Donna Seymour
NYS Communications Director

Communications IS "Sharing the Vision" and "Moving the Mission Forward"

It's communicating with your branch members, your community, and your peers statewide. It's communicating using all the media available to you - your branch newsletter and roster, your website, e-mail lists of branch members, an old-fashioned telephone tree, TV spots, radio announcements and call-ins, plus your local newspapers (don't forget letters to the editor and opinion columns as well as the usual press releases!). See what our vision is - the fulfillment of our mission - and share it with all!

The newsletter awards in 2010 were available to all branches who submitted newsletters during the year to the Communications Director. The “noteworthy newsletters” this year were from the following branches –

Awards of Excellence -

• Adirondack
• Amsterdam-Gloversville-Johnstown
• Alfred-Hornell
• Bath
• Buffalo
• Fairport Area
• Greater Rochester Area
• Ithaca
• Jamestown
• Kingston
• Manhattan
• Poughkeepsie
• Rockland County
• Schenectady
• Southern NY
• Westchester

Awards of Distinction

• Albany
• Islip Area
• Jefferson County
• Garden City
• Mid-Island
• Mohawk Valley
• North Shore
• Oswego
• St. Lawrence County
• Staten Island

Awards of Merit

• Elmira-Corning
• New York City
• Oneonta
• Syracuse

In addition, branch websites also received awards this year. The winners were:

• Adirondack Branch
• Alfred-Hornell Branch
• Amsterdam-Gloversville-Johnstown Branch
• Buffalo Branch
• Greater Rochester Area Branch
• Ithaca Branch
• Kingston Branch
• New York City Branch
• Poughkeepsie Branch
• St. Lawrence County Branch
• Schenectady Branch
• Southern New York Branch
• Westchester Branch