Portland Alumnae Chapter WINTER 2015 Newsletter

Get ready for...

FOUNDER'S DAY ~ 2015

 We are in the final planning stages of the Portland Area's Founder's Day!  Watch for communications about it in your mailbox or inbox!  We'll also have information here as well as on our Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/groups/54101686755/

Mark your calendars for 

SATURDAY ~ FEBRUARY 21st, 2015

Our main fundraiser for the entire year relies on proceeds from our Silent Auction at Founder's Day.  Last year we had a menagerie of wonderful contributions!  So put your creative juices to work to come up with a basket item, a donation, use of a cabin or timeshare, tickets to an event, OSU/U of O tailgater garb...the list is endless!  Here are some ideas to get you started...

Silent Auction items from previous year's Founder's Day.

The AOII items were a bit hit!  

Click here for Pinterest auction ideas!

Love my Beavers!  But you could easily make your auction item about your favorite college!

AOII jewelry or clothing is always very popular!

Click here to browse the AOII Emporium store!

Imagine your silent auction item here!  Feel free to
add a picture of your auction item! 

(or email it to 4mccrackens@comcast.net 

and I'll post it!)

See you Saturday, February 21, 2015 from 11-3pm 

at the Salem Convention Center!

Alpha Rho's 1st Formal Recruitment!

Wishing the amazing ladies of Alpha Rho the very best as they begin recruitment!  They've invested time & effort into "Work Week" and now the fruits of their diligence will pay off!  The Portland Alumnae Chapter delivered bundles and boxes of snacks to the house to help offset the Alpha Rho's hard work.  We also had pizza and soda delivered for the girls during the middle of their work week.  

We're thinking about you and looking forward to the results on BID DAY on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014!  Way to go ladies!  

Alpha Rho gets a house!

Harrison House becomes Alpha Rho's House in Corvallis!!!

What a lovely older home!  Perfect to help Alpha Rho grow!  Thanks to all the neighboring alums who've put in hours of work sorting through objects left behind!  You might also be interested in this....

The Alum Advisors are having an estate sale this Saturday, August 30 at the Old Harrison House in Corvallis. Hours are 7:00 AM - 12:00PM. No early sales!! Address is: 2310 NW Harrison Blvd, Corvallis. All items priced to sell...furniture and other lovely items from the B&B. NO HOUSE TOURS at this time. Please join us if you can!

Auction ideas!

You should have received your postcard invitation to our Founder's Day on Saturday, May 10, 2014 at the CH2MHill Alum Center in Corvallis by now.  If not, look for an Evite invitation to the event in your email box.  Mark your calendar's to attend!  This is a big year as we welcome our newest members of Alpha Rho!

To reserve a spot, please be sure to mail your $25 payment
BEFORE APRIL 24, 2014 to:

Jill Dugan
8602 SW Lodi Lane
Tigard, OR 97224

Our main fundraiser for the entire year relies on proceeds from our Silent Auction at Founder's Day.  Last year we had a menagerie of wonderful contributions!  So put your creative juices to work to come up with a basket item, a donation, use of a cabin or timeshare, tickets to an event, OSU/U of O tailgater garb...the list is endless!  Here are some ideas to get you started...

Silent Auction items from last year's FD, 2013

The AOII items were a bit hit!  

Click here for Pinterest auction ideas!

Love my Beavers!  But you could easily make your auction item about your favorite college!

AOII jewelry or clothing is always very popular!

Click here to browse the AOII Emporium store!

Imagine your silent auction item here!  Feel free to
add a picture of your auction item! (or email it to 4mccrackens@comcast.net and I'll post it!)

See you Saturday, May 10th from 11-3pm at the Alum Center in Corvallis!

Alpha Rho Initiation and Re-installation, March 2, 2014

What an amazing event at Alpha Rho's initiation and re-installation on Sunday, March 2, 2014!  We had over 30 alums present and initiated 63 wonderful young ladies!  We even had a special guest of honor, Joan Gathercoal, who is a Corvallis alum.  Joan came with her sister Judy Uychtil. Joan and her twin sister, Jean (now deceased),  hosted many a collegiate class to her home...I specifically remember a senior tea at their lovely home on Chintimini Drive.  Joan's mother, Ruth Baines, was one of two chapter advisors during the 1970's.  Joan spoke to our newest initiates and told them that the dress she was wearing was the dress she wore to her own initiation!  We all were in awe!

Here is Gayle Fitzpatrick with Joan and her lovely white dress!

The new initiates and Chapter Advisors!

 Our infamous Karin (as in Karin's song) and Alpha Rho alums!

All Alpha Rho initiates and alums!

And if this delightful ceremony and celebration wasn't enough for one day, we also learned that AOII will be renting a 5 bedroom, 5 bath house under construction for  the newest Alpha Rho's beginning Fall 2014!  

This house will provide opportunity for the officers to "live-in" as well as have their own chapter room and a general place to "hang out!"  How fun this will be to make their own!

If you have pictures from the ceremonies and/or the reception, please email them to 4mccrackens@comcast.net so I can post them here!

And now, ladies, let's all mark our calendars for our next Alpha Rho big event:  FOUNDER'S DAY, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2014 at the CH2M Hill Alumna Center in Corvallis!  We look forward to getting to know our newest Alpha Rho's and visiting with Alums!  Start planning for your silent auction item today! 

Here is a sample of items from last year's Silent Auction, which 

profited over $1200 for the Portland Alumnae Chapter!  More details to follow!

Questions?  email 4mccrackens@comcast.net!

Reinstallation!

Plan to join us this Sunday, March 2, 2014, as new members become initiated and Alpha Rho is re-stalled as a chapter at Oregon State University!

Several ladies will be meeting at the Tualatin Park & Ride on Sunday morning at 6:45am!

We'll need to be at the CH2M Hill Alumnae Center at 8:30am to practice the ceremonies.  Afterwards, at 3pm, there will be a reception honoring the new initiates as well as the newly installed chapter!

The AOII International President, Allison Allgiers, will be initiating our new members.  Gayle Fitzpatrick, our own classmate at Alpha Rho, will be performing the reinstallation ceremony.

This is the day many of us have been waiting for so please plan to join us for this momentous event!