2011 CAKD Events

CAKD Events

Please mark your calendars for these other upcoming events:

January 2011

27^th -- Game Night at The House – come join your KD sisters for a night of cards, games, and fun at The House restaurant (722 N. Palm Little Rock, AR, 72205). Bring your favorite game and a sister to this event. Time TBD

February 2011

24^th – Recipe Exchange Event /Shamrock Cookbook sale at the Home of Rachel Lipsey – Are you tired of cooking the same old things week after week? Need some new recipes to share with family and friends? This event is for YOU! Here's how it works- everyone get out 3 of their favorite recipes (it can be anything) and copy them to one piece of paper. Make copies for everyone and at the party we will all exchange recipes so you'll have tons of new dishes to make. Bring one of the 3 favorite recipes cooked to the party for everyone to try. The more people the more recipes, so be sure and mark this event down on your calendar today! Eta Sigma and CAKD are partnering up to sell Shamrock Cookbooks this year, with all proceeds going to a local children’s shelter and Prevent Child Abuse America. Those cookbooks will be available to purchase at this event (hopefully!) Rachel’s address is 33 Daniel Drive, Sherwood, AR  72120. Time TBD

March 2011

16^th – Annual Business Meeting at Loca Luna – The annual business meeting is when officer elections, bylaw changes, and just the business of the AC takes place. We try to make it fun for all members, and this year will have the event at Loca Luna (3519 Old Cantrell Road, Little Rock, AR 72202). Time TBD.

January 2011 Newsletter

New Membership Option – AOT Dues just $15

Thank you so much to Anne C., Patricia V., Tricia C., Melanie B., and Dawn S. for joining CAKD over the past 2 months! With each new member, we are getting that much closer to our goal of 63 members. You have 2 more months left (through March 1, 2011) to join for the 2010-2011 AC year. Don’t forget about our AOT dues option – just $15, with $5 from each member going to KDHQ as a service fee, and the remaining $10 going to support the alumnae chapter work of collegiate support, community service, leadership training, and alumnae chapter events.

It is now easier than ever to join CAKD – An online form is available here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGdsUDk1Q2xuaW5ZenY5alhxaV9WUHc6MQ, and after filling out the form you can pay by check or via pay pal here: http://tinyurl.com/CAKDAOTDues.

Kappa Delta Scholarship Application Deadline Quickly Approaching

Graduate and Undergraduate Scholarship Application Announcement – Kappa Delta offers over $110,000 in scholarships and grants each year to deserving sisters. Check them out here: http://www.kappadelta.org/scholarshipapplications_1. 

Nominating Committee

As the New Year begins, it is time to begin thinking about the new leadership of our organization. The first step is to appoint a         nominating committee to accept and solicit applications for our groups 9 executive officer positions.  The past president (Rachel Davis Lipsey) and 2 other CAKD members, who are not running for an executive officer position, are needed for this committee. If you would be willing to serve on this very important committee, please contact Rachel at centralarkansaskd@hotmail.com by January 20, 2011.

Leadership Opportunities for 2011-2012

Officer elections for CAKD occur in March each year at our annual business meeting. This past month, a poll was taken of our current officers; and only 3 of the 9 executive officer members are planning on returning to their position next year; including the office of President. Because of this, we would like the CAKD membership to begin thinking about the various officer positions that are available and begin to think if you could apply and take on the position. Positions marked with an asterisk are positions where the current officer is not planning on returning in 2011-2012.

                President*

                VP-Membership*

                VP-Public Relations

                VP-Programming*

                VP-Collegian Relations*

                Secretary*

                Treasurer

                Panhellenic Delegate

                Reference Coordinator/Alternate Panhellenic Delegate*

Applications and detailed officer descriptions will be in the February 2011 CAKD newsletter. If you have any questions about the positions, please feel free to contact Rachel at centralarkansaskd@hotmail.com.

Other Important News:

·         Magazine Sales – Collegians and Alumnae are busy with Magazine sales. Find the chapter you would like to support here: http://kd.efundraising.com

·         KiDs Grant – This year the KiDs grant application deadline is January 15, 2011. CAKD would like to make an application for this program. If you have a project that you would like to consider, please send at e-mail to a centralarkansaskd@hotmail.com  by January 10, 2011 with the program for the executive board to consider.

