They are excited to be receiving our publication. We will likely donate our proof set to another local genealogical library. Several of our members plan to attend the road trip to the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur on November 2nd. We are really looking forward to this. Our program presenters from our October meeting are also interested in attending. Michael and Bonnie Rennels presented a fascinating program entitled I See Dead People (Geo)caching in Cemeteries. Geo-caching is a new enjoyable pastime and appeals to the adventurer and puzzle-solvers among us. It sounds like a really fun and exciting hobby and gives us something else to do while exploring cemeteries around the country. The Rennels have caches hidden in over 1100

cemeteries in Oklahoma alone, and there are literally thousands cached across the United States. And as a result in visiting us to present a program, they expressed an interest in beginning their genealogy journey and plan to join us soon, as well. Our November program will be presented by group member, Michael McCoy. His program, A Hole in the Heart, outlines his adoption and journey from Germany to the United States. The holidays will soon be approaching. Please take the opportunity to visit with your family. Take some family photographs and learn about your ancestors. Don't neglect to ask those questions you've been meaning to ask while you still can and “talk turkey” with your relatives! Then, write some family stories to keep those memories and anecdotes alive for your family to have for generations to come.

SNAPSHOTS Freda Cunningham

This OHCE Photography group is looking for new

members. We would especially like to welcome

anyone interested in photography, especially

leaders or parents of 4-H members, to our group.

Our desire is to work together to benefit the 4-H

members, leaders and parents with their

Photography Projects. If you know any 4-H

families, please get in touch with us with contact

information.

We meet monthly at the City Bites Restaurant in

the Legacy Bank Building, 12349 N. MacArthur. A

light dinner is available in the restaurant at 6:30 if

you wish to eat before the meeting. This helps

those who are coming to the meeting straight from

work. Meetings are on the second Tuesday of

each month. Our next meeting is Nov. 13th

beginning at 7 pm in the Snapshots Nook in the

restaurant.

At our last meeting, our members shared the

photos that won ribbons at the Oklahoma County

Fair.

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HOW TO ACCESS THE FILLABLE MEMBERSHIP

FORM ONLINE Paul Cunningham

These 6 steps will help you access our fillable OHCE membership form online. 1 - Type this address in your search window: ohce.okstate.edu 2 - Click on "Welcome" to reach the website 3 - In the upper left corner, click on "Resources" 4 - In the drop down menu, there is another "Resources." Click on it. 5 - On the new drop down menu, scroll down to "Forms" and click on it. 6 - On the new drop down menu, under the "FORMS" section, click on "Membership Fillable Form"

(I prefer “Click” instructions. I find them more helpful.

CONGRATULATIONS!! Honoring 50-Year Members

Modern Homemakers Group

organized in 1971

50-Year Members, currently of that group, joined the organization in 1968

Martha Field Evelyn Harris

Jill Pope Jo Royce

Our deepest sympathy is extended to the Vicky & Larry Sharp family in the loss of their twin son, David in death at the early age of 26. An over-flow of family and friends gathered for his funeral at Westlake Presbyterian Church, the meeting place for Northwest Seekers/Council Grove Group. Vicky has been President of that group for the last three years and a member of OHCE since 2004.

Our hearts are saddened to learn that after a long bout with cancer Abbie Wilson’s daughter Sara Vincent-Spain was over-taken by death on October 3 at the age of 50 years.

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OHCE -- OKLAHOMA COUNTY MEMBERS OF YEAR AWARDS

Purpose: To recognize OHCE members in good standing who have exhibited outstanding

accomplishments.

All of the OHCE Oklahoma County Award winners: Heart of OHCE Member Outstanding OHCE Member Rookie OHCE Member Young OHCE Member

will be honored by having their way paid and will represent Oklahoma County at the Southeast District

Meeting, where each County winner will be introduced and the District winner announced. The District

winners will then compete on the State level at the Annual OHCE State Meeting in July at the Embassy

Suite Hotel in Oklahoma City when these prestigious honors will be bestowed on the four State OHCE

winners.

Judging Criteria

Heart Member Rookie Young OHCE Participation 15% 75% 75% 75% Community Service 75% 15% 15% 15% Other Responsibilities 10% 10% 10% 10%

Heart of OHCE Award

Accomplishments in the community: Volunteer work, civic organizations, library, hospital,

church, youth, tutoring, public policy, environmental concerns, involvement in leadership,

financially, and educationally

Accomplishments promoting family values in the following areas: Education involvement within

the family, moral values and other responsibilities

Candidate’s involvement in promoting OHCE in the community

OHCE Member of the Year

The candidate must be a member in good standing in OHCE for four years or more, holding or

having held office or must be or have been elected or appointed committee chairman in local

group, county or state organization within the past three years.

Rookie of the Year

The candidate must have completed no more than four year of OHCE work and have served on

the local or county level as an officer or on at least one committee.

Young Member Award

The candidate must be no older than 35 years of age prior to the year nominated. The member

must be active on the local or county level serving as an officer or on at least one committee.