February 2016

Cactus Chatter Sphinx Court #65 - Phoenix, Arizona

February 2016

Lady Joy Moore - Grand High Priestess Recorder

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ACTIVATED APRIL 10, 1954

High Priestess

Inside This Issue Officers articles 1 - 3 Unit and Club articles 4, 5 Committee reports 6 The Value of Your Name 7 Sock Hop 8 Sphinx Court information 9 Philanthropy Report 10

fun and the public was very generous. The nice thing about this project is that it is all "outside money" and we are not paying ourselves.

Our Membership Tea was great. Thank you Lady Mary Lou for your hard work. We have five ladies ready to join that signed up at the tea, we have several hold overs from the August tea, and hopefully, we will have several more for our February 20th Ceremonial. I would love to initiate eleven, then we will have an even twenty new mem-bers for this year!

And, speaking of February, the Ceremonial on the 20th will also be elections. So I want to have a good show-ing of members to vote. The units will also perform directly after the meeting, then we will have lunch. The prac-tice for Ceremonial will be February 15 at 6:00 p.m. If you are an officer and/or have a speaking or walking part, PLEASE BE AT PRACTICE. We have a hard time practicing without all participants.

All unit heads have tickets for the Sock Hop on February 27. It will be another fun filled night with DJ, 50's food and of course, 50's dress. Dust off those outfits and dancing shoes, and get to El Zaribah for some good fun. If you need more tickets, see Lady Lou Ann Speas and she will be very happy to give you more.

The Memorial for Lady Lila Bishop, Past High Priestess, will be March 19, 2016, at 10:00 AM. Please plan on attending. Our Memorial Services are a beautiful way to remember our members, and especially our Past High Priestesses.

A closing thought: Some day we will be just a memory to some, do your best to make it a good one. Lighthouse Love,

Lady Mimi Bohlman Home: 480-946-6292 Cell: 602-738-3628

email: [email protected] “They may not remember what you say or remember what you did, but they will always remember how

you made them feel.” Maya Angelou

High Priestess Happy New Year to all of you. I hope you are all

rested from the busy holidays, because we still have a lot of activities until the end of the year. Thank you to Lady Linda Curry for "holding down the fort" while I was in Hawaii.

Our gift wrapping project was very successful. We made $1,347.00 in spite of the cold weather. Thanks to all who helped with this project, we did have

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Officers’ Offerings

Recorder Roster Changes

Betty Dabagian – 13240 N Tatum Blvd, Apt 323, Phoenix, AZ 85032-6472 Martha Sarchett – Telephone #602-996-6652 Mary Allen-Hall—Telephone # 623-266-1800

2015 DUES ARE $25.00 AND WERE DUE APRIL 1, 2015

Your self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of your dues card is greatly appreciated. Lady Linda Curry, PHP

Home: 480-941-2070 email: [email protected]

Princess February brings us another Ceremony of Initiation and more new members! I hope everyone will be able to come out and welcome them on Saturday, February 20th. Don’t forget it’s time for Elections

too! Also, I hope to see everyone at the Sock Hop on February 27th… it should be a rockin’ good time! As Transportation Chairwoman I’ve been looking into flights to California for Grand Council in May. Currently

the prices remain around $230 round trip. At the March Court meeting, I will have a signup sheet for car pools in case that’s the way people want to go.

I’ve been busy preparing for my year as High Priestess and I’d like everyone to hold the date for the Installa-tion of Officers – Saturday, April 9th, starting at 2pm. Stay tuned for more details. I’ve been talking to many of you about appointed positions in the Court. If you haven’t already done so, please contact me with your measure-ments for the Court outfit for next year.

Yorkie Hugs and Dark Chocolate Kisses, Lady Karen MacDougall

Home: 623-873-7988 Cell: 623-337-3226 email: [email protected]

Associate Princess Another bag has been delivered to Mexico Hospital and a big box is on its way to the Los Angeles Hos-pital. Thank you Illustrious Sir Chris, you have been wonderful. Thank you ladies for all of the wonderful

items you have donated. For February, I would appreciate either money for my special trike project or toys for babies. Thank you all again.