Collegiate Chapter News and Notes

·         Zeta Gamma – ZG recently published is 2010 Alumnae Newsletter.  That document is attached to this newsletter below.  You can also keep up-to-date with ZG by following their Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/University-of-Arkansas-Kappa-Delta/122685337773275) or their website (http://arkansaskappadelta.com/).

·         Eta Sigma – HS had a great Fall 2010 semester, and they are looking forward to a wonderful spring with leadership on their council. You can keep up-to-date with HS by following their Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Eta-Sigma-Chapter-of-Kappa-Delta/115740958471888) or their website (http://www.ualrkappadelta.com/).

·         If you have any news from other KD chapters that you would like to share, please send it to Rachel at centralarkansaskd@hotmail.com.

Fall/Winter Events

November 2010
Eta Sigma New Member / Alumnae Reception - November 11th. Plan to come to a local restaurant to meet the Kappa Delta New Members from Eta Sigma Chapter. We will meet at 7:00 PM at Cantina Laredo. Come and enjoy a Buffet appetizer and dessert bar, as well as meeting the Fall 2010 pledge class, SET leaders and council members. RSVP to the Facebook event page or to centralarkansaskd@hotmail.com.

CAKD Movie Matinee – November 21st in the afternoon. CAKD invites you to come take a break with us at the movies. Time and location TBD. (Rachel cannot make this planned event, so if someone would like to coordinate it, please let me know )

December 2010
2010 Jingle Belles Bash – December 4th Several CAKD members are also Jingle Belles, and with this year’s event benefiting Women and Children 1st, CAKD officers thought this would be a perfect mix of fun, philanthropy and KD. Tickets are $30 each, and will be available soon here: http://wcfarkansas.ejoinme.org/belles.

November Newsletter

New Membership Option – AOT Dues just $15
For November and December, CAKD is offering a new membership option for CAKD, AOT Dues. For just $15, Kappa Delta Alumnae in Central Arkansas can join CAKD for the remainder of the alumnae year (through March 2010). $5 of each member goes to KDHQ as a service fee, and the remaining $10 goes to support the alumnae chapter work of collegiate support, community service, leadership training, and alumnae chapter events. You can help CAKD meet its goal of 63 members for the year by joining today!

It is now easier than ever to join CAKD – An online form is available here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGdsUDk1Q2xuaW5ZenY5alhxaV9WUHc6MQ, and after filling out the form you can pay by check or via pay pal here:
http://tinyurl.com/CAKDAOTDues.

KDHQ Fall Mailing
Several items were included in the AC fall mailing from KDHQ that may be of interest to you:

• Magazine Sales – Collegians and Alumnae are busy with Magazine sales. Find the chapter you would like to
support here: http://kd.efundraising.com

• Confidence Coalition Update – There is now a new website (www.confidencecoalition.org) , launched on
September 21, and there are several new members of the coalition, including Discovery Girls Magazine,
Phired Up Productions and Prevent Child Abuse America, and Lindsay Staniszewski, Miss Maryland 2010
became a Confidence Coalition ambassador.

• Graduate and Undergraduate Scholarship Application Announcement – Kappa Delta offers over $110,000 in scholarships and grants each year to deserving sisters. Check them out here:
http://www.kappadelta.org/scholarshipapplications_1.

• KiDs Grant – This year the KiDs grant application deadline is January 15, 2011. CAKD would like to make an application for this program. If you have a project that you would like to consider, please send at e-mail to centralarkansaskd@hotmail.com with the program for the executive board to consider.

• National President’s Bulletin – Please e-mail if you would like a copy of this document.

Eta Sigma News and Notes UALR’s chapter of Kappa Delta is doing fantastic things! There are several areas that they would like to invite alumnae to participate in this month:

• Eta Sigma (UALR) Chapter is looking for your help in collecting recipes for their Shamrock Cookbook, to be sold in Spring 2011.If you have a favorite recipe that you would be willing to share, please send it to
etasigmacookbook@yahoo.com. If this recipe comes out of a published book, magazine or person; please note that on the recipe so Eta Sigma can give proper credit to that author.

• Eta Sigma International Girls Day event – November 9th. Do you have a Kindergarten through 3rd grade girl in your life? Does she enjoy having her nails painted and playing dress-up? Would you like her to have an afternoon of confidence, as well as fun? The Ladies of Eta Sigma chapter invite you and your
daughter/granddaughter/niece/friend to come to their International Girls Day event. Planning on coming? Kindly RSVP to Eta Sigma VP Community Service Holly Gibbs at holly_gibbs9@yahoo.com.

