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November 2010Vol. XV I , No 127

We make a living by what we do,

but we make a life by what we giveWinston Churchill

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Table of ContentsBulletin Board .................................................................. 2

Leadership Lines .............................................................. 3

Volunteer of the Month/Pat on the Back ......................... 4

Charity Ball Reveal/Spring Market ................................. 5

CPS Rainbow Room ........................................................ 6

Roadmap to the Future .................................................... 7

Helping Hands ................................................................. 8

Members In The Spotlight ............................................. 10

A Word of Advice .......................................................... 11

Zoo Boo/Thank You ....................................................... 12

Take A Time Out ............................................................ 13

Provisional News ........................................................... 15

Sustainer News .............................................................. 16

Events & Birthday Calendar .......................................... 17

Vision statement

The Junior League of Lufkin welcomes all women who are committed to volunteerism. The League educates and challenges its members to be effective community leaders, advocates, and individuals. Trained volunteers and collaborators will address and respond to community needs with positive solutions. The League focus is to educate and empower individuals, primarily children, by providing the resources and tools that will address all aspects of their well being.

The Board of DirectorsPresident ....................................................... Allyson LangstonPresident-Elect.................................................. Jennifer WebsterSecretary ...............................................................Marcy WeibeTreasurer ............................................................. Reba SquyresVP Finance ......................................................... Ashley BowersVP Communications.......................................... Julianne GreakVP Membership ..................................................Susan BelascoVP Community Projects ......................................... Shelli EllisStrategic Plan ................................................. Stephanie OliverParliamentarian .................................................. Cindy Tierney

M e e t i n G R e M i n d e R !

General MeetingTuesday, November 9, 2010

Museum of East Texas

*Remember to wear yourname tag for an

awesome door prize!

November 2010

Communications ChairsV. President Communications

Julianne Greak

Our View EditorMendi Brent

Internal Public Relations/WebsiteSharon Kruk

External Public RelationsJeanie McCusker

Photographer/Archivist Donna Quarles

JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUFKIN INC. Women building better communities

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Lufkin, Texas 75915-1812

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Bulletin Board

Placement Surveys are due at the November

meeting. Current members, members on leave, and

provisionals should have received the survey via email

and are responsible for filling it out. It is important to fill it

out thoroughly as it directly reflects where you would like

to be placed next year. Extra copies will be available at the

meeting. Questions? Contact Emily Parks: 676-0612 or

[email protected]

Blue Book Corrections• Karen Runnels (David)

1200 Turtle Creek Drive • Lufkin, TX 75904(936) 554-6029 • [email protected]

• Chasity Gauthier (not Chassity)• Susan Childers: [email protected]• Misty Zeleskey: husband’s name is Josh,

birthday is November 30 and cell is 832.922.3826

League Babysitters:

Anna Catherine Alvis 16 676-6255/634-2474

Elisabeth Alvis 13 635-8595/634-2474

Jacie Cates 14 824-3335/676-6410

Ashlyn Coleman 14 634-5889

Mallory Dorman 15 240-1958/637-7069

Emily East 16 671-0774

Krysta Gray 15 414-6437

Hannah Harris 14 639-5838

Lyndsey Lucia 17 875-6397

Katy Ratcliff 15 875-5783

Macy Rawls 15 637-2524/212-1507

Reese Roberts 13 676-3334

Kayla Tierney 15 212-2734

Amy Yates 16 676-4035

Please contact Marcy Weibe

at [email protected] for

a change of address, email

address, or phone number

WE ARE NOW ACCEPTING CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS on our website. There will be a $5.00 convenience fee for JL Dues and a $2.50 convenience fee for Mandatory Fundraiser Contribution. Go to the website and click on the Members Only section. Select the Members Only Menu and click the “Online Payment” drop down box. To make a tax free donation, go to Support Us Menu and select the “Tax Deductible Contribution” drop down box.

Special thanks to

the The Very Thing

for providing the wonderful food at the October

Meeting!

Save The Date!!Relay For Life will be held Friday, May 6th.

