Pi Phi Dues are Due!!!

If you haven't already paid your Piedmont Pi Phi dues, please mail a $40 check to Bree Jimenez: 3808 Middlebury way, Greensboro 27410 ** Anything over $40 are "Angel Dues" and much appreciated!! **

Minutes from Piedmont Pi Beta Phi ‘s Meeting September 22,2015

Members present: Betsy Bullard, Joy McCoy, Carol Carpenter, Lara Heberle, Cindy McCall, Bobbie West, Bree Jimenez, Susanne Blaya, Rae Lynn Wahl, Susan Preston, Amy Callaghan Our Guest speaker was Theresa Remy for Sanctuary House. Theresa has personal experience as her brother developed schizophrenia and was also diagnosed with Bipolar disorder in his early 20s. He committed suicide at age 39 as he had gone off his medication and was not being monitored or followed up by the local government center. After this tragic event, Thersa’s mother and others started a “clubhouse model” based on the successful Fountain House in New York City. Sanctuary House was a result and now serves 75 people a day as a place to belong. The ‘members ‘ are served breakfast and lunch, learn job training skills, communication skills and social skills. In the past year less than 1% of the active members have been hospitalized. Most of the funding comes from private donations as the government has all but cut federal funding for mental health agencies. We thank Theresa for speaking to us on one of our philanthropies. We opened the meeting with the ritual led by Rae Lynn Wahl. After our board meeting Cindy McCall emailed all of the local Pi Phi’s on the register from Pi Beta Phi Headquarters. Bobbie West was able to reconnect with a Pi Phi on Facebook. All of these efforts are appreciated as we continue to grow our club. Bree Jimenez, our Treasurer, announced our dues are due! $40. Of which 35 is for Headquarters and 5 is for our club. Anything given above that is considered Angel dues and is appreciated! Please send in by November 15th. Bobbie West announced that our Silpada fundraiser will be on Thursday November 7th 5:30-8:00 at the home of Regina Clark 2802 Lake Forest Drive (off of Willoughby in New Irving Park). Our Christmas party will be at the home of Amy Callaghan on December 15th. 7:00 708 Northern Shores Lane in Lake Jeanette. Betsy spoke about our goals for this year which are membership, noting that everyone has a place in Pi Phi and regional growth. We are looking to include Winston and High Point as there are no clubs in these areas. Please keep the date on November 7th open for Shea's Chase. This is a walk to benefit Mental Health. We will be walking with our Pi Phi shirts as a team with more info to follow. In the meantime you can get more information at www.sheaschase.com. Also mark your calendars for: January tbd date for lunch and collecting undergarments. February 23rd meeting at Bobby West's home 7:00 March 4th Dr. Seuss party at Salvation Army May 5th Wine and Arrow for founders day place tbd. We still need a AAC Chair (Alumnae Advisory Committee)for Duke University. NC Beta Also we need a chair for the Dr.Seuss party. We ended with our closing ritual and then a Cookie Shine! Thanks to all who brought goodies! Respectfully submitted by Amy Callaghan.

Get Ready for another Fabulous Piedmont Pi Phi year!
Join us Tuesday , Sept. 22nd ..at Rae Lynn's home!  7 pm. 
We're encouraging everyone to bring a guest that might be a prospective member...you never know who is a Pi Phi!!!  And it's Sanctuary House toiletries time also...so make sure to bring your small donations (hotel showers/soaps)!
Mark your calendar now, more information to come!

SAVE THE DATE

When: April 16th, 6:45pm
Where: Gia's (new garden rd)

What: Wine (& Arrow) Society
In true Piedmont Pi Phi fashion we will be drinking our wine topic! Feel like you don't know much about wine, that's ok! Come drink listen and learn.-- No One and everyone is an expert in our society, all you have to do is be willing to drink and discuss your opinion. After all, it is the synergy of thoughts and opinions that makes wine knowledge viable. Each evening includes 3 to 4 glasses of the topic wines to enjoy and compare during the discussion, with accompanying tapas. $35 +tax a person.

Evite and RSVP information to come soon! 

 

Oh, The Places You'll Go! 

The Ladies of Piedmont Pi Phi do it again!  

March 20th

After school celebration at the Greensboro Boys and Girls Club

I think we made it! Spring is just around the corner!  Hope you can join us for our Dr. Seuss celebration, March 20th and our 3rd meeting of the year on the 24th! 

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Pi Beta Phi was a little more than five years old when one of its most unique traditions was born. The Pi Phi Cookie Shine owes its beginnings to the Richardson sisters and John Fraser, the Chancellor of the University of Kansas. Sara Richardson from Lawrence, Kansas, became a charter member of Illinois Beta Chapter at Lombard College when it was chartered in April 1872. Sara’s three sisters, Alma, Florence and May, were students at the University of Kansas. Sara heard through the grapevine that a few Kansas men had formed a Beta Theta Pi chapter in the spring of 1873 and she encouraged her sisters to start a chapter of her beloved fraternity. Kansas Alpha was chartered on April 1, 1873. The chapter’s first social event took place several weeks later in June. The party at the Richardson home honored Sara for her help in establishing the chapter. Among the guests was the University’s Chancellor John Fraser, a native of Scotland. When he saw the spread of refreshments, Fraser declared it a “Cookie Shine,” his name for any informal social gathering brought together by accident or design. The name so captured the imaginations of the Pi Phis that they immediately adopted it as their own.


KEEPING UP TRADITIONS!  
 Piedmont Pi Beta Phi, Fall 2014