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Contents
Message from National President, Cathy Etzler
Happy Anniversary
Indiana State Meeting
Convention 2015 News - Historical Display, Raffle, Registration Documents
Buzzy Bee Service Project
Long Term Project
Spirited Sisters
Publicity
Historical Tidbits, National Vice President, Susie Lewis
Chapter News
Dates and Deadlines
Message from the Editor
Presidents Directory
Fallen Petals
Newsletter Archive
Convention Invitation
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Reminder: Presidents, please be aware that each year more and more mailings are coming via email, when possible. Although some will still be via USPS it is very important that we have current email address. Using email is a cost savings and very efficient. It is very important that you are checking your email routinely for the efficiency of your chapter business.
Psi Iota Xi National Council
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Many of our chapters will be celebrating anniversaries in 2015. We want to be the first to express our congratulations to your chapters on the accomplishment of the many years of your wonderful relationship with Psi Iota Xi. We treasure you.
Take time to celebrate with your membership, and stop and reflect on all you have accomplished. What precious memories!
Psi Iota Xi National Council
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"Cheering on Psi Otes", April 18, 2015, Hosted by Alpha Psi Chapter Washington.
Greetings from the Indiana State Board
Registration packets for the 2015 State Meeting were mailed out on Jan 20th. Please keep a look out for them and if Chapter Presidents don't receive by Feb 2nd, please contact President Terri Resler at terri.resler@navy.mil or 812-295-6524. Registration information can be viewed on the Indiana and National websites.
Your Indiana State Board met on Friday January 2nd in Indianapolis for our Winter meeting. Project Screening Committee met on Saturday the 3rd. They heard from some wonderful Project Representatives and there were lots of discussion on deciding how to distribute our Indiana Project money. Information on projects will be coming to chapter Presidents in February.
Psi Otes lead the cheer for those less fortunate - alone we call out for a cause, but together we are thundering a cheer of change.
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Bridging the Past to the Future, THETA ZETA preparing for Convention 2015
Our goal for Convention 2015 is to have a historical display of pictures and items at least part of the weekend. We will be limited as to the number of extra tables that we will have available. The difficult part of this plan is the collection of items. If your chapter or you personally have an item that holds historical significance, please contact me directly. Cathy Etzler- 419.375.4606 or etzlerca@bright.net We can discuss the item, its significance, and the transport of the item. Depending on your location, it can be given to me ahead of Convention, or brought to Convention by a member. Cathy Etzler  Theta Zeta Chapter of Fort Recovery was so forunate to have a local citizen donate a G.Harvey print for our Convention. It is entitled " A Child's Hero" and has a value with matting and framing of around $300. This was his focus on the Family Christmas print in 2005.
The first snow has fallen, the sky is clearing, the sun has not quite set. It's the perfect time for the first sled ride of the season. This will be an extra raffle held through out the weekend and will be drawn at the end of the Convention along with our #3 Raffle. A donation from our profit on this raffle will be given to the Long Term Project by Theta Zeta chapter. IN Festival License Number 136297
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Convention Information
- Theta Zeta is hoping that you are starting to talk in your chapters about the upcoming Convention. Registration packets will be coming to your President electronically. Be on the lookout and respond to the email that you have received. Only presidents not having an email will receive a hard copy.
- Saturday Evening Celebration-Our Saturday evening event will be a "Tip of the Hat Celebration" in honor of all the philanthropic work we have accomplished over the years. Feel free to come in a hat of your choice, it can be historical, it can be funny, it is your choice. We want to thank Pat Kugler and Eta Gamma of Valparaiso, IN for allowing us to use their original idea AGAIN. We thought everyone had a great time at their Convention wearing their hats and the idea kept coming up again and again to tip our hat to our accomplishments. So thanks again to Eta Gamma, they are honored and humbled that we chose to try this again.
- Reminder that Saturday Morning there will be an Information Fair with ideas on:
- Money making ideas for the General Fund
- Recruiting and membership
- Fun things to do at meetings
- Fund raising ideas for the Project Fund
- Boxed lunches will be served from 11AM-12 Noon on Saturday and Convention will start at 12:30 PM on Saturday. Please be aware of this as this is 30 minutes earlier than last year.
