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Cactus Chatter Sphinx Court #65 - Phoenix, Arizona

November 2015

Lady Joy Moore - Grand High Priestess Recorder

L.O.S.N.A. INC.

ACTIVATED APRIL 10, 1954

High Priestess

Inside This Issue Officers articles 1 - 3 Unit and Club articles 4, 5 Committee reports 6 The Value of Your Name 7

High Priestess Welcome to our nine new members. You will now

be known as Joy's Beacons of Light, and the lighthouse will always be your class emblem. I encourage you to visit all the units and join one or two of them. The members look forward to getting to know you. The Units and Clubs officers and members are in the Ros-ter you received in your packet.

The Value of Your Name project is off to a good start. This is an opportunity for our members who are not able to attend our fund raisers to participate as well as the rest of our members. The form will be included in the Cactus Chatter issues through February.

Lady Joy Moore, Grand High Priestess will be visit-ing our Court December 9 and 10. Our court meeting will be December 10, with dinner at 5:30 p.m., and Court meeting at 7 p.m. Lady Joy is a delightful person and she is looking forward to meeting with our mem-bers. I will be hosting a pot luck dinner at my home December 9, at 5:30 p.m. Please let me know if you are attending, so I know how many to prepare for. It will be casual with no agenda except "fun, food and fellowship".

A big thank you to Ladies Carol Shepard, PHP and Janet Mielke, PHP for representing Sphinx Court at the funeral service for Lady Dee Berekebile-Wright, PHP. The service was held while we were at Western Area Organized Unit Meet, in Sacramento, CA. Lady Dee was just getting settled in her new home in North Caro-lina, when she suddenly passed. We will miss her.

Our gift wrapping project will start Saturday, De-cember 12; and Sunday, December 13. It will continue Friday, December 18; Saturday, December 19; and

The Official Visit of Lady Joy Moore

Grand High Priestess December 10, 2015

Dinner at 5:30 Stated Meeting at 7:00

El Zaribah Shrine Auditorium

Pot Luck December 9, 2015

Home of Our High Priestess Lady Mimi Bohlman

Dinner at 5:30 RSVP to Lady Mimi by

December 2

November 2015 Page 2

Officers’ Offerings

Princess Welcome to all the new members! I hope to see you at one of the Unit meetings this month. As Princess this year I’m in charge of setting up transportation for Grand Council in Costa Mesa, CA, in

May. If you think you would like to join us for this national event, please let me know and I’ll make sure you get an information packet. It’s a week of fun, meeting ladies from all over the United States and Canada. There will be tours and fun with your Court along with the meetings and Unit Drills. Just ask me for information. A caravan of cars is forming from Phoenix and I’ve heard we may have a motorcycle escort!

Enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday with your family and friends!! Yorkie Hugs and Dark Chocolate Kisses,

Lady Karen MacDougall Home: 623-873-7988 Cell: 623-337-3226 email: [email protected]

Associate Princess A big Thank You to all you wonderful ladies for your support for the Children's Hospitals. I have boxes full of beautiful crocheted and knitted quilts, as well as some toys and other miscellaneous items. I have received several letters from the hospitals, and here is a quote, “Dolls, action figures and remote

control cars are more than just playthings at Shriners Hospitals. They are a prescription for joy! Toys have been shown to alleviate the symptoms of anxiety, boredom and even pain. With that in mind, for November, I would like Barbie dolls, Legos, toy cars and trucks, tinker toys etc., please. Also, if anyone has toiletries from our recent trip, please bring them in, also I am still collecting the pull tabs.

Tinker Bell Fairy Dust Blessings, Lady Iris Colbert

Home: 480-990-1298 Cell: 602-622-6381 email: [email protected]

Sunday, December 20. We will need at least 5 people each shift. The shifts will be 10 to 2, 2 to 6 each day ex-cept Saturday, December 19, and they will be 9 - 1 pm, 1 to 5 p.m. and 5 to 9 p.m., Sunday will be 10 - 2, and 2 - 6. Our Clown Unit will be helping us those days and providing entertainment for workers and shoppers. This is a fun way to spend 4 hours.

