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

Membership Report September 12, 1998
The summer cooler was postponed due to the fact that a location could not be secured in a timely manner, however, a Retreat is in the works to be conducted the Friday Night of Membership Intake Weekend. The facilitator for this Retreat will be Sorer Lavonne Lewis.
The three candidate have all responded in the affirmative for Membership in Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Please join us for a memorable MIP weekend.
A hotel has been secured for the MIP weekend which is the Amerisuites Hotel. The hotel is located across the street from the Hard Rock. The rate is $80 per night, so please sign up ASAP. There are 10 rooms blocked. Please give your credit card information to Soror Carolyn Parks to hold your reservation.
A full breakfast is included in that price and we will have a conference room for all activities.
The membership committee met on Wednesday, September 9,
1998 to solidify
loose ends for the MIP weekend.
1.
A request has been sent to Soror Grace for an okay to meet with our candidates on October 10, 1998 to complete our usual Friday night session to include distributing history information for studying and their project to work on for two
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2.
The chapter will present our 20 Pearls during MIP and sorors have been given a Pearl to memorize. All those not participating in the 20 Pearl presentation will be asked to participate in the History Skit.
3.
We ask that when you do your presentations they be done without the use of a lot of paper/notes.
4.
Sorors have been assigned tasks and if anyone else would like to participate in any segment of MIP, please let Soror Clair know of your intentions.
Sorors if you have any suggestions that will be helpful in making this MIP successful, please forward those to Soror Clair.
Respectfully submitted
Soror Carolyn A. Parks Co-Membership Chairman
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Theta Theta Omega Chapter Membership Committee October 3, 1998
The membership committee has not met since the last meeting, however, this is an update:
1.
We have eight rooms booked at the AmeriSuites hotel for intake.
2.
The luncheon will be held in the conference room on Sunday, please let Clair know who will be attending and pay your money. The cost will be: $22.00 (Saturday’s Dinner & Sunday’s Lunch) The meals will be catered by Frankie Bell.
3.
If you have not volunteered to help out on a committee, please do so now. A sign up sheet should be going around. Please contact the chairman for assignments.
4.
If anyone has any suggestions to make this more successful please call Clair Hart.
5.
Don’t forget your Pearl....we are in need of a volunteer for Pearl #14, the original person assigned will not be in attendance.
6.
It’s not too late to sign up for a room, if interested please see Carolyn.
7.
Due to the vote of the Directorate, not to allow the 10-day process we can not use Friday night for our retreat, however, our Retreat Facilitator has agreed to direct our retreat on October 16, 1998 at St. James Catholic Church. If in favor we will let her know, if not we will schedule something at a later date.
8.
For those not in attendance for the MIP workshop today, another will be held on Friday at 6:30 pm before we start the MIP weekend.
On Oct 11 the Membership Committee met October 11,2:00pm at the home of Clair Hart. The following sorors were present: Carolyn parks, Jackie Hall, Jack! Brown, Dorothy Earle, Gwen Bartlett, Sandy Bass, Patti Hester, Kaweeda Adams, Rhoda Anderson, Ardell Jackson, Marion Burns, and Belisa Brownlee. The schedules and the expectations for workshops were discussed line by line. The menu for the meals were decided upon by the group and the responsibilites divided. Kaweeda Adams wanted to make sure tat the sorors could experience desserts on Friday night. Each member gave a brief overview of their presentation for the Intake Process.
Once we had completed the business of the day the committee discussed other types of affairs the sorority could become involved in to raise money and groom our young people. First, AKA Women and Men of Tomorrow and Birds of Spring were two suggestions made. Some activities would include the fine arts area: attending Operas, synphonies. and classes in etiquette. Second events like FashiM shows, Debutante balls and similar events were commented on.
The dicussion then continued as follows.
In the Las Vegas community we must raise th^level of awareness about our organization. We must become more visible and speak out so the public can be educated about who we are. We need to open up as
professional, powerful, and phophetic women about our ideas, endeavors and accomplishments. The committee agreed the sorority has alot to offer, we just need to look at different vehicles to utilize and display our talents. When the dicussion of this topic began, I was not sure where it was headed. But to me iW sounded as if the committee was recommitting itself to making Alpha Kappa Alpha supreme service to our community. Meeting adjourned @ 4:30pm.
The Intake Process was held on October 17 -19 at the Residence Inn. Five women were taken on a journey: Tamika Bailey, Shirley Carroll, Tina Rimmey, Lisa Russell, and Tiffany Stevenson. We now have five new members ready to share thejr talents, their time and promote and uphold the standards of Alpha Kappa Alph^wHHH
Recommendations for the next Intake Process is A No one should enter after the ceremonies have begun, 2) Only the philacter should open the entrance door, and 3) A timekeeper to ensure presenters are ready to start on time.
Respectfully submitted,
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Membership Chair
Membership Meeting Minutes
The Membership Committee met at Soror Clair Hart’s home on October 20, 1998 to discuss the Membership Intake Process.
All committees presented their ideas for their presentations for intake.
The 20 Pearl presentation was discussed.
Hospitality and Social Welfare discussed their menu for the weekend.
The hotel and conference room set up was discussed.
Meeting was adjourned on a high note with all looking forward to a wonderful weekend of events for Membership Intake.
Membership Intake for 1998
Membership Intake was held October 23-25, 1998 with Theta Theta Omega Chapter bringing in three (3) new members into our fold. They are Janice Clark, Tanya Flanagan and Amanda Oliphant.
As Co-Chairmen of the Membership Committee, Carolyn Parks and I would like to thank the entire chapter of Theta Theta Omega for their participation in making this year’s MIP a wonderful success.
We would like to present the 20 Pearls to entire Chapter at a time when our Agenda will allow. For those not in attendance, Soror Lillian Gates was magnificent.
Thank you all.
Soror Clair Hart Membership Chairman
Respectfully submitted by, Soror Carolyn Parks, Co-Chairman