Executive Director’s Report By Darlyne Erickson. CAE
2020…really?! I don’t know about you, but I certainly recall 20 years ago when we thought the sky was about to fall in the year 2000! How in the world did 20 years fly by so quickly?! I will say that 2019 was a good year for MFDA and it is because of members like you that we have excelled. Thank you!
From the July 23, 1935 MFDA Newsletter:
LET’S LOOK AT THE RECORD! The only justification for a trade association is found in the answer to the question: “Does It Pay?” If it isn’t able to do for the industry what individual members could do for themselves, then it is not justified. If it does what should be done better than individuals could do profitably for themselves, then the answer to the question is YES.
As far as the individual is concerned or the entire group in some instances, Looking forward it appears that a trade association’s program of necessity has to do partly with intangibles. we will have a lot on our plate The benefits of these intangibles are hard to appraise. For instance, how legislatively. I will defer to our can George Bergreen, Sauk Centre, know what it was worth to him to have Lobbyist Joe Sellwood and his the state association put burial insurance companies out of funeral business. article on page 7. We will be They never competed with him, maybe they never would, but if they had asking a lot of questions of our been permitted to spread and “caught” at Sauk Centre they might have cost members in the months ahead, Company information shown here is for E&M accounting records only. It may not be what appears in the publication. Sign Return Proof To:intoE&M Consulting, Mr.information. Berggren a hundred times & as much each year as he pays the state Please contactas the we association confirm the needdirectly yourto input onaccuracy whatof your company business 1107 Hazeltine Blvd, Suite #350 • Chaska, MN 55318 association. 149A might MAS look like in the next Advertiser Communications few years. Stay tuned, but start Attention There are tangible as well as 1-952-448-9928 intangible activities in a /trade association. One Mary Reeves Fax: Phone: 1-800-572-0011 thinking now! Address of the tangible activities in our trade association is the re-rating of funeral 465 Poplar St.
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establishments, brought about wholly thru the association’s efforts, and which Mankato, MN 56001 I prefer to look ahead as opposed By signing below, I (advertising company) am approving my ad as is or with changes and I represent and warrant that Phone to reminiscing, will save Minnesota funeral directors thousands of text, dollars 507-387-6543 but the following this advertisement placed with all content, images,every picturesyear and/orwhen logos dothe not infringe on any other person’s copyright, trademark, rights of were literary property, and intellectual property, do they violate the rights of privacy of, or libel Fax work is completed. About 100 re-ratings announced as of Aprilnor1st. Since 507-345-3816 excerpt is fun to read and reflect. other persons. I agree to indemnify and hold harmless E&M Consulting, Inc. against any claims, judgments, court costs, Email A funeral director then, the work has been progressing slowly and will be completed this year. As marypreeves@mascommunications.net sent me an attorney’s fees and other expenses arising from any alleged or actual breach of this warranty. Ad SizeMFDA “newsletter” Al Smith says, “Let’s look at the record” 1/4 Page from 1935. *Colors in the ad are for representational purposes only and will be brighter and more exact in the final product. Also Color We had copies Full available Color at the fall and photos 30, shown1873 in the ad Alfred Emanuel Smith artwork (December – are not exact, only because our printers are limited and once printed, the quality will Designer be much improved. PAST and I thought it district meetings October 4, 1944) was an American politician would be interesting to include a who served four terms as Governor of small portion on the tangible and New York and was the Democratic Party’s intangible benefits of being part candidate for President in 1928. He was the of an association (shown at right). urban leader of the Efficiency Movement. These benefits hold true today!
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