Coming up!!!

Bid Day information from Ashley Baisley:
This year's Bid Day will again take place at the Foundry and will be a themed event "How Sweet It Is to be a KD" with candy, lollipops and bright , colorful ribbon decorating the table and banners. It will again begin at 2:00 PM on Sunday, August 23rd with lunch being served at 2:30 PM. If you are planning to attend Bid Day or know of other alumnae who would like to attend, please make sure that you E-MAIL Lauren directly at the following address by NO LATER THAN August 15th. She will need a final headcount to provide to the Foundry and since this is a seated luncheon, we cannot have people just showing up without an RSVP.

Bid Day is Sunday, August 23rd...beginning at 2:00 PM with lunch being served at 2:30 PM at the Foundry downtown. Dress is pin attire (summery dresses, etc.) and all alumnae MUST RSVP by no later than August 15th to Lauren Owen at lowen3@utk.edu And now a message from me, your AA President: Our next Alumnae meeting/social will be at Calhoun's on the river on Tuesday August 18th at 6pm. Evite will go out this week. We still need a place to host our NWFD event on Sept 15th- this is to be a wine and shopping party. More details next week. If you can deliver dinner (chik-fil-a) to the AE Chapter on Friday Sept 25th around 9:30 please let me know.

AOT,
Kelly Whiteaker

June meeting

Our June meeting is next Tuesday the 16th at the Aubrey's on Middlebrooke Pike. It sits in the shopping center that is on the corner of the Middlebrooke Pike and Cedar Bluff intersection across from the Kroger shopping center. We will meet at 6p for dinner and a quick meeting. Items to discuss are our National Women's Friendship Day event and recs for recruitment. We will not be sending out an Evite this month, but did do a Facebook event. If you think you will be attending please RSVP by sending an email to KDalumnae@hotmail.com or the FB invite so that we can reserve a big enough table.
We look forward to seeing you there!!!

April events!

Hello KD Ladies!

April 5th will be the AE Senior Banquet at Calhoun's on the River at 6pm. This event will be a sit down dinner with a program during the meal. This night the seniors will also be inducted into the Alumnae Chapter. There is no charge for attending, but Ashley Baisley will need a head count by April 1st. Please RSVP to Ashley at ashley.baisley@gmail.com no later than 4/1/09.

April 21st is our New Member Social at Ashley Baisley's home at 6pm. This is a night to welcome not only the graduating seniors, but other new members as well. This is a great chance to invite a sister who hasn’t been to a meeting in a while and also a good time to meet the graduating AE seniors. More details will follow soon.


Also mark on your calendars the Emerald Youth Fundraising Breakfast on May 5th at 6:45am – 8:15am at the Knoxville Expo Center. This complimentary breakfast will include a program that highlights the activities of the Emerald Youth Foundation. We will be hosting a table for 10 and will need to submit our guest list by April 17th. Please RSVP with “EYF breakfast” in the subject line to kdalumnae@hotmail.com if you would like to attend.

March Meeting Plans

Our March meeting just so happens to fall on St. Patrick's Day so we are going to celebrate by going all out green! Come dressed in your green and bring a food dish of the green variety or a beverage of your choice to share. (Please list what you are bringing when you RSVP.)

We will also be collecting money for the Emerald Youth Foundation to donate on behalf of the chapter at their annual breakfast May 1st.

Hope to see you at Meredith's on Tuesday, the 17th!

7924 Ellisville Lane
Knoxville, TN 37909
6:00pm

**If you did NOT receive the E-vite, please email Kelly Whiteaker and let her know. She will be sure to add you to our mailing list for future events and be sure you have all the details for the March meeting too!

Please call Meredith at 703-304-7657 if you need directions to her house.

A Note from our Alumnae Chapter President: New Year for Kappa Delta Knoxville Alumnae

First off, as the new Alumnae Association President I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to you. I am Kelly Whiteaker and a 2002 graduate of Western Kentucky University where I was a member of KD's Delta Gamma Chapter. I grew up in Lebanon, TN and returned there after graduation before making the move to Knoxville during the summer of 2007. I have been actively involved with the alumnae group since my second week in Knoxville when I attended my first meeting.
My goal as President of the Alumnae Chapter is to grow and strengthen the Knoxville chapter by listening to what the members are looking for in an alumnae association. The Kappa Delta websites says that "Kappa Delta alumnae associations provide a fun and flexible way to connect with amazing Kappa Delta women in your community, take part in innovative projects, and participate in meaningful service to others." During our monthy outings we provide an opportunity to meet and socialize with old and new friends and also conduct a short business meeting. The busines issues we discuss range from UT's local chapter to ways we can help the community.

Based on feedback from the survey at our Christmas Party will be moving our meetings to the third Tuesday of each month at 6 o'clock and will continue to have our meetings be hosted in a member's home or at a local restaraunt.

A full calendar of events will be coming soon, but for the month of February we will be meeting at Litton's on February 17th at 6:00 (an evite has been sent out).

Other news to make you aware of:
*We still need to fill the positions of Vice President, Membership, Shamrock and Collegiate Relations
*We are on Facebook and can be found by searching for: Knoxville Kappa Delta Alumnae Chapter
*Annual dues are $35 and can be brought to a meeting or mailed to Jeanine Brown @ 7700 Gleason Drive 39E Knoxville, TN 37919

I look forward to working with all of you during 2009. Any questions, comments, ideas or concerns you might have please email me directly @ whiteaker1@hotmail.com and I will be happy to listen, answer or address them. If you have another email address that you prefer we use please respond back to this email with that information. Also, please pass this on to any sisiters you know of in the area that are not geeting this email, we will be happy to include them if they will update us with their contact information. See you all at Litton's!

AOT, Kelly Whiteaker