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Cactus Chatter Sphinx Court #65 - Phoenix, Arizona

April 2014

Lady Jan Hiebert - Grand High Priestess Celebrating 100 Years of LOSNA Recorder

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

ACTIVATED APRIL 10, 1954

High Priestess

Thank you everyone who made our Installation a success. I will always cherish the memories. The refreshments were outstanding and everyone looked lovely. Welcome to all the New Explorers! Please visit the clubs and units, then, decide which ones you’d like to join.

Lady Dee, your Ceremonial was wonderful. Lady Karen did an exceptional job recruiting new members. She’ll be a hard act to follow, but I’m sure Lady Iris will be ready for the challenge.

Since my class is called Bea’s Graceful Swans, our big yearlong fund raiser will be to sell a bumble bee charm for $25.00. Everyone has a charm bracelet and they would make wonderful birthday, graduation or Christ-mas gifts. Please help the court, which is everyone’s responsibility.

A big thank you to everyone who brought Christmas wrap, bows, ribbon, boxes, etc. The big question has been why? Answer, we will be wrapping Christmas presents the weekend prior to Christmas. The location still to be determined. This will be a big court project getting outside money. More information will be provided through-out the year.

I have heard some people say our meetings are boring and we need to liven it up. I am open to suggestions. Please keep in mind we are limited in what we can do. I do have an idea for the April meeting. Since it’s spring andjust after Easter, those sitting on the sidelines can wear Easter Bonnets. Dig in your closet, find an old one. You could even take a hat and make it your own creation.

Membership is another big topic. We seem to be having new members brought in. Some return, some don’t. Also, there are quite a few long time members who we haven’t seen at Court in a long time. So there is going to be a contest. On page 3 you will find an entry form for your name and phone number, the returning member’s name and3 lines indicating 3 consecutive meetings attended. This will be verified with the sign in book. A box will be placed by the sign in book starting in September. You can fill out an entry form for each returning member you bring. Extra forms will be at the sign in table. At the March 2015 meeting a name will be drawn for a $50.00 gift certificate. I haven’t decided where, but suggestions are always welcome.

I look forward to a fabulous year with each and every one of you. Swan Love, Angel Hugs and Schnauzer Kisses,

Lady Gina Baird Home 602-953-0210 Cell 602-791-0925 email: [email protected]

The High Priestess’ Message

April 2014

Officers’ Offerings Princess

The Installation was beautiful. I wish High Priestess Lady Gina a great year. Welcome to our new members. Please visit the units and join one or two. They are a lot of fun and you will get to know so many lovely ladies My job this year as Princess is to find the best transportation for the Ladies to Grand Council and to WAOUM in San Diego, CA this coming September. Lady Jane Sheldon and I are looking into the possi-

bility of a bus for San Diego. I will keep you updated on our findings.

Dragonfly Luck, Lab Licks, and Lighthouse Love, Lady Mimi Bohlman

Home: 480-946-6292 Cell: 602-738-3628 email: [email protected]

Associate Princess Congratulations to all of our new members! We hope that you will visit all the Units this month and find at least one to join. That’s where we have most of our fun! Thank you again for electing me to the position of Associate Princess. April Installations start a new

year for our Court and we are celebrating the 100th Grand Council this year, so I’m sure we will have some sur-prises. I’m working on a new Special Project for this year and plan to have it ready to go at the April meeting, so stay tuned. The Shriners Hospital for Children is always looking for toys, or as they call them: “A Prescription for Joy”. They have been shown to alleviate the symptoms of anxiety, boredom and even pain. So let’s spread some Joy in April! Please try to bring some Joy (toys) to the April meeting. Here are some ideas for spring: Dolls, Action Figures, Stuffed Bunnies, Remote Control Cars, Toys for infants that light up or make noise, Cars, Trucks, or Bubble Ma-chines.

Yorkie Hugs and Dark Chocolate Kisses, Lady Karen MacDougall


MEMBERSHIP CONTEST

Your Name

Your Phone Number

Returning Members Name

The three consecutive months:

1. 2. 3.