Please challenge your chapter to benefit from Convention by attending. This is your organization. It is an investment. |
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 As many of you know, your National Council spent a Saturday morning in November completing a service project for Riley Children's Hospital. While we were there, our Riley liaison that day, Chelsey Backus informed us of the Buzzy Bee device. Below is a summary of the project and a thank you that we received. We wanted all our chapters to be informed as this would be a potential project for individual chapters. The cost is affordable.
The IBD Parent Mentor group would like to thank you for the gifts of craft and art supplies that you provided the Riley Hospital Gastroenterology (GI) Department in December! The GI department was humbled and honored by your generous gift. Your donation made an immediate impact by bringing joy to a young boy who was getting an infusion on his birthday the following week. These kids go through so many procedures and experience so much pain with their diseases. It is wonderful to have small tools like these activity kits and distraction devices that help in a big way.
Many of you asked for additional ways to support the Riley Gastroenterology Department. The IBD Parent Mentor Group is a part of a Patient Centered Care initiative to improve the quality of care for children diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) at Riley Hospital for Children. Riley has more than 450 patients that are being treated for IBD. Of that total, 144 use injections or infusions as part of their medical therapy.
For parents who administer multiple weekly injections to their child, using the term "game changer" is an understatement when describing a Buzzy Bee device. Administering a shot use to take 30-40 minutes of negotiation along with bribes and other unsuccessful attempts at minimizing the injection pain. Thanks to Buzzy (see www.Buzzy4shots.com for more information) this process simpler, less painful and lasts only a few minutes for kids and families.
After seeing such positive experiences when utilizing Buzzy, the IBD Parent Mentor Group has seen the importance of pain management and distractions devices for children as a means to increase medication adherence and reduce the pain and anxiety associated with IBD therapies. As a result, we are looking to provide Buzzy as an option to all GI patients and are investigating purchasing electronic distraction tools for our infusion clinic (i.e. iPads, DVD's, and video games). We hope that you will consider donating to support this meaningful project to provide the Deluxe Kit to patients at a cost of $60 a piece for IBD Riley Kids.
Donations can be sent to:
Riley Children's Foundation
C/O Chelsea Backus
30 S. Meridian Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204
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What will $75 buy you? 
- 42.37 cups of coffee at Starbucks
- 94.94 Polar Pops
- 25 cheese balls
- 3.4 sets of acrylic nails
- 1.0 hair color/cut
- 0.76 pairs of Michael Kors shoes
- 0.52 Coach handbags
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"Your Chapter's Contribution to the National PIX Long Term Project."
Just $75 from each chapter will ensure that we are able to give Dr. Gabel a substantial check at National Convention 2015. A $75 donation from each chapter (about $7,500 total), when added to the current balance of $2,500, comes to another $10,000 towards our $100,000 commitment. That's $10,000 to assist families with the $600 fee for stuttering clinics for children or the $1,200 fee for adolescents and adults. With this amount we could help sixteen children or eight adolescents and adults.
This is your Long Term Project. What are you willing to give up to contribute to this effort? Consider making a donation to the LTP as part of your annual budget. Better yet, I challenge you to make that a $100 donation towards the goal of meeting our $100,000 commitment even earlier. Checks can be made out to PIX Long Term Project and sent to Connie McDaniel, National Project Chair, and 151 White Lane, Bedford, IN 47421.
Connie McDaniel
The MSSD 33rd Winter Dance Concert finished with a powerful finale
called "Justice for All," choreographed by Gallaudet student Tanisha Russell to the Michael Jackson song, "They Don't Care About Us." The number brought the audience to its feet with enthusiastic applause on February 7.
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My chapter uses an easy and fun activity to raise money for our General Fund and our Convention Fund. It is a game called BACKWARD BINGO. We play 3 games. It is a quarter to play each game. We played before meeting, middle of meeting and end of the meeting.
Give everyone a paper bingo card. Everyone stands up, and then you say "If you have N 45, you are out
(Backward Bingo) and those people sit down, you continue until you have a winner. If the last two people go out on same number, have a tiebreaker, like adding up the numbers in the B column- High total wins. (Or whatever you would choose).