Pencil that in on your calendar now! JLL will

have a team and we hope YOU are on it!!

Law Firm PLLC

Additional Offices: Nacogdoches, Texas and Livingston, Texas

Save The DaTeChristmas Social

Tuesday, December 7th6:30 p.m.

Morrison Supply

Dates for “Family Night”

Tuesday, November 16th at Coston

Elementary, 707 Trenton, Lufkin

Thursday, March 24th at Garrett

Elementary, 507 Kurth Drive, Lufkin

Thank you to our

Floral Sponsor!

Roderick of Texas

Thank you to our November Food

Sponsor: Texas Custom Catering

They will be catering Charity Ball 2011.

Thank you David & Cheryl Calhoun!

Tea:

December 1st

4-6 p.m.

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Leadership Lines

By Susan Belasco, VP Membership

The Membership Council is designed to promote and sustain the development of current members and

outreach with the intention of recruiting new members. It is our responsibility to help you feel welcome, secure, accepted, informed and well used and well managed.

We are a small, but hardworking, council, who does most of our work behind the scenes. Like all of you, we are part of a sub-committee for Charity Ball or Spring Market, but our actual placements are to serve you – our members. You are the working heart and soul that fuels our projects and placements that helps to change the lives of the children in our community. The Advisory Chair works with the Advisory Council to change, update and tweak our by-laws to be sure we, as a League, are growing and updating to meet the needs of our members and our community. The Hospitality Chair works tirelessly to make sure we are all fed each month and coordinates our annual celebrations in December and May. Membership Relations works hard to stay in touch with members and tries to meet their needs by recognizing special milestones in each member’s lives, sending condolences and reaching out when a need is recognized. The Provisional Chair is one of the most visible members of the council because she spends her year training and guiding our newest members. Inventory Management organizes the League office keeping

account of and cataloguing supplies. The Membership Council thanks you for all of your hard work and participation this year. Our meetings are running successfully and smoothly because of your efforts. The Communications Council spreads the word in our community about your good deeds, but the highlights of our jobs are recognizing and rewarding you for your hard work and dedication to each other and to our community. Every member deserves a Pat on the Back for the fantastic job you do! Thank you for your commitment and your dedication to the mission of our League knowing that your service has an impact on our community.!

Susan Belasco

Roderick of Texas

Phone: (936) 639-2961Cell: (936) 414-0555

2610 S. John ReddittLufkin, TX 75904

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•“Service is never a simple act; it’s about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.”

– President George Bush

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Volunteer of the Month/Pat on the Back

Pat on the Back Award

Teri Nichols

Teri Nichols, deserves a pat on the back for her outstanding leadership in coordinating and successfully overseeing the delivery of over 550 backpacks, 7500 pocket folders, 900 school boxes, 800 boxes of crayons to our local schools in Angelina County.

Emily Parks was presented with the October Volunteer of the month award for her hard work this summer correlating new and old addresses, emails and contact numbers for our Blue Book. Thank you for an amazing job.

Volunteer of the Month

Emily Parks

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Spring Market 2011 is off to a running start. Mark your calendars for April 14-16th.

Returning vendors have until November 15th to reserve their space and the application for new vendors can be found on our League website. If anyone has a vendor they want added to the mailing list please email Kim Herman at [email protected]. We are always looking for something new and fun.

Cindy Neal

Charity Ball Reveal/Spring Market

Yeah! Finally! I know it was probably the worst kept secret ever, but the

theme is now out:

The 007 Ball! James Bond Baby! We are planning glitz, glam, shazamm, and style (shaken not stirred, of course) at this 35th Charity Ball. Some interesting facts that James Bond and the Junior League of Lufkin share: • Both began in 1953 • Timely and timeless, all at the same time • Different Bonds/characters/members, but the same results. • A wonderful tradition!

And we are equally excited about the:Shaken Not Stirred

Pre-Bond PartyFriday, February 11th at 7:00 p.m.

Come that evening for food, drinks, and some 007 surprises!

