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Meeting Report
April 2007
By Don Rogier

Membership dues and sales of publications have been continuing, and treasurer Neva Wilbert reports a balance of $5336.82 in the chapter's general fund.  The life member account is at $1207.05, making total chapter funds $6543.87.

Current membership is now 295.  There have been 15 new members enrolled so far in 2007.  Shirley Rogier reported that most of these new memberships have come from the chapter's web site.

Jane Wickham reported on plans for the 2007 annual banquet which will be held on June 5 at the Tiffin Civic Center.  Six new members of First Families of Seneca County will receive their certificates and pins at the banquet.

Seneca county Bible Records, Volume II is nearly sold out.  Only a few copies are left according to publications chairman Beverly Wheatley.  Volume I has been sold out for several years, and Volume II is being offered at the clearance price of $2.50.  Neither volume will be reprinted.

The May meeting will feature a program by Steve Frank who will speak on the trips he and his wife have made to Europe to visit and photograph the villages where his ancestors once lived.  Steve was scheduled to give the program at our February meeting which was canceled due to the winter storm.

Dr. Roy Zinn presented a program on the Indian presence in Northwest Ohio.  He then focused on the Van Meter Reservation in Eden township and on the story of John Van Meter who was captured as a child by the Wyandot Indians.  Van Meter was adopted by the Wyandots, and grew up as an Indian.