The Baton Rouge/New Orleans Chapter of OSSN met on Oct. 10 at DeAngelo’s Italian Restaurant in Ba-

ton Rouge, La. The topic of the meeting was “The Benefits of OSSN Membership”. Attending were: (left

to right) Hazel Myers of Meetings Et’Cetera LLC, Ramona Tauzin of MonaMarie Travel, Mark and Louise

Rumfello of Your Magical Vacations, Robin Beard of ROPAKELE Travel, Jessica Gauthier and Elana Bour-

geois of K&E Travel, Kim Hatcher of ROPAKELE Travel, Connie Faust and Lee Ann Fullerton of Geauxing

Places Travel (guests) Not pictures: Patrick Beard of ROPAKELE Travel

On October 11,2013 the Richmond, Va. Ossn Chapter have a meeting at 3900 Westerre Park-

way Suite 300 Richmond , Va. 23233. Stacey Blackward the Richnmond ,Va. Chapter Director

gone over The requirements for Business plan and Market plan for Travels Consultant.

Photos taken at the Buck Wilson Travel Trade Show in Kansas

City, Miss. on Oct. 9,2013. One free membership was drawn

and it was given to Mary Nelson ( I am shaking her hand in

one of the photos). The photo with the 4 women are OSSN

members who attended the show. Kim Pinning( another

member) had to leave before the photo was taken.

Myrtis Rimassa (Daytona Area Chapter Director) hosted the OSSN Booth at the re-

cent Peninsula Tradeshow on Oct. 10, 2013, at the Hilton Rialto in Melbourne,

Fl. More than 70 Agents attended the event, some brick-n-mortar and some home-

based. Interested Agents were informed of the benefits of OSSN membership and

invited to attend the upcoming Home-Based Travel Agent Forum in Orlando Oct 28-

30 at Disney's Coronado Springs.

Southeastern Michigan Chapter’s Carolyn Pugh, Pleasant Holidays took place at Hampton Inn 20600

Haggerty Rd Northville, MI 48167 on Oct. 07, 2013.

The OSSN Long Island Chapter Meeting. Took place at IHOP at 7 p.m. on 667 Motor Parkway,

Hauppauge. N.Y. 11788. Guest Speaker included Ann Andreas. Local BDM from Real Resorts.

On Oct. 10, 2013, The San Francisco-EastBay OSSN Chapter met at Lafayette Veteran's Memorial

Hall. The topic of the meeting was Tanzania and the Wild South. Vendor, Real Life Adventure Travel

was there as well. This event was open to OSSN members and their clients.

From left to right, Robin Felix Speaker, Cheryl Bowie, Lynda Hyette-guest/client, Lindsay Elam-

guest/client Lewis Lau. Two guests who turned out to be OSSN that didn't tell me.