I s s u e T h r e e | N o v e m b e r 2 0 1 2 A publication of the Junior League of San Antonio, Inc.
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Our Mission The Junior League of San Antonio, Inc. is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.
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Board of directors Debbie Callihan-Dingle President Lisa Ebrom President-Elect Kristen Henry Treasurer Lauren McLaughlin Treasurer-Elect Carrie Lane Board Secretary Ariana Barbour Community Council Chair Mireya Gideon Membership Development Council Chair Janet Peavy Fund Development Council Chair Erica Ellis Communications Council Chair Korrie Lawson Planning Council Chair Cameron Armstrong Board Member-at-Large Sakkara Biggs Assistant to the President Jenny Hall Nominating Committee Chair Reagan Neumann Bylaws Committee Chair/Parliamentarian Denise Theime Vice Chair of Research and Development Barbara Mohs Sustaining Advisor to the Board jlsa staff Lupita A. Castrejon-Tijerina Managing Director 210.225.1861 ext. 302 / lupita@jlsa.org Shannon Grabill Financial Administrator 210.225.1861 ext. 301 / shannon@jlsa.org Megan E. Galloway Hardy Membership Program Administrator 210.225.1861 ext. 300 / megan@jlsa.org Office info The Junior League of San Antonio, Inc. 723 Brooklyn Avenue San Antonio, Texas, 78215 T:210.225.1861 F:210.225.6832 Email: info@jlsa.org Office hours: Mon-Thurs 9:00am - 5:00pm Fri 9:00am - 12:00pm
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President’s Message Debbie Callihan-Dingle President 2012-2013
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would like to begin with a huge congratulations to our Holiday Olé Market team! We had a fabulous market with outstanding events that continued in spite of a deluge. This group of ladies worked long and hard hours to pull this event together. If you see a committee member, share your thanks as well. Our next League-wide event will kick off in January with the Resolve for a Better SA 5K, our new member fundraising project. Make this a New Year’s resolution event for the whole family!! And if you don’t want to run, you can walk with me! The Rummage Around Goodwill Sale will follow quickly after. Again, another great way to keep up a New Year’s resolution and do a little early Spring cleaning. And, finally, the Fête du Cuvée will take place in early March, but more about that next time! While we often focus on our “big” League-wide events, every event and activity is part of what makes the League such a special place to be. Whether it is helping with a community garden, writing a newsletter article, or mentoring other members, every placement sustains and promotes the League while helping to fulfill our mission. As we approach the holiday season, it is only natural to do a little reflection. It is usually personal reflection, but sometimes is professional. I would also encourage you to reflect on your Junior League career. Soon after the New Year, we will begin looking at appointed jobs for next year. I would encourage you to think about what you would like to do and find something that will fit your skills. At the same time, I would challenge you to find something you always wanted to do but were a little hesitant. Why not give that a try too? After all, the Junior League of San Antonio IS a training organization. I wish each of you a joyous holiday season.
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JLSA COMMUNITY PARTNERs AccessAbility Fest for San Antonio
Family Service Association
Roy Maas Youth Alternatives Center
Alamo Area Development Corporation
Food Allergy Anaphylaxis Network
Salvation Army
Alzheimer’s Association
Girls on the Run
SAISD Student Showcase
American Diabetes Association
Good Samaritan Community Services
San Antonio Animal Advocates
Art in the Park
Goodwill Industries
San Antonio Eye Bank
Artpace San Antonio
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio Fighting Back
Avance
Guide Dogs of Texas
San Antonio Food Bank
Battered Women’s and Children’s Shelter
Habitat For Humanity
San Antonio Humane Society
Bexar County Community Health
Healy-Murphy Center
San Antonio Metropolitan Ballet
Bexar County Family Justice Center
Hill Country Mission for Health
San Antonio Museum of Art
Bexar Co. Community Health Collaborative
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
San Antonio State Hospital
Bexar County Women’s Bar Foundation
Kendall County Women’s Shelter
San Antonio Youth
Big Brothers Big Sisters
La Presa Foundation
SNIPSA
Boys Town Texas
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Spina Bifida Texas
Brighton Center
MADD
St. PJ’s Children’s Home
Cancer Center Council
Main Plaza Conservancy
Starlight Children’s Foundation at
Catholic Charities Hygiene Product Drive
McNay Museum of Art
Child Safe
Mitchell Lake Audubon Center
Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children
Children’s Bereavement Center
Northeast Senior Assistance
Susan G. Komen Race for The Cure
Christian Senior Services
Pathways Youth and Family Services
Texas Organ Sharing Alliance
Cibolo Nature Center
Rainbow House
Unicorn Center
City of Terrell Hills
Rape Crisis Center
WINGS
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Retired & Senior Volunteer Program
Family Endeavors
Ronald McDonald House
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President’s Chat JLSA Running Club Board Meeting NSIDE Networking Mixer General Membership Meeting JLSA Book Club Taboo Series Board Meeting President’s Chat
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General Membership Meeting Taboo Series JLSA Goodwill “Rummage Around” Sale Board Meeting President’s Chat JLSA Book Club Fête du Cuvée Fine Wine Auction In-Home Sustainer General Meetings President’s Chat New Member Reception Board Meeting General Membership Meeting JLSA Book Club President’s Chat Board Meeting General Membership Meeting Board Meeting
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featured Story: New JLSA Run: Resolve for a Better SA 5K
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e’re headed into the season of turkey and dressing, of cookie exchanges, and of those notorious office holiday parties, all of which means your favorite outfits may get a little more snug and your favorite activity may become snuggling up on the couch with a candy cane and a DVD of “It’s a Wonderful Life.” But, JLSA is here to combat that holiday pattern, by helping members build resolve over the holidays instead of fitness regrets. JLSA will host its first ever 5K on January 12, 2013. Registration is $25 for early birds, which goes to aid in continuing the mission of the Junior League and serving our community. So, by participating in the 5K, you can not only make yourself and your fitness goals a little better, you can also make San Antonio a little better at the same time.
