Chapter Directors Summit in Nashville Section

In late July, 26 OSSN chapter directors from around the United States gathered in Nashville, Tenn., for the first annual OSSN Directors Summit. This amazing and educational event helped develop the directors’ knowledge and leadership skills for use with their respective chapters.

Over the jam-packed weekend, the directors spent time going over their responsibilities as well as the tools provided by OSSN to help them achieve their chapter goals. OSSN Directors are the direct line between OSSN Headquarters and individual OSSN members. They are committed to making sure you receive every benefit afforded to you as you make your home-based travel business a success. One of those benefits is the OSSN Chapter Meetings. The OSSN directors in attendance shared their ideas and experiences that have made their OSSN meetings fun, exciting, and of course educational.

These OSSN leaders also learned about software and other useful tools as well. It’s this software and tools they will be able to use in order to produce more exciting OSSN chapter meetings than just bringing in the usual travel suppliers. Many of these same tools will also help you grow your home-based travel business with marketing, technology, groups, and much more!

Special thanks go to Gary Fee (OSSN President), Melody Fee (OSSN Vice President) and especially Penney Rudicil (OSSN Eastern Regional Manager) for producing the first annual OSSN Directors Summit. Patricia Bannister (OSSN Memphis and North Mississippi Director) and, Jeff Grieder (OSSN Midwest Regional Manager) also participated in educational presentations as well. Anita Pagliasso, OSSN Western Regional Manager, could not attend as she had neck surgery during this time frame, and we are happy to report she is doing well!

Also, we’d like to thank the generous sponsors who provided support for this weekend summit: Galveston (TX) Convention & Visitors Bureau, Travel Industry Shows, Queensland (Australia) Tourism, Barbados Tourism, Jamaica Tourism, Travel Insured, TravelSafe, and Miami Tourism (along with Penney and Kevin Rudicil and OSSN Headquarters)!

We invite our members to look at the photos that were taken during this event and thank the many chapter directors who attended. OSSN looks forward to an annual Chapter Director Summit in the future.

Agents enjoy dinner at waterside Steak House

Chapter Directors welcome arrival of Melody Fee, V.P.

3. Brenda O’Leary (San Antonio, TX), Helga Leonard (Pittsburgh, PA), and
Penney Rudicil (Nashville, TN) learning new online agent tools

Dolores Samms, Miami

Penney Rudicil, OSSN Eastern Regional Mgr., and Gary Fee, President
enjoying meeting with Directors

Chapter Directors hard at work learning new OSSN Products and Tools

Dinner time again and steak and fish house on the river

OSSN President and Kentucky Director having way too much fun

Jim Cloonan, Travel Industry Trade Shows, enjoying the fruit of the vine

OSSN Directors enjoying photos taken during the Chapter Director Summit

LuAnn Edger (Dallas, TX) showing new Chapter Director
Lalita Witt (Oakland, CA) a new agent program

OSSN Vice President Melody Fee provides seminar to
Directors on upcoming OSSN Fams, Seminars and Conferences

OSSN Directors gather at Gaylord Operyland Hotel

Linda Shipp, OSSN St. Louis Director, Jeff Grieder, MidWest Regional Mgr.,
Patricia Bannister, Memphis Director and Penney Rudicil, Eastern Regional Mgr.,
having fun at Gaylord Opryland Hotel

Kim Sherrett of Travel Counselors and Cindy Perry of Travel Insured
enjoying dinner with Chapter Directors

Big Table for a Big Group of Directors

OSSN conducts intense workshop for Chapter Directors
to aid them in their Chapter Directorship responsibilities

Penney Rudicil, Eastern Regional Mgr. hands out
OSSN T-Shirts and Caps to all Directors

Directors brush up on their Power Point skills

OSSN Chapter Directors review the OSSN Chapter Director website

Kevin Rudici, whips up a great country breakfast for Chapter Directors

Nashville Music Hall of Fame visit

Barbara Sodano, Philadelphia area Director, visits famous “Music City”

Hema Khan, New Jersey area Director, visits “Music City”

Barbara Sodano, Philadelphia Director and Bobbie Murphy, KY Director

Maureen and Jack Sullivan, Chicago Area Directors
practice their Power Point Presentation

LuAnn Edgar, Dallas Director and Penney Rudicil discuss downloading new programs

Susan White, Flushing, MI Director, at Director Dinner

OSSN V.P. conducts seminar on “Train the Trainer”

John Chilton, NH Director, discusses working with Tour Operators

Jim Cloonan, Travel Industry Trade Shows, talks about
the Home Based Atlantic City Trade Show

Directors take a city tour of the Nashville area

Night Life in Music City. Some Directors take time out to visit
the Country Western and Honky Tonk Clubs. Great Time!

Linda Shipp and Bobbie Murphy at the famous Wild Horse Saloon in Music City

Penney Rudicil, commonly known as the “Gadget Girl,”
shows Directors some great websites for travel agents and
great electronic gadgets to make a home based agent’s life a little easier

Penney Rudicil, Eastern Mgr., Melody Fee, OSSN VP and Gary Fee, President

OSSN Directors and Staff

OSSN VIPs welcome New Director, Yolanda Tatum of Ft. Worth, TX

Patricia Bannister, Memphis Director and Seminar at Sea Presenter conduct seminar
on “How To Work A Trade Show” and represent OSSN

Chapter Directors pose for a group photo in front of home of
Penney Rudicil, OSSN Eastern Regional Manger