Collegian Care Package Build!

April 14, 2010, the Dayton Alumnae gathered to hold elections and build care packages for the Dayton Area AOII collegians! Officers elected for 2010-2012 are:

• President: Kathy Shakro Carder
• VP/Treasurer: Terry Herring Bevis
• VP/Membership: Roberta McLean & Sharon Tucker
• VP/Programs: Marie O'Donnell & Sue Knierim
• VP/Secretary: Sharon Tucker

After a brief business meeting and elections, it was time for fun! There are 64 AOII's from the Dayton Area who are in 14 different collegiate chapters. A box was sent to someone in each of those chapters and they should be receiving them sometime in the coming week. There are a variety of goodies included in each box: snack cracker packs, cookies, individual fruit packages, fruit & nut snacks, tea packets and drink powder packs, pens, pencils, note pads, pony-tail bands, key chains, etc. We stuffed those boxes as best we could and hope the packages are well-received and enjoyed by the girls knowing the Dayton Alumnae chapter is thinking of them!

We had a great time putting the boxes together and appreciate all the donated items from our members, especially those who couldn't come, but made sure they got items to someone who was.

2010 Easter Basket Build

Another great year...once again, my dear sisters you have amazed me with your generosity as we created 65 kid and 6 adult Easter Baskets to donate to Harvest Youth Ministries (http://www.harverstyouth.org/). That's right, 71 baskets in total. Every single kid's basket had much candy and a stuffed animal along with pencils, and other small items. They looked beautiful as you can see from the photos. Then we ate some wonderful Graeter's Ice Cream then loaded the baskets up and delivered!

Time to start looking for more baskets for next year!

WAY TO GO DAYTON AOII!