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March 2013 Newsletter for Lambda Tau Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated
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Volume 2
Issue 3
March 2013
Upcoming Events
5th—Twenty Pearls Foundation Board and
Lambda Tau Omega Executive Committee
Meetings at St. Andrews Church
Homewood, Illinois
9th—Twenty Pearls Foundation
Membership and Lambda Tau Omega
Chapter Meetings at United Christian
Church— Country Club Hills, Illinois
23rd—Scholarship Interviews
B a s i l e u s M e s s a g e
J o y c e L . N e l s o n , E d . D
Happy Women’s Month Sorors
It is with honor to greet you as Basileus, I am delighted to work with such
caring and thoughtful sorors. Thank you for being wonderful sisters and for
doing all that you do for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated Lambda
Tau Omega Chapter. Being an Alpha Kappa Alpha women means you are
classy, competent, confident and charismatic. You have style, grace, beauty
and compassion. It means that you are committed to the cause of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. It is with these characteristics that we as sisters
are able to continue to serve all mankind. Sorors our first lady of Central
Region is not only talking the talk, she is walking the walk from Illinois,
Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, St. Louis and Gape Girardeau, Missouri,
Wisconsin, North and South Dakota and back to Illinois. Soror Gisele M.
Casanova, Ph.D. is Supreme in Service, Sisterhood and Leadership and this
edition is dedicated to her in honor of Women’s Month. Sorors this month
Soror Gisele’s name will be included in the sisterly acts drawing and one soror
will be responsible for showing our Central Regional Director sisterly acts
representing Lambda Tau Omega Chapter for the month of March.
Plan to join and see this
Phenomenal Women in
Indianapolis, Indiana
April 4-7, 2013 at the
79th Central Regional
Conference
Happy Women’s Month
Gisele M. Casanova, Ph.D.
Central Regional Director
Yes! Our scrapbooks have been delivered to
Wisconsin. Thanks you Sorors Jan, Salwa, Marva,
Sonya, Valerie Kim, Program Committee
members and individual award nominees.
Congratulations!
You ALL Are WINNERS
All reports must be submitted by Monday evening before
Twenty Pearls Foundation and Executive Committee
Meetings.
Reports will not be posted day of or after Twenty Pearls
Foundation and Executive Committee meetings.
If you are receiving sisterly acts, you should make sure you
are providing them also. If you have chosen not to
participate, please let me know so your name can be
removed from the basket and you will not be asked to select
one.
If you plan to participate in chapter stroll you must attend the
next meeting scheduled for Sunday, March 9, 2013.
Don’t forget to pay for the 79th Central Region bus to
Indianapolis. See Soror Carol Sharp
If you still want a commemorative pin from our 35th
Anniversary see Soror Sarah for details.
I thought I would take the time to write about why it's very important for our chapter to focus more on
membership retention. I regularly visit numerous organizations and associations and I frequently hear, "We
want to increase membership, increase attendance, etc." I rarely hear, "We would like to focus on retention of
existing members."
For long term-growth, stability and the overall health of our chapter, we need to focus more on membership
retention. High retention rates mean happy and satisfied sorors. When we have happy and satisfied sorors, they
are more likely to share information about our chapter to missing and lost pearls.
Contact Soror Audrey McFarlin, Membership Chairman on ways you can support our membership.
REGIONAL CONFERENCE PROTOCOL 1. Business attire, unless otherwise noted, is required for Ple-
nary Sessions. Flip-flop type shoes are unacceptable.
2. Sorors must wear their badge for all meetings and events.
3. Only members with badges will be admitted to plenary ses-
sions and workshops.
4. Stand for the procession of dais members.
5. Receive the Regional Director and Supreme Basileus by
standing when they are introduced.
6. Refrain from walking during dais introductions, the medita-
tion and when the Regional Director or the Supreme Basileus is
giving her address to the delegation.
7. Respect designated seating for delegates, Diamond/Golden
Sorors, the Sorors with physical disabilities, and reserved
seating for conference guests.
8. Please wait to be acknowledged from the presiding officer
when at the designated microphones.
9. Turn off all electronic communication devices. Please step out
of the meeting if you must use a phone.
10. Please refrain from pushing and shoving when entering all
events, especially the Step-Show, Luncheon events and Confer-
ence Gala. Hostesses or the banquet staff may need additional
set-up time, so please be patient at the door. Only designated
Sorors will be allowed to enter until the doors are opened.
11.Holding seats will not be allowed for any event.
12. Table hostesses are beneficial during meal functions to
remind us to keep quiet during presentations and/or perform-
ances at the dais.
13. Please be considerate of other conference attendees and take
only ONE gift when they are distributed at functions.
