May 2009 - Coral Gables Woman`s Club

District 11 - GFWC Coral Gables Woman’s Club
Established in 1923
Volume 2 Issue 12
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT— Charo Bolanos
Charobolanos@aol.com
1st VICE PRESIDENT—Linda Hartwell
Lindaakapb@aol.com
2nd VICE PRESIDENT– MaryScull Brown
marscuprp@aol.com
TREASURER—Nancy Desmangles
Nancy_desmangles@yahoo.com
REC. SECRETARY— Sandy Schaefer
oosbcsandzoo@aol.com
CORRES. SECRETARY— Barbara Lapsley
barblaps@bellsouth.net
DENTAL CLINIC DIR— Iris Torres-Rivera
iristorres@bellsouth.net
1st DIRECTOR— Pam Schaefer
Hapygoddes@aol.com
2nd DIRECTOR— Michele Collier
cmokeyjoe@bellsouth.net
3rd DIRECT - Claire Frances Whitehurst
305-445-2128
NEWSLETTER EDITOR— Pam Schaefer
Hapygoddes@aol.com
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Presidents Message
Treasurers, 1st Vice
President-Membership,
3rd Director Reports
Dental Clinic Director,
Arts Reports
1
2
2
2
3
3
86th New Officer Installation 3
Education, Homelife,
4
Int’l Affairs Reports
4
Public Affairs
4
Spring Conv Hi-Lights
5
Spring Conv Photos
6
Mark Your Calendars
7
Federation News
7
May Birthdays
8
Juniorette Installation
8
www.coralgableswomansclub.org
P
M
RESIDENT’S
May 2009
ESSAGE
As I come to the end of my tenure as your president, my heart is filled with
joy. No, not just with the excitement of handing over the keys to our wonderful president-elect Pam Schaefer ;-), but with the joy that comes from all the
wonderful memories that I will always take with me from these past two
years. The past two years have seen our club face some hard times and obstacles, but it never deterred you, the wonderful members of this club, from continuing to do the
amazing work and community service that we are
committed to doing.
The first and most important thing that I want to do, is to express my most deep-felt gratitude
to each and every one on the members that served on my boards. It is you, that deserve the
accolades for the club's accomplishments these past two years. Thank you for stepping up to
the plate each and every time that I asked it of you - but more importantly, thank you for going above and beyond and helping me through some very difficult times.
As most of you are aware, we just returned from Spring Convention. The Coral Gables
Woman's Club won numerous prizes, including first place in several departments! This recognition belongs to each and every one of you, the members that put forth your time and effort
to support our projects. However, I would be re-miss if I did not express special appreciation
to the Board Members that made it possible - Debra Adam, Gloria Burns, Mayra
Dominguez, Linda Hartwell, Barbara Lapsley, Pam Schaefer, and Debi Wilborn.(I
apologize if I forgot anyone, I am doing this from memory - and at my age...).
While there is a little sadness in ending my tenure, it is only because I wish that I could have
contributed more as your president, because this is certainly not a "goodbye", not by a long
shot. First, it is my intention to remain a loyal and active member of this wonderful club and
the friendships that I have formed with you wonderful women, will be life-long.
I want to thank you all for giving me the honor and privilege of being your president. I know
that I am repeating myself, but I can never express enough what an amazing group of women
you are. That you gave me the opportunity to serve as a club leader these past two years
makes me both very proud and humble...
I will close with my favorite all time quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:To laugh often and
much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find
the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or
a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have
lived. This is to have succeeded.
Love you all, and God bless,
Charo
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Nancy Desmangles
Treasurer
nancy_desmangles@yahoo.com
R
REASURER
EPORT
Hello ladies,
A new year begins this May for the club. Dues are to be paid. Tenure members pay $45.00.
$75.00 for regular and new members and $18.00 for past presidents.
I want to thank the 2 past presidents and the tenured member that already paid their dues.
