Happy 2022 to our Star of the North Chapter! I’m excited to begin my second year as President of this wonderful Disneyana Fan Club, as we continue to celebrate 30 years as a club for individuals and families who love everything Disney. I want to briefly look back and offer great optimism for moving forward! The optimism is all about the great diversity of our members. I want to begin by acknowledging Reba Zatz for enthusiastically stepping up as our club Communications and Social Media Director. You are all reading my new blog on our new club website – MNMouseFans.com.
Looking back, we had much to celebrate this past year, as we all learned to live with so many aspects of this pandemic. As a club, we moved from holding Zoom meetings to our first in-person gathering at our summer club picnic, hosted by Barb and Roger. Nothing compares with the opportunity to gather in person and share ideas and stories.
In 2022, our club will experience new excitement as many of us are meeting up at WDW in February to celebrate our 30 years together and 50 years of Walt Disney World. We will continue to hold our monthly club meetings at sites around the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota, as well as continue our tradition of a Summer Picnic and December Holiday gathering. We are also planning a club auction for later in 2022, so begin selecting fine items from your collections to offer up to others at the SOTN Auction! Brenda and I would also like to host another special Disney Movie Night “Under the Stars” at our backyard theatre in Rochester this summer! We did this in 2019, and it’s time for another night of summer outdoor movie fun.
My main message for everyone is simply, “Embrace Fun”! The pandemic has left many of us wondering about our futures and has kept many of us from getting together with friends and family. Yes, we keep hearing about this “new normal” we must accept, and to a degree, this is true. So, I’m asking everyone to embrace all that is fun for you and those you love. Embrace a new movie, a road trip somewhere, a trip to a Disney Park, or a good new book. We can’t let the pandemic get us down, so we must take this opportunity to embrace the memories we have collected over the past 30 years. I vividly remember that day when Marvin organized that first NFFC club meeting! Today, I can’t watch “The Lion King” without thinking about that first big club gathering at the Roseville movie theatre.
If we all embrace the fun and magic that is Disney, then we can forget – even for the two or three hours it takes to hold a monthly SOTN Club meeting – that we are living in different and challenging times. Disney has endured for nearly 100 years and will continue to bring joy to people everywhere around the world. As the Star of the North Disneyana Fan Club in 2022, let’s embrace the history of our Club, the memories we’ve made and the new adventures we are embarking on. Let’s embrace fun!
Yorumlar