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October-December, 2016 Sally Spenny Volume XIIII, Issue IV Editor THE PRESIDENT’S PERCH PHiP, Inc. Pres Kathy Pfister Holy cow, where has the Rick Perkins to those that year gone? I was thinking stepped up and ran and to all Meeting of the Minds was of the clubs who sent in their still somewhere down the ballots. road but it’s less than a month away! Welcome to the new and re- turning PHiP Board Members Very soon, a sellout crowd and thank you for your service of Parrot Heads will be de- to our outgoing folks. It takes scending upon Key West a very dedicated team to make and the party will start. I’m this organization effective and the organization perform looking forward to seeing everyone’s efforts are truly overall? Were members’ longtime friends and mak- appreciated. expectations met on charity ing new ones. If you see me selections? How about so- out and about, and are in- And, thanks to all of the peo- cial activities? Is the bal- clined to do so, please come ple who have volunteered to ance between social and on up and say hello! serve on their local boards. charity activities appropri- PHiP doesn’t have much ate? Are the same core This time of year brings out meaning without the thou- members doing all the work a lot of elections, both at a sands of Parrot Head members or did new people step up? local and national level. I and leaders in clubs across Lots to think about and pos- want to thank the folks who North America and Australia sibly inspire changes in participated in the election giving their time and efforts. 2017. for the 2017 Parrot Heads in Y’all rock! Paradise Board of Directors Happy convention, happy from our Elections Officer As we wind down 2016 (after reflections and happy holi- our massive party in Key days! West, of course!), it’s a good time reflect on the year. What Kathy Pfister went well? What didn’t go as President well as hoped for? How did PHiP, Inc. please contact your Regional Com- 2017 Annual Renewal municator or the Director of Mem- bership’s office. Are you prepared? Once Renewals notices have an- Annual Renewal packets will be less of charter date. Newly- nounced they have been emailed and due beginning January 1st and will sanctioned chapters with no ac- if you have not received your Annu- be considered delinquent, and pen- tivity to report should so state. al Renewal via email, please contact alties will apply if not in to the Di- the Department of Membership Of- rector of Membership’s Office by * Every chapter is required to fice asap. Please check your Spam January 31, 2017. If you do not have at least one person sub- folders to make sure it did not go intend to renew your charter, please scribed to the Club Leaders List there! advise at your earliest convenience. as a condition of sanctioning. Finally, please do not wait till the With the change of the Director of * Please remember to sign your last minute ... Anything can happen Membership, we will be updating Renewal Application ... Unsigned and operating on "island time" is all Director of Membership Contact applications will be returned for inappropriate in this situation. email information, Mailing address signature. & phone numbers. We will do our best to have everything ready to * You will receive an acknowl- begin this process. edgement upon receipt of your Annual Renewal ... Please retain Most importantly is your club’s this receipt in case of error. Official PHIP Contact information Up to Date? You can check this out * Please remember to report by going to: www.phip.com/club- your annual total of dol- chapters to nm,look up your Chap- lars raised and/ The Latest ter by state and name. Click on or donated AND man-hours con- Hummin’ your Chapter’s name and all of tributed to environmental and/or Headlines your club’s information will be philanthropic endeavors. listed on your club’s individual page. *Include a list of current club PHiP President’s Perch Pg 1 board members by title, name, PHIP Annual Renewals Pg 2 Should there need to be changes to address, phone number and email your Club’s Official contact, please address. Lone Palm Foundation Pg 3 email the Director of Membership “Here We Are” Pgs 4-6 office ASAP! Those email address- *The semi-annual report of chari- es are the current “Official” emails table activities for July 1, 2016 - MOTM Service Projects Pgs 6-7 we have on our records. Dec 31, 2016 should be included PHiP Financials Pgs 8-10 in the package. We encourage all of you as Club PHiP Nat’l Alz Team Pg 11 Leaders/Contacts to be ready to *The complete list of