A big thank you!!!
PLEASE MAIL YOUR CHECKS TO:
NANCY DESMANGLES
110 SIDONIA AVE APT 12
CORAL GABLES FL 33134
Treasurer's report for March 2009
Young ,Stovall Money Market $31,990.09
Amtrust Operating Account $16,71.32
Amtrust Money Market $67,614.41
Stay safe and see you at the next meeting !!!!
2 V P
ND
Debi Wilborn
2nd Vice President
MEMBERSHIP
debicgwc@aol.com
RESIDENT
R
EPORT
HAPPY SPRING!
Springtime is a wonderful time of year for new beginnings. For our club, the month
of May means the beginning of a new year club. We will be welcoming in the new
board members and the new department chairs at our Wednesday night, May
6th installation meeting. I hope you will plan to attend.
The new club year brings lots of excitement for me as you have elected me to serve
as your 2nd vice president. This position is one of emphasis on club membership.
I'll be kicking off our club membership drive in June. Please plan to invite your family and friends to our clubhouse for a June event. I will send out invites soon with all
the details. Thank you members for your wonderful club support.
T
Claire Frances Whitehurst
Third Director
305-445-2128
ICE
HIRD
D
IRECTOR
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EPORT
Congratulations and 3 cheers! One honor and award after the other was announced
at convention. You see members how keeping track of your hours, financial gifts,
volunteer time, and travel, truly pays great dividends for our clubs legacy? As a
member of the Florida Federation and the GFWC, how proud we were of our
Volunteer of the Year and LEAD representatives. Debra Adam and Linda Hartwell
stood tall among all of the candidates. Thank you, ladies, for serving in our behalf!
DEBRA ADAM
District 11
Volunteer
Of the
Year!
LINDA HARTWELL
District 11
LEADS
Candidate!
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Volume 2 Issue 12
D
ENTAL
C
LINIC
D
IRECTOR
R
EPORT
Dental Clinic Report 3/1/09 through 3/31/09
Patients Seen…………………..58
New Patients…………………..10
Dental Procedures…………….188
Dental Treatment Rendered…………………$19,207.00
Iris Torres-Rivera
Dental Clinic Director
iristorres@bellsouth.net
Please bring toys for the Dental Clinic Toy Chest!!! Thank You!!!
A
RTS
R
EPORT
Spring Convention as usual was a wonderful time spent by all. The Arts and Crafts
Show had a wonderful display of entries from all over the state. Six of our members
had entries and I am pleased and proud to announce one of the entries received a 2nd
place, Debra Adam for “A Home in the Mountains, Village of Malealea, Lesotho”.
Congratulations Debra!
Linda Hartwell
1st Vice President
Lindaakapb@aol.com
Acting Arts Chairman
Please Come to Our
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
6:30 P.M. Social
7:00 P.M Dinner
$15.00 per person
Please come to find out who our
Outstanding Recipients will be for the
“Barbara Lapsley New Member Award”
& the
Barbara Rosenthal/Sherry Wheeler Leadership Award
and to also say Thank you to Charo and
WELCOME to our
NEW 2009-2010 BOARD!
RSVP to Barbara Lapsley at:
barblaps@bellsouth.net or call 305-446-5445 by
Sunday, May 3rd. Bring a guest also!!!
Barbara Lapsley
barblaps@bellsouth.net
305-446-5445
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Debi Wilborn
Home Life Chairman
debiCGWC@aol.com
MayraDominguez001@comcast.net
L R
IFE
EPORT
Please join me for our May Home Life event! I recently sent members an
e-mail invite to sign up to participate in the ACS Relay for Life cancer awareness
walk. The walking event is on May 30-31, 2009. Located at the Coral Gables Youth
Center/War Memorial (same location as last year). The event starts at 4pm.
