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The dues payments must be received (or postmarked) by Saturday, November 1st. My address, phone numbers and e-mail information are printed at the bottom of this article. Please do not put off this deadline. If you are late there will be a $50.00 fine assessed to your chapter. With these dues we can then pay our National Projects which we voted on at our National Convention in June.

Your chapter has probably already set up budgets and your plans for action are in place. Please remember Psi Iota Xi is a philanthropic organization. We go to great efforts to keep our charitable organization and tax exempt status. I have mailed in our NP20's and officer lists to the Indiana Department of Revenue. At the same time, a lengthy financial report went to the IRS. This is prepared by our CPA.

We should be good stewards of our communities' donations to us and therefore give back to those less fortunate. These are the principles we were founded upon.

This also reminds me of being the National Project Chair last year. At the Project Screening meeting we had several proposals. We even had two new projects submitted last year. They all wanted a portion of our project money for their worthy causes. Sadly, we just did not have the funding to support them all at the level they requested.

What can we do? We can keep striving to add members to our rolls and therefore more project money will be available. We can help those who stutter, cannot hear well or need speech therapy, or students who want to further their education in speech & hearing, art, literature and music by offering scholarships. We can purchase that hearing aid to hear with or a book to read. We can donate a piece of art to the library or purchase art supplies. We could simply provide to a group in our community funds to help put food on the table for families. It just takes a spark to get a fire going.

I think some of the most difficult meetings I have attended were meetings where it was being decided how to spend the money which was earned. These can be very opinionated times. Some chapters have a ways & means committee in place and they help guide the chapter to educated decisions with the input from members.

I also have attended meetings where we wanted to spend the extra funds we had and it was very exciting to add to our present budget or support an organization we had not yet helped. The thank you notes received later can put a smile on your face!

In closing please do not forget to get your dues paid by November 1st. Take pride in what your chapter has earned and - like the country song by George Strait says, "Just give it away."

Pax Vobiscum,

Beth Keeney
Psi Iota Xi
National Treasurer
1464 N. Lakeview Drive
Frankfort, IN 46041
765-652-1271 Cell
765-659-1498 Home

 

 

 

   

Beta Tau-Frankfort, IN traditionally holds its initiation ceremony in June.  This year Sarah Good was unable to make our June initiation.  She is a busy, young woman.  She was graduating from Clinton Prairie High School and involved in many extracurricular activities.  Sarah has helped us several years roll our cheese balls.  She is a familiar face with the members of Beta Tau.  

Therefore, some great Psi Ote minds put their heads together and came up with the plan to have Sarah's initiation later, but before she left for college.  This way we could also include her dear grandmother.  About ten members helped initiate Sarah at the Mulberry Health & Retirement Community where her grandmother lives. 

Sarah is a legacy in more ways than one.  As you can see in the picture her mother, Carol Good has been a Psi Ote member since 1997.  Her aunt, Patty (Good) Jackman , pictured in the middle back row joined our great organization 1967.  To top it all off Sarah's grandmother who is pictured in the front row with the lovely bouquet of flowers joined in the spring of 1937!  She is Beta Tau's oldest living member.  Virginia holds her membership in Psi Iota Xi in high regard and was present at our 75^th Anniversary party in 2011. 

When Sarah presented her grandmother the flower bouquet, there was not one dry eye in the room.  We were all proud to be a part of adding Sarah to our membership records.  Now that is why we love Psi Iota Xi so much and want to pass on our legacy.  Our legacy continues through the good works of lovely families like the Good family. 

Sarah of course received her membership certificate and yellow rose. We wish her much continued success as she studies at the University of Bellarmine in Louisville, Kentucky.

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The Psi Iota Xi website is a constant work in progress. While you might not see changes in it every day, it is constantly changing in the background! If you are having trouble logging into your profile please email your National Editor, Heather Mitchell. All chapter presidents have been given the ability to log in to their chapter and update membership records, addresses, phone numbers, officer status and membership status. Please take a moment to log into your chapter and verify that your membership information is correct. NOTE: Never delete a members record, if they are no longer active in your chapter just mark them as withdrawn.