Volume 10 Issue 3

RCOMO  NEWS

August 2003

Annual Meeting Edition

We are going to Branson!

You're Invited!

September 19th - 20th - 21st
The Welk Resort
For $69.00 Room Rate
Call: 1-800-808-9355
If you want to go a couple of days early or extend your stay by a couple of days,
you may do so and still receive the $69.00 room rate!  Just let them know when
you make your reservation.


Welk Resort
Branson!

Lodging, dining and non-stop entertainment in one beautiful location, minutes from everything Branson has to offer!


2 Great Shows!

Friday Evening
The Lawrence Welk Show!


Saturday Banquet
and
Entertainment

The "Homestead Pickers" will have you Rollin' in the aisles!

 


Free Saturday Fieldtrip for Kids!!!


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Friends 2003

Friends Awards are given annually to people who have done extraordinary work in behalf of our sons and daughters with mental retardation.


DORN SCHUFFMAN

Dorn began his career with the department in 1978 as a planner for the Mental Health Commission. He became chief planner in 1980 and was named director of Community Mental Health Services in 1984. He was named deputy director of Policy and Program development in 1989 and director of Heart of Missouri Mental Health Services in Columbia in 1993.

From 1996-2001 he served as director of Comprehensive Psychiatric Services delivering service to more than 50,000 individuals with mental illnesses. On December 17, 2001 he was appointed Director of the entire Department of Mental Health.


BERT STERBENZ

Bert is the father of a 34 year-old Down Syndrome man, a retired Professional Engineer, church organist and choirmaster. He was elected president of the Greater St. Louis Parents Advocacy Group for Mentally Retarded Citizens, Inc. in 1996. Major accomplishments of the group have been improved socialization facilities and expansion and improvement of sheltered workshops in the St. Louis area. Bert is a board member of our group, and with his wife Lois, state coordinator for the Voice of the Retarded. Providing a full range of appropriate choices for the mentally retarded population is his major goal.


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2003 Annual Meeting Agenda 

Friday

5:00 to 7:30 pm
Registration:
Hotel Lower Lobby

7:45 Welk Show – Theatre Lobby

Saturday

9:00 am
Welcome
Joe Weber, President

9:10 to 10:00 am
“FY 04/05 Budget Update”
Dr. Ann Deaton, Dir. MR/DD

10:10 to 11:00 am
“Funding Mo Services,
Where do we go from here?”
Don Phares, PhD Professor Economic
& Public Policy, UMSL

11:10 to Noon
“Continued Improvement”
Ron Sampson, Exec. Dir.
Joplin Workshops, Inc.

12:00 to 1:30 pm
Lunch on your own

1:30 to 2:20 pm
“The Autism-MR Connection”
Barbara Whitman, PhD
St. Louis University

2:30 to 3:20 pm
“Transportation; Who Pays?”
Bert Sterbenz, Pres.
Gr. St. Louis Parent 
Advocacy Group, Inc.

Awards Banquet/Show
5:30 Reception
6:15 Dinner – Friends Awards
“Dorn Schuffman / Bert Sterbenz”
8:00 Show “Homestead Pickers”

Sunday

8:00 am
Board of Directors


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