Tinker Bell Fairy Dust Blessings, Lady Iris Colbert

Home: 480-990-1298 Cell: 602-622-6381 email: [email protected]


First Ceremonial Lady Thank you, Ladies, for all your help with our Membership Tea in January! We received 5 petitions from the Tea that were voted on in the January Meeting, and we will initiate the new candidates in February. Following our Ceremonial Meeting on February 20th, we will be having a Luncheon in honor of our new

members at 1:00 pm in the Fiesta Room. The menu will be: Tossed Salad

Chicken in White Wine Sauce Roasted Potatoes

Green Beans Almandine Cherry Pie

Coffee and Tea Please RSVP to me by phone or email before February 15th. The permanent dinner list is not in effect for this

event, so you need to let me know if you are coming. Also, a vegetarian option is available if requested in ad-vance. The cost of the Luncheon is $15.00, and checks are payable to Sphinx Court #65.

Let’s all do lunch to welcome our new Ladies! Rainbow Smiles and Yellow Roses,

Lady Mary Lou Burger Home: 602-503-6045 email: [email protected]

Second Ceremonial Lady This is our month of election of officers and ceremonial for new members. We also have the Sock Hop going on at the end of the month. We have our Grand Council Session coming up in May. Even if you’re not a line officer I really encour-

age you to go and learn a little more about LOS and meet our Grand Officers. This year our Grand Council Ses-sion will be in California so make a reservation and jump in a car with us, we will get you there. We get to perform during the session and always have a great time meeting new people.

Please read all of the units’ articles and try to attend a meeting or two to get out and get involved. Find out what your return on investment is and find a fit for you. If you all need anything, please contact me.

Owl be seeing you, Lady Janet Massey

Phone: 480-861-8209 email: [email protected]


Clowns Lady Debbie Jones, Vice President

Hello Ladies! Wow 2015 is done and gone, but we made some great memories. The clowns were busy with the holidays and get togethers. December was very busy. We had the National Guard Event where we worked with the men clowns. Turnout was great! There was the patient holiday party where we were busy face painting and the men were ballooning. Last but certainly not least; our HP’s Gift wrapping project. Thank you to all the clowns that came out and helped with the events.

To our NEW MEMBERS, our meetings are the 2nd Thursday of the month. Our next meeting will be February 11 at 7pm, please join us in the Red Fez Room for dinner at 5:30pm. We would love to see you there.

Happy New Year!

Ceremonial Pageantry Our February meeting will be election of officers.

Please plan to attend as we will be preparing for our February 20th Ceremonial.

Set up for the Ceremonial will be on Friday the 19th at 10:00. AM.

Mark your calendars for March 19th at 10:00. We will be having a Memorial service for our Past Presi-dent and Ceremonial Director Lady Lila Bishop, She gave much time and energy to our Unit and we are hoping for a large turn out to show our respects.

Lady Jean Glover, PHP, President

Unit and Club Happenings Director Staff

We hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday Sea-son. Now it's time to get back to work.

There are a few medium size court vests availa-ble. Please see Lady Jean Glover, PHP if you need one.

Our next meeting is Tuesday Feb 9th at 6:30 PM. We will be honoring out Past Chiefs and it is also elec-tion night. Following the meeting we will have dance practice. We will be performing at the Ceremonial and Grand Council.

The dress attire for the February Ceremonial will be long black skirt, black shell and the multi-color jacket.

We will resume catering the Court dinners in March. Please join us for dinner. This is our fundrais-er.

See you at the Ceremonial! Purple Panther

Lady Gina Baird, PHP, Assistant Chief

HAPPY VALENTINE’S

DAY

The Sun Unit


Greeters Unit The next meeting of the Greeters Unit will be on

February 6, 2016, at 808 E Missouri; 3rd floor of the Madison Gardens Senior Community. It is a very nice meeting room and will accommodate all of our mem-bers and visitors with ease. This meeting will be elec-tions of officers, so be sure to come and vote for your choice to lead us for the next year. We will also be discussing WAOUM 2017 and our upcoming perfor-mances, so come prepared with your suggestions.

Present and past members of the unit please call or text me at 480-797-9601; or email me at [email protected] and let me know who still has a Greeters purple dress. I would like to start having the members wear it at the meetings of the court; at least those who are not officers or aides anyway.

