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April 2009
Our
2009 Tenney Family Reunion will be upon us before we know it. This
year will be particularly special because we are finally going to place the
headstone of our progenitor, Thomas Tenney at the Old Bradford Burial
Ground. This will be a very special occasion and should be a
memorable event.
CALLING TENNEY FAMILY WITH WEB SITE EXPERIENCE!
As
you all know we are still scouring the bushes for a new webmaster for the
Tenney website! We need someone in this family with the
talent and ability to help us. With the reunion
fast approaching this is even more urgent. I have to believe
that we have a younger Tenney out there who has the skill to help us in our
hour of need! This is crucial to the family reunion, as we are
trying to involve allied family groups in this event, and to provide each
of you the most up to date information on the reunion, on line. It
does us no good to direct someone to our site for information if we are not
able to keep it current and relevant. I cannot stress this urgent need
enough, this is vital to our reunion’s success. Please contact me if
you are our talented cousin!
REUNION NOTES
I
have to commend our cousin Barron Tenney and his committee in their efforts
toward this dedication. He almost daily has been prodding and
cajoling all the key players in this effort in a way that I believe only
Barron could. We definitely have the right man “on the ground” for
this effort in Haverhill.
Debbie
Montgomery has worked very hard in making all the arrangements for our stay
in the Haverhill area and all the associated
activity of our reunion.
There
will be a reunion polo shirt available for this year’s most important
event. Debbie has included the sizing and pricing information in her
information on the reunion. We will have three colors available and
these are a first in my memory for our reunions.
VOLUME ONE, TENNEY FAMILY HISTORY
Our
final volume of the Thomas Tenney updated genealogy, Volume One, is in the
process of being printed and shipped to our merchandise manager, Gail Tenney.
A huge thanks you to Debbie Montgomery, Hal Tenney, our former merchandise
manager, and to Gail as well. This is a very time and labor intensive
process and all three of these cousins have really stepped up to the plate
to see this project through to completion.
CHARITABLE STATUS
Although
we have not been successful to date in securing our charitable organization
status, we are exploring the use of a twin incorporated entity to give us a
501 (c) 3 organization. Our original incorporation document remains the
same, but is a 501 (c) 7, social organization. The new incorporated
entity will be set up with an educational purpose. Our treasurer,
Dick Tenney, Melanie Tenney and I will continue working on this so we can
indeed finally have a charitable portion of the association to allow
donations that can then be written off on one’s taxes.
MEMBERSHIP
Please
talk to other family members and have them contact our membership
co-chairs, Laura and Ken Bunting! Membership is vital to the
continued success of this family association. It is vitally important
for our efforts to preserve our TENNEY FAMILY heritage and to insure the
successful continuance of this organization. Della Tenney has donated
money to the Edward Tenney Membership FAund and continues to support
the association in our membership efforts. There are a lot of us with
our shared heritage out there, let’s all join in this cherished
commonality!
THREE MONTHS
This
is the amount of time we have remaining to complete our matching funds
project for 2008-2009. Our match this year was for the continued
clean up of the Old Bradford Burial Ground. There is still time
to make the full match for this project complete and remember $500 donated
results in $1,000 being available for this project.
ELECTION YEAR
This
is year is our election for 2009 – 2011 for officers for the
association. Remember, we have the need for a Corresponding Secretary
and the Web Master position is still vacant. If you feel you want to
do more for the association, this is a good way to contribute. Make
your vote count!
Ballot!
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