Shorelines - Assistance League Laguna Beach

Shorelines
Assistance League of Laguna Beach
Chapter House: 547 Catalina
949-494-6097
allaguna@verizon.net
www.assistanceleague.org
949-497-2375 FAX
MISSION STATEMENT
Assistance League of Laguna Beach is a volunteer organization whose
members put caring and commitment into action through
community-based philanthropic programs.
MARCH 2012
Turnabout Shop: 526 Glenneyre
949-494-5977
President’s Message
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President . . . . . . . . …… Karen Mauro
1st Vice President, Membership
.............. . .
Carrie Joyce
Vice President, Philanthropic Projects
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ..
Judy Soulakis
Vice President, Fundraising
................
. Diana Gairdner
Vice President, Thrift Shop
.................
Janene Freitas
Recording Secretary .
Gayle Whitaker
Treasurer . . . . . . . . . .
Ginny Skelton
Assist. Treasurer. . . …….
Jo Martin
STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN
Buildings ………………. .. Norma McKibban
Bylaws……………………… …Judy Friesen
Education . . . . . . . . ……...Joanie Porter
Finance . . . . . . . . ……….. Joan Schnitter
Technology ………………...Jacinta Loewen
Meeting Services…………
Ann McEneaney
Orientation/Training . . . . .Joan Carlson
Public Relations …………... Ann Hyde
Strategic Planning . ….. .. Linda Dietrich
APPOINTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN
Parliamentarian ............Mary Jane Yohe
Historian . . . . . . . . . ………. Elaine Merz
Insurance . . . . . . .. . …. Suzy Bithell
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Committee Appointments
Turnabout Vice-Chair ………… Lynne Vihlene
Sunshine …Sharon McCormick & Dixie Henry
Professional Liaison. . .. ……. Carrie Joyce
Coordinators
Thrift Shop Scheduler…….Kathleen Hardcastle
EIP coordinator …………………Gayle Whitaker
Shorelines Publisher ……….. Barbara Scott
Office Mgr:
Barbara Scott
In office: Mondays 9:00-12:00
The last thirty days have been a whirlwind of
events! Carrie Joyce, Judy Soulakis, Diana Gairdner,
Janene Freitas, Jo Martin, Judy Friesen, Joanie Porter,
Ann McEneaney, Ann Hyde, Norma McKibban, Joan
Carlson, Linda Dietrich, Gayle Whitaker, Joan Kasman, Jacinta
Loewen, Elaine Merz and I spent a day and a half with National Assistance League Visiting Team Members Phyllis Campbell and Cynthia
Schaldenbrand. Occurring every four years, the chapter visit was both
enjoyable and inspirational. The all around interchange of ideas and a
sharing of experiences was invaluable.
A huge THANK YOU to Carrie Joyce and her committee for planning
such a delightful Member Appreciation Luncheon. Lots of photos are here
in the Shorelines.
The March 12th Regular Meeting will begin at 9:30 AM with coffee
and an optional $3 breakfast provided by Ann McEneaney and her helpers.
Joanie Porter and her committee have another excellent program. Ann
Hyde, Nominating Committee Chairman, will present the Slate of Officers
and Standing Committee Chairman for the 2012-2013 year. Joan Kasman
will present the proposed Budget. The Election Meeting is Monday, April 9,
2012.
I’m looking forward to seeing all of you and your prospective member
guests at our next Membership Coffee on March 26th. Carrie Joyce and
her Membership Committee are busy planning.
Be certain to check out our new website: www.ALLagunaBeach.org. Ann
Hyde and Jacinta Loewen led the way, urged on by others on the Public
Relations Committee: Suzanne Foltz, Sally Lombardo, Linda Dietrich,
Marlene Dryer, Carrie Joyce, Dixie Henry, Diane Gelfer, Donna Magwood, Janene Freitas, and Ann McEneaney.
I’m looking forward to another month with each of you joyfully
putting caring and commitment in action.
