Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Theta Theta Omega Chapter health committee reports

MEMORANDUM
DATE:
January 4, 2003
TO:
Theta Theta Omega, AKA
FROM:
Dorothy M. Johnson
Health Committee Chairman
NBLIC is in the process of planning and implementing our 9th annual health program, which is tentatively being scheduled for Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at the Monte Carlo Resort and Hotel.
Co-chairmen are Linda Haley and Ouida Brown.
We plan on formally introducing to the general public the Witness Project® of Las Vegas at this conference and at the same time introducing the Witness Project® Advisory Board Members. Our official board includes, Billie Rayford, Kaweeda Adams, Verlia Davis- Hoggard, Joyce Woodson, Jacqueline Caffey and Barbara McGants-Hill.
We have several grant requests in circulation at this time and several have made commitments, and several of our selected speakers have confirmed. In fact, we have invited Dr. Deborah Ewer, Research Asst, of the National W.P., Little Rock, AK to come and give an overview of the project.
At this time, I wish to ^ffena motion that a check in the amount of $700.00 be issued to NBLIC for the purpose of preliminary expenses toward the conference as outlined in this years’ budget.
Respectfully,
Dorothy M. Johnson
TO:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
MEMORANDUM
Theta Theta Omega Sorority, AKA, Inc.
Health Committee, NBUC 5/10/03 Report
The Health Conference, "Addressing Real and Potential Health Disparities in the Las Vegas Environment" was held on April 17,2003 at the Monte Carlo Resort and Hotel. The comments were encouraging. We presented placques to our main speakers and calculator portfolios to others.
We were able to network with the Nevada Cancer Institute and will attend a meeting with other invited organizations on May llth at the American Cancer Society to learn about each other. The Agenda may include information on the proposed Nevada
Cancer Center which appears to be on the drawing board for Las Vegas.
We expect to meet with the Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to discuss ways NBLIC and Komen can help each other in their individual goals.
We are happy to report Las Vegas now has on site a representative of the Cancer Information Service with regional headquarters in Seattle, WA.
To the new sorors listed on the Health Committee Roster, please see me today to receive information regarding meetings on the first Wednesday of each month excluding July and August.
The Witness Project Advisory Board will meet at my home on Monday, May 12th at 5:30 PM.
We request permission to present to the Body in October (National Breast Cancer Month) our Witness Project Presentation. This presentation will need approximately one hour and we are requesting the meeting be scheduled one hour earlier and no other meetings scheduled that day in order for all sorors to attend.
We are also requesting to have a table and 2 chairs set up for NBLIC to display and sell our Breast Self Examination Enhancers Pads at the June Meeting. These pads will sell for S35.00 each and will be a fund-raiser for NBLIC. A handout on the Pads is being distributed to you today in order for you to familarize yourself with the product.
Respectfully submitted,
Dorothy M. Johnson, Health Chairman
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while lying on your back. Place a pillow under your right shoulder as illustrated. Placing the pillow under your shoulder will help to spread the breast tissue over your chest wall. Raise your right arm and examine your right breast. Remember to examine every part of your breast and armpit, feeling for a lump or hardness. This exam should be performed both with and without The BSE Pad on both the right and left breasts.
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October 4, 2003
TO: TTO, AKA
FROM: NBLIC
SUBJECT. Tentative Plans -Addressing Health African American Community
Problems
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“neo, M“Auile, NV, Sunday - Wednesday, and others ’ C°Ilab°ratlOn with the 100 Black Men of America
Rooms approximately $39 - $49 per night... we are still negotiating
A Mesquite Bus Company bus to pick up riders at a central place on Sunday afternoon and return them on Wednesday late morning Shuttle to and from airport.
,ecturers: Dr. David Satcher, former surgeon general and now NBLIC principal investigator, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
Br- Terry Mason, NBLIC Midwest Regional Chair University of Illinois, School of Public Health, Chicago, IL
w. Dr- Oscar Streeter, Jr., NBLIC Western Regional
Vice-Chair, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Others to be added.
Reception on Sunday PM
Continental Breakfast and lunch on Monday...dinner on your own Continental Breakfast, lunch and banquet on Tuesday
Continental Breakfast on Wednesday
Mammogramvan to be on premises one day
PSA s and DR1 to be available for the men one day
Registration fee to be decided.
Available: Golf, spa, tennis, volley ball, shooting range, hayride & steak- try at the Oasis Ranch Outdoor Pavilion
neimork phweci June 7, 2003
NBLIC is in summer recess until September
Witness Project Summer Schedule
June 9,2003 - Advisory Board Meeting my house @ 6:30 PM
June 21st, 2003 - Health Fair with the American Stroke Assn. 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM @ 7220 S. Paradise Road
June 27th, 2003 - Award from the Links at Caesars Palace
Tuesday, July 8th, 2003 - 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM Presentation to Doolittle Senior Citizens
N.B. - There will be two Witness Project Orientations held on Wednesday, July 3rd and Tuesday, August 19th @ 6:30 PM at the West Las Vegas Library.
You must attend both sessions in order to be certified and All NBLIC members are expected to attend.
Members
Rhoda Anderson, Cashia De Vane, Martha Drohobyczer, Lillian Gates, Jackie Harris, Denell Hoggard, Verlia Davis Hoggard, Wilhelmina Lee, LaVonne Lewis, TinaRimmey, Debra Toney and Rosalind Williams....all sorors are welcome!
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Memo
To: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Theta Theta Omega Chapter
From: NBLIC
Date: 2/1/03
NBLIC wishes to publicly thank our Basileus, Soror Billie Knight Rayford, for her response to an e-Mail, “How did you make that CD?” Her response was to show up on my doorstep the following Saturday loaded down with packages. She proceeded to my office where she deftly installed a CD-Burner and other software on my computer without charge! Thank you Soror. Our Program Announcement for April 17, 2003 is in the hands of the In-Kind Printer, Soror Verlia Hoggard! Thank you Soror!
The Witness Project Advisory Board met at my home on January 13th and selected officers as follows:
Joyce Woodson, Cooperative Extension, President
Jackie Caffey, 1st Vice President
Verlia Hoggard, 2nd Vice President
Secretary, Barbara McCants-Hill, Secretary
Billie Knight Rayford, Treasurer
Kaweeda Adams, Chaplain/Parlimentarian
The Far Western Region of the Witness Project including California and Nevada can now be viewed on the internet: www.communitylink.koz.com/lvri/nbliclv
We will be presenting at one of the local churches on February 1-Jth.
Dorothy M. Johnson
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