April 2014

Recorder A BIG WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS:

Janet Camilli, 15849 N 99t Drive, Sun City, AZ 85351-1244, #623-972-0543 Katrina Dobson, 4029 E Contessa Street, Mesa, AZ 85205-9300, #480-862-2505 Mary Hohl, 14227 W Ravenswood Drive, Sun City West, AZ 85375-5627, #623-243-6447 Barbara Janes, 22115 N 80th Avenue, Peoria, AZ 85383-2163, #602-908-3339 Suzanna Kimball, 616 E Harrison Street, Chandler, AZ 85225-3907, #602-573-3166 Gloria Leppert, 3448 W Sands Drive, Phoenix, AZ 85027-1642, #623-516-9363 Melissa McKinstry, 3631 W Hartford Avenue, Glendale, AZ 85308-4324, #602-400-5479 Deborah Ortman, 8103 W Hess Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85043-7464, #702-354-1139 Kim Robinson, 346 E Redfield Road, Chandler, AZ 85225-1023 Linda Smith, 8125 E Indianola Avenue, Scottsdale, AZ 85251-4805, #480-941-2426

ROSTER CHANGES

Orabelle Bulkley – c/o Fellowship Square, 2002 W Sunnyside Drive, Apt #2115, Phoenix, 85029-3585 Frances Mericle – Unit #1205 – all other address information remains the same

ATTENTION: 2014 DUES ARE $25.00 AND ARE DUE APRIL 1, 2014 Your self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of your dues card is greatly appreciated.

Lady Linda Curry, PHP 480-941-2070 email: [email protected]

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

First Ceremonial Lady Thanks to everyone for all of your support during my "Mushroom" year. It has been a great year, and I am looking forward to the coming year. Membership is always a challenge, but if we all work together,

we will see our Court grow! That being said - We have another Membership Tea coming up. It will be a “Ladies Tea", hosted by my sis-

ter. Her address is 5722 E. Windsor Avenue, Scottsdale. Please save the date: Saturday, May 3rd, at 2:00 PM. The location will be at a private home. More information will be given to each Unit and in our next Cactus Chat-ter. Please call me if you have the names of any prospective members.

Welcome to our new Sphinx Court members. What a fun group you are, and I hope you enjoy LOS as much as the rest of us do.

Tinker Bell Fairy Dust Blessings, Lady Iris Colbert


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]

April 2014

Clowns Greetings from the Clowns! Welcome to the new

members to Sphinx Court. We invite you to come and visit us at one of our meetings.

Our officers for this year are: Lady Marsha Young, President; Lady Lisa Gilbertson, Vice President; Lady Marie Tressler, Secretary and Lady Kay Akers, Treasurer.

We are a busy and fun group and at our last meeting we welcomed Lady Cyndy Lowry as our newest clown. Just remember, "When hands reach out in friendship, hearts are touched with joy." Come enjoy our friendship!

Lady Kay Akers, Vice President

Ceremonial Pageantry Welcome new members! We are all looking forward

to getting to know you better. You are invited to visit us at any of our Unit meetings. We meet only 4 times a year so check out the calendar for our next meeting.

Congratulations to our new officers. We are excited about what’ is planned for this year!

Lady Jean Glover, PHP, President

Unit and Club Happenings

Second Ceremonial Lady Thank you for electing me as your Second Ceremonial Lady for the coming year. It was an exciting elec-tion and I appreciate the support from the members of our Court. I’m looking forward to a sensational

year! We have many new members this past year, and I would like to invite each of you to join us for dinner before

our Court Meetings. It’s a great way to get acquainted with the other Ladies! Dinner starts at 5:30pm in the Fies-ta Room at the Shrine and the cost is $10.00. I have a permanent list of reservations for every dinner, or you can make a reservation by calling my cell at (602) 503-6045, or by email at [email protected].

