COACHELLA VALLEY
ALUMNAE PANHELLENIC
VOLUME 8, ISSUE 2
D E C . - JA N. 2 0 1 2
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Calendar of Events
Oct. 13 - La Quinta CC
Nov. 10 - Desert Willow
Dec. 8 - Desert Island
Jan. 12 - La Quinta Resort
Feb. 9 - Indian Ridge CC
Mar. 9 - Westin Mission Hills
Benefit Fundraiser
Apr. 12 - Ironwood CC
May 5 (Sat.) - $cholarship
Recipient Luncheon
Meeting: 11:30 am
Cost: $28.00
RSVP to Pam Williams by
the Sunday before the
luncheon.
Phone: (760) 412-1782 or
Email: [email protected]
Letter from the President
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Outstanding Alumnae
Panhellenic for 2009-2011
The National Panhellenic Conference held October 15 in Austin, Texas,
was very positive anc exciting. I feel honored to have represented CVAP
as your President. Below is a picture from the awards presentation - Left to
right: Linda Purkapile, Karen Speros, Vicki Robertson, C.J. Westrick, and
Carol Coordt.
Plans for our Benefit are well underway. Join a committee. We all are
encouraged to actively participate! Have a blessed and wonderful Holiday
Season.
Yours in Sisterhood,
Vicki R. Robertson, DVM
Check out the website:
www.coachellapanhellenic.org
Inside This Issue
PHD contact info....................2
Calendar of Events................1 Benefit Honorees....................3
President’s Message..............1 Honoree Bios..........................3
Nat. Pan. Award....................1 SCCAP Report........................4
In Loving Memory................2 World Affairs Honor..............4
CVRM Gift Drive..................2 Desert ARC info.....................4
New Members......................2 Benefit Invitation List...........5
How to Join...........................6
Additions/Corrections..........6
Contact Ronda Ostergaard
$60.00 to Join or Renew
[email protected]
(760) 340-3714
CVAP Page 1
In Loving Memory
Rick Bullock - Penny Endresen’s Son
Marian Doolittle Debbie Cox’s Mother
Jackie Lee Houston - Member
Betty Ford - Honoree
Christmas Gift Drive
Dec. 8, 2011
Benefits the
SHARON REDMOND (Mrs. Richard) Chi Omega
P.O. Box 5489
La Quinta, CA 92248
[email protected]
(760) 200-5303 Hm
(702) 672-8165 Cell
New Members in Roster
Coachella Valley Rescue Mission
Bring unwrapped toys
CVRM also needs (for women, men &
NANCY CRANDALL
Delta Delta Delta
44-836 Winged Foot Dr.
Univ. of Arizona
Indian Wells, CA 92210
(760) 341-2446
[email protected]
BARBARA HUFFMAN (Robert)
54-644 Inverness Way
La Quinta, CA 92253
[email protected]
children):
diapers, baby
wipes, new clothing (all sizes), jeans,
t-shirts, underwear, sleepwear, shoes
& socks, gift cards for Target &
Walmart), and toiletries.
New Members in Roster
KATE REEVES (Mrs. George)
Delta Gamma
70-990 Star Shadow
Mountain Center, CA 92561
(760) 349-3394
[email protected]
WHITNEY HODGES
Alpha Phi
74-401 Hovley Lane E. Apt. 1625
Palm Desert, CA 92260
Cell: (909) 855-6016
[email protected]
Chi Omega
(760) 771-4408
VICTORIA LANE (James)
(714) 536-0449
637 Frankfort Ave.
Cell: (714) 625-6308
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
[email protected]
ELIZABETH (Patty) MATTFELD
KKG
48-641 Vista Tierra
(760) 564-3329
La Quinta, CA 92253
[email protected]
Reinstated Members
DEBRA BECK, BARBARA NELSON, and
CYNTHIA HUNTER
PHDs
(Panhellenic Honey Doers)
Interested???
Contact: Ralph Anderson
(760) 674-0033
CVAP Page 2
Coachella Valley Alumnae Panhellenic
DIAMONDS FOR THE ARTS
“From Bach to Broadway”
2012 Scholarship Benefit
Friday, March 9, 2012
Westin Mission Hills, Resort & Spa
Our 2012 Diamond Award Honorees:
Dr. Carol Channing
Virginia Waring
Dr. Carol Channing received an
Honorary Doctorate fro CSU Stanislaus in 2004. Ms.
Channing renowned star of stage, screen and television is
being honored for her dedication and support of arts
education in public high schools. In 2005, Carol and her
husband Harry Kulllijian founded the Channing-Kullijuan
Foundation for the Arts. This nonprofit is dedicated to
bringing the importance of arts education to the general
public, provide music instruments for underfunded public
schools, and scholarships for California State University
students.
A recipient of the 1995
Lifetime Achievement
Tony Award, Ms.
Channing has been a
star of international
acclaim since her
performance as Lorelei
Lee in “Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes.” She
won the lTony Award
in 1964 for her
legendary portrayal of
Dolly Levi in “Hello, Dolly!” Carol graced the smaller
screen in TV specials and to millions of children
worldwide, she is best known as the White Queen in
“Alice Through the Looking Glass.”
Virginia Waring is the name sake of the
“Virginia Waring International Piano Competition.” This
well-known Desert Event hosts aspiring young pianists
from around the world and has launched many into
significant musical careers. Virginia has enjoyed a long
and successful musical career. She earned a full
scholarship at the renowned Music Academy at
Fontainebleau, France. She toured extensively with
Morley and Gearhart. In 1954, Virginia married Fred
Waring and became an integral part of the Waring music
and publishing organization.
Mrs. Waring has now
become Chairman of the
Board of Fred WAring
Enterprises. As a longtime
resident, Virginia and her
husband were instrumental
in the development of a
great many cultural
resources, such as the
McCallum Theater and the
College of the Desert.
2011 FALL SCCAP
(SO. CALIF. ALUMNAE PANHELLENIC)
MEETING RECAP
HTTP://WWW.SCCAP.INFO/
HOME_PAGE.HTML
To begin this SCAP meeting/
luncheon was a very proud time to
represent our CVAP. At this meeting
there were two Alumnae Area
Advisors, one of which was Carol
Coordt, our AAA. Carol proudly
announced to all that were present
that we (CVAP) had won the
National NPC Award. She also went
on to say that she had just come from
Texas where we were presented with
this award.
Overall, Fall 2011Sorority
Recruitments were very positive.
Our larger So. CA Universities, those
recruitment numbers were as a result
of reaching out for out of state
students. In addition, they also had
transfers, plus more sophomores
going through recruitment. The Fall
2011 Recruitment overall attendance
numbers for all of our 14 SCCAP
college/universities were very
positive with 9,700 young women
who went through. Not to mention
every one of their chapters are either
at or over their quotas.
The majority of our SCCAP schools
were very creative this year with
many different marketing events to
promote sorority life. The following
are some of their examples: hosting
parent’s night, pizza parties,
brochures from each school listing all
their sororities with each sorority's
history, pictures of each chapter’s
house, GPA, size, philanthropy, colors
flowers, symbols, plus mottos. Then
at the larger schools they selected
several sororities who did skits, or
showed films plus themes that
represented their sororities. Each
young woman was also provided with
a college/university logo bag which
made it easy to carry all their sorority
brochures plus various giveaways.
Finally, on behalf of our CVAP
Collegiate Files , I would like to
thank all of you who took your time
to complete our “Potential New
Membership Recruitment” form.
Based on the quotas at most of these
schools the competition to become a
New Member of the sorority , they
selected may become difficult. That
is why you’re taking the time to
recommend our young women from
CV who are seeking sorority life can
make a major difference. All our
young women who have become a
New Member of a sorority are very
appreciative.
Sincerely,
Jody Landerman
CVAP-Collegiate Files
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The world Affairs Council of the
Desert will honor CVAP and USC during their Sunday, April 15, 2012
dinner at the Renaissance Esmeralda
Resort. Mehgan O’Sullivan, from
Georgetown’s Kennedy School of Government will speak on “An
Assessment of the Obama Foreign
Policy.” Our member rate that night
will be $55.00. To be on the
invitation list, please contact Karen
Speros at [email protected]
or call (760) 345-3770.
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Desert Arc was founded in 1959 and
today serves over 600 Coachella
Valley adults with autism, Down
syndrome, mental retardation,
cerebral palsy, and other disabilities.
Our clients receive life-enhancing
vocational training and ear a
paycheck doing large or small jobs
for businesses or individuals. We
provide services including but not
limited to shredding, small pars
assembly, envelope stuffing,
laminating, shrink-wrapping, custom
pick and pack shipping, fruit picking,
professional janitorial and
landscaping services, restaurant
kitchen prep, recycling, and hotel
housekeeping. Our Yucca Valley
facility offers residential landscaping
and housecleaning services. We do
many small custom jobs, please call
and ask! Phone (760) 346-1611, or
visit us at www.desertarc.org
DON’T FORGET YOUR
UNWRAPPED TOY FOR
the CVRM ON DEC. 8TH
HOW TO JOIN CVAP
Contact Ronda Ostergaard
2nd Vice President - Membership
$60.00 to Renew
[email protected]
(760) 340-3714
Additions or Corrections for
CVAP Newsletter or Website
www.coachellapanhellenic.org
Kris Drake, Ed.D.
[email protected]
(760) 320-2210
Coachella Valley Alumnae Panhellenic
% Kris Drake
729 N. Plaza Amigo
Palm Springs, CA 92262
The Panhellenic Creed
We, the fraternity women of America,
stand for service, through the
development of character inspired by the
close contact and deep friendship of
individual fraternity and Panhellenic life.
The opportunity for wide and wise service
through mutual respect and helpfulness is
the tenet by which we strive to live.