Friday, March 4, 2011

Soroptimist Weekly March 1

Hi all,

Tonight at the Council meeting we will be presenting the City a check for $10,000 for the Soroptimist Grove. If you can join us, come to the Council Chambers at 7PM.

A big thank you goes to Lisa McV.for organizing our Mystery Auction, to Mina Byrne (Fellowship chair for District III) for being our auctioneer and to all the members who brought gifts and bid them up at the auction. We collected $1,873.25,  just $126.75 short from being able to award a Fellow and a Laurel to two of our club members. If you were not able to attend the auction or were not a winner of one of the gifts please consider donating to the cause. Every little bit helps. The money collected for Fellowship goes to women in the last year of their doctoral degree. It will be given away at Conference and is the identifying service project of Founder Region. The Laurel Society is an exclusive group of Soroptimists who have donated $1,000 or more to Soroptimist International of America for their many amazing projects.

Correspondence: A Thank you letter from Mina Byrne for being invited to be the auctioneer at the Mystery Auction. She said, “ SI Benicia’s enthusiasm for raising money for Fellowship, evidenced by the lively auction, was truly inspiring!”

Pres Libbey

“To reach great heights a person needs to have great depth”