LET’S GET ACQUAINTED WITH NEW MEMBERS
Judy Upton
I grew up in Indianapolis and graduated from Hanover College with a
BA in Education and English, followed by MA from Cal State Fullerton in Administration. I taught 4-6 grade science in Cincinnati for one year then later
moved to Long Beach and taught 6th graders in Garden Grove’s nationally recognized Gifted Program for 14 years. I served as an administrator in Fountain Valley before retiring from education to begin a 36 year career in real
estate. Now I’m a broker associate with Surterre Properties along with my
younger son Brad.
I have lived in Laguna for 45 years and have two sons. Scott and Brad, who both grew up and currently live in Laguna.
In the late 70’s, two friends and I purchased the Cliff Terrace Hotel across from Ralph’s and made it into Eiler’s Inn, a
bed and breakfast hotel. Two years later, we sold the B and B and bought Rainbow Tavern Lodge near Truckee, CA. This
wonderful old ski lodge of 120 acres has 32 rooms, restaurant, bar and the most delicious water from an underground
spring. If only we’d had the capital to bottle the stuff we’d have been ahead of the craze and gotten rich! I’ve taken a
few jewelry classes and hope to learn and do more of that in the studio at Laguna Woods.
Grace Taylor
I was born in England in the Cotswold’s district on a small farm. I
received a degree in Early Childhood Education and met my husband, an
American Air Force lieutenant, while teaching kindergarten on the U.S.
Air Force Base near Oxford. We were transferred to a base in Louisiana
for three years, where I continued teaching and was a Director of Youth
Activities. Later we divorced and I moved to Houston where I had
friends and remained for 38 years. I became Program Director of the YWCA for 12 years, worked in a battered women’s
shelter and Head Start, and was a Hospital Director of Volunteers and Program Director for a retirement community for
15 years. While staying with a niece in Long Beach, we visited Laguna and I continued to return for 20 years and committed to retire here. Ultimately settling in Laguna in November 2010. I’m now a member of the Women’s Club and also volunteer weekly at the Senior Center. I have a passion for any activity that improves lives and brings involvement in the
community.
HONOREES
On Membership Appreciation Day
The Assistance League’s
Circle of Honor recognizes and
honors members for excellent service and accomplishments and, at the Member Appreciation Luncheon on February 13th. Mary Jane Yohe was surprised
with the Circle of Honor pin. Mary Jane is currently our Parliamentarian, but
she has played considerable roles within both our chapter and the national
organization. Mary Jane was President when the Early Intervention Program
(EIP) began in 1976, and she has been an AL Laguna Beach member for 41
years! Mary Jane will also be recognized at National Conference in Houston,
September 2012. Congratulations, Mary Jane.
Another Mary was honored with the Volunteer Member of the
Year award during the February luncheon. Mary Connor couldn’t
have been a more worthy person. One of her many ways of serving
has been by her development of a shop orientation program and
her orientation of new members to working in the shop. Mary has
that special way of making all of us feel welcome and at ease.
Thank you, Mary.
Bobbie Howard and Annette Henry
were given certificates denoting
20 years of membership in ALLB.
Associate Member Maureen Somodi was given a
very well deserved and touching tribute in absentia
by Gayle Whitaker for her dedicated service each
Wednesday morning at EIP.
Former president, Trudy Pessin, was
introduced as a member belonging since 1978
and was instrumental in the beginnings of our
chapter.
MEMBERSHIP APPRECIATION LUNCHEON
Carrie Joyce
“Oh Yeah, I’ll Tell You Something” a groovy time was enjoyed by all who attended the February Membership Appreciation Luncheon! It was so much fun to see the eclectic sixties outfits designed and worn by our members. It was a beautiful cacophony of color to look out at the audience. Many thanks go to our Membership Committee for the wonderful creativity and production that made the luncheon a memorable event. Debby Bowes was responsible for the decorations and
she dressed the attractive mannequins with clothes that were mostly her mom’s. How astute of her to know that someday she would need them for an Assistance League event. Jean Fitzgerald, Mary Connor and her granddaughter ably
helped with the decorating. Larry Bowes is our “Assistance League Man” as he delivered the mannequins and made sure
their attire was sheik. Gayle Whitaker was the instigator of the entertainment. Who would have ever thought we could
get Sonny and Cher to perform for us! The luncheon menu was perfect for the occasion and Ann McEneaney and her committee were our chefs of the day and arrived early to have coffee available for the social half hour. Reservations are a
very necessary function and Jo Martin capably managed this part.
