Thursday, June 10, 2010

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM – Lunch at Desert Greens Golf Course
1:00 – 5:00 PM          -  Golf Tournament
6:00 – 7:00 PM          -  Welcome Reception
Dinner on Your Own




Friday, June 11, 2010


7:00 – 8:00 AM              Breakfast – Gallery Room
8:00 – 8:10 AM              Welcome – Yucatan Room
8:10 – 8:20 AM              Posting of Colors – Kirtland Honor Guard (Invocation – Chaplain Lemuel Boyles)
8:20 – 8:45 AM              Policy Board Report – Steve Getz
8:45 – 9:10 AM              Legislative Report – John Lee Thompson
9:10 – 9:50 AM              NFDA Report – NFDA Immediate Past President, John Reed
9:50 – 10:00 AM            Break
10:00 AM – 12 Noon       G. Kent Mangelson- American Society of Asset Protection
12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM    Working Lunch – Elections, Business
1:00 – 5:00 PM              Billy Riggs, Master Dis-illusionist
6:30 – 7:30 PM              Reception
7:30 – 11:00 PM            Dinner and Dance
                                  Officer Installation

Saturday, June 12, 2010

8:00 – 9:00 AM             Continental Breakfast – Yucatan Room
9:00 – 10:00 AM           New Mexico Bureau of Vital Statistics
10:00 – 11:00 AM         Santa Fe National Cemetery
11:00 AM – 12 Noon      Dr. Ross Zumwalt – Office of the Medical Investigator (Tenative)
Adjourn

As you may have noticed, we have changed the venue of our golf outing this year.  Desert Greens Golf Course is a privately owned, eighteen hole public course on the west side of Albuquerque. The vintage course's tree lined fairway -with all holes fronted by bunkers on each side of the greens- provides an exciting and challenging game. The highly regarded course, will host the 2006 Sun Country Pub links championship and the 2006 USGA United States Pub links qualifier.
Desert Greens measures 6,808 yards and is presently being expanded to exceed 7,000 yards for tournament play. The course is established with three sets of tees with a fourth set to be added in the winter expansion.
Desert Greens has some of the finest practice facilities in the state with a full driving range and putting green and the new chipping green, added this year.

Desert Greens has a well stocked Pro Shop with a wide variety of golf clubs, Adidas and Nike clothing, as well as Titleist, and Calloway balls and all necessary golf essentials to make your round enjoyable.our golf outing this year.  Please be at the golf course by 11:30 for lunch.  Tee off time is slated for 1:00 PM.

Over the last several years we have enjoyed a close relationship with the National Funeral Director's Association.  As a matter of fact, we have been a "Partnership State".  Being a Partnership State with NFDA has given us many benefits.  Those benefits were outlined earlier this past year and are on the website under "Presidents Articles".  While those benefits are impressive there are is also a down-side.  Because you are a member of the New Mexico Funeral Service Association, you must be a member of NFDA, and vice-versa.  Because of that, we as a board feel like there are funeral homes in the State that we are excluding from our association because they do not want to belong to NFDA.  There might be many reasons for that, but the over-riding reason is that these funeral homes may want to join another National Association, ie, ICCFA, or one of several others available to them.  We feel it important to become a "Choice State", giving every one the opportunity to join any National organization that they wish. It is important that we have your in-put and that your voice is heard.  Please read this article carefully and then come to convention prepared to make comments on this proposed change.  After you have had an opportunity to voice your opinions, we will vote on this change.  Thank you for your attention to this matter.