This question is for Sarah Hemenway only.

In your last term as elected President, August 1st, 2006 to March 28th, 2008 you suddenly resigned and quit the club in the middle of the presidency. ( Edict 72 https://www.star-fleet.com/prez/edicts/hemenway/ You were gone for about ten years and have only been back this time since the Spring of 2019.

1). What has changed that can assure us that your sudden departure in 2008 and the ten-year hiatus won’t happen again with this term?

2). Members come and go in STF however only a few have unbroken membership that lasts years. In your resignation edict, you mentioned that “this club my home for the past three years (and the number of years before that).” How many hiatus’ have you taken since joining STF in 2001? How many actual years have you participated in the club as an active member since 2001 excluding all time from your hiatuses?

3.) And do you think being back for only fifteen months after being gone for so long, during this most recent hiatus, helps you or hinders you in understanding how the club and its members have changed in your absence?

~ Kate O’Neill