Small Prizes (Dollar Store)
I brought the prizes first time, then after that the three winners brought the prizes for the next meeting.
FUN, EASY, TAKES NO TIME.
We will be playing this game at the Saturday Evening Party for fun!
IN Festival License Number 136297
Cathy Etzler
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I attend a Basket Bingo every year and when I arrive at that Bingo, they present me with a postcard to fill out with my address. Sometime during the evening, they collect those, and then the next year, six weeks before the event, I receive my postcard reminding me of THEIR EVENT.
I immediately get it on my calendar, and I have missed maybe only one to two of their Basket Bingos in the past ten to fifteen years.
Spending the money on postage will be worth it. It will increase your ticket sales.
Cathy Etzler, National President
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We have all heard the name, Elsie Sweeney, as it was her encouragement that created an endowment, now held with the Central Indiana Community Foundation, which allows for donations to symphonies throughout the Psi Iota Xi states and the purchase of tickets for students to attend symphony concerts.
Below are excerpts from a 1972 Helicon article, giving us more insight into her life and love of Psi Iota Xi:
Elsie Irwin Sweeney, July 18, 1888 to May 2, 1972
"To know her was to love her; to work with her an inspiration; to visit her was a joy; to stroll through her gardens with her was an education; to mention music to her was a verbal opera; to talk to her about God and his wonders was an unforgettable experience...she was our Miss Elsie.
She was recognized internationally as an honored philanthropist. Tri-State Metropolitan Opera and Auditions Awards were made possible through her interest and assistance. She was an ardent supporter of the Hoosier Salon and each year presented an artist award in the
 name of our sorority. Elsie's life exemplified the purposes and ideals of Psi Iota Xi Sorority from her initiation in June 1904, as a charter member of Epsilon Chapter of Columbus, Indiana, to her death on May 2, 1972, at Castalia, her palatial home near Columbus." She was a member of Psi Iota Xi for 68 years!
Susie Lewis
National Vice President
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Theta Zeta, Fort Recovery, OH held their First Paint and Whine Event on Saturday, Feb. 21 at Trusty Woods, a new restaurant business in the
 Fort Recovery area. About forty women attended and a beautiful painting was completed under the direction of our own member and resident Art teacher in the FR Schools, Amy Klingshirn. Our profits will be given to our Park Board to benefit the cost of our new playground.
 We all know how talented our Georgiann Coons (Alpha Beta, Seymour) is. She was able to show her talents in her local community recently by directing the music and starring in "The Drowsy Chaperone" at the Jackson County Community Theatre.
Beth Keeney, Brenda Bonner and Susie Lewis enjoyed traveling down to Seymour to watch Georgiann and surprise her afterward.
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March 7- Kentucky State Meeting- Lexington, KY
March 14-15- National Council Spring Meeting- National office
Mid-March-Presidents- watch for emails regarding Psi Ote of the Year deadline, Helicon articles, and membership updates.
Late March- Chapters will be receiving by Mail) Slate of Officers, National Project Proposals, and By-Law Amendment Proposals. Be watching for this VERY IMPORTANT Mailing.
Late March-PCR's will be mailed or emailed to all Chapters and State Presidents from your District Officers and National Treasurer.
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From the Editor's Desk
Soon you will be receiving our annual request for your chapter Helicon article. Remember that these articles preserve your chapter's dedication to our organization! Fill those articles with all of the great things your chapter and your sisters do. Please include names and photos.
Thank you to those of you who have supplied me chapter member email addresses to update. If your chapter members are not registered on the website please send me their email addresses and I will get them their log in credentials.
Heather
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Please Keep us updated
We know changes are always happening. People move, get new phones, change email, etc. Please forward any changes to the Presidents Directory to the National Editor so the directory is always current. Log in and visit the "Member's Only" section on the website for the most current version of our Presidents' Directory. |
Esther Ball died on January 14th, 2015 after a long illness. She was 96 and one half years old.
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Let us know what's going on in your chapter. Post images from chapter meetings and events. Let us know about significant happenings in your life - new baby/grandchild, new job, promotion, retirement, marriage, engagement, or whatever you'd like to share with your Psi Iota Xi sisters. We'd love to celebrate with you!
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