To all our new members, please join us for our meeting and come and get to know all of us. We would love to greet you.

Bear Hugs, Lady Kathy Kelley, President

Sphinx Patrol Time just flies! Here it is already February and we

hope everyone is having a great New Year. We had a nice O.V. with our High Priestess Lady

Mimi last month. We have a new member, Lady Nan-cy Beffel joined the Patrol.

Now we are planning for the Sock Hop, it was so much fun last year and we hope that it will even be better this time.

Many Patrol members attended the Membership Tea and helped to sign up new Candidates, we hope that Sphinx Court will grow and grow.

We will be performing at the upcoming Ceremoni-al and practice for it at our next meeting.

Our March meeting will be on March 1st. As al-ways dinner at 5:30pm, practice at 6:15pm, and the meeting starts at 7pm.

Lady Renate Sweat, Captain

PHP Club Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, Febru-

ary 17, 2016, at 7:00 pm. We hope to see many of our PHPs in attendance.

Lady Linda DuBois, PHP, President

Sun Unit Our meeting on February 12th will be our election

of officers. Please try to attend. We will also be firm-ing up our plan for our table at the Sock Hop. Bring your ideas.

Lady Trudy Mullins, PHP, President

NOTICE * NOTICE * NOTICE To avoid being charged for your Dinner if you are

unable to keep your reservation, notify Lady Janet Massey, 2nd Ceremonial Lady,

Phone: 480-861-8209 email: [email protected]

by the Thursday prior to Stated Meeting.


Sunshine Report Lady Trudy Mullins, PHP, Chairman

Sympathy Linda Hartrick - husband Cheryl Hoover - father-in-law Sherrie Van Asperen, PHP - husband. Bill Haley - daughter Kathy Center—husband

Illness Jo Adams Sue Newby Geniece Carroll Sally Wulff Carol Shepard Mary Allen-Hall Pat Bandhauer Sharon Harrison Kay Allen Lynn Hatch - husband Martha Jones - eye surgery Barbara Janes - husband Linda Smith Spinal - Surgery Betty Harris - surgery Sandra Busch Gardner - Surgery Marilyn Castleman, PHP - husband

Good News Pat Zimmerman - new great grandson

Audit Committee Ladies, we will be resuming our mini-audits in

February. Once again, please plan on at least one hour after your February meetings to allow us to look at your books.

Please read the Grand High Priestess’ comments and move forward accordingly with her suggestions. Andie Lacombe Chairman Audit Committee

WAOUM 2017 Committee Our Next committee meeting will be on February 16th at 7:00.

Lady Bobbie Balthazor, PHP, President

Committee Reports

Funeral Committee Our Past High Priestess Lila Bishop passed into

those golden gates several months ago, but there was no ceremony from her beloved LOS.

She had requested an LOS funeral, and we are pleased to inform you that we will be having a Me-morial Service for her at the Greenwood Memorial Cemetery, 2300 West Van Buren, Phoenix, AZ. The memorial will be held graveside, at 10:00 am, March 19th.

We urge all of her friends to make plans to at-tend. I know it will be a short ceremony, but one of our own has made this request, and we want to do whatever we can.

I will be contacting all of our Past High Priestess, to assist in the ceremony, and I thank you all in ad-vance.

Lady Iris Colbert



Sphinx Court Membership Membership @ 10 - 23 - 2015 261 Initiated 0 Demits 1 Deceased 0 Suspended 0 Membership @ 1 - 25 -2016 260

Salt Lake February 19 May 6 August 19 November 4

Los Angeles March 11 August 5

El Zaribah Clinic Dates for 2016

Need a face painter? Need fun balloons?

Need tricks? Just need giggles in your life?

Contact the Sphinx Court #65 Clown Unit Lisa Gilbertson, President, 480-381-1276

Make Your Membership

A Beacon to Others

The Past High Priestess Club

GREETERS

SPHINX

NO. 65

Contact: Kathy Kelley 480-797-9601

Dear Friends, Thank you so much for the cards calls, and pray-ers on the death of my son and my illness. You’ll never know how much they have been appreciat-ed.