Your newest Mushroom, Mary Lou Burger

Home: 602-503-6045 email: [email protected]

Director Staff A hearty welcome to our new members!!! The

ceremonial was wonderful - 10 new ladies for LOS. Here’s hoping that you will visit several units and then join one or two. That’s what will make your LOS ex-perience wonderful. It’s been a busy time these last few weeks with everything going on from elections, ceremonial, installations, performances – oh my good-ness. Director Staff danced for the Nile Installation and did a beautiful job. Nothing beats seeing our Indi-an dance!

Director Staff’s installation on April 7th was GREAT! Good food, good people, and a good time.

Our next meeting is on May 5th and that will be

SPECIAL UNIT MEMBERS’ MEETING 6:30 PM, Monday, April 28, 2014

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

our last meeting until we reconvene in September. We have a lot of our ladies attending Grand Council so we’re looking for another good time there. Stay well, safe, and happy and keep working for the KIDS!!

Lady Linda DuBois, PHP, Assistant Chief

April 2014

Greeters Unit The theme this month is Spring: Our April meeting is on the 19th and is our In-

stallation of officers and OV. We are meeting at Bob-by Q’s on the west side of I-17 on 27th Avenue. It is located between Northern Avenue and Dunlap. This is a change of meeting place so please make note of it. Please make your reservation with Lady Kathy Kel-ley, or Lady Iris Colbert. We hope to welcome new members with the new location. We will welcome our new Amah, Lady Mimi!

Welcome to the new court Officers and the ba-by of the line. Thank you to everyone who helped with the Installation, by providing food and assistance in setting up and clearing afterwards. You all are the BEST!

Bear Hugs, Lady Kathy Kelley, President

Sphinx Patrol Spring has sprung (did we ever have Winter?)

and we’ve all been pretty busy wrapping up our old business and getting ready for another “changing of the guard”. Lady Dee’s term as High Priestess has ended and we are looking forward to a great year with Lady Gina in the East. We congratulate all those elected and appointed to Court or Unit offices.

Sphinx Patrol’s installation was another fun occa-sion and we thank Lady Lynn Hatch, PHP, for doing such a great job of installing us. I’m very proud and happy that we have a group that continues to grow and we enjoy staying very involved with the Court. We want to encourage our new members to come and visit us and join if they like what they see. It is a LOT of fun and not as hard to learn to march as I thought it would be – if I can learn, anyone can! But the best part of being in Sphinx Patrol is the bonds we’ve forged with each other – it’s a great happy, and fun group.

Our next meeting will be on May 6th – no-host dinner at 5 – 5:30, practice at 6:15, and the meeting

PHP Club Well Ladies, it’s time for a new slate of officers

and the start of a new year of activity. The Past Highs congratulate Lady Dee on a very successful year! You brought in many members to our Court and now it is everyone’s turn to help keep them in our fold and help them learn how much fun we have with this or-ganization.

Lady Gina Baird has started out her year in a very classy way and we are there to support her and every other member with any help you need.

The Past Highs will be having our Installation and Initiation of Lady Dee on April 16. No Host dinner at 5:30 and meeting at 7PM at the Shrine. Past High Ladies, please come support the Club and welcome our newest member.

Prayers for those who are not well and need our support.

Lady Trish Whalen, PHP, President

Sun Unit May all have a fun and safe summer. See you all in September when we join together again an work for the children.

Lady Joan Hardy, President; Lady Pat Stanton, Vice President; Lady Sally Wulff, Secretary; and Carol

Shepard, PHP, Treasurer

itself starts at 7 pm. Hope to see you there! Stay well, safe, happy, and keep working for the

kids! Lady Linda DuBois, PHP, Captain

April 2014

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 2014 - 2015 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

El Zaribah Shrine Outreach Clinics All Clinics are held at Maricopa Medical Center, 2525 E. Roosevelt St., 3rd Floor.

Salt Lake Clinic May 9, 2014 July 11, 2014 September 19, 2014 November 7, 2014

Los Angeles Clinic September 5, 2014

2013 - 2014 Sunshine Report Lady Trudy Mullins, PHP Chairman

There were 107 cards sent last year for Sympa-thy, Get well, and Best Wishes. Postage of $49.22 was paid by Sphinx Court #65. 18 hospital gifts do-nated by Lady Trudy Mullins, PHP were sent.