Our next Court Meeting will be November 23, with dinner at 5:30 p.m. and meeting at 7:00 p.m. Please try to attend our Court Meetings, and I will try to keep them short.

Lighthouse Love, Lady Mimi Bohlman

Home: 480-946-6292 Cell: 602-738-3628 email: [email protected]

“They may not remember what you say or remember what you did, but they will always remember how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou


Recorder A BIG WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS

Nancy Beffel, 5345 E McLellan Rd, Unit 29, Mesa, AZ 85205-3414, 480-300-5700 Robin Bushey, 515 E Carefree Hwy, #411, Phoenix, AZ 85085-8839, 623-210-8447 Donna DiCola, 6422 W Kings Ave, Glendale, AZ 85306-1609, 623-776-0499 Janice Nunn, 5641 E Forge Ave, Mesa, AZ 85206-5814, 602-909-0755 Kara McAllister-Dommel, 11049 N 34th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85029-4107, 602-579-3349 Wendy Reichard, 3902 W State Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85051-8125, 602-565-2630 Carmel Teeples, 902 E Fairmount, Phoenix, AZ 85014-4709, 602-264-0851 Amy Watkins, 3902 W State Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85051-8125, 623-328-9107 Veronica Ann Zabala, PO Box 1998, Litchfield Park, AZ 85340-1998, 623-755-5910

Roster Changes Mary Bystricky, PO Box 1183, Payson, AZ 85547-1183 Sharon Halford, 3166 Cross Canyon Lane, Grand Junction, CO 81504-6418

2015 DUES ARE $25.00 AND WERE DUE APRIL 1, 2015 Your self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of your dues card is greatly appreciated.

Lady Linda Curry, PHP Home: 480-941-2070 email: [email protected]

First Ceremonial Lady Welcome to our new group of Ladies! I am looking forward to seeing you at the November meeting. If you would like to attend any of the Unit Meetings, or have any questions about the Units, please ask me. I’ll let you know where to go and who to contact. You are welcome as a guest at any time.

If you were not at the last Ceremonial and Dinner, you missed a good time. With the holidays approaching, we are all starting to get busy. But remember that the coming holiday season is the time to remember friends, old and new. Attending a Court Meeting is a an opportunity to reconnect with your friends.

Our next Membership Tea is scheduled for January 10, 2016. (Yes, the new year is coming soon!) You will hear more about it in your Unit Meetings, or ask you Unit Leader. We had a good start to the year after our last Tea – let’s keep that momentum going!

Rainbow Smiles and Yellow Roses, Lady Mary Lou Burger

Home: 602-503-6045 email: [email protected]

Second Ceremonial Lady Congratulations and thank you to all of the new members. If you would like to attend dinner just before November’s meeting, please either call me or email me. I also owe a huge applause to everyone who made the ceremonial happen. You all did a fantastic job.

November is going to be busy and we have a couple of holidays, Veterans Day and Thanksgiving. Just re-member to keep an eye on each other and if you all need anything please call or email.

Owl be seeing you, Lady Janet Massey

Phone: 480-861-8209 email: [email protected]


Clowns Hello Ladies,

As we get back into the swing of things the Clowns are gearing up for some fun activities with the holidays coming. Our President Lady Lisa Gilbertson a.k.a. Peanut, helped out our friends at APS for an Easter Seals function. She had a great time face painting and being with the kids.

We invite any and all members to come and attend our unit meeting. Our meetings are the 2nd Thursday of the month. Our next meeting will be November 12th at 7pm. Please join us in the Red Fez Room for dinner at 5:30pm. We would love to have you attend.

Lady Debbie Jones, Vice President

Ceremonial Pageantry What a beautiful Ceremonial we had! Many thanks

to all who participated. Our next meeting will be Tuesday, November 17th

at 6:30. New members, we would love to have you visit us. It is right before the WAOUM 2017 meeting, so both would be good for you to attend.