Carrie Joyce,Membership
Chair, stands with her pal.
Ann McEneaney
Chef of the Day
Debby Bowes, decorations chair,
spent many hours dressing the manne-
Kathy Fellows leads her
quins.
troupe in their rendition
Entertainment chair, Gayle Whitaker
is joined by Karen McBride to perform
“I’ve Got You Babe”
of “I Want To Hold Your
Hand”. L to R: Gayle
Joliet, Kathy, Kathleen
Hardcastle, Gayle
Whitaker
New Members Welcomed into ALLB
Lto R.: Bobbie Shelton, Janet Bladergran, Judy Upton, Marnie Keefer, Grace Taylor, Marcie Tillman
A big thank you to all presenters and orientation committee members who made our first one-day Orienta
tion a huge success.
Joan Carlson
Orientation Chairman
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Can you find the
ladies peeking
out from behind?
MARCH
2012 CALENDAR
M
S
Tuesday
9:45 - 1:15
4
6
Bergougnan, N
Dryer, M
Dietrich, L
Gelfer, D
Jensen, J
11
18
3
12:45 - 4:15 :
4
Thursday
9:45 - 1:15
Friday
12:45 - 4:15
1
9:45 - 1:15
2
Graves, M
Bowes, D
Hand, D
Joliet, G
Soulakis, J
Friesen, J
Hawthorne, E
Bladergroen, J
Stevens, K
Horenstein, M
Porter, J
Sterner, J
Underhill, D
Hyde, A
Zeller, L
Walston, V
Kurtz, A
Joliet, G
78
Barisic, L
Chaplin, D
Anderson, K
Benedict, D
Bithell, S
Horenstein, M
Ashling, I
Kucera, L
Immel, S
Lyons, C
M
a
H
Jensen, J
Martin, J
a
McBride, K
DiMare, H
Foltz, S
C
a
Clancy, J
Milan, V
Immel, S
Murphy, B
Medkiff, Y
Litz, R
Schoneberger, P
Gairdner, D
n
/
12:15 to 3:15
Patriot's Parade
Patriot's Parade
10
Watson, R
Ligon, J
Bowes, D
Kasman, J
Dietrich, L
Griffin, A
Hallahan, M
Skorheim, L
Gibilisco, L
Tillman, M
Assisteens
Assisteens
Weinberg, C
Peck, Y
Germain, B
Goff, L
16
Halbert, G
Friesen, J
17
Ashling, I
Taylor, B
9
14 15
Layman, S
Carter, J
9:45 - 12:45
3
Curry, M
Allen, J
Saturday
12:45 - 4:15
Bradley, G
12 13
Barisic,L
19 20
Cann, S
W
Blossom, J
Chaplin, D
Brumfield, E
Taylor, G
Lloyd, C
Gibilisco, L
Kucera, L
Layman, S
Lloyd, C
Halbert, G
Milan, V
Graves, M
Haupt, R
Joyce, C
Yamamoto, S
Panish, G
Skelton, G
Hyde, A
Hand, D
Upton, J
Kiefer, M
Weber, B
21 22
Allen, J
Artmann, C
Darling, M
Higgins, M
Connor, M
24
Loewen, J
Dryer, M
__________
Bithell, S
Ebbecke, M
Ebbecke, M
Medkiff, Y
Haupt, R
Henry, D
Foltz, S
Clancy, J
Cory, J
Gairdner, D
Murphy, B
Peck, Y
Panish, G
__________
Rose, G
Fitzgerald, J
Schoneberger, P
Seagard, W
Weber, B
_________
_____________
MCEneaney, A
Upton, J
Underhill, D
Tillman, M
Frietas, J
Joyce, C
Hardcastle, K
Taylor, B
__________
Kiefer, M
Loewen, J
Bladergroen, J
Joyce, C
Jax. L
___________
Kloke, D
Humphrey, K
____________
__________
Fellows, K
___________
Tiner, E
Magwood, D
Schuberth. B
Drazba, L
Sterner, j
Walston, V
n
/
McDermott,E
23
Rose, G
___________
Taylor, G
25
26 27
28 29
Artmann, C
DiMare, H
Carter, J
Litz, R
Kurtz, A
Lombardo, S
McEneaney, A
Seagard, W
Shelters, B
Shelters, B
Goff, L
Pesci, K
n
/
Curry, M
Dryer, M
Sterner, J
___________
30
31
___________
Coll. M
Past Presidents in attendance and recognized at the Luncheon.
