Cactus Chatter Sphinx Court #65 - Phoenix, Arizona

April 2011

Published Nine Times A Year

Dinner 5:30 PM/Court Meeting: 7:00 PM

4th Monday of Each Month (Except June through August) El Zaribah Shrine Center - 552 N 40th Street

Phoenix, AZ 85008 - Phone (602) 231-0300

Lady Jennie L. Crawford - Grand High Priestess

L.O.S.N.A. INC.

ACTIVATED APRIL 10, 1954

Officers’ Articles 2 - 4

Units, Clubs, & Committees 4 - 6

Sunshine Report 6

Calendar of Events 8

What’s Inside this Issue

High Priestess Recorder

Toys and Fun Animals Mythical Symbols

Birds and Flowers

Janet’s Sassy Seahorse Class Information

Princess First let me begin by thanking all the won-derful Ladies who have donated items or

money for the hospital or special project this past year. Boxing up the last few cartons to be sent gave me mixed feelings. Feelings of happiness and joy for the Shrine Children who will benefit from these items. Sadness for me because I loved collecting everything this past year and daydreaming of the Children's faces as they played or wore the items sent. It was terrific being your Associate Princess. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Next, many of you know Jim Miller, Past Potentate of El Zaribah Shrine and husband of our musician, Jackie, is currently the Hospital Chairman. Jim has graciously volunteered to deliver our donations to the hospital when he takes the donated wheelchairs. This will save our Court $300.00 or more in shipping costs. Please thank him whenever you see him.

The Wheelchair Soccer Team project has been very successful and I thank you all for supporting this new venture at Salt Lake City Shriner Hospital.

Welcome and congratulations to our newest Ladies of Sphinx Court. The Units would enjoy your visits so much while you are learning what each one is about. Remember to ask questions.

Congratulations to our new High Priestess Lady Janet Mielke and all her Officers and Aides. This will be another great year for our Court.

Lastly, thank you for electing me to the position of Princess. I will do my best to live up to your expecta-tions. What an honor! I am always reminded that it takes a village to get things done. In this case, I know it takes all of Sphinx Court to keep me on track. What a job you all have but I love you Ladies, more than you know.

Angel Caresses and Butterfly Love, Lynn Hatch

480-802-0493 email: Lhatch64 @aol.com

High Priestess Again, thank you for the confidence that you have placed in me as High Priestess. I will work very hard to earn your trust & respect.

We have just received new members into our order and are so pleased that they have joined us. To each new member, I hope that you plan to visit all the units & choose one that best suits you. It helps to make the entire experience of LOS that much more enjoy-able.

Our 1st Ways & Means Project is a Golf Tournament on May 7th (in just a few days), BUT you don’t have to golf to have fun! We have food & fun for everyone else, too. If you are a golfer, call for a late registra-tion. We may have an opening. Also, we really need help, such as donations for the Silent Auction and working on the course. It is at StoneCreek golf club. Paula Mattingly has everything planned and it sounds like its going to be a great day!

Mermaid Hugs and Dolphin Kisses,

Lady Janet Mielke Home 480-991-4904 Work 480-556-6789

email: jam1@qwestoffice.net

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Recorder ROSTER ADDRESS CHANGES

Krys Vogler: 4584 E Broken Saddle Dr, Cottonwood, AZ 86326-5722, Telephone # 928-649-3747 Lynne Beecroft: New Telephone # 661-874-5301 Mary Goodmiller: P.O. Box 694, Yuma, AZ 85366 Sallie Horn: 1827 Landing Drive, Apt B, Sanford, FL 32771-6729

WE NEED CURRENT ADDRESSES FOR THE FOLLOWING LADIES

June Tillotson Helen McLachlan If you have any information on either of these Ladies,

please contact me.

ATTENTION: DUES FOR 2011 WERE DUE APRIL 1, 2011.

Linda Curry, PHP 480-941-2070 email: lkcurry1@cox.net

Associate Princess This will be a very exciting and gratifying year for me. I find great pleasure and thankfulness that we’re able to help so many children through our Ladies Oriental

Shrine. Our court does an amazing amount of work for them. I haven’t found a “Special Project” yet, but I’m working on it now. I feel that this will be a special year for me and I hope for our shrine.

My aides this year will be a big help. I have a brand new member, Ardith Elmore, Past High Priestess, Nonnie Carter, as well as Jo Adams.

My congratulations to Lady Janet Mielke and all of

our officers and aides for this coming year. I believe

we’ll all help to make this year a great year for our

court and Janet.

