Chapter Meeting Minutes 9-15-98

-Mark R. told us about what a great time the Juliette Fowler Homes project 
was this past weekend. Half of the group bowled with the elderly and the 
other half played card games with Alzheimer's patients. 

-Next week the theme for service is "Hunger and Homelessness." 
This weekend both service projects will be with the Salvation Army. Katie 
invited a guest speaker, Nina Baxter, to talk to us about the Salvation 
Army and what they do. 
Saturday's project will be an archive project. Meet at 8:30 a.m. at the 
SMUSH. 
Sunday we will serve dinner. Meet at 3:45 p.m. at the SMUSH.

-Katie needs a Project Chair for next weekend's project, the North Texas 
Food Bank. Contact her if you're interested.
-Katie also needs people to be on her service committee and this means YOU! 
She also people interested in being on the National Bilaws committee. 
Contact her for more information on either of these committees.
-Instead of doing the Ronald McDonald House project we will do one at the 
AIDS services of Dallas.
-If you attended info sessions, let Katie know how many so that she can 
record your hours! *********************************

-Gina announced Blue and Gold Points
Gold 286 Total 1058    Blue 348  Total 1163
Blue: Jay - High Active 84  
         Sam - High JI 34
Gold: Jen Nash - High Active 83 
        Renee - High JI 53
-There will be a Leadership workshop held on October 17th from 9a.m.-4p.m.  
-Gina further educated us on the fine city of Minneapolis. "Did you 
know that about 30 out of "Fortune" magazine's 500 top-ranking corporations
are based in Minneapolis?" Were you aware of that? I was not aware of 
that. :-)
***Get in touch with Gina if you are going to Nationals! 
ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!She needs a count for Jen Nash! *************

-Jay will hold a Big meeting Sunday at 2 p.m. Meet at the SMUSH.
-Victory party will have a fun new location this year... the party room at 
Friday's. It will be October 2nd.
-Jay is asking for suggestions as to the location of pledge retreat. Have 
any? Send them his way! 

-Jen Anderson needs people to be on the Blood Drive Committee!
Also, get ready to start signing up to work both Blood Drive sign-ups and 
the Bloodmobile. She is going to need all of our help!
-She promises that she will bring T-shirts next week, so bring your $$$!

-Jen Nash says...PAY YOUR DUES! The project involving distributing 
Student Guides was successfully completed. We received $100 for doing it.
Great job to all who helped!


-Kristi announced that registration fee for Nationals will be $35 if you 
before December 1st and $40 after. Rooms will be $58.
-Kristi encouraged us to attend the 1998 Tri-Sectional Conference for 
Sections 32, 33, and 34. It will be held October 16, 17, and 18 at Oklahoma 
State University in Stillwater. The registration deadline is September 
25th and the cost is $30 which includes a whole bunch of cool stuff.
(See Jay's e-mail sent September 7th for more information).

Andrea announced that Mark, Kristi, and herself met with Taylor Martin,
Arlene, and Rebecca concerning office space. The meeting went very well 
and she is currently working on a mission statement.

Michelle announced that we need continue the hard work on the AO History 
project so that we can have it finished in time for Nationals. 
She also annouced that this Thursday at 3:30 p.m., the Honors Program is 
co-sponsoring a lecture.The speaker will be Nicole Malpas, who has done 
sociological research in the European Union.  Her topic is "Women and Men 
in Europe: Equality of Opportunity?" It will be in the Hughes-Trigg 
theater. Come if you can!

Sam and Natalie conducted a vote on the Regionals Theme. The winning 
theme is "APO does Dallas." (none other than my suggestion ;-) 
****E-mail them suggestions for T-shirt themes!!!*****
(And you'd just better because I might...and well my idea just might win 
again. And now would that be wise? ;-) )

Renee announced that all articles for the newsletter must be in by 8 p.m. 
on Monday nights. Otherwise they will go into next week's issue. 

Rachel annouced that there will be a female only race for Breast Cancer 
on October 17th. Males can come and be cheerleaders. The cost is $15. 
Contact anyone in the SMUSH if you're interested!

That was it! Have a good week everyone!
In L, F, & S,
Your faithful secretary,
Heather