Please send all correspondence, comments,
ideas and updates to Ragamisra@yahoo.com
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Convention Report 2009
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Presentation by Dr Kaushik of WBF Canada
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See Convention Pictures by Dr Meena Sharma at Gallery
Jul 27, 2010
Dear BSNA Family:
The purpose of this communication is twofold,
1) to keep you informed about BSNA activities, and
2) to proactively solicit your participation/ideas/views
to enhance our activities beneficial to all.
By now you must have received the latest issue of the Brahma Bharati.
If not, just click on Brahma Bharati on your right
hand column and enjoy the latest issue (June 2010).
Your contributions in the form of informative articles, essays,
stories, poems, news about yours and your children’s achievements,
your travel experiences, social activities, and other items are
very important to make this publication interesting and useful.
This is your publication. Publishing your chapter meetings/celebrations
of festivals and other chapter activities would be an example of
your contributions. I would like to see a lot of contributions and
activities reports from our youths either in their place holders
on www.bsna.org or directly to
our other publications.
Please send your contributions to Mrs. Anjana Bhargava, Chief Editor
of BSNA Publications. If you are in doubt about the type of material
that you can publish or need any help – simply ask her (Phone
# 916-9399233, E Mail: bharfam4@sbcglobal.net)
rather than just giving up.
There are a number of BSNA scholarships available
for high school students of BSNA members. I encourage you to take
advantage of this opportunity. The application form and process
are published in each Brahma Bharati as well as are available here
on your right hand column. Feel free to contact Mr. Mahendra Misra,
Chair of the Scholarship Committee, for additional information.
Some time ago (see below) we requested you all to organize or suggest
some community service projects at local level. These projects should
be our efforts to increase the visibility of BSNA and its activities
among general community where we live and work. Also through these
projects we should reach out to local community in the time of need,
as appropriate. Please forward your suggestions to any of the BSNA
officers or use Interactive Forum on our website.
If you have already initiated or planning to conduct any of these
activities please let everyone know.
We have received a very good response to the idea of organizing
regional conventions starting this year.
We will be forwarding the information as soon as the details of
these conventions are finalized.
This is the appropriate time to start thinking about the 2011 Convention.
The first step of the preparations is to determine, chapter and
city of the convention. Through this communication we are inviting
you all to host the next Annual Convention of BSNA (2011) in your
City/Region/Chapter. Please talk to the members, non-members and
chapter official in your area and let us know if you are interested
in hosting the 2011 convention. As always BSNA will provide all
the logistic help.
We look forward to hear from you on these issues as well as any
other suggestions to improve the BSNA functioning and contributions
to the world.
BSNA is for service to all and disservice to none
Best regards,
Om Sharma and Executive Committee
BSNA has appointed two new Trustees:
Mr. Upendra Chivukula (Phone # 732-2473999, E Mail:
dchivukula@comcast.net)
and Mr. Jagar Sharma (Phone # 516-5030871, E Mail
: jagarsharma@hotmail.com).
Mr. Jagar Sharma has also been appointed the Chairman of the Convention
Committee.
BSNA Treasurer Mr. Hari Sharma’s E Mail address
has changed to: harissharma@verizon.net.
His phone number is unchanged as 732-4093523
Youth Group President
Jyotsna Upadhyay (upadhyayjk@gmail.com) has been appointed the BSNA Youth Group President. Her term expires on March 31, 2011.
Interactive Forum Coordinator
Aradhna Sharma (aradhnasharma21@gmail.com) has been appointed the BSNA Interactive Forum Coordinator. Her term expires on December 31, 2012
Community Services
In order to provide service to the local community and increase the visibility of BSNA to the general public, BSNA is proposing a “local community service” project that could be easily implemented. The project is as follows:
Please identify a licensed medical doctor and/or health care provider in your chapter or contiguous 2-3 chapters. Also, try to find 2-3 other volunteers who could help with paper work, publicity, communication, etc. Then identify a local event and obtain permission to provide a free health check-up such as screening for diabetes, obesity, etc. This could be done 1-2 times a year in your area. If a small fee is needed to secure a table in the event, BSNA will provide the financial part ($200-$300) and logistical support for such events.
This event (service) should be organized under the auspices of BSNA and coordinated through BSNA. It could be a regular feature in future.
Please forward your plans to Dr. Om Sharma ((908-698-2548) as soon as you can get this event planned.
Regional Conventions
I have been discussing the idea of holding regional conventions with a few people for some time. Most recently, Dr. Akkaraju Sarma suggested this idea for discussion during a PA/NJ chapter meeting hosted by the PA Chapter President Mrs. Vimlesh Misra and her husband Mr. Mahendra Misra ji on 22 May 2010.
In addition to our annual conventions we should organize regional mini conventions. These conventions could be organized by 2-4 contiguous chapters for a day or a day and half on long weekends. The costs of these conventions should be reasonable to the attendees. Local temple halls could be used for the meeting and a focused agenda based on certain issues should be discussed during these conventions. Local temples or other places of significance to the Indian culture could be visited during these conventions, etc. These meetings should be financially self-supporting and BSNA would provide logistic support. These meetings would increase the activities of BSNA, will provide an opportunity to chapters to have an experience of organizing a convention at smaller scale before they commit to host the Annual Convention. It is anticipated to encourage the participation of youth and perhaps it may increase the unity among local Brahmans.
I am writing this to invite your suggestions regarding the concept, issues/programs to be discussed, costs, frequency, feasibility, etc. Please provide your input and willingness to organize such mini meetings in your chapters/regions.
I would appreciate your input as soon as possible. If most of you agree and proposal looks fine I would like to suggest putting a logistic committee consisting of 3-4 people (Chapter Presidents/EC members and/or BOT members) to communicate and execute this idea.
Regards,
Om Sharma (908-698-2548)
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BRAHMA-BHARATI
(June 2010)
YOUTH SCHOLARSHIP details and forms are embedded in June 2010 issue of Brahma Bharati Please refer all questions regarding Youth Scholarships to Mr. Mahendra Misra, Phone # 610-5396073, E Mail: mahendramisra@hotmail.com
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Phone # 954-5627365,
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Profiles and Goals of President Elect and Executive Committee