pate in the 5K. Just make a pre-holiday resolution to get started and train - you’ll be able to build up your stamina by the time the race rolls around! Some great training programs, like Couch to 5K, are available online and are easy to follow with no personal training required! The JLSA running club can also be a great resource, getting together with friends for runs/jogs/walks and finding strength in numbers.
Resident runners like Mireya Villarreal-Gideon and partner in crime Erica Ellis, along with a whole cohort of JLSA friends and spouses run races regularly, but you don’t have to be an all-star runner, or even be competitive, to partici-
meet the board: board member spotlight Janet Peavy is eagerly serving as JLSA’s Fund Development Council Chair. Even with all of the demands of her current board position, this busy mother of four children under the age of six still enjoys giving piano lessons and playing in amateur competitions as time permits. Last year, Janet was thrilled to have the chance to play with the San Antonio Symphony! She and her husband, Daniel, are also serving their church as community leaders this year.
Janet Peavy
In the nine years she has been a member of the Junior League, Janet has enjoyed the League’s major fundraising events, like the Golf Tournament, Holiday Olé Market, and Fête du Cuvée, and has grown especially fond of the JLSA Mom’s Group. Janet has, of course, served in many capacities, yet, the most fulfilling so far was volunteering at the battered women’s shelter where she was forever touched by a little four-year-old girl. That experience helped shape Janet into the League leader she is today and it informed the goals she sets as our Fund Development Council Chair.
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spotlight: community organization Family Endeavors
In 2004, Family Endeavors opened at the Fairweather Lodge. With a goal of providing a safe environment promoting families to stay together, Family Endeavors gave homeless mothers, some struggling with mental illness, and their children stability and long-term support needed to continue as a family. Program participants receive access to affordable health care, life-skills and parenting classes, safe and affordable housing, access to healthcare, and childcare when needed. JLSA offers a placement with Family Endeavors, Co-Chaired this year by Michelle Garcia and Danielle Schick, the volunteers committing to spending three hours every other Saturday with the families. Currently, Family Endeavors services 20 mothers and 40-50 children, ranging in ages from newborn to 16 years old. The seven League members who have permanent placement with Family Endeavors work with the moms and children on life skills, arts and crafts, cooking and healthy meal preparation, and provide tutoring to moms pursuing their GEDs. Other times, JLSA volunteers simply spend time with the children, playing
Fund Development Council report JLSA has exciting sponsorship news to share! Lee Michaels has signed a two-year sponsorship with JLSA that is renewable for three years. Lee Michaels had title sponsorship of Olé Girls’ Night Out, donating VIP martini glasses and branded jewelry for the event. For Fête Du Cuvée, Lee Michaels will provide table sponsorship, jewelry donation, and patron gifts. Lee Michaels will also provide golf team sponsorship and production of board pins. Portions of last month’s The Cellar Classic, put on by Lasco Enterprises (Max’s Wine Dive and Boiler House) went to benefit the League. We are happy to announce that our newest sponsorship, Porsche of San Antonio, will be sponsoring Preview Party for Fête.
games or reading. Garcia shared, “The moms don’t get the same opportunities we take for granted daily, like quiet time, a babysitter for kids, and craft supplies to make home decorations.” Meeting needs of so many with so few volunteers is no small challenge, but it is one Schick and Garcia are facing head-on. “Having 75 to serve with only seven volunteers [is tough], but we are overcoming that by relying on Sustainers and by coordinating with Crystal Fuller to get as many Placement Samplers as possible.” The struggle continues for the co-chairs as we enter the holiday season. In years past, placement members adopted families for the Family Endeavors Christmas Party. “This year we need to adopt out. Christmas presents from League members are the only presents some families
JLSA Fun Facts In 1930, “Stepping Out” was a musical show that JLSA sponsored to raise money for their free clinic for children. The show included tap dancing, Asian and Mexican dancers.
get,” Schick explained. If anyone is interested in adopting a family, mom, or child, please email Danielle at: dabschick@yahoo.com.
