October Meeting - Arthritis Foundation Speaker

Our president, Sharon, hosted our October meeting.  We welcomed a speaker from the Arthritis Foundation.  We learned more about how arthritis affects thousands of people, including children and how we can partner to help find a cure for this painful disease.  We also wrote congratulatory notes to Delta Rho Chapter's new members.

Dolle and Patti

2015 Garage Sale

We had another hugely successful garage sale fundraiser.  Thank you very much to our hostess, Chris M., and to all of the sisters who brought treasures to sell, snacks, helped with set up and sold!  This is an enormous undertaking, and we have so much fun working together!

We started a week in advance.  Vicky and Karen F. (previous hostesses) came over to prepare the garage.

Karen and Lori organizing supplies

Pre-sorting

The garage has a loose plan, and we're now ready for the rest of our sisters to bring over their treasures.

Chris M. sorting books

We never know what's going to show up : )

A shift of sister helpers

Another shift of helpers

We tuck it all away until our sale starts tomorrow.

It's time to sell!

Friday morning sellers!

Natalie R. using her super-human mom skills to organize boys' toys

Thank you to everyone that brought snacks throughout the prep and sale days!

Thank you, Natalie G., for sending over pizza!

Dani came to shop!

On Saturday at 1:00pm, EVERYTHING is $0.25!!  We promote this throughout the sale, and people come back and clean things out for us!

When you're an awesome IIOA, and your home is taken over by sisters, you can be silly : )

We raised $2,200 for the AOII Foundation, Arthritis Foundation, Comer Children's Hospital, collegiate scholarships, etc!

2015 Summer Sisterhood Celebration

Sharon hosted our Summer Sisterhood Celebration in July 2015.  We had a great time being together, eating yummy food, sharing convention stories, and celebrating our achievements!

75th Anniversary Celebration

We held a very special 75th anniversary celebration in a private room at Drury Lane.  We were delighted to have so many past and present Chicago West sisters join us as well as sisters from other alumnae chapters celebrating with us.  We were honored to host Gayle Fitzpatrick, AOII Executive Board Member and newly elected AOII International President, as our guest speaker.  

So many sisters celebrated with us!

Past and present Chicago West sisters

Past and present Chicago West presidents

Thank you to the anniversary committee who planned such a lovely celebration!

Mary Lou and Peg are our two of our favorite historic members.

Our president, Sharon, starting things off

Our guest speaker, Gayle

Jessie made Gayle a gorgeous silver bracelet with a quote from Stella

Raffle prizes

Stella Library

Scrapbooks

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Scrapbooks

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