Happy Thanksgiving to all! Lady Jean Glover, PHP, President

Unit and Club Happenings Director Staff

DIRECTOR STAFF MEETINGS START AT 6:30 Welcome new members! We invite you to join us

at one of our meetings. We meet the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 6:30 PM. Some of us meet for dinner prior to the meeting. Our next meeting will be on No-vember 10th and will be the OV (official visit) of our High Priestess. Lady Mimi, you had a wonderful initia-tion and a big class.

We had a wonderful time at WAOUM. We won for the best costumes. We were very original in that we weren't just pirates. Some of us were parrots and wrenches. We initiated a new member into the Direc-tor Staff. Lady Debbie Ortman, we're so glad to have you as a new member.

We will be serving dinner at the next Court meet-ing on Mon. Nov. 26th. The menu will be Iris' pasta primavera with chicken. Dinner starts at 5:30 PM. Please come a little early and join us. It's a great way to get to know one another and it is the Director Staff’s main fund raiser.

Our attire for November will be the red LOS tee shirt and black slacks.

Purple Panther Lady Gina Baird, PHP, Assistant Chief

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

The Sun Unit

NOTICE * NOTICE * NOTICE To avoid being charged for your Dinner if you are

unable to keep your reservation, notify Lady Janet Massey, 2nd Ceremonial Lady, Phone: 480-861-

8209 email: [email protected] by the Thursday prior to Stated Meeting.


Greeters Unit Bear Hugs,

Lady Kathy Kelley, President

No article submitted.

Sphinx Patrol The Patrol had eleven Members attend WAOUM.

We did a good performance. Thanks to Lady Pam Wade, whom we talked in to marching with us and she did a great job! We all managed to get fast uni-form changes accomplished, as many of us belong to three Units and did three performances! Fun Night was really great fun, we were five Parrots and a lot of Pirates. We have Lady Lou Ann Speas to thank for helping with the Parrot costumes. Sphinx Court re-ceived first prize for all their costumes.

We welcome the new Ladies and hope they will come to our next meeting. Our Christmas Party is on December 5th and our next regular unit meeting is on January 5, 2016, it is also our OV with our H.P. Lady Mimi Bohlman.

We are looking forward to the December Court Meeting and the visit of our GHP Lady Joy Moore on the 10th of December.

Safe and happy Holidays to everyone. Lady Renate Sweat, Captain

PHP Club Our next Past High Priestess meeting will be held

at 7 pm on Wednesday, November 18, 2015. This will be our Official Visit with our High Priestess, Lady Mimi Bohlman.

Another reminder about the Past High Priestess-es: we are here to help you by answering questions that you may have and to assist you if you need us. Feel free to contact any one of us with questions or concerns about what LOS is about and how to do things that you may not be sure of. You’ll be able to find our phone numbers in the Court Roster -- a list of all of the Past Highs starts on Page 5 in the Roster and our phone numbers can be found in the roster itself.

Lady Linda DuBois, PHP, President

Sun Unit Welcome new members! Our next meeting will

be on Friday, November 13th, at the Masonic Fellow-ship Center, 107th Avenue and Union Hills beginning at 11:30. We will have a no host lunch following.

Our holiday party will be on December 8th at the Black Bear Restaurant, 6039 W. Bell Road beginning at noon. We will order off the menu. Reservations to me by November 30th.

Be sure to get your opportunities to win a beauti-ful afghan from any Sun Unit member. The new own-er will be selected at our November Court meeting.

Lady Trudy Mullins, PHP, President Pro tem

NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE At the November 13, 2015 meeting of the Sun Unit an election will be held to fill the vacancy of President of the Sun Unit.


Ladies Oriental Shrine of North America Sphinx Court No. 65 Phoenix, Arizona

NOTICE OF MEMBER DUES

Name Address City State ZIP Current Dues are due and payable on April 1 of each year. If you haven’t paid yours, please forward. The Current Dues for 2015 - 2016 are $25 per member. PLEASE MAKE YOUR CHECK PAYABLE TO Sphinx Court No. 65 and mail to: Lady Linda Curry, 1550 N. El Camino Drive, Tempe, AZ 85281-1426

Sphinx Court Membership Membership @ 10-01-2015 254 Initiated 9 Demits 1 Deceased 1 Suspended 0 Membership @ 10-23-2015 261

Sunshine Report Lady Trudy Mullins, PHP, Chairman

Sympathy Lady Dee Berkebile-Wright, PHP Lady Lillian Ryan - brother

Illness Lady Ginger Enloe - broken wrist Linda Smith - colitis, son 2 heart attacks Mary Lou Salyer, PHP - broken hip

Good News Lady Pat Russell and her husband Dick celebrating 68th wedding anniversary

NOTICE Election of WAOUM 2017 Treasurer

November 17, 2017 AFTER Ceremonial Pageantry meeting.