Thank you to our Lady Dee JPHP, for giving La-dy Linda DuBois, PHP and me the honor of serving on this committee. Lady Linda, PHP did an excellent job sending out all the emails. We appreciate each mem-ber who gave us information.

The following ladies donated cards: our JPHP Lady Dee Berkebile-Wright, PHPs Carol Shepard, Sherry Van Asperen, Trudy Mullins, and Bobbie Bal-thazor and her Noble PP Leo.

“When you are good to others—you are best to yourself.” Benjamin Franklin

Sunshine Report Lady Trudy Mullins, PHP, Chairman

Sphinx Court’s Membership Membership 3-31-2013 268 Initiated +17 Demits - 4 Deaths -5 Membership 3-24-14 276

Sympathy Lady Sharon McGee - son

Illness Lady Joan Karnes , PHP- husband Lady Neva Thompson - husband

Thinking of You Lady Ella Burge

Be A Lady in Red

Join the Ceremonial Pageantry

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

April 2014

Need a face painter? Need fun balloons?

Need tricks? Just need giggles in your life?

Contact the Sphinx Court #65 Clown Unit Marsha Young, President @ 623-266-6099

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

$3.00 small / $5.00 large

See any Patrol member

NOTICE * NOTICE * NOTICE To avoid being charged for your Dinner if you are unable to keep your reservation, notify Lady Mary Lou Burger

Home: 602-503-6045 email: [email protected] by the Thursday prior to Stated Meeting.

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

GREETERS

Cactus Chatter Editor Lady Bobbie Balthazor, PHP

602-237-5526 Email: [email protected] 5915 E. Woodridge Dr., Scottsdale, AZ 85254

www.sphinxcourt65.org

Congratulations to our new Court, Unit, & Club Officers

The Past High Priestess Club

To all our many friends in the Shrine family a sincere Thank You for all the Love and Blessings you sent to me and our family. Some people make a dif-ference just by being who they are and are treasured in our heart. We are given many gifts in life. We were blessed to have Larry Kesselring as a friend, husband, and father for many years for which I’m thankful. Thanks again. Love, Gerry

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

Andie Lacombe 480-357-6411

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 2014 - 2015 UPDATED March 30, 2014

APRIL 1 Patrol - Dinner - Installation 7 Director Staff - Installation 8 Ceremonial Pageantry - OV and In- stallation 10 Clowns - Installation Dinner 5:30 Meeting 7:00 11 Sun Unit - Installation 16 PHP - Installation 19 Greeters - OV and Installation 28 Special Unit Members’ Meeting @

6:30 Court Stated Meeting @ 7:00

MAY 3 Membership Tea @ 2 (See 1CL article for location) 5 Director Staff - Dinner 5:30 Mtg 7:00 6 Patrol - Dinner 5:30 Meeting 7:00 8 Clowns - Dinner 5:30 Meeting 7:00 11 - 16 Grand Council, Wichita, KS 27 Court Stated Meeting

AUGUST 23, 24 El Zaribah CornFest

SEPTEMBER 2 Patrol 6 Greeters 8 Director Staff 11 Clowns 12 Sun Unit 18 - 21 WAOUM, San Diego 22 Court Stated Meeting

OCTOBER 3 Greeters 6 Director Staff 7 Patrol 9 Clowns - OV 11 GHP Official Visit & Court Stated

Meeting

NOVEMBER

1 Court and Patrol Steak Fry (tentative) 3 Director Staff - OV

14 Sun Unit 16 Gift Wrapping Class 17 Court Stated Meeting 19 PHP - OV

DECEMBER 12 Sun Unit Holiday Party 14 Director Staff Holiday Party 15 Court Stated Meeting 19 - 21 Christmas Gift Wrapping

JANUARY 6 Patrol OV 17 Membership Tea (tentative date) 19 Court Stated Meeting

FEBRUARY

21 Ceremonial & Election of Officers

MARCH

14 Carnival 23 Court Stated Meeting

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