A Letter From The President

Training for Presenters, Panelists

 Bob Dorr, PFLAG Omaha

 Posted on September 21, 2005

Again this fall, college teachers are calling PFLAG to arrange for our Safe Schools speakers and our panels to come to their classes. To do that, we need to train more speakers and panel members. On Saturday, Oct. 15, we will conduct a half-day training at North High School, 36th Street and Ames Avenue.

The schedule:

--8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., continental breakfast in North’s Viking Center lunch room.

--9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m., training for Safe Schools presenters.

--l0:15 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., break.

--10:30 a.m. to noon, training for panelists.

--Noon to 12:45 p.m., box lunch in Viking Center.

The training is for current presenters and panelists and for prospective presenters and panelists.

At the same time that we are conducting our training, our partner organization GLSEN will conduct a training for a group of Omaha school teachers and counselors so they have a better understanding of our issues. That will take place in another room at North.

Members of the two groups--our group of presenters and panelists and the group of teachers and counselors—will have continental breakfast and lunch together.

To help us prepare for this training, please respond by email or by phone by Oct. 4 if you plan to attend the Oct. 15 training and specify whether:

(1) You plan to be there in time for the coffee and rolls.
(2) You plan to stay for the box lunch.
Call Betty Dorr at 333-7064, or email her at: bobcdorr@cox.net
The coffee and rolls and lunch, as well as the training, are free. More importantly, you will be preparing yourself to help us do our important education work—mostly in college classrooms where our audiences are increasingly receptive to our Safe Schools message and the stories of our life experiences.

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At the annual business meeting of PFLAG in September, three members of the Omaha PFLAG board of directors were reelected. They are Barbara Johnson, Carrie Spencer and Hap Rohwer. Venetia Collins leaves the board.
The board will drop from 10 members to nine members.
A majority of the PFLAG members present at the September meeting also voted to change the Omaha chapter’s bylaws to eliminate the requirement that the president be the parent of a gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender person.

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A representative of the Imperial Court of Nebraska (ICON) will speak at PFLAG’s Oct. 13 meeting, telling us about the role of that group in the GLBT community.
The meeting will start at 7 p.m. and will be preceded by coffee and socializing at 6:30 p.m. It will be held at our regular place in Mead Hall at the far west end of First United Methodist Church, 7020 Cass St.

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The National Coming Out Day celebration for eastern Nebraska and western Iowa will start Oct. 2 and end Oct. 11. A list of events appears elsewhere in this newsletter. Check the Rainbow Celebrations web site to learn other details: www.rainbowcelebrations.org
Bob Dorr, Omaha PFLAG president