Has Your Address changed? Old Address: Name

Address

City State ZIP

New Address (please print): Name

Address

City State ZIP

New Telephone # ( ) Send this form to: Sphinx Court #65 Recorder Lady Linda Curry, 1550 N. El Camino Drive, Tempe, AZ 85281-1426


Audit Committee Ladies: our audit is scheduled to take place

Wednesday, December 2nd and Thursday, December 3rd. Please don’t hesitate to call me at 602-329-2015 or email me at [email protected] if you have questions on the 2014 instructions or the audit. Further information will follow regarding the day your books will need to be delivered to Lady Mimi, HP. Please make sure your books are up-to-date and the signature cards are current. Thank you, Andie Lacombe Chairman Audit Committee

WAOUM 2017 Committee Our next meeting will be on November 17th about

7:00 after the Ceremonial Pageantry meeting. We will make decisions on several old items:

name of Fun Night, shirts/vests for us to wear, and other things. We will also discuss WAOUM 2015 as well as hold the election for our WAOUM 2017 Treas-urer.

If you are on the committee please plan to be there.

Lady Bobbie Balthazor, PHP, President

NOTICE * NOTICE * NOTICE 2 Year Trustee Vacancy

Have you ever thought about being an officer in Sphinx Court? Well, now’s your chance. Due to the resignation of PHP Lady Dee Berkebile-Wright as Trustee 1 Year, Lady Valerie Glann-Calvin has cho-sen to move up to Trustee 1 Year which leaves a va-cancy in the Trustee 2 Year office.

The Trustees have a very important job to do. They are the keepers of our paraphernalia.

We will have election and installation of the 2 Year Trustee at our November 23rd Court Meeting.

KEEP THIS DATE IN MIND NOVEMBER 11TH, 2015 VETERANS DAY

(Wednesday) ‘Retiring of Flags’, and ‘Retiring of Fezzes’. LOS

has a rule that requires fezzes not useable must be burned. We have had many fezzes in our inventory that are not useable and need to be ‘retired’. We will use this special day to do that with a short ceremony.

The Shrine Legion of Honor will be ‘Retiring Flags’ on this special day after the Veterans Day Pa-rade and Shrine barbecue. They have graciously offered the use of the barbecue ‘pits’ after the Shrine barbecue, but before their ceremony of Retiring the Flags (flags no longer in use will be burned). My best guess for the time is 1pm – 1:30pm. We would be delighted if you could join us. Wearing of your own fez is encouraged.

Janet Mielke, Chairman

CACTUS CHATTER PRICES Personal Ad or Message - 1 Issue $10.00

Unit or Club Ad - Yearly $45.00 Make checks payable to Sphinx Court and send to:

Lady Linda Curry, PHP, Recorder


PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE SPHINX COURT NO. 65 RULES AND REGULATIONS

TO BE VOTED ON AT THE JANUARY 25, 2016 STATED MEETING

ARTICLE II - OFFICERS AND DUTIES

PRINCESS

3. The Princess shall be chairman of the Court social function for the Fall Ceremonial. 3. The Princess shall be the Amah of the Greeters and it will be her responsibility to attend any functions that are

requested by this Unit.

ASSOCIATE PRINCESS

l3. The Associate Princess shall be co-chairman of the Court social function for the Fall Ceremonial. FIRST CEREMONIAL LADY

3. The First Ceremonial Lady shall be co-chairman of the social function for the Fall Ceremonial, and chairman of the Court social function for the Spring Ceremonial.

