New National Officers Installation Takes Place Virtually
A beautiful installation ceremony conducted by the NLAPW chaplain, the Rev. Robin Johnson Moscati, for the newly elected national officers took place via Zoom on Saturday, June 13, at 10 a.m. Eastern time.
The Rev. Moscati opened the service by reminding the elected officers of the mission and core values of the League as stated in the bylaws. She asked that each officer agree to uphold these goals of encouraging, recognizing, and promoting the production of creative work of professional standard in art, letters, and music and that they promote and support the core values of the NLAPW — respect, knowledge, creation, and preservation of the arts.
She asked also that each officer sincerely represent the League to the best of her ability to members and nonmembers with integrity, kindness, and dignity. Her words of affirmation, shared below, are noteworthy to all Pen Women in leadership roles across the League.
May our eternal Creator continually grant you the patience, communications, tenderness, laughter, and diligence that it takes to be a role model and leader within this far-reaching, long-cherished organization — the National League of American Pen Women.
Be steadfast in your work, your plans, and your joint decisions together as the leadership board.
Be positive and hope-filled in goals to set and achieve, as you work together in a partnership for the good of the League and of each other, as a unit.
Be purposeful and cohesive, as this will sustain you,
will motivate and will give you the drive and the encouragement to move forward together even when circumstances may make you think otherwise.
In those down moments, stop. Breathe. And then remember why you are a Pen Woman and remember the important role you are undertaking on behalf of this body of creative women.
— The Rev. Robin Johnson Moscati