LOS Love, Dorothy Netherton

SPHINX PATROL Water Bottle Holders - $5.00 Designer T-Shirt Sleeve Pins

$3.00 small / $5.00 large

See any Patrol member


Saturday February 27, 2016

6:00 to 11:00 pm

6:oo - 10:00PM El Zaribah Shrine Center

Fiesta Room 552 N. 40th St. , Phoenix, AZ

$15 per person

advance purchase required

50’s Apparel Requested Rock the night away with 50’s tunes

Dinner: Hamburgers and Hot Dogs Events: Dinner Dancing Lot’s of Surprises! Call 480-510-2896 for more info & tickets

Sock Hop


PHILANTHROPY REPORT 2015 - 2016 SPHINX COURT #65

ORGANIZATIONS

MILEAGE DRIVEN

NO. OF HOURS

NO. OF ARTICLES

ARTICLES VALUE

CASH DONATED

CANCER

CHURCH DIABETES

HEART

KIDNEY MUSCULAR DISTROPHY

RED CROSS

UNITED WAY

YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS

CAMPABILITY

MASONIC LODGES SHRINER CENTERS

TRANSPORTATION

WOMEN SHELTERS

HOMELESS SHELTERS

NURSING HOMES

EDUCATION LABELS TABS—POUNDS GRAND TOTALS

Please complete and return to Lady Linda Curry, PHP by March 21, 2016


Has Your Address changed? Old Address: Name

Address

City State ZIP

New Address (please print): Name

Address

City State ZIP

New Telephone # ( ) Send this form to: Sphinx Court #65 Recorder Lady Linda Curry, 1550 N. El Camino Drive, Tempe, AZ 85281-1426

Ladies Oriental Shrine of North America Sphinx Court No. 65 Phoenix, Arizona

NOTICE OF MEMBER DUES

Name Address City State ZIP Current Dues are due and payable on April 1 of each year. If you haven’t paid yours, please forward. The Current Dues for 2015 - 2016 are $25 per member. PLEASE MAKE YOUR CHECK PAYABLE TO Sphinx Court No. 65 and mail to: Lady Linda Curry, 1550 N. El Camino Drive, Tempe, AZ 85281-1426

CACTUS CHATTER PRICES Personal Ad or Message - 1 Issue $10.00

Unit or Club Ad - Yearly $45.00 Make checks payable to Sphinx Court and send to:

Lady Linda Curry, PHP, Recorder

Cactus Chatter Editor Lady Bobbie Balthazor, PHP

602-237-5526 Email: [email protected]

5915 E. Woodridge Dr., Scottsdale, AZ 85254 www.sphinxcourt65.org

If you would like to receive your Cactus Chatter online, please send me a message and I’ll send it to you via your email account instead of the US Postal Service. Lady Linda DuBois [email protected]

Director Staff Fez Cases $30 Stabilizers $8 Can Cozies $3

Ginny Fain 480-345-9819

Be A Lady in Red

Join the Ceremonial Pageantry

Contact LADY JEAN GLOVER, PHP—602-957-6871

Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage

PAID Phoenix, Arizona Permit No. 369

Sphinx Court No. 65 Ladies Oriental Shrine

of North America

Linda Curry 1550 N. El Camino Dr.

Tempe, AZ 85281-1426

ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED

Calendar of Events for 2016 UPDATED January 25, 2016

FEBRUARY, 2106 2 Patrol - Din. 5:30, Mtg. 7:00 6 Greeters - 11:30 9 Director Staff - Din. 5:30, Mtg 6:30 11 Clowns - Din. 5:30, Mtg. 7:00 12 Sun Unit - 11:30 15 Ceremonial Practice - 6:00 16 Ceremonial Pageantry @ 6:30 WAOUM 2017 Meeting @ 7:00 17 PHP 20 Court Mtg, Ceremonial, Elections - 9:00 Unit Drills - following meeting Lunch - 1:00 27 Sock Hop

MARCH, 2016 1 Patrol - Din. 5:30, Mtg. 7:00 8 Director Staff - Din. 5:30, Mtg 6:30 10 Clowns - Din. 5:30, Mtg. 7:00 19 Lady Lila Bishop PHP Memorial service - 10:00 Greenwood, 27th Ave. and Van Buren 28 Court Mtg-Din 5:30, Mtg 7:00

APRIL 2016 9 Sphinx Court Installation of Officers - 2:00

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