• Eta Sigma New Member / Alumnae Reception - November 11th. Plan to come to a local restaurant to meet the Kappa Delta New Members from Eta Sigma Chapter. We will meet at 7:00 PM at Cantina Laredo. Come and enjoy a Buffet appetizer and dessert bar, as well as meeting the Fall 2010 pledge class, SET leaders and council members. RSVP to the Facebook event page or to centralarkansaskd@hotmail.com.

• 2nd Degree – November 16th at 7:00 p.m. in DSC-G. If you are planning on attending, please contact us to RSVP.

• Initiation -- Initiation for Eta Sigma – November 23rd at 6:30 p.m. in DSC-D. CAKD members are invited to participate in the beauty of initiation as we welcome the Fall 2010 pledge class into the order. Don’t forget to wear your whites If you are planning on attending, please contact us to RSVP.

Upcoming Fall Events

October 2010
Race for the Cure – October 16th. We know that many of our Kappa Delta alumnae are participating with other groups, and if so – that is wonderful! If you don’t mind, can you please send us an e-mail (centralarkansakd@hotmail.com) so that we can note how many of our members are participating with other organizations? If you don’t have a team to participate with, please consider joining the Kappa Delta Team. They will be meeting at Jason’s Deli in North Little Rock at 6:30 AM on Saturday morning. For more information, give Eta Sigma VP Community Service Holly Gibbs a call at 870-917-5249.

Founder’s Day Banquet – October 21st. Join Eta Sigma Chapter and the Central Arkansas Alumnae Chapter as we celebrate the 113th Birthday of Kappa Delta! KDs are invited to share a Dutch treat dinner at 6:30 pm, with dessert and the Founder’s Day presentation at 7:30 PM in the upper room of US Pizza on JFK in North Little Rock. We will be honoring all the Diamond, Emerald, White Rose, and Nautilus Circle inductees in the Central Arkansas area, as well as introducing the “Ever Loyal” campaign of Kappa Delta. We hope you can join us for this event!

Arkansas Homecoming – October 30th. TBD. Because game time has not been released yet, I assume that CAKD will hear later this month about Zeta Gamma’s homecoming plans. When I hear any information, I will pass it along to you.

November 2010
Stage 6 for Eta Sigma – November 11th Plan to come to a local restaurant to meet the newest Kappa Delta New Members from Eta Sigma Chapter. More details to come soon.

CAKD Movie Matinee – November 21st in the afternoon. CAKD invites you to come take a break with us at the movies.
Time and location TBD.

Initiation for Eta Sigma – November 23rd at 6:30 PM. CAKD members are invited to participate in the beauty of initiation as we welcome the Fall 2010 pledge class into the order. Don’t forget to wear your whites.


December 2010
2010 Jingle Belles Bash – December 4th Several CAKD members are also Jingle Belles, and with this year’s event benefiting Women and Children 1st, CAKD officers thought this would be a perfect mix of fun, philanthropy and KD. Tickets are $35 each, and will be available soon here: http://wcfarkansas.ejoinme.org/belles (WCF told me the link should be set up this week).

October Newsletter

Cookbook!
Eta Sigma (UALR) Chapter is looking for your help in collecting recipes for their Shamrock Cookbook, to be sold in Spring 2011. If you have a favorite recipe that you would be willing to share, please send it to etasigmacookbook@yahoo.com. If this recipe comes out of a published book, magazine or person; please note that on the recipe so Eta Sigma can give proper credit to that author.

2010-2011 CAKD Membership Drive
We are still looking to reach our goal of 63 members this year, and to help you sign up CAKD has made an easy to fill out form on Goggle Documents here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGdsUDk1Q2xuaW5ZenY5alhxaV9WUHc6MQ.
Help make CAKD the best it can be this year and join today! If you don’t know if you have signed up this year or not, please contact us at centralarkansaskd@hotmail.com.

September Newsletter

Meal for Eta Sigma Recruitment –
CAKD is providing a meal for the ladies of Eta Sigma Chapter during their formal recruitment on Thursday, September 23rd. We are planning on getting a Chick-fil-a Chicken Nugget Tray, potato chips, cookies, and drinks. A sign-up e-mail for paper goods, food items, and people to drop it off at the MSS location that night will be sent later this month.

