August 17th

Capital City Club
RSA Tower

5:45 PM Dinner
6:30 PM General Membership Meeting

Parking is available on the street or in the parking deck across the street from the RSA Tower.

Hope to see you there!

 Treasurer's Report

Balance as of
August 16, 2000

General Fund - $ 932.60
Special Project Fund - $ 1,758.31

From the President's Pen

Summer is almost over - at least that's what the calendar says, but our club year is just getting started. We had a great crowd at the July meeting and want to keep up the good attendance. Please be sure to dedicate and reserve each third Thursday for your Altrusa sisters. A new fund-raiser was presented and voted in by the club and will be put into place within the next few months. Get your selling shoes on and be thinking about who you can sell tickets to for a Cruise for Two. We have scheduled our Fall Yard Sale for Saturday, October 7th and Dawn Ellis and Nell Sellers graciously agreed to head it up. Thanks, Dawn and Nell. We are diligently working on who will benefit from our fund raising this year - hope to have some organizations to vote on at our next meeting. Thanks to all members who have assisted me in the past few months as I am learning the ropes of the presidency. Hope to see all of you at our August Meeting.

Kathy

Altrusa Principle #8
Membership carries with it no obligation to transact business with other members. It makes no promise of returns in any commercial specie. Its rewards are in proportion to the loyalty, the unselfishness, and the character of the member herself.

Altrusa Collect
Our Heavenly Father, Surrounded by Thy blessings, May we learn to bless; Reaping the fruits of patriotism, May we love our country more; Member of a world-wide community, May we cherish our neighbors everywhere; Grateful to Thee, May we show our gratitude By efficiency and service. AMEN.

Good friends are good for your health.
---Irwin Sarason

August Funnies

If exercise is so good for you, why do athletes have to retire by age thirty-five?

"I've had it with my husband. He's such a clean freak," a disgruntled woman complained to her friend. "Every night he makes me wash and scrub my face." "What's wrong with that?" her friend asked. "Then he wants to iron it."

August Program

The Community Service Committee will provide the program for August.

City Graduation

Thank EVERYONE who participated in any way in making the CITY Program Graduation Reception on July 13, 2000, such a great success. The State Director, Ed Earnest and local program director, Eric Guttensohn, repeatedly commented favorably on the food, decorations, etc. as did the staff and Board Members. By the way the students ate, laughed and joked, it was evident that THEY enjoyed and appreciated it also. In fact, many expressed that to us as they left. A few days after the meeting, Altrusa received a "thank you" letter from the CITY staff stating, "The Montgomery C.I.T.Y. Program, and its students, would like to thank you for the wonderful graduation reception. The involvement of Community Organizations such as ALTRUSA is intricate to the success of all the C.I.T.Y. Programs of Alabama. Our Montgomery Chapter of ALTRUSA CLUB has been the most consistent and giving of all the organizations we work with. Thank you again, C.I.T.Y. PROGRAM OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY STAFF. (NINE STAFF MEMBERS SIGNED) P.S. Please find enclosed some letters of thanks from our students." Attached to the letter were seven handwritten notes from students expressing their thanks. (I'll bring them to the September meeting. I'll be in Nashville during the August meeting.) THANKS AGAIN, ALTRUSANS, FOR A JOB WELL DONE!!!

District Four News

Many of you know Grace Patterson of the Shreveport club from the many conferences and conventions she and her late husband Pat attended. If you were in Huntsville in 1997, he challenged others to become Altrusa International Foundation Lamplighters with a $500.00 contribution. For all who would pledge to do that, he and Grace would contribute the first $100.00. At least five District Four members became Lamplighters because of the Patterson's challenge. In July 1997, Pat made the same challenge to the delegates at the Albuquerque Convention and recruited even more Lamplighters. Grace was planing to go to the District Conference in Tupelo in April, where she was on the Nominating Committee ballot. A day or two before she was to leave, her doctor would not let her attend because he suspected she had gallstones and would need surgery. Turns out she never had the surgery, but has been in and out of the hospital ever since April. Last night I talked to Margaret Ford who said Grace had been having slight strokes for about 10 years. She had a Pacemaker implanted in May and was in the hospital again when she passed away Thursday afternoon, July 13, 2000. Funeral service is Monday, July 17 at 10 AM at Central Christian Church in Shreveport. She is survived by 2 sons and 1 daughter. The oldest son, George lived with Grace in Shreveport and the daughter, Dorothy also lives in Shreveport. There is one other son and we do not have information on his whereabouts.If any club has not finished your 2000-2001 club yearbook, let me suggest that you include E-mail addresses and then PLEASE share those new yearbooks and your club newsletters with all your District and International officers. I hope all clubs are off to a good start and running at top speed to share Altrusa with at least 2 new members this year. Please keep in touch, and if your District officers can ever be of service to your club, please let us know.

Wilarlie K. Barto, Governor, 1999-2001

Member News and Concerns

Wendy Amos' grandmother passed away in June and then her husband, Chris' grandmother passed away in July. Please keep both families in your prayers.

Kay and Jim Miller are off to Slovenia and Croatia again, leaving August 23rd. While there they will visit the beautiful Adriatic coast, Dubrovnik, and Zagreb.

Kelley Curnutt is in Birmingham going through 10 weeks of training with Blue Cross/Blue Shield. She is looking forward to completing it and returning to Montgomery.

Melinda Walton will be joining her brother's family in Nags Head, NC for a few days in August. Melinda has also started a new career with PFL Life Insurance Company selling long-term care insurance which includes home health care, adult day care, assisted living and nursing home care.

Ada Kate Morgan was honored with the Pioneer Award at the Awards Breakfast during the recent Alabama Retired State Employees Association 20th Annual Meeting, which was held at the Governor's House. This award was given for her continuing support and leadership of ARSEA. Congratulations, Ada Kate, for this much deserved recognition.

Ashley and Brian Thomas are going on a weekend get-a-way to New Orleans August 3-6 and off for a weekend of fun with Amy and Stephen Daniel to Panama City on August 17-20th.

Pat and John Morgan will be spending the week of July 30th in Atlanta visiting their daughter's family. John will be playing some golf, naturally!! August 14th - 20th, John and I will be attending the International Association of Laryngectomees in Nashville, TN. (I am a delegate and will be attending the Voice Institute, helping other laryngectomees achieve better speech.)

Welcome to our newest members, Teresa White and CorneliaWofford! Teresa was sponsored by Kathy Alred and Ashley Thomas and Cornealia was sponsored by Pat Morgan and Joyce Cobb.

Dates to Remember

September 8: Literacy Day
October 7: Fall Yard Sale
October: Make a Difference Day
April 2001: Altrusa Fund-raiser
July 6-10, 2001: International Convention in Dallas, TX

Historic Highlights

1934: Initiated public education program on mental health.
1935: Altrusa became International with extension into Mexico. Initiated traffic safety program.
1936: Community Service Committee established to give direction to local community betterment projects.

ALTRUSA is the key to: Unity-When individuals form a unit, which is so big in its aim that self is forgotten in the common purposed of the group, the next step in the evolution of womankind is accomplished. Altrusa develops Unity.

Happy Birthday
to:

Teresa White - August 6
Patsy Patton - August 18
Wendy Amos - August 28