Exploring LOS with Love, Dee Berkebile-Wright

623-247-2318 email: deewright1@cox.net

leo@kmhkreations.com

www.kmhkreations.com

KMH Kreations Websites, Unit or Club

Directories, Flyers,

Computer Support

Leo Balthazor

Project Manager, owner

602-740-5635

GREETERS

SPHINX PATROL Water Bottle Holders - $5.00

Designer T-Shirt Sleeve Pins

$3.00 small / $5.00 large

See Fern Livingston 480-970-1984

or any Patrol member

Face paint is neat Balloons are a treat

Candy is sweet Clowns can’t be beat!

Clowns are available for your parties or

events.

Contact Marsha Young, Unit President

at 623-266-6099 for information.

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Ceremonial Pageantry Welcome to our new members. Please come to

our next meeting and meet us. Our April 11th meeting will be the installation of our

unit officers and the Official Visit of our High Priest-ess, Janet. Join us for dinner beforehand at 5:30 and stay for our meeting which will begin at 7:00.

We will so miss our long time member Lady Eileen Cook, PHP. She loved telling the story at Ceremonial and did such a great job of it.

Lady Jean Glover, PHP Pres.

Second Ceremonial Lady Thank you for electing me Second Cere-monial Lady. I will do my best for you. I will be taking your dinner reservations for

the Stated Meetings. Please let me know if you want to remain on the standing list, be placed on the stand-ing list, or be removed from the standing list. I must have your reservation for the April dinner by the 20th. Thanks for your cooperation.

The menu for the April Court dinner is ham, veg-gies, potatoes, salad and of course, a scrumptious desert, plus tea and coffee. Please remember the cost of dinner will now be $10.00. See you at the April Court meeting.

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

mimibohlman@gmail.com

Director Staff Fez Cases $30 Stabilizers $8

Aileen Randleman

480-967-2540

HAVE A

GOOD YEAR

The Sun Unit

Clowns Time flies when you are having fun was never more

evident than this year. What fun we had and now we look forward to even more fun in the coming year, as we have not yet hit our stride!! – who could in those big clown shoes?? Everyone is invited to the Clown Installation of Officers on Thursday April 14th at 7:00, no host dinner at 5:30 at El Zaribah. The Clown of the Year will be announced at Installation. Cont. p. 5

First Ceremonial Lady What a lovely ceremonial we had on Monday night, March 28th. Welcome Ann, Danielle, Susan and Janet. We hope to see you at fu-

ture court meetings &, visit our many units & clubs, then decide which one(s) you'd like to join.

Janet your installation was wonderful! Welcome, Mimi Bohlman as our new Second Ceremonial Lady, AKA mushroom.

Please keep in mind our Membership Tea is sched-uled for October 12th. I hope to have a long list of names. For that to happen, I need everyone's help.

My thoughts and prayers to Eileen Cook and Mary Lou Bloom-Wren's families on their passing.

Swan Love, Angel Hugs & Schnauzer Kisses, Gina Baird

Home 602-953-0210 Cell 602-791-0925 email: pa2va2az@earthlink.net

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Clowns cont. The Clowns are grateful for the clown classes with

which our men Clowns have assisted. Their expertise and willingness to help with our individual growth and personality development is appreciated. A special thanks to BB Clown and the men for our inclusion in the activities of the community. If you are interested in our events, please check with one of our officers as the events come with a short notice.

At one of our events as about ten Clowns were working away, a little girl, about 5 years-old, summed up the joy of being a Clown. She looked up at me with big, wondrous eyes as I painted a ladybug on her cheek and asked breathlessly, “Do all of the Clowns live together?”

A new generation has begun in the Clown unit as we bid farewell to our last Charter Member, Mary Lou “Giggles”. We wish peaceful hearts to all who are ill, caring for loved ones, and those who have lost loved ones.

Joyfully, Lady Pam Wade

Vice Pres.

Sphinx Patrol Congratulations to all the newly installed Court Offi-

cers and Aides, we wish you a very successful year. Thank you to Lady Linda DuBois, PHP, for a being

a great High Priestess for the last year and for doing the Patrol Installation. We welcome you as our first new member for this year.

Our May meeting will be Tuesday, May 3rd at the Shrine Center, dinner at 5:15, practice at 6:15 and the meeting at 7pm.

Good Thoughts and Well Wishes to all who need cheering up.

Lady Renate Sweat Captain

Greeters Congratulations to Sphinx Court for another great

installation of officers. We look forward to assisting you again this year.

Also - congratulations to all the new Unit Officers. We hope you all have a great year, too.

We wish everyone good health this next month, and hope to see you at our meetings. The last Greet-ers meeting until September will be May 7, 2011.

Lady Iris Colbert Pres.

Director Staff Well, here we go for another new year of working

for our children in the hospitals. The Court’s installation was beautiful as always.

