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Contact
us
The following are a few ways you can keep in touch with STC Manitoba:
- To talk with a local member about STC membership, please contact Andrew Quarry.
- For information about upcoming meetings, please contact our Joanne Kusiak.
- If you would like to be presenter for an STC meeting, please contact Lauren Bailey.
The
Executive Committee and related chair positions
STC Manitoba has elected a new Executive! Our Executive members
plan activities for the upcoming year, from meetings to membership
drives to professional development opportunities. If you're
interested in volunteering, please let us know. Many of us
who have been in STC for a long time know that the more you
give, the more you get back.
As representatives of the STC Manitoba chapter, executive committee members have a shared responsibility that is not specific to one position (Basic Responsibilities of all Executive Positions).
See the Executive meeting minutes to find out what the Executive is doing for you.
Chapter
bylaws
Our chapter
bylaws help us define the roles and responsibilities of
each member on the STC Executive, cover governance issues,
and set out rules for voting on issues within the Executive
and the membership.
Chapter
history
The
first meeting of STC Manitoba's current chapter was held August
25, 1988, when some of the current STC members in the province
and a few others met at Great-West Life to talk about the
possibilities of a new chapter in Winnipeg. According to the
minutes, that first meeting was attended by Caroline Ben-Ari,
Joanne Blackwood, Alexa Campbell, Susan Haire, Laurie Morgan,
and Tony Rhodes-Marriott. (The previous chapter had disbanded
May 1986).
Our
first plan of action was to contact major companies who were
likely to have technical writers on staff.
By
October, we had seven members, Joanne Blackwood, Ron Blicq,
Alexa Campbell, Susan Haire, Denise Laporte-Dawes, Anne Parker
and Tony Rhodes-Marriott. The first program meeting was held
on the first Thursday of November, at the Viscount Gort. Twenty-one
people attended.
We
had 15 members by December 1988, when Jamie Conklin joined.
We received our charter in January 1989.
The
first president was Alexa Campbell, with Andrew Quarry as
Secretary and Penny Staples as Treasurer. The program committee
was Jack Lee, Ron Blicq and Laurie Morgan. The membership
committee were Joanne Blackwood and Caroline Ben-Ari.
Our
newly fledged chapter held an all-day workshop in April 1989,
sponsored by IBM. That was the first of many ambitious activities
undertaken by this energetic group. Some highlights of other
years include:
- The
Technical Communication in Western Canada project (1993-1995)
- Plain
Language Workshop by Siegal and Gale (1994)
- Designing
effective computer training, by Celia Clark (1995)
- Four
Fellows and one Associate Fellow
- Chapter
achievement awards
- Hosted
two STC board meetings (1991, 2001)
- Hosted
the Region 6 conference
- Journal
Club SIG running since 2001
- Joint
STC/RRC conference running since 2004
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