L to R: Michelle Higgins-2005-07, Mary Jane Yohe-1975-77, Trudy Pessin-1983-85, Jean Fitzgerald-1999-2001,
Karen Stevens-2001-2003, Diane Gelfer-2003-2005, Ann Hyde-2007-2009, Joan Kasmin-2009-2011
Members
having a
lot of laughs
while
reminiscing
about
another era.
Don’t we all remember this!
Gayle Whitaker, AKA
Cher, and Karen
McBride, AKA, Sonny
Lyrics by Gayle to
“I Got You Babe”
EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAM
Gayle Whitaker
You may or may not know that our therapists who come each week to our Early Intervention Program also work with young children through another early intervention program and center, Intervention
Center for Early Childhood (ICEC). ICEC is a nonprofit organization that serves over 600 special needs children and
their families on an annual basis. The mission of ICEC is “to assist each developmentally delayed child in achieving
optimum developmental potential. This is accomplished by providing global therapy and intervention designed for
each child’s abilities, while offering emotional support and training to the entire family.” (ICEC website)
Begun in 1976, the same year as EIP was founded, ICEC works with babies one year or older. Funded primarily through the State of California, specifically the Regional Center of Orange County, it gains additional funding,
necessary for the success of the programs, through corporate and foundation grants, parent/family donations, and
fundraising activities.
This year’s fundraiser will be held on March 3rd, and as part of the program, the Early Intervention Program
will be honored for its work with infants. We are very pleased to be recognized in this way and we will stand proudly
when introduced. We wish all of ALLB could be there to accept this recognition, but in lieu of this, we will take lots
of pictures and remember every moment of the event for retelling. Get your listening ears on!
PHILANTHROPY
Judy Soulakis
I'm so pleased to report that our Assisteens have made a commitment to organize the treat bags for our Chapters for Children Program at Camp Pendleton as a
major project this year. They will be coordinating and purchasing the contents of the bags, packing them, and
helping with the distribution at Camp Pendleton. Congratulations, girls, for making this commitment and for
your dedication to the Assistance League – we’re all very proud of you!
FINANCE
Joan Kasman
The Budget Committee met on Monday, February 6 th and developed the Budget for 20122013. The Budget will be presented to the Board on March 5 th and to the members on March 12th.
The Finance Committee is working with Fidelity Investments to invest our matured CD’s to new FDIC insured
CD’s. National Assistance League advised all chapters that we cannot invest more than $250,000. in a particular
bank.
TURNABOUT SHOP
Janene Freitas
As usual the shop is running smoothly thanks to all of you. A very important reminder to all of you is don't forget
to lock all doors at the end of the last shift. Also please remember at the end of your shift to clean up the shop area
by putting away hangers, check clothing racks for items out of place, straighten linens, toys, books etc. If two ladies
would count the money in the dining area, never in front of customers, the others could be locking up and straightening. We have recently been fortunate enough to have several ladies to volunteer in the back room and I would like to
thank Shirley, Michelle, two Gayle's, Molly, and Diane. We are always looking for more ladies to help and if you are
available please let me know. The long awaited locks have been changed and the new keypad system is in. I have
emailed you all with the generic code to enter. Once I get the keypad coordinated with the computer I will be inputting all your names in the system and it will randomly select your own personal six digit code. When this task is finished I will let you know your code because the generic one will no longer be valid. The keypad will record the time and
date you enter the shop. You will still have one key that is for the gates, parking chains, inside lock on customer door
and the alley door. We have had the same keys for Assistance League for a very long time and it is time to update
them all. Thank you for your patience in this process. Thank you once again to all of you for what you do.