4. The First Ceremonial Lady shall be the Amah of the Clowns and it will be her responsibility to attend any function that is requested by this unit and a member of the Fez Committee.

ARTICLE III - COMMITTEES AND DUTIES

Funeral Chairman and Co-Chairman shall be appointed by the High Priestess. The Chairman shall be responsible for Funeral Robes, Funeral Emblem, Funeral Fez, Ritual Covers, Gloves and Flowers. She may appoint (3) members to assist in phoning and other duties. Sixteen (16) fresh white carnations are needed for the Funeral Service. Members taking part in the service will wear fez, white shoes and funeral robe, preferably not over regular street clothes. Funeral Emblem and Funeral Fez will be displayed with approval of the family at the Visitation and at the Funeral.

The Fez Committee shall be appointed by the High Priestess, shall include the 1st Ceremonial Lady and shall be responsible for: ordering fezzes for members selling used fezzes donated to the Court with proceeds going toward the Court’s ways and means.

ARTICLE VI – SPHINX COURT TRAVEL FUND 7. Proceeds from Sphinx Court Travel Fund Projects will be deposited in the Sphinx Court Travel Fund Savings Account with the Court. A detailed report and accounting of the Sphinx Court Travel Fund projects must be en-tered in the Sphinx Court Travel Fund Book supplied to the Recorder - such as: all expenses, number of tickets and dinners sold, accompanied by receipts, etc. The report will be placed on file with the Court Recorder. 8. Letters of acceptance or rejection must be written by the Unit participating in the Sphinx Court Travel Fund two (2) years prior to their traveling year. A copy is to be placed on file with the Court Recorder. one (1) copy to the Court Recorder and one (1) copy to be placed in the Sphinx Court Travel Fund book.

The airfare for each lady of the Unit participating in the Sphinx Court Travel Fund going to Grand Council shall be an expense reimbursement by the Travel Fund in the following manner.

A. Round trip bus fare or the equivalent thereof will be an expense reimbursement not to exceed 10 hours bus travel one way, unless airfare is less expensive, in which case that will be reimbursed. A. Transportation costs shall be reimbursed not to exceed the least expensive airfare to and from Grand Council

B. Travel requiring more than 10 hours shall be the least expensive consistent round trip coach airfare. Transportation includes airfare, trains, bus fare or gasoline if personal vehicle is driven and must be sup-

ported by receipts. C. Full qualifying airfare expense transportation shall be reimbursed provided there is sufficient (cont. p 9)


money in the fund. If not, the fund shall be equally divided among the participants. 11. Each member of the Unit participating in the Sphinx Court Travel Fund going to Grand Council must sign a receipt for the expense reimbursement received from the Travel Fund in triplicate.

A. One copy for the Recorder B. One copy for the Unit C. One copy for the Travel Fund Book.

12. At the September Court meeting, the Unit Leader of the Unit participating in the Sphinx Court Travel Fund must submit a written report of the activities of the Unit participating in the Sphinx Court Travel Fund while at Grand Council.

A. One copy for the Court Recorder B. One copy placed in the Sphinx Court Travel Fund Book. for the Unit.

ARTICLE VII-GENERAL

1. Records of all transactions of Committees, Units or Clubs shall be kept in a bound record book with consecu-tively numbered pages - each page to be initialed by Leader and Secretary of Unit, Club, or Committee. Said book will be turned in to the AUDITING COMMITTEE prior to the Official Visit of the Grand High Priestess and at the end of the fiscal year, (March 31st).

2. Each member is required to own a Fez of the Ladies Oriental Shrine of North America and it shall be worn at each Court Meeting. The Fez may be ordered from the Recorder Chairman of the Fez Committee.

RULES AND REGULATIONS COMMITTEE: Linda K. Curry, PHP, Recorder Karen MacDougall, Princess Dorothy Joerding, PHP Read at Stated Court Meeting November 23, 2015



Friday, February 27, 2016

6:00 to 11:00 pm

6:oo - 10:00PM El Zaribah Shrine Center

Fiesta Room 552 N. 40th St. , Phoenix, AZ

$15 per person

advance purchase required

50’s Apparel Requested Rock the night away with 50’s tunes

Dinner: Hamburgers and Hot Dogs Events: Dinner Dancing Lot’s of Surprises! Call 480-510-2896 for more info & tickets

Sock Hop


Join the ladies of Sphinx Court and invite your family, friends and neighbors for an afternoon of educational exhibitions and instruction.

