Our By Laws say that we must have elections for the board of directors every year. Our by laws were written by very optimistic people. Visionaries really.

They foresaw a future when every other block in Philadelphia would host a bee hive. The fear of bees would be entirely eliminated in the City of Brotherly Love. Many people would clamber to join the board and competition would be fierce. They didn’t establish any campaign spending limits because they anticipated Citizen’s United. It would be a golden future full of bees and happy citizens eager to serve the cause.

They were a starry eyed and innocent generation, raised in simpler times. Here in the dystopian future we have a hard time finding anyone who wants to serve on the board and we’ve never had a contested election.

We do however, have a new president in the pipeline! At some point, in spite of the rules requiring elections and limiting the president’s term to two years, we also established the custom that the vice president would become the president when the limit of the term was reached.

Sadly 2026 is the last year our dear president Katie Krebs may serve according to law which means that our equally beloved vice-president Aleicia Phulwani is stepping into Katie’s still warm presidential shoes. Long Live Aleicia!

This means we have openings!

We need a Vice President! – the vice president is the power behind the throne in the Guild and as vice president you can be confident that you will be – if you so choose and we don’t change the rules – president in two years! Perhaps your platform could be a change of the rules?

We need a Minister of Propaganda!!! – also known as the communications coordinator, the minister of propaganda leads the twice monthly communications meeting, manages the web site, and generally makes the Guild known to the public and it’s members.

We do have some returning board members –

• James Romanchek – Treasurer
• Carissa Moncavage – Secretary
• Norris Childs – First Past President
• David Harrod – Second Past President, Extraction Committee Lead
• Eric Schoefer – Apiary Committee Lead
• Clementine Nixon – Education Committee Lead
• Mark Berman – ex-acting Minister of Propaganda, member at large
• Steve Freilich – Education Committee, member at large
• Amma Dorman – Member at large

It’s an elite and fun group. Please consider joining us. We will make the ‘election’ final at the November Monthly Meeting.