Arizona Chapter of Disneyana Fan Club Is Forming! Meeting on April 20, 2013 in Mesa, Arizona

A group of excited Disney fans are getting together on Saturday, April 20, 2013 in Mesa, Arizona to form an Arizona Chapter of the Disneyana Fan Club.  The meeting begins at 6PM,  and will be held at the following location:

Bill Johnson's Big Apple
950 E. Main St.
Mesa, AZ

All interested Disney fans are encouraged to attend and join this new Chapter!

The Group's formal name will be the Grand Canyon Chapter.  They already have a Facebook Page called the "Grand Canyon Disneyana Fan Club".  

For more information about the new Chapter, please send an email to:
GrandCanyonDisneyAz@gmail.com.

Personal Finance: How Disney gets its "hi-ho" worker enthusiasm: A Balance of Head and Heart

 Ever wonder how Disney is able to create magic, seemingly better than any other company around?   Read this article by Claudia Buck of the Sacramento Bee, about how former Disney executives like Doug Lipp spread the magic by offering training to organizations all over the world.

February/March 2013 Disneyana Dispatch Newsletter Now Online for Members!

The new February/March 2013 Internet Edition of the Disneyana Dispatch Newsletter is now available for current Club Members in good standing to view in the Members area of the Website.  If you are a current Member and cannot view this issue and all 38 other issues that we have posted on our website, please send an email to the Webmaster, David Ransom, at: webmaster@disneyanafanclub.org, and he will resolve the issue!

The new issue of the Newsletter includes a profile of the "Plane Crazy" Chapter in Dayton, Ohio.  Also included is a review of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" -themed Convention Banquet held last July at our DisneyanaMania Convention.  There is also an article about Walt Disney's Granddaughter Joanna Miller's visit and presentation to the Club.  Finally, there is a writeup of our 2 February events, the Collectible Expo and Pin Event with PinPics.com, and the 1st Annual The Pinny Awards.

All Club Members also receive a Print Edition of our Newsletter, which is mailed to their homes.

Disneyana Fan Club Board Meeting To Be Held on Saturday, April 13, 2013 at Crowne Plaza Resort in Garden Grove, CA

Disneyana Fan Club's Board of Directors will hold its next meeting at Crowne Plaza Anaheim Resort on Saturday, April 13, 2013 in Garden Grove, California (right down the street from Disneyland). The meeting will begin at 1230PM, in a meeting room to be announced.

All current Club Members are welcome to attend the meeting in person, or by Skype. If you would like to Skype into the meeting, please contact Gary Schaengold at: president@disneyanafanclub.org to make advance arrangements.

Nomination of Officers to the 2013-2013 Disneyana Fan Club Board of Directors

Nomination of Officers to the 2013 – 2015
Disneyana Fan Club Board of Directors

Every two years, as required by the By-Laws of the Disneyana Fan Club, a nominating Committee is appointed to assemble a slate of Board of Directors for the upcoming term of office. This year the committee members are Daron Sorg, Chair, Linda Rolls, Jason Waade, Dave Clark, and Ted Bradpiece. The Nominating Committee has been extremely fortunate to be able to draw on quite a range of talent for the nominees of the upcoming 2-year term of office for the Disneyana Fan Club Board of Directors.
The Nominating Committee is pleased to present the following slate to serve as the Disneyana Fan Club Board of Directors for the 2013 – 2015 term of office:

President
Linda Rolls

Vice President of Finance
Louis Boish

Vice President of Media Relations & Communications
Ricardo Aldape

Vice President of Chapters
Gary Des Combes

Vice President of Membership
Jocey Katz

Secretary
Ida Williamson

Editor in Chief
Bob Welbaum

Special Events
Cathy Perone

Webmaster
Theo Fukushima

Convention Coordinator
W. Brian Hugo



Charities Chair
Toni Lagunoff

Legacy Chair
Allan Halcrow

Director at Large
Thomas Taffinder

Director at Large
Jeannie Lee

Immediate Past President
Gary Schaengold


Should a member, not appearing on this slate, wish to become a candidate he or she shall submit a petition of nomination to the Nominating Committee. The petition must be signed by twenty (20) current members, or one percent (1%) of the current membership of the Disneyana Fan Club, whichever is greater. The 1% of the Clubs present membership is less than 20; so 20 current members of the Disneyana Fan Club must sign the petition. The petition must be mailed to the Nominating Committee at Post Office Box 19212, Irvine, California 92623-9212, and be received no later than April 15, 2013.
If no valid petitions are received, the proposed slate shall be considered ratified. If a valid petition is received, the Board will hold an election to determine the winner of a contested office. Such an election, if necessary, shall take place on June 1, 2013, with ballots to members by May 15, 2013. All ballots must be returned by July 1, 2013 to be valid and counted. The new Board of Directors will be installed at the Annual Business Meeting of the Disneyana Fan Club during the upcoming DisneyanaMania Convention 2013 this July.
The above guidelines are set forth in the By-Laws of the Disneyana Fan Club. If you have any questions regarding the election process, please contact the Nominating Committee Chairperson, Daron Sorg at nominations@ DisneyanaFanClub.org.

Respectfully Submitted,


Daron Sorg.

Photographs From The Collectibles Expo - February 2013

Here are a few photos taken at Disneyana Fan Club's Collectibles Expo, held at the Crowne Plaza Anaheim Resort on February 17, 2013.

Online Registration Available for Limited Spaces at Disneyana Fan Club/PinPics.com Special Event on Saturday February 16, 2013

There is limited space left at Disneyana Fan Club's Special Event with PinPics.com on Saturday, February 16, 2013 at the Crowne Plaza Resort in Garden Grove, California.  The event lasts from 2pm til 5pm.  You can register for the event (or get more information about it) by clicking here.   Registration is limited to 50 people and the price is $50 per person.

There will also be a free Pin Trading event open to the public from 7pm til 10pm at the Crowne Plaza Resort.  We hope that you can make it!

Don't miss our Collectibles Expo on Sunday, February 17, 2013. Public Hours:  11am til 5pm.  Disneyana Fan Club Member hours:  9am til 5pm.  Non-members can join the Club and get in earlier!
We hope to see you there!