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FUNDRAISING
2012-2013 JLSA Donors Platinum Frost National Bank Valero Energy Foundation Three Star Ventures (a Valero/Shell/Exxon Franchise) Gold Capital Group Companies Silver Bradford World Renown Portraiture Brio Tuscan Grille Clear Channel Communications Foundation CHRISTUS Health Porche of San Antonio Wave Healthcare Bronze Christy Sarosdy Howard Energy Partners Lasco Enterprises Lee Michaels Fine Jewelry Training & Consulting Inc. Smith Bits/Sclumberger Copper Baptist Breast Center Baptist Health Systems Barefoot Wines & Bubbly Chenega Management, LLC CMC Construction Gretchen Garceau-Kragh Jennings Anderson Ford Offenhauser Insurance Company RediClinic LLC Smith Bits/TGC Engineers Smith Bits/Vaugh Energy Services Stuart Weitzman The Porter Loring Family Walker-Myers Women Partners in OB/GYN JLSA Gift CBRE David Sixt Photography Disneyland Resort
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GLI Distributing Jackson-Meyer Lantana Spa at the JW Marriott Hill Country Resort Media Bar NuStar Energy Shiner Beers Laura Talley The Westin La Cantera Resort Wortham Insurance & Risk Management JLSA Donor ACK Alamo Bowl Cameron Armstrong Catherine Bagby Anne Ballantyne Gretchen Barrett Becker Vineyards Bell Mountain Vineyards Mallory Belt Big’z Burger Joint Lisa Blonkvist Alison Wenger Boone Jean M Braley Dr. Brandon & Cris Bregman and family Brianna Brown Elizabeth Brown Sherry Brown Haley Buchman Camp Bow Wow Dianne Carlson Ann Tynan Carpenter Mrs. Craig Cates Central Medical Associates Lisa S. Cox Kelly Daniell Marjorie Davis Olive Davis Diageo – Guiness Marguerite Dreiss Margaret “Peg” Emley Cristina Escobedo Patricia Frost Gloria Galt Diana Geis
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Stephanie Gossen Beverly Guerra Callie Latham Cornelia Herff High Cotton Joanne Holshouser Inn of the Hills Jessie Kardys Lisa Keller Kendra Scott Jewelry Kiddie Park Tracey Krause Lynn Loring Sylvia Pauline Fitzsimon Love Lynfred Winery Lüke Priscilla Lupe Dorothy Manning Brooke McGilloway Oppenheimer Blend Harrison & Tate Painting with a Twist–San Antonio Northwest Kristen Palme Katie Preis RediClinic LLC Erica Sloan Patricia Block Smith Lisa Sullivan Andrea Tingleff Judy Tesoro Ms. Terence Walsdorf Touhey Jill H. Vassar Shelia Wolfe The Wooton Family In-kind The JLSA would like to graciously thank all of our wonderful in-kind donors for their generosity. Without you, we would not be able to do what we do for the community.
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members: making impact Lesley Vernor is spending her ninth year in
gives sustainers a “voice” in the events that
the Junior League as a Sustainer Liaison. In
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this role, she acts as a bridge between active membership and the sustainer membership. She keeps sustainers involved in the League by planning various events throughout the year to encourage sustainer participation. In her role, Lesley has been able to get to know our sustainers better by helping to create a task force that
Lesley is also a major advocate for the League’s new Signature Project – Preventing Childhood Obesity. As a pediatric registered nurse, Lesley is very involved with children’s health and sees the impact childhood obesity has on our community, our country, and on a global level. With this being a new Signature Project for JLSA, the Signature Project Team is currently raising awareness within the League and the community, and is working with other organizations to find the perfect fit to make the biggest impact. When Lesley is not busy with her Junior League activities, you might find her doing a number of other things. She and her husband, John, love to golf and travel, and Lesley even managed to write two novels in her spare time last year! She is such a strong supporter of Junior League and enjoys it so much that she has to keep reminding her husband why he can’t join in the fun! Way to go, Lesley!
Lesley Vernor (pictured on the left) with fellow JLSA member Jane Mozingo.
bright shawl: updates The Bright Shawl is excited to announce its holiday party booking contest for JLSA members. Ladies, call everyone you know! Tell everyone you come in contact with! Leave no stone unturned. The League member with the most leads for holiday parties at The Bright Shawl wins a lunch for two at The Bright Shawl and a bottle of champagne! Parties can be booked for breakfast, lunch or dinner. The contest runs now through January 5, 2013. Please mail your leads to sales@brightshawl. com and include client contact name, phone, email, number of people and date preferences.
