National Women's Friendship Day

The Knoxville KD Alumnae Association celebrated NWFD on Sunday, September 12 by having an afternoon tea. Members were invited to attend and bring a guest. The event was well attended by KDs and non-KDs and gave us all a great chance to catch up and spend some quality time celebrating our friendships.

Pictures from STAR Visit

The Knoxville Kappa Delta Alumnae Association visited the Shangri-La Therapeutic Academy of Riding (STAR) during the July 2010 meeting. STAR's mission is to foster personal achievement by providing therapeutic experiences using horse related activities for persons with disabilities or other special challenges.

Restaurants.com Discount Offer

Good afternoon -

QSP and Kappa Delta are pleased to provide our members with an exclusive offer to purchase discount certificates to Restaurant.com. Try new restaurants in your area or save money eating at your favorite places!

I did this yesterday, and paid $20 for a $25 gift certificate to the Crown and Goose and Kan Pai of Tokyo, and Kappa Delta got $8!

Some of the restaurants on Restaurant.com are: Agave Azule, La Rumba, Ray's ESG, The Crown and Goose, La Costa, Baker Peters, and a few others.

It's a pretty neat deal. Saves you money, and helps KD!

Here's the link: http://www.magazinefundraising.com/store/CategoryView.aspx?CategoryId=0&CatalogId=218

Upcoming Shamrock event!!

Join us for a Bunco Dessert Cruise on The Volunteer Princess!!!

The event is Sunday, March 14, 2010. Boarding begins at 2:30 and we'll be cruising from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm. The cost is $25.00 per person and is due March 8 to Jennifer Johnson. Please e-mail knoxvillekd@gmail.com for information on paying for the event.

Proceeds will benefit Emerald Youth Foundation and Prevent Child Abuse America. We look forward to a great event and hope to see you there!

Kappa Delta Alumnae Opportunities

Kappa Delta is looking for alumnae in the sales force, specifically those with training in current sales techniques that would lend their expertise for a training program on life skills. We want to develop a manual on communication skills to help our chapters not only in recruitment but life skills. We want to focus on basics of making a sale and closing the deal - how to sell not only KD but themselves. We are looking for members to help write a training manual that our chapter members will use for recruitment and also for life. Please send an email of interest with resume or work history to Katie Grassmyer at educationcomm@kappadelta.org.

Kappa Delta is also looking for a skilled PR executive willing to donate their time and experience to the Confidence Coalition. The Confidence Coalition is a movement to help girls and women become more confident and ready to stand up against media stereotypes, spousal and dating abuse, risky behaviors, bullying, gossiping, and other negative behaviors. If you are interested in helping please send your name, contact information and related experience to Melanie Schild at KDMelMc@aol.com.

Update your information for the Alumnae directory

Good afternoon! I hope everyone's had a great weekend. If you've not already received a yellow postcard from national Kappa Delta regarding the alumnae directory, please keep your eye out for it. You can call 800-869-8937 to go ahead an update your information. The alumnae associations depend on the information you have with nationals so please take a few minutes to do this.

Thanks!

Next Meeting/Dinner is Tuesday January 19

Good morning! I hope everyone is having a great 2010 so far! The alumnae officers met last night to plan for 2010 and we have an exciting year ahead of us! Meredith passed on the Public Relations position to me, Megan Scott, and I'm excited about the new role.

We hope to see you at our first meeting of the year this Tuesday January 19 at Downtown Grill and Brewery at 6pm! We'll introduce the officers and discuss the upcoming year. We'll be meeting in the private room upstairs. There is free parking behind Downtown Grill and Brewery so don't let parking or navigating downtown keep you away!

I'll post information about the coming year after the meeting Tuesday.

Recent meetings!

I have been so horrible about updating our blog. I apologize. We are in officer transition right now. Here are some pictures I have from some of our recent meetings. More to come from our new PR girl, Megan Scott! :)