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A PUBLICATION OF THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF RALEIGH | SUMMER 2015 the Link THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF RALEIGH Celebrating 85 Years of Service Permit No. 315 No. Permit Raleigh, NC Raleigh, PAID U.S. Postage U.S. Presorted Standard Presorted ?() Contents In Every Issue President’s Message 5 Pink Pages 23 Member Spotlight 24 26 29 30 JLR Annual Meeting 6 JLR 85th Anniversary 00 Member Awards JLR AnnualJulia JonesMeeting Daniels Center for Community Leadership 00 Membership Welcome Vice Transfers President 00 2014 – 15 Provisionals JLR Donates to Sassafras All Children’s Playground 00 Training Vice President 11 Member-at-Large 00 JLR 85th Anniversary, Highlights from the 1930s – 2010s 12 Kids in the Kitchen 00 Membership Vice President 22 JLR Chorus Makes a Joyful Noise 00 Empowering Kids to Make Healthy Choices 26 Training Vice President 00 Funding Vice President 28 Quick Impace: A Modern Placement for the Modern Member 00 JLR Donates to Sassafras All Children’s Playground 29 Funding Vice President 00 JLR Chorus Makes a Joyful Noise 30 Communications & Strategies Vice President 00 Communications & Strategies Vice President 34 Cookbook: Southern Summer Staples 00 Quick Impact: A Modern Placement for the Modern Member 36 Member-at-Large 38 Cookbook: Southern Summer Staples 39 Headshot Photography: DeShelia Spann Photography | desheliaspann.com Summer 3 | 2015 2014 – 15 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Editorial Selené Brent President Kathryn West President-elect Anne Strickland Communications & Strategies VP Marisa Bryant Community VP Lanier McRee Funding VP Heather Beiza Membership VP Mitzi Downing Training VP the Julie Whitlock Nominating Captain Lisa Coston Hall Secretary Katie Schottmiller Treasurer Co-editors Heather Wingfield Member-at-Large Rhonda BeattyLink & Kathryn Poole Danita Morgan & Virginia Yopp Sustaining Advisers Assistant Editor COMMUNICATIONS & STRATEGIES COUNCIL Kelsey McPherson eLink Captain Kendra Allen Amanda Comeaux & Kristin Walker Emerging Ideas Co-captains Rebecca Ayers & Jena Edelman GRAPA Co-captains Staff Rhonda Beatty & Kathryn Poole the Link Co-editors Amanda Basham, Jennifer Blue-Smith, Alexandra Boddie, Monika Johnson Hostler & Koren Townsend Public Relations Co-captains Alicia Frazee Social Media Captain Brianna Brown, Molly Conti, Amy Davis, Deidra Hudson, Jen Reel Website Captain Tyshia Torres COMMUNITY COUNCIL Gina Bowman & Danielle Shuirman AventWest Children’s Mentoring Co-captains Astra Ball & Samantha Hatem BackPack Buddies Co-captains Kelly Brown & Kathleen Franklin Boys & Girls Club Co-captains Langley Moretz & Debbie Pappas Chorus Co-captains Natasha Dixon & Gracie King Heritage Park Co-captains Amanda Eade & Kelli Anne Lane Helping Horse Co-captains Emy Hanson Kids on the Block Captain Nina Argiry & Chasta Hamilton Calhoun Quick Impact Co-captains Angela Hatton & Jina Propst SAFEchild Co-captains Emily Core & Jennifer O’Connor StepUp Co-captains Jennifer Straw Olson Sustaining Adviser FUNDING & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL The Junior League of Raleigh is an organization of women Beth Farrell & Sarah White Annual Fund Co-captains committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the Laura Cole & Nikiann Gray Bargain Box Co-captains potential of women and improving communities through Leslie Young Belk Fashion Forward Captain Juvon LeGare-Rivers & Kimberly Williams CCL Arrangements Co-captains the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Meghan Skirving Thelen Community Funding Captain Hailey Hamalainen & Chem Pecze Cookbook Co-captains Lucy Austin & Shirley O’Donnell A Shopping SPREE! Co-captains Junior League of Raleigh Crystal Smith Treasurer-elect Emily Funderburk Sustaining Adviser 711 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27603 MEMBERSHIP COUNCIL Mailing address Randi Ligon & Elizabeth O’Quinn Membership Development Co-captains P.O. Box 26821 Annie Chagachbanian & Katie Pollara Placement Co-captains Lucy Cornelius & Monique Fisscher-Goldwater Sustainer Co-captains Raleigh, NC 27611 – 6821 Jenni Kinlaw & Caroline Pendleton Taking Care of Members Co-captains Ann Mailly Transfer Captain Phone: 919 – 787 – 7480 Keri Eddins Sustaining Adviser Voice mail: 919 – 787 – 1103 TRAINING COUNCIL Fax: 919 – 787 – 9615 Sarah Schmidt & Jennifer Westcott Arrangements Co-captains jlraleigh.org Nichole Allen & Mary Beck Skinner Capital Leadership Initiative Co-captains Mariah Matheson & Gail Reid-Vestal Community Connect Co-captains facebook.com/JLofRaleigh Whitney von Haam Immediate Past President Twitter: @JrLeagueRaleigh Liz McLean & DeShelia Spann Training Co-captains Instagram: JL_Raleigh NOMINATING Tricia Ellen First-Year Nominating Bargain Box Morgan Tew First-Year Nominating Phone: 919 – 833 – 7587 Mary Paige Phillips First-Year Nominating/Nominating Assistant Abby Seats First-Year Nominating Advertising Jessica Throneburg Second-Year Nominating Jennifer Hoverstad Second-Year Nominating Please