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ESP Lambda Chapter News – July

  • NYS membership section of the national page is live and working good place to find members, take care of membership needs…and all things ESP Lambda 🙂 https://espnational.org/New-York-ESP-Chapter/ 
  • Upcoming picnic with ESP + 5-H’ers – Aug 10 at Myers Park in Lansing – noon – ? – reminder to come if you can — interested?  contact Celeste cjc17@cornell.edu
  • ESP 2021 National Conference attendees (Savannah, GA) Looks like we will be represented well!  Beth, Alicia, Mary Ellen, Bonnie, Celeste, Renee, Arlene, and possibly Sara Jablonski will be attending.  Early bird registration is up and ends on August 31 .  Bonnie is willing to be the voting delegate.  Multiple stipends available for participants –  awardees only get one stipend (highest value).  Anyone else interested?  Contact Bonnie Collins for info: bsc33@cornell.edu 
  • Professional Recognition Committee :  Alicia ordering frames and certificates and will craft the certificates.  Bonnie, Arlene and Celeste have each been honored as National award winners.  Alicia will do a write up of award winners; Renee can get on Belonging page on staff site, Extension Insider, and in Belonging newsletter; Celeste to put on blog.   Moving deadline for award nominations to November.
  • Next Officer’s Meeting:  Friday, August 27th at 8:30 a.m. 

Qs about ESP Lambda?  Contact Arlene Wilson aaw66@cornell.edu

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Summer Gathering – RSVP reminder :)

2021 Summer Gathering for 5-H and Epsilon Sigma Phi

When:           Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Where:          Myers Landing Park – Lansing, NY

Time:             12:00 (Noon)- til

Details:  

  • There is a $5.00 Entrance Fee per car to the Park.
  • There will be a $5.00 fee per person for lunch and Pavilion rental
  • Everyone is asked to bring a dish to pass
  • We will provide a deli platter, rolls, beverage and paper goods
  • Everyone is asked to bring their own creative Name Tag and/or wear a Favorite t-Shirt
  • We have use of the pavilion for the whole day and you are welcome to stay and visit as long as you like

 

RSVP: By August 1, 2021

 

 

Looking forward to seeing everyone this summer!

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ESP Lambda Chapter News in brief – June, 2021

  • New book review added to blog.  Written by Bonnie Collins, CCE Oneida +  Professional Development Chair.
  • ESP 2021 National Conference attendees (Savannah, GA) Looks like we will be represented well!  Alicia, Mary Ellen, Bonnie, Beth, Celeste, Renee, Arlene, and possibly Sara Jablonski will be attending.  Early bird registration is up and ends on August 31 .  Bonnie is willing to be the voting delegate.  Multiple stipends available for participants –  awardees only get one stipend (highest value).
  • Professional Recognition Committee :  Alicia ordering frames and certificates and will craft the certificates to get out by the end of July .  Bonnie, Arlene and Celeste have each been honored as National award winners.  Alicia will do a write up of award winners; Renee can get on Belonging page on staff site, Extension Insider, and in Belonging newsletter; Celeste to put on blog. 
  • Upcoming picnic with ESP + 5-H’ers – Aug 10 at Myers Park in Lansing.
  • Friend of Extension plaque was made and delivered to Dean Boor; took a few pictures and put it on the ESP facebook page .  
  • Cate Sirek will be retiring at the end of October of this year!
  • Next Officer’s Meeting:  Friday, July 23rd at 8:30 a.m. 
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ESP + 5-H’er Picnic Scheduled for Aug 10, 2021

Hopefully you are all doingMyers Park, Lansing well and your lives are beginning to return to a somewhat more normal existence.  It’s been great to gradually get out to see friends and family that we haven’t seen in person in over a year and getting all of us ESP members and 5-H’ers together this summer is on my mind.  We have reserved our usual pavilion at Myers Landing Park in Lansing for Tuesday, August 10 at noon.  I’ll send more details as we get closer to the date, but for now, save the date!  Looking forward to a good day with good friends.  (Written by Tom Dumas, Lead 5-H’er and friend to ESP)

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ESP Lambda Update – Early 2021

Hey there colleagues!  A little news to share…(and feel free to pass it on!) –

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Help for Lambda Chapter History Project Needed

This January Chapter Historian Ave Bauder will embark on compiling the story of the Lamda Chapter of ESP. Although we have located a miscellaneous box containing various materials, nothing beats information from people who have been involved in ESP over the years. Were you a chapter officer once? Around for the 1st meeting or the early years? Presented at a National Conference? Have some incriminating pictures? If so, Ave wants to talk with you! We are especially hoping that some of our Lifetime members can help us reconstruct the history of the Chapter. If you have any information or stories that you think will be helpful, please contact Ave at Bauder@Cornell.edu or 315-651-0050.