EDUCATION
Joanie Porter
This month we will be honored to have the founder of South County Crosscultural
Council, Dr. David Peck. He will be presenting what his organization has done in the Laguna
Beach area and also what is planned for the future. Gayle Rose, one of our newest members is also working with Dr. Peck’s
committee and is very excited to have him come and educate us on his group. He will also be bringing with him Ms. Sally
Rapuano, director of the La Playa Center ,who will tell us a bit about what they do at their center.
ASSISTEENS
The Assisteens met and filled tube socks for the Friendship Shelter. They also discussed looking into more philanthropies, which I advised them I would bring up to the Philanthropy Chairman, Judy Soulakis. The girls will be participating in
the Patriot’s Day Parade, March 3rd and would love to have the full support of League members walking with them. Please
do your best to get out and join the girls to show them they have the backing of the League members for all their efforts!
Our next meeting, March 6, the girls have asked a local lifeguard to come and give them some pointers on water safety.
(At least that’s what they’re claiming!)
Happy
Birthday
6 Patsy Tartaglia
16 Molly Jenett
9 Bunny Weber and Vickey Walston
22 Marlene Dryer
13 Elaine Merz
29 Kathy Fellows
14 Diane Liljestrom
29 Betty Von Der Lohe
31 Jackie Knauer
PROSPECTIVE MEMBERSHIP COFFEE
March 26
10:00am
Bring your neighbors and friends and
your “favorite cup”
Call Carrie Joyce( 510-6633) 0r carriejoyce@cox.net with names
of prospective members and their addresses by March 7 and
the membership committee will send an invitation to each
person you submit.
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Ann Hyde
ALLB was honored by the radio station K-Earth 101 as Office of the Day. The station
treated us to a huge variety of bagels and coffee and a serenade by singer/guitarist, Antonio. They took a group picture of us under our 50th Anniversary banner, and posted it on their website and also on Facebook. Although our actual air time was brief, we did get our name out over the air waves a couple times.
Please visit our new website!
Allagunabeach.org for news updates ,pictures
videos and member resources. If you would like
to post anything to the web site please contact
Jacinta Loewen at 510-4636-c or 497-4946-h or
jacinta.loewen@me.com
We will be making quite a statement in the Patriots’ Day Parade. We will be number 18 in the line-up. We are usually 57 or
higher so there will not be the long standing around time waiting to go. The reason for being so far up front is that we
have two Assisteens being honored. The Assisteens will march in front of us and we will follow with our 50 th Anniversary
banner, then a red Corvette convertible, thanks to Dixie Henry, and a blue BMW convertible, thanks to Carrie Joyce.
Come march or ride on one of the convertibles with us! It will be fun and not the lengthy time consuming wait as in the
past! The more people we have the better impression we will make. If you would like to participate, please contact Ann
Hyde or Diana Gairdner for details.
MEMBERSHIP
Carrie Joyce
Our next big event is the Spring Prospective Membership Coffee from 10:00 to 12 noon on
March 26, 2012. The best avenue for gaining new members is through referrals from our members. Please accept
the challenge of inviting a prospective member. Members are the backbone of our Assistance League.
The Professionals held their monthly meeting on Thursday, February 16, 2012 and their emphasis is on gaining new
members. Their spring project is to provide an Easter Basket for a Marine Family at Camp Pendleton. They also discussed the possibility of helping with the Assisteens. Diane Kloke presented an interesting program on her travel to
Malaga.
Love cannot remain by itself –
It has no meaning.
Love has to be put into action,
And that action is service.
Shorelines
Assistance League of Laguna Beach
547 Catalina Street, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
March 2012
3
Patriot’s Day Parade
5
Board Meeting
9:00am
6
Assisteens
6:00pm
12
Regular meeting
9:30am
12
Philanthropy committee
26
Membership Coffee
after reg. meeting
10:00am