contact [email protected] for Kim Keith Second-Year Nominating advertising inquiries. Julie Ploscyca Second-Year Nominating AD HOC and APPOINTED POSITIONS the Link is published annually. Julia McCullough Archive and Data Collection Task Force Elizabeth Merritt Funding Lindsay Beth Gunter, Lauren Stump & Governance Research Task Force Liz Riley-Young Brooke Schmidt President’s Assistant Summer 4 | 2015 Marsha Curtis & Stevie Miralia President’s Support Team President’s Message The year has gone by so rapidly and I just don’t know where the time went. It seems like yesterday that the Board, Leadership Council and I were coming together for the April Leadership Retreat to start making plans for the upcoming year. Many of us were meeting for the first time and didn’t really know what to expect from each other, our placements or ourselves. But we forged new friendships and new teams the best we knew how and pulled it all off. There have been a few bumps in the road and unexpected surprises thrown into the mix, but we have been able to handle it all with grace and make it to the last leg of our Junior League of Raleigh 2014 – 15 League journey. You all eagerly took on this year’s agenda of Leadership, Service and Commitment, and in most cases exceeded all of the goals set forth at the beginning of the year. You have been team focused and mission driven. I think that if those 87 women from 1930 who were the founding members of the Junior League of Raleigh were here today, their faces would be This year, I have had the best time meeting new people and beaming with pride for how our League has grown. I am in awe experiencing new opportunities that would have never come my at the many accomplishments you have made this year. For me way had I not been in the position of being president. Growing personally, it has been a pure blast. I can truly say that it has been up in Lumberton, North Carolina, if anyone would had every a great experience and I will take all that I have learned (the good, told me I would be leading an organization of almost 1,600 the bad and the ugly) and put it in my toolbox to use on my next trained volunteers who were committed to promoting voluntarism, endeavor. I count it all as joy and my life will forever be changed. developing the potential of women and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers, I do hope this year has been good for you as well. Even if I would have never believed them. If someone would have told everything did not turn out as expected, you hung in there and me that I would be appearing on television to promote the 30th you are a stronger person for doing so. You should never give up A Shopping SPREE! fundraiser I would have laughed at them and or throw in the towel because you didn’t like the way something said you must be kidding. If you had told me I would be going to turned out or who happened to STRIDES at Heritage Park or attending a Kids in the Kitchen event be leading at that moment in time. put on by our Provisionals, I would have said you were mistaken. As women of the Junior League, If you had told me I would be hanging out after the Belk Fashion we must ultimately stay the course Forward event with jean designers Chip and Pepper I would and work to make it better in the have told them they must be referring to someone else. If I even future. Remember you can’t fix it thought for one moment that I would be meeting the Mayor of if you are not around. That’s one Raleigh, state legislators, judges, city officials, community leaders, thing about the League — we are business owners or a group of women who were just as dedicated a strong organization and we will as me about giving back, I would have thought they were out of be here for many years come. It their mind. But it is all true. This has been the time of my life and is each and every member that I owe it all to each and every one of you. To the Board, the staff, brings her unique talents, skills and the membership of the Junior League of Raleigh I say THANK and perspectives to the table that YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! makes the Junior League of Raleigh the vibrant and forward-moving organization that it is today. Keep in mind that your turn will come one day and you can leave your stamp on the League. Selené Brent Summer 5 | 2015 ANNUAL MEETING THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF RALEIGH’S Member Awards By Alex Boddie Each year, Junior League of Raleigh members are recognized at the May General Membership Meeting with various awards. These awards recognize members who have made a significant impact on the Junior League of Raleigh during the current league year. Nominated by fellow League members and selected by the Nominating Team, these women are described by others with whom they have served as being inspiring, persevering and fulfilling the mission of the League. This year’s award recipients are… Sustainer OF THE YEAR Award Anita Pinther Presented by Julia Daniels The Sustainer of the Year award recognizes a Sustainer’s dedication to the Junior League of Raleigh.