Spring Leadership Meeting

25-28 Feb 2016          Brown Hotel, Louisville, KY

President General Tom Lawrence address the Trustees and other attendees at Spring Leadership.

     The 2016 Spring Leadership meeting was held at the Brown Hotel in Louisville on 25-28 Feb.  Five CMM members and three wives attended: PG Lindsey Brock and his wife Billie, VPG Doug Collins and his wife Alison, NMSSAR President Andrew Lyngar, past CMM President Lance Lyngar, and CMM President Bill Schwetke and his wife Cat.  In addition to attending the Trustee meetings, Lance and Bill also attended meetings of the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution Committee (both as members), Congress Planning Committee, Eagle Scout Committee (Lance as member), Genealogy Committee, Genealogy Workshop, and the Germany Society (both as members).
     One of the first orders of business for the trustees was to vote on the host for the 2020 Annual Congress.  The trustees went with the Congress Planning Committee's recommendation and selected Virginia as the 2020 host.  This means many things for the CMM for we will certainly be called upon to help with the many tasks that the Virginia Society must accomplish to make the 2020 Congress a reality.  It also triggers a $6 surcharge on our 2017 dues to help fund the Virginia Society's efforts.  The Planning Committee and a small group from our state leadership will tour the proposed sites of Norfolk and Richmond after Fall Leadership this year and select the site within Virginia.
     After a productive trustees meeting the attendees took an evening dinner cruise on the Ohio River onboard the Spirit of Jefferson paddle-wheeler.

Spring Leadership attendees board the Spirit of Jefferson for a cruise on the Ohio.

     The highlights of following trustees meetings were the approval to go ahead with the Solid Light plan for our interactive museum on the first floor of the SAR Headquarters building, distribution of a $100k gift, and allowing Family Search to scan our genealogy records.
     Friday night's banquet had a Caribbean theme and the speaker was noted author Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy.  During the banquet it was announced that the SAR would fund a fellowship for Dr. O'Shaughnessy to study the recently discovered papers of King George III that cover the time of the American Revolution.  At our Banquet Dr. O'Shaughnessy gave a very informative talk about the role of the Caribbean theater in the American Revolution.

PG Tom Lawrence addresses the trustees.

CMM Compatriots Andrew and Lance Lyngar at the Saturday evening formal dinner.

Congress Planning Committee Chairman Paul Callanan presents the committee's recommendation for Virginia to host the 2020 Congress.

Dr. O'Shaughnessy addresses the Thursday evening gathering on the Caribbean Theater of the American Revolution.

CMM attendees at Spring Leadership, seated left to right: PG Lindsey Brock, Cat Schwetke, Andrew Lyngar; standing left to right: VPG Doug Collins, Bill Schwetke, and Lance Lyngar. Not in the picture were Billie Brock and Alison Collins.

     At Spring Leadership the Nominating Committee presented its nominations for NSSAR General officers for 2016-17: