KC Alumnae Chapter of Tri Sigma Monthly NewsletterMay 1, 2019

26 out of 38 paid members voted, so It’s Official.

Our Officers for 2019-2020President – Rebecca Cassidy Hammontree, Pi

Vice-President – Kat Hartwig, Beta BetaSecretary – Lindsey Baughmann, ChiTreasurer – Carol Crank Phillips, NuGKCPH Delegate – Janis Edmon, Nu

GKCPH Alternate – Frankie Ritter Wainwright, Kappa Foundation/Philanthropic – Kim Sage Benson, Mu

Triangle – Cathy Angotti Althaus, NuFacebook Coordinator – Ashley Adorante, Alpha Gamma

Daytime Activities – Carolyn Granger Austin, NuBook Club – Ilene Ginardi Burns, Chi

Thank you to all who are willing to serve.

President, Rebecca Cassidy Hammontree:

Thank you to all of you who are going to serve as officers for the next year. I’m looking forward to working with all of you. Kat and I are discussing various plans for program activities. We always welcome any ideas that you

may have. Use the Contact Us Section of Website.Like us on Facebook: Kansas City Alumnae Chapter Of Sigma Sigma Sigma

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Founders’ day was a successful story of Sigma Love. Donna Jones Clark and Frankie Ritter Wainwright talked about their love for Tri Sigma as part of the program. We honored our WOY, Carolyn Granger Austin, as she couldn’t attend the GKCPH event. The meal was delicious and “Stately and Royal” was a vocal masterpiece. (See photo of the socks that were collected under philanthropy.)

Founders’ Day: 1st row-A Brenton, J Ball, B Dumler, G Albauer, C Phillips, F Wainwright, R Davenport, K Benson, D Walker, A Adorante, 2nd row-I Burns, R Hammontree, C Austin, E Blankenship, R Alpaugh, C Althaus, C Gurley, M Horn, D Clark.

(2)Upcoming Events for your Calendar

Do you want to use a different picture of yourself on our website? See p.3 of newsletter. Visit our website: http://acms2.theginsystem.com/trisigmakansascity/index

A. June, 13, 2019, 9:30, Morning Coffee Group -Join your fellow Tri Sigma Alumnae Chapter Club members for a summer coffee meet and greet at Panera Bread, 18800 East US Highway 40, Independence, Missouri 64055.

B. August14, 2019, 9:30  Morning Coffee Group - Join your fellow Tri Sigma Alumnae Chapter Club members for a summer coffee meet and greet at Panera Bread, 1305 NE Douglas Street, Lees Summit, Missouri 64086.

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Secretary, Lindsey Baumann: Do you know someone who would like to get our email-ings? Let me know and please continue to send any messages and/or correspondence that need to be forwarded to the group to kctrisigmaalumnae@gmail.com.

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Convention is this summer, June 28-July1, 2019 in Las Vegas. Make your plans now. Revelyn Satterlee Alpaugh will be our delegate.

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Treasurer, Amber Haun Brenton/Carol Crank Phillips: Balance on 3/3/2019 $1983.31

Income: FD lunch + 25.00 Dues Collected + 20.18

$2028.49 Expenses: BHCC (FD lunch) - 456.01

GKCPH/WOY - 120.00 Revelyn Alpaugh for Convention - 400.00

Foundation - 15.00 Actual Balance $1037.48

Budgeted for Founders’ Day expenses - 200.00 5/1/19 spendable balance: $837.48

A. 38 members have paid dues for 7/1/18-6/31/19, the Tri Sigma fiscal YEAR. Thank you to our current dues payers: Ashley Adorante, Gail Albauer, Revelyn Alpaugh, Cathy Althaus, 5Pat Arey, Carolyn Austin, Judith Ball, Lindsey Baumann, Kim Benson, 10Vicki Bird, Ethel Blankenship, Staci Bradford, Amber Brenton, Lucy Brewer, 15Ilene Burns, Donna Clark, Amy Collins, Brenda Dumler, Doris Ebersole, 20Janis Edmon, Carole Gurley, Rebecca Hammontree, Katelyn Hartwig, Berlene Herrick, 25Melinda Horn, Rosalie Karczewski, Julie Kelly, Kati Martin, Angela Pasley, 30Carol Phillips, Lea Ann Sprague, Connie Stoner, Barbara Thompson, Kay Thomson, 35Cheryl Tittor, Dana Walker, Erin Walton, 38Frankie Wainwright.

B. Did you miss Founders’ Day? You can still make your yearly donation to the Foundation by mail or online.

C. Still want to pay 2018-19 dues? Dues are $20 returning members, $10 for first year members. If you haven’t paid dues, use the “contact us” section to get address, or pay on our website with an additional $1 convenience fee (http://acms2.theginsystem.com/trisigmakansascity/how-to-join).

D. National dues should have been paid in February. Go to the national website if you still need to pay. https://www.trisigma.org/

E. We are still selling Foundation Violet Cards for the Foundation. They are $5 a card. The money collected goes straight to the Foundation. If you need any let me know.

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Daytime Group, Carolyn Granger Austin: Dates for the two summer coffees: 9:30 a.m., Thursday, June 13, at the Paneras on 40 Hwy in Independence and at 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, August 14 at the Paneras on Douglas in Lee’s Summit.

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We collected 173 pair of socks and $10 for Blair’s Socks. Thank you for all of your contributions. I think that may be the most we’ve ever collected.

https://www.blairsfostersocks.org/

Three women walked on our team at the March of Dimes “March for Babies”. At least $186 was raised by our team. Thank you,

Amber Haun Brenton, Rebecca Hammontree and Dana Otting Walker. Cheryl Anderson Tittor worked with the Zeta Tau collegiate chapter at the bubble booth.

R Hammontree, C Tittor, A Brenton, D Walker

D Walker, A Brenton, R Hammontree

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Triangle, Cathy Angotti Althaus: Look for the photo of the book club and also Frankie

Wainwright and her sister in the last edition of the Triangle.

Membership, Carol Crank Phillips: Starting with the fiscal year in July, we’ve had a total of 173 Sigmas attending with 38 women attending one event, 19 attending four or more events, and 8 have attended eight or more.

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Alternate, Frankie Wainwright: It was a beautiful day at Indian Hills Country Club as six of our members joined Janis as she was installed at the

president of GKCAPH. Ashley Adorante provided the cutouts of our WOY, Carolyn Granger Austin, as Carolyn wasn’t able to be there. The accomplishments of the scholarship winners were very impressive. It would be wonderful for Tri Sigma to be represented, so let’s encourage our Sigma collegians to apply for these scholarships.

Carol Phillips, Carole Gurley, Donna Clark, Revelyn Alpaugh, Ashley Adorante, Brenda Dumler, Janis Edmon Theme of Brunch Janis Edmon, new GKCAPH President

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********** Want a better photo on our website? **********http://acms2.theginsystem.com/trisigmakansascity/index

If you have paid dues or participated in the last 2-3 years, you are included on our website as an active member. I don’t have a photo for everyone and most of the photos used were taken from Facebook. If you’d like to send me a better

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(continued) photo, please send it to me as an attachment to kctrisigmatreasurer@gmail.com. If your picture is not on the website and it should be there, let me know about that also. I would love for someone else to help with the website. ARE YOU INTERESTED?

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Personal News: Julie Shuck Doane was elected president of Lee’s Summit R7 School Board. Julie is also on the Advisory Board of Nu Chapter. Congratulations, Julie.Please send any info that you would like to share with the chapter to: kctrisigmatreasurer@gmail.com.

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TRI SIGMA/MARCH OF DIMES - VIRTUAL MILITARY BABY SHOWER - Please support our national mission with March of Dimes to help supply baby shower items to our nation’s military families. -  Link to the Amazon Baby Shower

- https://www.amazon.com/baby-reg/trisigma-foundation-july-2019-woodstock/POHBX24ZQK4K

Hello Tri Sigma Sisters and friends. For Tri Sigma's 45th National Convention this June, the Tri Sigma Foundation invites all Sisters to join in supporting our partnership with March of Dimes by donating an item for our Military Baby Shower initiative. These items will go to support the March of Dimes Mission: Healthy Babies, which hosts baby showers for our American military forces. Ten to twenty military baby showers are hosted annually across the US for expecting military families. Each military family who attends receives a gift box filled with baby essentials. These showers help fill the gap for military families who are often stationed thousands of miles away from their home state and cannot easily be showered by their own families. It is our hope that Tri Sigmas nationwide (not just those attending Convention) will give gifts to our nation's SMALLEST HEROES. Sisters can help with MISSION: HEALTHY BABIES by selecting a gift

from our Amazon MILITARY BABY SHOWER REGISTRY. These items will be shipped to Tri Sigma National Headquarters ahead of Convention and then delivered to March Of Dimes. No worries about making room in your suitcase! Will you help us fulfill all 900 baby items? We need your help not only to donate an item for these baby showers but to also spread the word of our March Of Dimes Military Baby Shower efforts. Please share our baby registry link with Sigmas, friends, family and more! Thank you Tri Sigmas and friends for supporting March of Dimes MISSION: HEALTHY BABIES! This particular mission holds a special place in my heart as it supports two of my favorite passions - serving children and supporting our nation's military families! - Amber Brenton, Pi Chapter- Tri Sigma Foundation MOD Committee Member- Regional Recruitment Specialist- Kansas City, MO Alumnae Chapter VP- Proud Army Wife.

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