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SMCOGA Welcome<br />
President’s report<br />
This year we are fortunate to have all age groups represented around the St Margaret’s Old<br />
Girls’ Association committee table. The enthusiasm to develop and build on our strategic<br />
plan is fabulous. We will develop a three-year plan which will reflect our commitment<br />
to retain, maintain and reconnect relationships with all our old girls, internationally,<br />
nationally and locally. Utilising social media will make this so much easier for us.<br />
Please be an active part of our community! Even just liking and sharing our Facebook<br />
page (www.facebook.com/St-Margarets-College-Old-Girls-Association) and<br />
acknowledging invites will assist us greatly in achieving our vision of connecting<br />
and reconnecting Old Girls around the world.<br />
Also, don’t forget to send us information of what you’re doing – we’d love to share<br />
your news. Please keep us updated when you or your friends’ contact details<br />
change by emailing wendy.g@stmargarets.school.nz so we can keep in touch with you.<br />
Thanks and we look forward to hearing all your news!<br />
Margaritas<br />
What a fun night was had by the Margaritas who gathered in the Old Girls’ Atrium<br />
in November for a catch up and margaritas made by David Simpson.<br />
This event happens annually, near the end of the year, for everyone who has left school<br />
in the last 10 years.<br />
Alex Hazlett (2008) and a team of helpers will be gathering you this year. They will<br />
be in touch via Facebook. If you would like to become involved with this event please<br />
contact Alex on alexkatehazlett@gmail.com.<br />
Connections Dinner<br />
The second extremely successful Connections Business Dinner was held in September 2016.<br />
This continues to be a wonderful evening for connecting members of our community<br />
together – old girls, past parents, current parents, friends of the school – to listen to<br />
an old girl speak. Juliet Blair, Global Marketing Manager at Linden Leaves and Director<br />
at Kognito was our entertaining guest speaker. There was lots of chatter and hilarity over<br />
drinks and a delicious dinner.<br />
Old girls had the opportunity to promote their business through sponsorship and raffle<br />
prizes with the profit going towards the Old Girls’ Scholarship Fund.<br />
Business drinks for old girls will be introduced in Christchurch this year. If you are an old<br />
girl in business and would like to become involved, please contact Annabel Shand:<br />
annabel.shand@craigsip.com.<br />
This is a model we would like to replicate around the country and overseas. Watch this space!<br />
Anne Zwart – President - SMCOGA<br />
AUTUMN <strong>2017</strong> 23.
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