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From our ESP Lambda Chapter President (October 2020) – Arlene Wilson

This year has been full of challenges, as we were swept up in the middle of a worldwide pandemic. Cornell Cooperative Extension has encouraged us providing ways to live our mission of cooperation and partnership with government, farmers, growers, volunteers and the community. We have worked even harder, dug deep into the well of creativity, stretched more to demonstrate our flexibility, transitioned to online platforms [sometimes kicking and screaming] and working remotely, wearing face coverings, and carrying hand sanitizer everywhere. We have been appreciated, thanked, praised, and received support from a variety of sectors.

To whom much is given, much is expected.

The role of Epsilon Sigma Phi, is one of fostering excellence in the Extension professional through professional development and leadership opportunities. We do this through online workshops, seminars and our flagship in person Annual ESP Conference. Three years of planning, promotion, logo designs, trips and tours were overruled by COVID-19.

To whom much is given, much is expected.

So, we pivoted and decided to host the first ESP Virtual Conference! We retooled plans, repurposed logos and rallied the Extension troops across New York State and on the Cornell campus to make the concept a reality. There are not words enough to thank everyone for all the creativity, tenacity, problem-solving, and hard work, resulting in a highly successful, record-breaking ESP national conference! Stay tuned for more innovation and projects from ESP!

Warmly,

Arlene Wilson, ESP Lambda President
aaw66@cornell.edu

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Membership Update (October 2020)

Membership Update:

ESP-Lambda keeps on growing, with our current membership standing at 59 members — 37 annual members and 22 life members. Joining us in 2020 are: Robert Batt, Liz Berkeley, Mary Breyette, Susan Coyle, Jarmila Haseler, Lori Koenick, Jessica Kouzan, Andrea Lista, Garet Livermore, Susanne Magee, MaryBeth Mitcham, Lydia Reidy, Jessica Reid, and Nicole Slevin. Welcome to all!

Stay up to date on ESP happenings and communicate with your peers across the state on the ESP-Lambda Chapter Blog: https://blogs.cornell.edu/esp-lambda/ You’ll find information about the ESP-Lambda book club and professional development opportunities, as well as find a forum to discuss topics of interest with your fellow Extension professionals.

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$upport Available to Attend Virtual Annual Conference

https://cceconferences.wufoo.com/forms/esp-national-conference-request-for-upport/

What is ESP – we will give you $50 to find out!

Submitted by: Beth Claypoole, CCE Wayne County, NYS and National ESP Past President

One of the best ways to take advantage of national learning opportunities and get to know your extension colleagues is to join one of the national extension associations – and I am recommending Epsilon Sigma Phi.  ESP is a national organization that fosters leadership and professional development across all extension technical areas of expertise – all members of extension have a place in ESP.  I once said that ESP teaches you how to be a better educator, no matter what area of technical expertise.  This is especially important for extension staff who may not have a readily prominent professional organization to which to belong – like Executive Directors!

This year, our local NYS ESP Chapter, Lambda, was going to host the National ESP 2020 Conference, in Rochester, NY, expecting more than 200 people to visit our state and participate in Professional Development activities.  Instead, we are in the process of planning our on line conference, complete with 5 concurrent sessions, 2 speakers, and our traditional Ruby Award presentation.  The Ruby Award is the highest level of achievement reached by an ESP member and the awardee gives a heartfelt motivational speech during the Ruby Awards luncheon.

Our 3 speakers this year are worth the registration price, just to hear their presentations:  Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, past Director of NIFA (National Institute of Food and Agriculture) – the part of the USDA to which Extension reports; Ruby Award winner Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen; and Jonathan Ntheketha, Associate Director Student Success and Engagement, Multicultural Center for Academic Success, Diversity and Inclusion – RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology).  Each of these speakers will have us thinking and taking action to better our extension experiences for ourselves and our participants.

In addition to these 3 outstanding speakers, we also have additional seminar presentations, research presentations, Ignite speakers and poster presentations from more than 40 of your colleagues from across the nation, including several from CCE.

The ESP association and conference websites can be found by going to “espnational.org” and clicking on the virtual conference link. Your local Lambda chapter Board of Directors welcomes you to register for this on line event for just $100.  And to help you with your registration, the board approved at its August meeting to reimburse all current ESP members $50 of the registration fee.  In addition, up to 20 new/potential members will also receive a $50 reimbursement through ESP – Lambda Chapter.  You will need to register up front and pay the entire amount.  Please contact Beth Claypoole, eac9@cornell.edu,  for more information and to get registered for the first 20 non-member registrations.