2014 MWM RG Registration Rate Schedule

We've finally crunched the numbers and have figured out... we can REDUCE the registration rate for next year's RG for most people. How much will it cost?

Full-Weekend (Note: New this year - this does NOT include Saturday dinner):

$70 thru September 30, 2013

$75 October 1 - December 31, 2013

$80 January 1 - April 30, 2014

$85 thereafter and walk-in

$55 youth (under 18 years old)

Single-day rates (adult or youth):

$30 Friday only

$40 Saturday only (Note: This does NOT include Saturday dinner)

$30 Sunday only

Saturday night dinner (separate purchase required): $20 (deadline for purchasing dinner: May 9, 2014)

Cancellations accepted through April 30, 2014 (8% fee retained for cancellation, same as this past year)

To be crystal clear, meals included in Hospitality with the full weekend price:

Friday dinner, Saturday breakfast and lunch, Sunday breakfast and (new this year) lunch. 

As soon as our webmaster's schedule frees up enough, you will be able to register online at mwmrg.org

Stay tuned for further updates, as we hope to get our blog up and running in the near future.

2014 RG

Jess Byron and I are reprising our roles as co-chairs of the MWM RG, taking place May 16-18, 2014, once again at the Hyatt Dulles, Herndon, VA. Over the upcoming days and weeks, the initial bare-bones details will be decided: registration rate and schedule (it may get modified compared to what's currently "out there"), theme, additional RG committee members, etc. We will start filling in some of those details at http://www.mwmrg.org.

Once we have enough information determined, and our Publicity Chair Extraordinaire has sufficient time, we will create a new blog where we will provide regular updates, like we did this past year for the Superhero Edition RG.

Stay tuned for more information regarding MWM's 2014 RG!

AMC Election results

Survey and Ballot Systems, the election house for the 2013 board election and referenda, reported the following certified results this afternoon. These results include 5,404 returned ballots from 44,101 eligible members with a final participation rate of 12.25%. It is also worth noting that 2,257 ballots were submitted via Web voting and 3,147 paper ballots were returned via regular mail.

Congratulations to all of the winners. To those who were not elected, thank you for being willing to serve Mensa. Questions regarding the election should be directed to Election Chair Megan Edwards at ElectionChair@us.mensa.org.
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The following positions were unopposed and the candidates were declared elected: RVC 1 – Andrew Heffernan; RVC 4 – Ellen Voie; RVC 6 – Roger Durham; RVC 8 – Harold Ward; and RVC 10 – Thomas George Thomas.
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Chair – Daniel Burg is declared elected.
Daniel Burg 3130 59.6%
Robert Salkin 2125 40.4%

1st Vice Chair – Heather Miller Poirier is declared elected.
Heather Miller Poirier 3339 64.5%
John Recht 1841 35.5%

2nd Vice Chair – LaRae Bakerink is declared elected.
Round 1
LaRae Bakerink 2162 41.7%
Debra Reiger 1649 31.8%
Kenneth Silver 1376 26.5%

Round 2
LaRae Bakerink 2752 53.9%
Debra Reiger 2353 46.1%

Secretary – Brian Reeves is declared elected.
Brian Reeves 2888 56.2%
Jared Levine 2254 43.8%

Treasurer – Nicholaus Sanford is declared elected.
Nicholaus Sanford 3569 69.6%
Cary Chilson 1558 30.4%

RVC 2 – Cam Smart is declared elected.
Cam Smart 331 50.1%
Nancy McMahan Farrar 330 49.9%

RVC 3 – Julia Ashley is declared elected.
Julia Ashley 266 55.6%
John Voymas 212 44.4%

RVC 5 – Baker Ring is declared elected.
Baker Ring 232 52.1%
Bertha Clarke 213 47.9%

RVC 7 – Gregory Kontz is declared elected.
Gregory Kontz 179 59.9%
William Jacob Winship 120 40.1%

RVC 9 – Desiree Sagray is declared elected.
Desiree Sagray 333 52.1%
Clark Jones 306 47.9%

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The following bylaw amendments were put before the membership. They required 2/3 of the voting membership to pass. You can find full text of these amendments online athttp://www.us.mensa.org/election.

Bylaw Amendment 1 – Passes.
Yes 4589 92.1%
No 391 7.9%

Bylaw Amendment 2 – Passes.
Yes 4465 89.8%
No 506 10.2%

Let the counting begin!

For those who voted for me, thank you. Sometime in the next 1-2 weeks, we'll have the final tally on all of the contested races.