current club Club Leaders Brunch Pg 11 submit your 2017 Annual Renewal members as of December 31, Domino College Dean’s List Pg 12 with the following conditions: 2016 will also be required with name, address, phone number Zonta Walk/Run Pg 13 * Every chapter must have a func- and email address. MOTM Breakout Session Pg 13 tional website as a condition of sanctioning, excepting those less *Dues payment is part of the An- Regional Events Pg 14 than 180 days old. NOTE: Face- nual Renewal. Dues are $75 for Margaritaville Shirt Ad Pg 14 book does NOT count as a website. each club up to 75 members, then one $ per member over 75. PHIP Club Birthdays Pg 15 * ALL chapters must submit a MOTM 2017 Ad Pg 16 signed renewal application, regard- Should you have any questions, Page 2 LONE PALM FOUNDATION 2016 PHiP Board Of The Lone Palm Foundation Board tion on Saturday, November Directors always hope our assistance won’t 5th at 11AM at Casa Marina be needed because that means none (in the room where registration of our Parrot Head family suffered is held). We will have some damage from Mother Nature. How- one of a kind items. If you’re ever, she was not too kind last quar- into collecting cool Buffett ter to our members in Baton Rouge items, this is the place you’ll as torrential rains storms led to se- want to be! If you love just vere flooding. Adding to the tem- checking out really cool stuff, peramental weather, a tornado this is the place you’ll want to touched down in Cincinnati and al- be! President so wreaked havoc. Kathy Pfister We’re also sponsoring Friday’s cheese- Overall, Lone Palm Foundation dis- Street Festival. Hope to see [email protected] bursed $2,000 in funds to club many of you outside of Marga- members in both areas. We were ritaville come November 4th! Vice President thrilled to be able to provide assis- Andy Harrell tance and thankful to all who have To find out more about Lone [email protected] contributed to building our fund and Palm Foundation or request enabling us to do so. funds, go to lonepalmfounda- Secretary tion.org. David Cohen Building the fund takes effort and [email protected] special thanks goes to Lone Palm Lone Palm Foundation - Par- Foundation Director of Finance, Dir of Finance rot Heads Helping Parrot Charlene Schultheis Sara Kessler, for her all day and all Heads [email protected] night (and several days and nights after) work in running our first one Dir. of Membership day sale of items from the New Or- Charley Gingrow leans Margaritaville. We were able [email protected] to add over $11,000 to the coffers! We’ll be doing a similar sale early Dir. of Conventions 2016- next year. That will be your last Andrew Talbert chance to get some Margaritaville [email protected] NOLA history! Dir of Communications Vince MacQueen For those attending Meeting of the [email protected] Minds, we’ll be having a Live Auc- Published Quarterly; Mid January, Mid April, Mid July and Mid October. PHiP and the TWT does not solicit ad- vertising for this particular publication. Articles for consideration must be submitted on the 5th of each month of publication. Information contained in this publication is intended for PHiP membership. PHiP reserves the right of refusal to print any article. Consideration for article submission, contact: Sally Spenny at [email protected] Page 3 25th Annual Meeting of the Minds 2016 “Here We Are!” Hello Everyone! It is hard to one who registered for Meeting SPONSORS! Please note all the believe that the 25th Annual of the Minds 2016. Every regis- support we get from all of our Meeting of the Minds 2016 tration dollar is important to pay sponsors. Sponsors give us “Here We Are” is less than a the bills and sustain the event in swag to pass on to you, they month away. It is our silver an- the future. So Thank You for give us money to help pay for niversary! If you haven’t heard registering! YOU made all of expenses, and they are part of the event is SOLD OUT! So I this happen this year and I want the wind in the sails of MOTM. want to start this message with to thank each and every one of Be sure you support our spon- several items of appreciation! you for your support! Now all sors and if you see someone For everyone who had anything you have to do is pack your with a “Sponsor” credential to do with selling out the Casa things, come down to the island, around their neck please shake Marina in three weeks in Janu- and have PHun! their hand or pat them on the ary of this year! Thank You! A back and say THANK YOU for three week sell-out was unprec- Before I move on I want to re- supporting MOTM.