KD State Day – various times/places, Friday, September 24th – Sunday, September 26th. Make plans to participate in the KD state day, sponsored by the NW Arkansas Alumnae Chapter.
Here is the schedule:
Friday the 24th – Dinner at the KD House – 7-10 PM
Saturday the 25th – Tailgating at the Gardens – TBD
Sunday the 26th – Brunch at the KD House – 11-1 PM

For more information, contact the CAKD contact Jessica Holcomb at kdjesi570@hotmail.com or Arkansas State Day Coordinator Kristi Callaway at callaway3@sbcglobal.net.

Race for the Cure –
8:00 AM Saturday, October 16th in downtown Little Rock. Central Arkansas Alumnae Chapter and Eta Sigma Chapter have teamed up to form a Kappa Delta team for the upcoming Race for the Cure. To join our team, follow this link http://arkansas.infokomen.org/site/TR/RacefortheCure/LIT_ArkansasAffiliate?fr_id=1815&pg=entry. Next click: "Join A Team". The team name is Kappa Delta and the team division is School. The password is UALR2009 (if needed). The registration fee is $26.00 and a $5.00 shipping and handling fee. Deadline to sign up with the KD team is October 1, 2010.

Founder’s Day Event – TBA. Kappa Delta Founder’s Day is October 23rd, and a joint Founder’s Day event with Eta Sigma chapter will be scheduled for either the week before or week after this date. Plan to join us as we celebrate our 113th anniversary of the sisterhood.

Announcements
Call for Nominations – Order of the Emerald and Order of the Pearl. CAKD is encouraged to nominate one alumna for the Order of the Emerald and the Order of the Pearl, to be presented during the 2011 National Convention in late June 2011 in Tucson, Arizona. Kappa Delta is proud to recognize women who have achieved prominence within their community through their professional and/or volunteer work (Order of the Pearl) or whom have given extraordinary service to Kappa Delta (Order of the Emerald), all while exemplifying the ideals that Kappa Delta represents. Please send in your nominations by October 1, 2010 to be considered as the CAKD nominees. In addition, each individual member may nominate one alumna for the Order of the Emerald and Order of the Pearl. Check out the KD website (www.kappadelta.org) for more information.

CAKD Directory – CAKD officers will be putting together the 2010-2011 CAKD Member Directory during the month of October. CAKD is at about ½ of our goal for membership this year, so please consider sending in your 2010-2011 Active or Mailings only dues this month to be included in this year’s directory and support Kappa Delta in Central Arkansas and beyond. The membership form can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0Bw_o1msD5zEIMjUzYzA4YWQtM2JiMS00NzI0LWE5YTAtOWExY2I0MjhmMDNl&hl=
en&authkey=CJeMwIYN

KiDs Grant Deadline Moved – The Kappa Delta Foundation has recently announced that the deadline date for Alumnae Chapters to apply of KiDs Grants has been moved to January 15, 2011. They are making changes to better serve KD alumnae chapters and the orgaznizations that will receive the funding. If you have an organization / program that you think would be a good fit for a Central Arkansas AC application, please contact Rachel Lipsey at centralarkansaskd@hotmail.com or 501-413-0954.

Alumnae Magazine News – KDHQ sent word that total sales for the 2009-2010 Magazine Sales Campaign were $483,016.00, with alumnae chapter orders totaling $9,703.98. CAKD sold $97.00 last year. The KD Chapter House fund reaped the benefit of 50% of these sales this year.
There are several ways to support the KD Chapter House fund through magazine sales this year. You can find an alumnae or collegiate chapter to support by following these instructions:
1. Go to http://kd.efundraising.com.
2. Type the name of the alumnae or collegiate chapter where it asks for “Chapter Name”
3. Click on the “Find Button”
4. When “Search Results” are displayed, click on the name of your alumnae chapter.
5. Click on “Shop for Magazines” to take you to your AC or CC’s online store.

Each collegiate chapter has a minimum sales requirement per member, so please consider helping out one of the lovely chapters in our sisterhood. Generally 50% of total sales go directly to the KD Chapter House Fund.

Greek Licensed Vendors – Kappa Delta wanted to remind us that licensed vendors assure a quality product at a competitive price, with a portion of the proceeds directly benefitting the programming and guidance offered by Kappa Delta. Visit http://GreekLicensing.com to find Greek Licensed Vendors.

Zeta Gamma Recruitment – The University of Arkansas Kappa Delta offered bids to 105 young ladies this past month.