Don’t forget to check out the JLSA blog: juniorleaguesa.blogspot.com
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spotlight on: sustainer Thille Newton has been a Junior League member and sustainer in many areas, including Mexico City, Tucson, and now, San Antonio. In these areas, she enjoyed placements such as working in Mexico City’s thrift shops and bookstores. As a JLSA sustainer, she is actively involved in STUFF (Sustaining Transfers United For Fun). It’s one way she follows her own advice of “enjoying League friendships,” because she and the other ladies of STUFF get together monthly for luncheons, community tours and events, and dinners with husbands/friends. While Thille and the other ladies of STUFF may have ended their service as actives, they’re still busy, connected and active in our community!
spotlight on: membership Passionate about literacy and education, Mallory Ahl was a Teach for America Corps member, and joining the JLSA upon moving to San Antonio six years ago was a natural fit. “I was looking to volunteer [while] getting a broad view of issues affecting our city.” Currently Vice Chair of New Members, Ahl has found her niche and loves the ideas new members bring into the League. On Super Saturday, Ahl shared that new members found inspiration in learning a League member founded Sunshine Cottage 65 years ago. For Ahl, success and growth in the League boils down to placement selection: “Talk to mentors; board, committee and council members; and placement chairs. When [members] find their fit, they are more effective in and enthusiastic about their positions.”
spotlight on: new member A native of San Antonio, Carissa Pool is excited to be able to give back to her community as a New Member of the Junior League of San Antonio. In the last few months, Carissa has enjoyed getting to know several JLSA members through volunteering with SA Works. This has allowed her to see different parts of our community that she has never explored before, such as the Mission San Jose and the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center. Carissa currently works as a physical therapist specializing in the pelvic floor region. In this role, she helps both male and female patients maintain their quality of life both preand post-surgery. In her spare time, we can find Carissa focusing on her hobbies, which include spending time with friends and family, doing outdoor activities, Pilates, bow hunting, and trying her hand at cooking.
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AMIGOS&NEWS:
Submission Reminder AMIGOS is an acronym for A Mission In Giving Others Support. This year, AMIGOS wants to grow in its mission and support all members in whatever it is they are going through. In order to do this, your help is needed! Please notify us when you are celebrating an engagement, wedding, a new baby, a graduation etc. In addition, we are here to support you during the not-so-good times. Please inform us (amigos@jlsa.org) so that we can help during types of hardship, illness and the loss of a loved one. If you know of a fellow League member who could use some praise or assistance please feel free to contact AMIGOS on her behalf.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY’S REPORT Linda Molina Transfer Out
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Katherine Bradley (NM)
Dinah Hutson (A)
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Elise Montgomery (NM) (to Amarillo TX)
Jane Williams (S)
Jennifer Lyons (S) (from Orlando FL)
Nicole Eidson (A) (to Phoenix AZ)
Elizabeth Sherly (S)
Becky Nguyen (A) (from Bryan/College Sta. TX)
Roxanne Maynard (S) (to OK City OK)
Jessica Berg (A) Amy Ware (S)
Jocelyn Cates (A) (from El Paso TX) Tinsley Cheatham (A) (from Dallas TX)
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Emily King (A) (from Stamford-Norwalk CT)
Sarah Hamm (AR to ANR) Lisa Shoumaker (A)
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Special update Olé Recap
Another Holiday Olé Market has come and gone, leaving the JLSA with another successful fundraiser and fond memories for the countless shoppers and party-goers who graced its aisles! Holiday Olé Market Communications Chair, Emily Willeford, said this year’s event had a “great turnout, really fun merchants, and that [the market’s] newest events, ‘Starstruck: A Red Carpet Event’ and ‘Pajamas and Pancakes,’ exceeded our expectations.” Live music by “The Pictures” at the Preview Party and DJ Future Sounds at Thursday night’s “Girl’s Night Out,” drew the crowds and added a festive mood to the each program’s events. JLSA member and WOAI reporter, Mireya Villarreal-Gideon, handily led the live auction at the Preview Party, and was acted as emcee for Ready, Set, Shop.
Online Boutique Olé is over, but you don’t have to give up on shopping for a cause! Instead, redirect your dollars to the JLSA’s Retail Therapy, your online resource for all things JLSA (cafepress.com/jlsa). From Performance Dry shirts perfect for the JLSA 5K to totes, car decals and mugs (great stocking stuffers for JLSA friends!), you can support JLSA in style – and your purchases help promote awareness of our League in the community. So, start shopping today!
All in all, it was a festive and successful week, raising tens of thousands of dollars for Junior League programs and the praise of many of the vendors who said that JLSA has the greatest volunteers of any show they attend! A rewarding week, indeed!
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