PRESIDENTS LETTER
MARCH 20, 2020
Dear SITE members, colleagues and friends,
This wasn’t the Q1 newsletter Samantha and I were planning to deliver when we accepted our co-president roles earlier this year. We had an all-star Board of Directors lined up and ambitious plans to host three events during Q1 in celebration of being named Chapter of the Year! We were fortunate to execute one pre-COVID-19 where 90+ of you joined us for our best attended AGM to date! And to continue in this year of firsts, next week we’ll host the first of a series of virtual events. While COVID-19 keeps us apart, SITE Northeast is committed to celebrating the passion and togetherness of our members that threads through our industry.
It’s been about a week since the reality of COVID-19 settled in the U.S. and hit our industry like a ton of bricks. Regardless of how these weeks unfolded for you, your colleagues, clients, and families; you made it. There is so much information available and the truth is, we just don’t know how long this will go on and what will happen when it’s over. What we do know is that the pandemic will end and this new normal will be old news.
Like many of us, at the start of the week my husband and I made a game plan to get through the uncertainty of the weeks ahead. We took inventory of our supplies, canceled everything, and for the first time in a very long time, we put away the suitcases. New Yorkers can appreciate the significance - we live in a tiny apartment in a convenient location, with not very convenient storage and when not on the road, our suitcases are on display the same way some might showcase wedding china. But a pandemic was upon us and we needed to turn our tiny apartment into both an office for two and self-isolation chamber, so we found a spot for our suitcases to hide until the world was ready to mobilize again.
So our advice to you is to put away your roller bags for now and hang in there because some day (hopefully very soon), you’re going to check-in for a flight, deliver a BEO, and celebrate this feat at our next in-person chapter event! And if your luck has really taken a turn for the worse, you might even complain about a middle seat again.
Until then, stay connected and stay #SITEStrong.
All the best,
Megan and Samantha (who has far more storage space in the ‘burbs)
SITE Northeast USA Co-Presidents
www.sitenortheast.com
MARCH 20, 2020
Dear SITE members, colleagues and friends,
This wasn’t the Q1 newsletter Samantha and I were planning to deliver when we accepted our co-president roles earlier this year. We had an all-star Board of Directors lined up and ambitious plans to host three events during Q1 in celebration of being named Chapter of the Year! We were fortunate to execute one pre-COVID-19 where 90+ of you joined us for our best attended AGM to date! And to continue in this year of firsts, next week we’ll host the first of a series of virtual events. While COVID-19 keeps us apart, SITE Northeast is committed to celebrating the passion and togetherness of our members that threads through our industry.
It’s been about a week since the reality of COVID-19 settled in the U.S. and hit our industry like a ton of bricks. Regardless of how these weeks unfolded for you, your colleagues, clients, and families; you made it. There is so much information available and the truth is, we just don’t know how long this will go on and what will happen when it’s over. What we do know is that the pandemic will end and this new normal will be old news.
Like many of us, at the start of the week my husband and I made a game plan to get through the uncertainty of the weeks ahead. We took inventory of our supplies, canceled everything, and for the first time in a very long time, we put away the suitcases. New Yorkers can appreciate the significance - we live in a tiny apartment in a convenient location, with not very convenient storage and when not on the road, our suitcases are on display the same way some might showcase wedding china. But a pandemic was upon us and we needed to turn our tiny apartment into both an office for two and self-isolation chamber, so we found a spot for our suitcases to hide until the world was ready to mobilize again.
So our advice to you is to put away your roller bags for now and hang in there because some day (hopefully very soon), you’re going to check-in for a flight, deliver a BEO, and celebrate this feat at our next in-person chapter event! And if your luck has really taken a turn for the worse, you might even complain about a middle seat again.
Until then, stay connected and stay #SITEStrong.
All the best,
Megan and Samantha (who has far more storage space in the ‘burbs)
SITE Northeast USA Co-Presidents
www.sitenortheast.com
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December 3, 2019
We are extremely saddened to announce the passing of our dearly loved 2019 SITE Northeast USA Chapter President, Jeannette Lupachino, CMM, CIS, HMCC, on Tuesday, December 3, 2019. Jeannette's contributions to our Chapter started the moment she joined our board. In particular her tireless efforts in the creation of our keystone event, our annual Silent Auction, truly drove our chapter to the next level of success. Due of Jeannette’s hard work and initiative, we have been able to offer scholarships to our members to attend valuable and educational industry events for the past 3 years, and allowed us to grow our footprint of SITE Northeast leaders on a global scale. In addition the moment Jeannette walked into a room everyone felt welcomed, valued and part of our greater family. I know I am echoing everyone’s feelings of appreciation for Jeannette’s unrelenting dedication, support, leadership and friendship. To say she will be deeply missed by us all by us all is an understatement. In recognition of Jeannette's invaluable contributions to the incentive travel community, we are honored and humbled to dedicate an annual $1,000 Chapter Scholarship in her name - "The Jeannette Lupachino SHINE Scholarship", to be used for one SITE Northeast Member to attend a SITE Global event or Educational Program hosted by our Chapter, decided on an annual basis by the SITE Northeast USA Board of Directors. We have named it the Jeannette Lupachino SHINE scholarship based on key qualities Jeannette demonstrated both personally and professionally: • Success • Hospitality • Innovation • Nurture • Energy "When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure." |
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