Members will take turns walking the relay and selling fundraising items. This fun
event is a wonderful way to raise awareness and funds for cancer. Please visit
www.relayforlife.org to join our team, Coral Gables Woman’s Club, or to make a
donation to our team. If you do not have access to a computer and would like to
participate or make a donation please call me at 305-595-9195. We all have
unfortunately had cancer touch our lives, whether it's been a personal battle, a family
member or dear friend. With your support of Relay for Life we can make a
difference!
I
Mayra Dominguez
International Affairs Chairman
OME
NTERNATIONAL
A
FFAIRS
R
EPORT
Namaste my beautiful, great ladies,
As you know during the last week of March and for the FIRST time, Florida
participated in the TAP Project Week. On behalf of the Club, I recruited and trained
3 restaurants in the Miami area: Shibui in Sunset; Sushi Samba in South Beach, and
Indigo at Intercontinental Hotel by Bayside (remember my emails talking about
them?). It was exciting to be part of the project, to inform Miami about this
worthwhile cause, and to have another venue to promote our club!
I will be letting you know the final figures collected during that week to benefit
UNICEF.
ON ANOTHER NOTE… Our club won 4 awards in the International Department:
1st place for Heifer’s Project (our Hope Chairman-Barbara Lapsley was literally
glowing); 1st place in the Overall area, the Reaching out Internationally and working
with the UN programs.
P
UBLIC
A
FFAIRS
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EPORT
CRIMEWATCH REPORT
Claire Frances Whitehurst
Third Director
305-445-2128
According to statistics home invasions and driveway burglaries
have risen across the tri-county. It is vital that each member passes
on the information about how important it is to be careful about your surroundings!
Look before you open your door! Before you go anywhere, look before you get in
your car, and please do not leave valuables in your car (i.e.: cell phones, purse,
camera). Love to All– Claire Frances Whitehurst.
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Volume 2 Issue 12
S
PRING
C
H
ONVENTION
I-LIGHTS
Ten of our members attended Spring 2009 Convention in Orlando. Debra
Adam was our first time attendee. We arrived Friday afternoon wearing our
CGWC t-shirts, checked in, registered, then scurried off to our assigned workshops
which started at 4 pm. We quickly cleaned up, changed, went to dinner, then off to
“The Spirit of Hope” Dessert Buffet/Coffee meeting for the Volunteer of the Year
Award presentation. Our own Debra Adam was a candidate from District 11. We
waited with great anticipation for the announcement, but the award went to the very
well deserved Dr. Mel Jurado of GFWC Temple Terrace Woman’s Club-District 8.
We then applauded and gave a standing ovation to the remaining outstanding
VOY candidates. Then we listened to guest speaker Jan Schrock of Heifer
International, then Charlyne Carruth held a Heads or Tails Auction, the ladies
had to either hold their hands on their heads or “tails” when Charlyne threw the
coin in the air, and the last one standing, won an “ark”. Then they called out
Awards we won 1st places for International Affairs and awards for Education.
On Saturday our day started at 8 am for breakfast, then off to more
workshops. We attended the luncheon “Hope is a New Beginning” the presentation
for the Florida LEADS award was going to be given to a well deserved winner-(our
own Linda Hartwell represented District 11). Again we waited on pins and
needles, but the award went to another wonderful lady, Beverly Payne of District
13. We listened to guest speaker GFWC International President Rose Ditto speak
on Domestic Violence. We then went on to different workshops. Had short award
session where we won an award for Leadership and Public Relations, Debra Adam
won 2nd Place for her photograph “A Home in the Mountains, Village of Malealea,
Lesotho”. Broke for more workshops. Then more awards. We received awards in
Fundraising and 1st Place in Newsletters and Yearbooks!!! We quickly got dressed
in semi-formal wear for the evening, then went to our District 11 get-together, then
on to the dinner of “Hope is a Helping Hand”. Grants were announced and the
monies donated to charities: Canine Companions $10,000; ROCK Cancer
Scholarships $10,700; CARE $2,887.85; Hacienda $12,500; Heifer International
$102,500; HOBY $17,575; Juniorette Special Project-Just 4 Kids $2,000;
Operation Smile $1,445; ROCK Camp $5,000; Boggy Creek Camp $5,000; Sew
Much Comfort $5,000; Special Olympics Florida $5,000. Total monies donated to
charities $179,607.25!!!
