A Thank You to a T’ai Chi Chih Student

All instructors should be so fortunate to have students who not only love T’ai Chi Chih, but love it so much that they volunteer for tasks. Gigantic tasks. John Nemeth is such a student. (John’s wife Nancy is also a student and she is gracious about the telephone calls that are necessary to get things organized. Thank you Nancy!) After I found a place that was large enough, and surprise, was free of charge, the T’ai Chi Chih students needed to know about the new monthly meetings.

These meetings would not be a class, but a practice session for students to come together and practice T’ai Chi Chih. At first I called about 200 students. Then I realized this was not going to work and I would need help with the announcement dates. So I asked John. John not only said yes when I asked if he would help me with the announcements of the monthly T’ai Chi Chih meetings, he said he would do all of the work. John took on the task of locating the newspaper offices. John visited all of the newspaper offices personally. Each newspaper has very specific rules for free meeting announcements in their papers. John set out to get all the details on how to do this—which papers we needed to focus on and the person in charge of the calendar section of the papers. This was no small task as we have found out! Undaunted, John has even contacted several local cable stations and we hope to get announcements of the meetings on their community calendars. For our meeting on June 17, seven announcements were sent out and students saw them in five of the papers. The meeting in May even brought out two new students who just moved here from Arizona!

Then John decided we needed a web page! I am not connected to the net and it will be some time before I am. John now has our web page up and running. We will add photos soon. The web page announces the monthly meetings and has information on the classes offered.

We invite everyone passing through our area to join us for the T’ai Chi Chih sessions. You can check out the dates at http://members.aol.com/Waukejohn/Index2.html. Thank you John and Nancy Nemeth, T’ai Chi Chih students, for sharing the gift!