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Melbourne Alumnae Panhellenic September 2007
September Board & General Meeting summer will be fun at our first Panhellenic
meeting of the year at Linda Mitts’ home.
September 5th, 2007 And speaking of fun, that is what your
Board @ 6:00pm Panhellenic Board and I want this year to be
Social @ 7:00pm – FUN for you.
Speaker @ 7:30pm We feel we can have fun and accomplish a
Business @ 8:00pm few goals. At the joint board meeting, your
Hostesses: Alpha Chi Omega, Kappa Kappa board decided we should work on increasing
Gamma, Pi Beta Phi membership – maybe 10%; also, we need to
rev up college sorority information. That
@ has been a difficult area of late, but one of
our purposes is to inform high school
The Home of Linda Mitts students about Greek life. With Laverne
4113 Snowy Egret Drive Bruffey at the helm of this effort, it is sure to
Melbourne, FL 32904 be successful. Natalie Marshall and Carrie
*Directions below. Johnson are already working on improving
our web site. (Did you know we have one?)
2006-2007 Scholarship Winners Recap And since it is difficult getting to know new
ladies - and some of the old timers -
Erin Linvingston – Kappa Kappa Gamma Meridith Hall will include a member
Jocelyn Lucier – Alpha Chi Omega spotlight in the Oracle.
Anna Whittington – Alpha Delta Pi Of course to accomplish these goals, we all
Martha Walter – Chi Omega have to help, especially with membership.
Jaclyn DeCrosta – Sigma Kappa Invite a friend or colleague, or give her
Sara Dunn – Pi Beta Phi name to Carla Hughes and she will send a
letter from you, inviting your prospective
President’s Message member. Someone can be a guest twice
before joining.
Welcome Back Panhel Sisters! If this isn’t enough, more fun and frolic will
If you feel like I do, the summer was much continue with book club, supper club, our
too short and much too hot this year!! It was day excursions, and fund raising for our
fun having children and grand children scholarships.
home, though. Now with the children So, let’s all get together at Linda Mitts’ to
returning to school and college, maybe fall catch up and also hear a special program on
will be around the corner! quilting. Quilting is becoming a lost art, or
Seeing our old friends, meeting new ones, maybe it is already! Either way, this will be
and catching up on all the news from informative, interesting, and possibly tweak
our curiosities. At a minimum, we will Lines from Athena
develop an even greater appreciation for
quilts, understand why quilts are expensive Thinking About
and maybe we will be even more willing to
pay the prices. Who knows?! Sue Birchfield, Jeanne Thompson, Karren
I look forward to seeing you, Junkunc, Marcie Kinney, Jean McCormick,
Fran Cissy Cushman and all of their families.
Announcements
1. Visit our website at
www.melbournepanhellenic.org. Remembering
Natalie Marshall and Carrie Johnson
are working hard to get a functional Past members Sally Gray and Patricia Loll
and informative site together. If you who both passed away over the summer.
have any suggestions, email Natalie
at sciencetchr@cfl.rr.com. Thanks To
2. Don’t forget about CARPOOLING!
If you know of any Panhellenic Everyone who continues to donate to the In
neighbors, see if you can ride Memoriam Scholarship Fund.
together to meetings! It is a great
way to get to know each other better If I left anyone out I apologize. If there is
and help with parking in some of the anyone else we should recognize in our
smaller neighborhoods where we “Lines to Athena”, please email me at
have meetings. mhall61582@yahoo.com.
3. Starting in next month’s Oracle I will
be doing a Member Spotlight. Just
to give you a little info about our
members! You never know, you
may have something in common
with someone you never thought.
4. Any Panhel member wishing to host
June
a Tastefully Simple taste-testing
Karlene Tuttle – 1st
party can contact Debbie Steininger
Margaret Dubois – 6th
at 77-2102. She will give 20% of the
Carol Aumann – 7th
total party sales to our scholarship
Allene Capley – 9th
fund!
Judy Davis – 10th
Wendy Nolder – 12th
Pat Honeywill – 13th
Judy McGinty – 14th
Meridith Hall – 15th
Martha Hartley – 19th
Janet Kull – 19th
Lindsay Ensell – 20th
Marsha Blunk – 28th
July
Diane Barile – 1st Kappa Kappa Gamma
Jane Koke – 2nd Katherine Brosnahan Spade – Fashion
Helene Suflas – 14th Designer, Kate Spade Brands
Jane Hamilton – 18th Neta Lohnes Frazier – Children’s Author
Gerie Radencic – 24th Ashley Judd – Actress
Carolyn Matthews – 31st
August Pi Beta Phi
Stephanie Kinder – 5th Faye Dunaway – Academy Award Winning
Carla Hughes – 7th Actress
Sue Birchfield – 10th Barbara Bush – Former First Lady, wife of
Jane Respess – 10th George H. W. Bush
Mary Lou Buckel – 12th Anna Fisher – NASA Astronaut
Sally Ferguson – 19th
Beth O’Brien – 19th
Eileen McKay – 20th
Irene Bush – 25th
September Book Club
Carolyne Wurzenberger – 5th
Margaret Walterhouse – 7th Bookers is off to another great year of
Lynne Ezelle – 9th reading. The Bookers group is limited to 20
Madeline Jacobs – 9th members, as we meet in member’s homes
Kerry Crawford – 13th and rotate book presentations. At present
Fran Galey – 13th our membership is full, but if you would like
Lucy Bodnar – 19th to place your name on a waiting list please
Joy Robertson – 21st contact Renee Allen (952-7975) or Sally
Cindy Ridgeway – 22nd Young ( 723-5005). Many of you have
expressed an interest in knowing the books
***If I missed you birthday, please let me being read by Bookers. The following books
know! Send me an email at have been selected for 2007-2008:
mhall61582@yahoo.com The Faith Club by R.Idilby, S.Oliver, &
P.Warner
The 8:55 to Baghdad by Andrew Eames
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Notable Alumnae of The Day the World Came to Town by Jim
Defede
Hostess Sororities The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory
Queen Noor by Queen Noor
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Alpha Chi Omega
Around the Next Corner by Elizabeth Wrenn
Dr. Condoleeza Rice – U.S. Secretary of
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
State
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingslover
Deidre Downs – 2005 Miss America
Gail Sheehy – Best-Selling Author
Your New 2007-2008 Officers
President – Fran Galey,
Vice Pres. – Jane Respess, A
Recording Sec. – Rebecca (Shireman) Wood, AO
Corresponding Sec. – Meridith Hall, K
Treasurer – Mary June Joseph, AΔ
Asst. Treasurer – Karren Junkunc, ΔZ
Directions to Linda Mitt’s House:
From Palm Bay area: Go West on Palm Bay Road. Palm Bay Road ends at Minton Road (you
will see a Publix on the right). Turn right on Minton Road. You will pass one traffic light and a
little past this light, before you go over I-95, you will make a left turn onto Carriage Gate Drive.
Continue down Carriage Gate Drive. Turn left on Peacock Drive. Turn left on Snowy Egret
Drive. Continue until you get to 4113 Snowy Egret.
From 192/Wickham Road area: Go South on Minton Road. You will go over an overpass which
crosses I-95. Almost immediately after you go cross I-95, you will turn right onto Carriage Gate
Drive. Continue down Carriage Gate Drive. Turn left on Peacock Drive. Turn left on Snowy
Egret Drive. Continue until you get to 4113 Snowy Egret.
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