Lady Janet and our new corp of officers will do a won-derful job I’m sure.

I think everyone had a great time at our Unit’s in-stallation. Thanks to Ladies Dorothy Netherton and Jane Sheldon for making all the arrangements.

I would like to thank Lady Jane Sheldon for step-ping up and taking on the responsibility of this tribe for one more year.

Lady Lou Ann Speas Assistant Chief

Happy Easter From The Past High Priestess Club

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Sunshine Report Sympathy Lady Eileen Cook, PHP Lady Mary Lou Bloom/Wren Illness Lady Lillian Ryan Lady Faye Humphrey Lady Mary Alice Rake, PHP Lady Doris Deardorff PHP

There were 98 cards sent this year for sympathy,

get well, thinking of you and best wishes. The Court paid $43.12 for stamps and the cards were donated by Lady Linda Hartrick, Ill. Sir Leo and PHP Lady Bobbie Balthazor, PHP Lady Sandi Beneke, and Lady Trudy Mullins.

I wish to thank the following ladies who assisted in the distribution of reports -Our High Priestess Lady Linda DuBois, PHP Lady Linda Curry, PHP Lady Bobbie Balthazor, PHP Lady Carol Shepard, and Lady Karen MacDougall.

I thank High Priestess Lady Linda for asking me to serve as Sunshine Chairman. Sphinx Court #65 is special and it was my pleasure to serve in this capacity. The purpose of life is a life or purpose

Robert Byrne

We can do no great things - only small things with great love

Mother Theresa.

Bless you all,

Lady Trudy Mullins, PHP Chairman

Sphinx Court Travel Fund Committee Thank you to all the members for your support of

the Sphinx Patrol travel projects this year. The next SCTF meeting will be held on April 18, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.

Lady Linda Curry, PHP Co-Chairman

PHP Club Our next meeting will be our installation of Officers

on April 20th. We are anxious to welcome Lady Linda DuBois, Jr PHP to our Club. We look forward to a new year with Lady Janet Mielke and her Officers this year.

We are sad to have lost our long time member Lady Eileen Cook, PHP and send our condolences.

We wish everyone a Happy Easter.

Lady Debbie McKelvey, PHP

Sun Unit Congratulations to our new High Priestess, Lady

Janet Mielke and her officers. We will have our meeting and installation of officers

on April 8th beginning at 11:30 at the Masonic Fellow-ship Center, 18810 N. 107th Ave. This will be fol-lowed by a no-host lunch at the Sun City Country Club. Please RSVP to Lady Sally Wulff by April 6th.

Prayers and support go out to all.

Lady Joan Hardy President

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

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Current Dues are due and payable on April 1 of each year. If you haven’t paid yours, please forward. The Current Dues for 2011 - 2012 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

Be A Lady in Red

Join the Ceremonial Pageantry

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

My dad, Noble Dom Martino, joined El Zaribah

in 1954. My mother, Lady Gertie Martino, PHP

joined Sphinx Court in 1955. My sister Lady

Suzanne Edwards and I joined Sphinx Court in

1955. This all adds up to 144 years of love and

friendship in our Court working for the benefit

of the Shrine kids. What a blessing this has

been for our family.

Lady Trudy Mullins, PHP

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Sphinx Court No. 65 Ladies Oriental Shrine

of North America

Linda Curry 1550 N. El Camino Dr.

Tempe, AZ 85281-1426

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Calendar of Events for 2011 - 2012 UPDATED March 28, 2011

APRIL 1 Installation Pictures @ 5 Installation @ 7:00 4 Director Staff Meeting & Install. 5 Patrol meeting & Install. 8 Sun Unit Meeting & Install. 9 Greeters Meeting & Install. 11 Cere. Pageantry Mtg. & Install. 14 Clowns Meeting & Install. 18 Stated Meeting Pract. @5:00 18 SCTF Committee Meeting @7:00 20 PHP Meeting & Install. 25 Stated Meeting

MAY 7 Golf Tournament 14 - 21 Grand Council, Sarasota, FL 23 Stated Meeting

SEPTEMBER 26 Stated Meeting

OCTOBER 2 Membership Tea @ 2:00 20 - 22 WAOUM, Portland, OR 24 Stated Meeting

NOVEMBER 13 Ceremonial Practice @ 2:00 18 Ceremonial Set up @ 6:00 19 Ceremonial & Meeting @ 8:00

DECEMBER 12 Stated Meeting

JANUARY 8 Membership Tea 23 GHP Official Visit & Stated Meeting

FEBRUARY

27 Stated Meeting & Elections

MARCH 24 Fund Raiser 26 Stated Meeting & Ceremonial