Words from the Chair...The Final Word...
This is the last time you will be hearing from me as the Chair of the Staff Advisory Council but since I will still be doing the Newsletter, you won't exactly be getting rid of me yet! I have really enjoyed my duties as the Chair and I have had a wonderful council to work with! As someone who has been on the council for 3 years, I can tell you that this is one of the best councils we have had. Not that I am the best Chair, because I greatly admired Suzanne Schoonover and David Olson, who served before me, but this council as a whole has had a lot of fun and worked so well together! It's always sad to say goodbye to out going members and exciting to welcome new ones, but this year it is especially hard! At our October meeting we will be saying goodbye to outgoing members: John Konzal, Mary Stone, and Janice Perkins. Their ideas and team spirit will be sadly missed.

Your new Chair for SAC for 2003-2004 is Andy McAllister, who has been serving as my Vice Chair. Congratulations, Andy! The rest of the new officers and standing committee chairs will be elected at the October meeting.

The newly elected Council Members are: Andy McAllister, Richard Begemann, Rebecca Bohlmeyer and Rhonda Turner who will all be serving 3 year terms and Ken Brooks who will be serving a 1 year term for Mary Stone who is leaving her term one year early.

United Way News!
The United Way Campaign will be getting underway in late September so I thought I would share a few of the important dates with you.

September 26th--United Way Kick-off breakfast, 7:30am-9:00am at Stotler Lounge, Memorial Union. Key Persons will receive their packets at this time.

September 26th--MU vs KU Tailgate Party and United Way Campaign Kick-off. This will be held at the University Hall Parking Lot, 5:30pm-7:30pm the evening before we WIN the MU vs KU away game. We hope everyone will come out and join us for:

Raffle tickets for the HP Printer and Digital Camera will go on sale Wednesday September 24-please see Sherri Helm, Katie Harris, Karen Borgers or Donna Barnes to purchase raffle tickets for $1 each. Suggested donation for other activities will be $1 each, so bring your dollar bills! Or purchase a "Tiger Tailgate Pass" for a minimum donation of $20 and do it all!! (This will cover a family.)

SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE BY TRUMAN THE TIGER!!!

NOTE: This is a "Rain or Shine" Event!! We also need volunteers for our Kick Off Tail Gate Party! If you'd like to help contact Sheri Helm, Katie Harris, Karen Borgers, or Donna Barnes.

October 3rd--Community Event, 7:30am, Columbia Mall and UM System Day of Caring at Central Missouri Food Bank.We had hoped to be able to send 80 volunteers to the Food Bank from the UM System and the last time I checked with Memoree Bradley she had 91 people signed up!! This is SO WONDERFUL!! If you meant to sign up and help, but forgot, give Memoree a call and see if she can still use you.

COLLABORATION WITH NATIONAL HUMAN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS

United Way of America meets regularly with executive directors of the national health, human service, and youth- and family-serving organizations whose local affiliates receive the largest amounts of funding from local United Ways. Organizations in this group, called the "Leadership 18," are:

Editor's Corner!
Staff Advisory Council meetings are open to all UM System Staff. Meeting times are 9:00am-11:00am the second Wednesday of the month. The locations are posted on our website on the "Events Calendar." Our website is by now familiar to everyone, I hope, but we add things all the time, so give it a look again. We have pictures of the Staff Appreciation Week Events on the web site now! To see additional pictures, click on the refresh button on the toolbar and the picture will change. If you have any questions about the Newsletter or the Staff Advisory Council, please send me an email!
--Donna Barnes

Did you know these things about Fall??

The BRIGHTEST LEAF COLORS come after a rainy summer and a dry fall with cool nights. (Don't think Missouri will have the prettiest fall this year according to this equation!)

NATIVE AMERICANS believed celestial hunters slew the Great Bear in the autumn--and when his blood dripped onto the forests, it changed all the leaves to red.

There are 75,000 KINDS OF APPLES grown worldwide! Yum--think of all that apple pie!!