Noble Allen Nichols and our own LOS Lady Cris-tine Nichols will be showing us how it’s done. Watch Lady Cristine hurl Noble Allen to the ground!

Drawings - Surprises Light Refreshments Get your tickets from a

Director Staff Member Today!!

SELF DEFENSE MILITARY STYLE

Live Exhibition!

January 23, 2016 2:00 to 4:00 PM

El Zaribah Shrine Center Tickets: $15.00 pp


Need a face painter? Need fun balloons?

Need tricks? Just need giggles in your life?

Contact the Sphinx Court #65 Clown Unit Lisa Gilbertson, President, 480-381-1276

SPHINX PATROL Water Bottle Holders - $5.00 Designer T-Shirt Sleeve Pins

$3.00 small / $5.00 large

See any Patrol member

Be A Lady in Red

Join the Ceremonial Pageantry

Contact LADY JEAN GLOVER, PHP—602-957-6871

Make Your Membership

A Beacon to Others

The Past High Priestess Club

GREETERS

SPHINX

NO. 65

Contact: Linda DuBois, PHP 480-657-0272

Director Staff Fez Cases $30 Stabilizers $8 Can Cozies $3

Ginny Fain 480-345-9819

If you would like to receive your Cactus Chatter online, please send me a message and I’ll send it to you via your email account instead of the US Postal Service. Lady Linda DuBois [email protected]

Cactus Chatter Editor Lady Bobbie Balthazor, PHP

602-237-5526 Email: [email protected]

5915 E. Woodridge Dr., Scottsdale, AZ 85254 www.sphinxcourt65.org

Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage

PAID Phoenix, Arizona Permit No. 369

Sphinx Court No. 65 Ladies Oriental Shrine

of North America

Linda Curry 1550 N. El Camino Dr.

Tempe, AZ 85281-1426

ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED

Calendar of Events for 2015 - 2016 UPDATED October 23, 2015

NOVEMBER 3 Patrol - Din. 5:30, Mtg. 7:00 7 Greeters - 11:30 10 Director Staff - Din.5:30, Mtg 6:30 11 Fez Retirement Ceremony @ 1:00 12 Clowns - Din. 5:30, Mtg. 7:00 13 Sun Unit @ 11:30 17 Ceremonial Pageantry @ 6:30 WAOUM 2017 Meeting after wards 18 PHP 23 Court Mtg-Din 5:30, Mtg 7:00 Election and installation of Trus tee 2 Year & Installation of Sun Unit President

DECEMBER 5 Patrol Holiday Party 8 Sun Unit Holiday Party 9 Potluck with the GHP 10 GHP Official Visit 12 Greeters Holiday Party 13 Director Staff Holiday Party 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 Gift Wrapping @ Half-Price Books

JANUARY, 2016 5 Patrol - Din. 5:30, Mtg. 7:00 10 Membership Tea 12 Director Staff - Din. 5:30, Mtg 6:30 14 Clowns - Din. 5:30, Mtg. 7:00 25 Court Mtg-Din 5:30, Mtg 7:00

FEBRUARY, 2106 2 Patrol - Din. 5:30, Mtg. 7:00 6 Greeters - 11:30 9 Director Staff - Din. 5:30, Mtg 6:30 11 Clowns - Din. 5:30, Mtg. 7:00 12 Sun Unit @ 11:30 16 Ceremonial Pageantry @ 6:30 17 PHP 20 Court Mtg, Ceremonial, Elec tions 27 Sock Hop

MARCH, 2016 1 Patrol - Din. 5:30, Mtg. 7:00 10 Clowns - Din. 5:30, Mtg. 7:00 15 Director Staff - Din. 5:30, Mtg 6:30 28 Court Mtg-Din 5:30, Mtg 7:00

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