14. Refrain from overloading your plate during receptions.
One or two pieces
Submitted by June Mitchell, LTO Protocol Chairman
Sonya L. Bowen, Central Region Protocol Chairman and
Carol Sharp, Conference Chairman
We are 107 Members Strong!!!
Submitted by Marilyn Hamb
Regional Conference Attire
Thursday:
Training Institute-Business Casual
Committee Meeting-Casual AKA Paraphernalia
AKA Welcome Reception-Casual Paraphernalia
Chapter flair with matching attire
Friday:
Tribute to Leaders Breakfast (By Invitation Only)
Central Region Cardigan Set
Plenary Sessions-Central Region Cardigan Set
Public Meeting and Reception-Pink and/or Green Business
or Dressy Attire
Saturday:
EAF Legacy Breakfast-Business Attire with your fa-
vorite hat
Workshops-Business Attire
Plenary Session-Business Attire (Pink and/or Green)
Conference Luncheon-Pink and/or Green Business
Attire with your favorite hat
New Diamond Divas wear white attire, new Golden
Sorors wear gold attire, and new Silver Sorors wear silver
attire
Conference Gala “An Evening of Pearlesence”- After 5
Attire
Sunday:
Ivy Beyond the Wall Ritual-Conservative, uninter-
rupted white dress or skirt suit, complimentary hosiery and
white shoes (no pant, no hat)
Rededication Breakfast-Business Attire
Chaplin’s Corner
LTO Tech Tips
Bookmark ltoaka.org for easy access
Update your LTO User Profile with your Birthday, Initiation Date, and Initiating Chapter
If you cannot download the emailed pdf Newsletter, you can view it online ltoaka.org/newsletters
Try saving a committee report first if you cannot get it to open (right click and “Save As”)
During a meeting if you are following along on your Ipad, you can open two tabs in Safari- one that
stays on the page “Committee Reports” so that you don’t lose your place
The By-Laws form is now a fillable pdf so you can easily type in your recommended change. Ac-
cess it on the Members Welcome page.
If you missed Lambda Tau Omega’s article in the last Ivy Leaf, you can read it on our TPF website http://tpfinc.org/2013/01/01/twenty-pearls-foundation-celebrates-youth/
Submitted by Kimberly Mitchell
Technology Chairman
To Own Your Own Strength
In Whitney Houston’s song, “I didn’t know my own strength”, she sings, “I crashed down, stumbled but I did not crumble, I was not
meant to break.” She sings about an inner strength that she had not recognized as being her characteristic. If we are made in the
image and after the likeness of GOD then we can only express strength..
Most of us have had or will have a moment in our lives when we think we could not possibly make it through a crisis or what may
appear to be the lowest time of our lives. Even Jesus Christ experienced a moment when he asked the Lord to take this cup from him.
It is not unusual for us at these times to turn to friends and relatives for comfort and word of encouragement. Their words only act as
a trigger or catalyst that releases the words that are there waiting for you to remember, the only words that matter and were uttered
long, long ago. “So fear not: for I am with you: do not be dismayed; for I am your GOD; I will strengthen you: yes, I will help you:
yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. Isaiah 41:10 God Bless you all..
Submitted by Jennifer Lyle Moore
March Hodegos Highlights
March Birthdays
Sharon Brown 3/4
Soror Donna Fowler- Canty 3/7
Soror Trina Johnson- Spivey 3/10
Soror Karla Barton 3/12
Soror Sandra Perkins- Butler 3/24
Soror Donica Jackson 3/24
Soror Evita McNeil 3/26
Soror Lora Alexander- Flaherty 3/31
Wedding Anniversaries
Soror Trina Johnson- Spivey & Honey- Do Craig 3/23
AKAversaries
Jacqueline Scott March 1956 Thirty –Two Degrees of Elevation (LTO)
Sandra Butler March 1965 Karla Baton March 11th
Veneeta Phelps March 13th Antionette Patton March 11th
Escentiah Jan Reed March 1969 Alice Tittle March 11th
Sarah Lewis-Weaver March 1989 Paula Rogers- Daniels March 11th
Saundra Jones March 24th
Trina Johnson- Spivey March 12 th
Thirty- Two Pearls in Perpetuity (LTO)
Marva C- Pruitt March 20th Allison Bonner- Evans March 5th
Sylvia Taylor March 25th Millicent Borishade March 5th
Carol Harris March 30th Cheryl Cage March 5th
Marydale Donald March 5th
Valerie Pace March 5th
Tina Hughes- Burke March 5th
Vivian Hudson- Davis March 5th
Jennifer Moore March 5th
Carol Sharp March 5th
Sandra Lee March 5th
Tiffany Wicks March 5th
Soror Crystal Brooks-Williams & Family, Soror Renee Collins & Family,
Soror Lois Merritt’s Family and Stefannie Farrow’s Family