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THIS MONTH'S MEETING

Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026

9 PM EASTERN TIME (8 PM CENTRAL)

Mona Calhoun joined the National Association of Parliamentarians® (NAP) in 2008. She has been a PRP since 2010. Her leadership experience in NAP includes serving as president, vice president, and secretary. She has also served on the Personnel and Budget and Finance Committees, and chaired the Pricing, Professional Development, and Policy and Procedure Committees. Additionally, she has served as Budget and Finance Chair and Credentials Chair for NAP Conventions. At the association level, she served as treasurer.

On the unit level, she has served as vice president, education chair, historian, and treasurer. She is also an RPCE Exam Question Reviewer for the Commission on Credentialing. In the community and civic organizations, she has served in various capacities, including president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, parliamentarian, and has chaired numerous committees. Professionally, she is the chair of the Health

Information Management bachelor's and master's programs at Coppin State University and a past President of the American Health Information Management Association.

Her parliamentary practice includes serving as a parliamentarian, minute taker, and presiding officer, as well as providing consultation services to nonprofit organizations, student government associations, religious institutions, homeowner’s associations, and national and international boards’ annual meetings. She helps organizations with meeting management, convention planning, nominations and elections, leadership development, mediation, training, strategic planning, and reviewing and revising policies, procedures, and bylaws. Mona has presented workshops on parliamentary procedures for several NAP conferences, community and nonprofit organizations, and sorority and fraternal organizations.

FEBRUARY EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATION

Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026

9 PM EASTERN TIME (8 PM CENTRAL)

Featured Speaker

THOMAS J.“BURKE” BALCH, JD, PRP

Topic

Bylaws Amendments and Provisos

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Traci Bransford Boss, PRP

President

Greeting GGEU Members:

I am humbled for the opportunity to serve you as GGEU President for 2025-2027. Please see my NAP and GGEU resume below on the work that I have done for NAP and GGEU. This doesn’t count the countless hours of presentation done to various units and associations.

My theme for 2025-2027 is: Confidence, Communication and Courtesy. 1) Confidence - be confident in using parliamentary procedure; 2) Communication - text, voice smoke signals or drums but contact each other; and 3) Courtesy - listen to each other. Don’t interrupt, and don’t talk so much! Finally, be nice.

My focus is on fundraising, keeping the website current and increasing membership not dues.

I got involved in NAP because my mother, deceased member Gladys T. Bransford, RP-R, was a charter member of GGEU. I started off in a New York unit before joining GGEU in 2017. That next year, I met the GGEU organizer Lucy Anderson and another GGEU charter member Beth Sapp James in Austin at another organization’s western area conference. It was at this meeting where I asked now past GGEU President Beth Sapp James to put me to work. The rest is history. On the NAP side, it was past NAP National President Darlene Allen who put me to work when I contacted and told her I wanted to volunteer my services. And, the rest is history.

My resume below:

Joined NAP in 2016
Joined GGEU in 2018
RP - 2019
PRP- 2021
GGEU Treasurer -2019-2021
NAP Style Editing and Punctuation Committee - 2019-2022
NAP Training Coordinator for NAP NTC - 2022
NAP Bylaws Committee-2020-2023
NAP Professional Responsibility and Member Discipline Committee, Chair 2021-2023 GGEU
Second VP - 2021-2023
National Parliamentarian, Editor - 2023-2025
GGEU 1st VP - 2023-2025
National Parliamentarian, Chair- Review Committee, 2025-2027
GGEU President - 2025-2027