The finale of the evening was the drawing of the Heifer International “Peru
Study Tour” Raffle ticket trip August 2-August 14, 2009. 10 tickets were drawn
with 10 alternate tickets. My ticket was the 7th ticket drawn in the first round!!!
Can you believe it!!! Barbara Lapsley is now the 3rd alternate to be able to go. So
everyone cross your fingers and pray that Barbara will be able to come on this great
adventure with me. My husband thinks it was rigged. I told him that God must
have a reason for me to keep going on these mission trips. I think so too!
Everything happens for a reason.
On Sunday everyone packed up their bags and put everything in one room
and went to workshops and I had a workshop of my own for Newsletters/
Yearbooks since I am the FFWC Club Communications Newsletter/Yearbook
Chairman, thanks for coming girls! We had a great time, learned a lot about each
other, won a lot of awards, and Debra caught Federation Fever!!! (photos pg 6)
Pam Schaefer
President Elect
Newsletter Editor
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Volume 2 Issue 12
M Y
ARK
OUR
C
ALENDARS
May
National Month For:
Physical fitness and Sports, bikes, Mental Health,
High Blood Pressure Education, Asthma and allergy Awareness,
Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention,
Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention,
Arthritis, Better Hearing and Speech,
Mother's Day to Father's Day National Family Month
May 6th
6:30 pm Installation Dinner
May 20th
Wednesday
6:00 pm Board Meeting (transition from old to new)
(The new and old board should be in attendance.)
May 27th
7:30 pm Juniorette Installation
Wednesday
May 30th -31st
Relay for Life
Saturday-Sunday
Debi Wilborn, Chairman
June
National Safety Month
National Children's Awareness Month
National Fireworks Safety Month (through July 4)
June 3rd
Wednesday
6:30 pm Dinner (RSVP to Vicki McGroarty vlmcgroarty@bellsouth.net)
7:00 pm Meeting, Guest Speaker,
Chris Landsea
Science and Operations Officer
NOAA/NWS/National Hurricane Center
June 10th
7:00 pm Juniorette Meeting-Wednesday Plan for JASM
th
th
June 26 – 28
JASM 2009 (Juniorette Annual State Meeting)
F
EDERATION
N
EWS
Did you know that April 24th was Federation Day? On this 119th anniversary of the
founding of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, we hope clubwomen are
feeling the special pride and passion that come with belonging to one of the most
influential women's service organizations in the world. Community service has
never been more vital, and 100,000 members in all 50 states and more than a dozen
countries are celebrating the commitment to service and unity in diversity that have
created GFWC's proud history and illuminate the bright future for all clubwomen.
Linda Hartwell
Acting Arts Chairman
1st Vice President
Lindaakapb@aol.com
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MAY BIRTHDAYS/ANNIVERSARY
May 1-Anniversary
May 17
Robin Burr
Cathy Blanton
May 23
May 11 - Anniversary
Ana Maria Rodriguez-
Sabrina Perez-King
Diaz de la Portilla
May 29
Teri Nuin
GFWC Coral Gables Woman’s Club
1001-1009 E. Ponce de Leon Blvd.
Coral Gables, FL 33134
For learn more in about
GFWC Florida or the
GFWC Federation...
State Website:
www.gfwcflorida.org
GFWC website
www.gfwc.org
GET WELL
CORNER
Wishing you good
things, restful things,
everything that helps
you feel better each day
 Janet/Nat Barone
 Cathy Blanton
 Jo Burke
 Pat Clarke
 Lou Popp
 Claire-Frances
Whitehurst