Don’t forget League members all the ticket incentives that the Charity Ball Committee is offering this year. We want you there and we are willing to give you great incentives for helping the Charity Ball raise funds -- win-win for everyone! In case you missed the last meeting, listed here are the ways to earn free non-reserved tickets:

(Silent Auction Items will be available for purchase to the general public from February 1st until the day of the ball. The “Buy it Now” price will be the retail

value of the item.)

Once again, the committee is thrilled about the Charity Ball. But behind that fun and excitement is a community with needs and your participation will make our community a better place!

Natalie Thornton & Lora HuertaCharity Ball 2011 Chair and Co-Chair

Proud Sponsors of the Junior League of Lufkin & Changing the Path – a support program for families affected by Autism.

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Serving the East Texas Community since 1988.Visit us at 1508 South 1st Street in Lufkin, or

Call us at (936) 637‐7977

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The “Daniel Craig”Sell $300 in raffle

tickets

The “Pierce Brosnan”Sell $500 in ads for

Auction Booklet

The “Sean Connery”Sell $500 in Silent

Auction items at the “Buy It Now” price

6 November 2010

CPS Rainbow Room

Plan For It.Vince Treadwell, CFP®

321 S. First St. Lufkin, tx 75901 (936) 634-6116

Don’t just dream about retirement.

www.edwardjones.comMember SPIC

Serving Individual Investors Since 1871

I want to thank every-one for their gener-ous donations from

the October General Meeting. Heather Kar-tye and I went through everything Wednesday morning and stocked the shelves at the Lufkin Rainbow Room. With all of your help we collected over 75 baby wipes, 15 packs of diapers, and numerous other items including clothing, blan-kets, baby lotions, bottles etc. All of the items in the Lufkin Rainbow Room go directly to the children and families in Angelina County. I’m so honored to be part of a great organi-zation and group of ladies that help support our community. The Rainbow Room is a valuable resource that benefits the whole spectrum of families of all colors, heritages, and races who are served by Child Protective Services. The Rain-bow Room is an in-house emergency resource center that dis-tributes new items, such as clothing, diapers and formula to clients of CPS caseworkers. The most basic needs of a family in crisis are often un-available, and caseworkers typically cannot provide the ne-cessities from their personal resources. With the introduction of the Rainbow Room, assistance with basic needs becomes available. This is instrumental in keeping families together through traumatic times and can be equally critical in de-

veloping a helping relationship between workers and client families. The Lufkin Rain-bow Room is overseen by Lufkin Community Partners. Lufkin Com-munity Partners is a non-profit volunteer driven organization, the mission of which is to meet the critical needs of abused and neglected children or those at risk for abuse and neglect through local and state collaborations. By building partnerships with community volunteers and state

and local govern-ments, Lufkin Com-munity Partners in-creases community awareness of child abuse and helps chil-dren grow up to be healthy, productive adults.

Jean Lucas

By Jean Lucas, CPS Chair

CPS Rainbow Room

Members enjoyed the delicious salad supper provided by Nancy Winston with The Very Thing at the October meeting.

7November 2010

Roadmap to the Future

Hello ladies! I hope the article finds you enjoying cooler weather. I am hoping for cooler weather because I bought a couple of awesome scarves

at Nordstrom in Portland, and I would like to wear them someday soon.

As you probably already know, Michelle Haney and I had the privilege of representing our League at the 2010

AJLI Fall Leadership Conference in Portland, Oregon at the end of September. Having never traveled to Portland before, I was sure to pack loads of cloth-ing choices, which resulted in my luggage very nearly not boarding the plane. What does Continental expect? I mean really?! Anyway, Michelle and I enjoyed our flight and then really enjoyed the beauty of the city of Portland. The city was lush and green and hilly, with the beautiful Willamette River running right through it. We attended the PALS (Presidents and Leagues Sharing) Affinity Group Meeting on Thursday afternoon. If you are not familiar with PALS, our League joins with other Leagues our size inside AJLI to share ideas and discuss issues that affect our similar size Leagues. These meetings are typically very informa-tive, and the most valuable thing we get from being a PALS member is the networking and contact with other Leagues. We are involved with some very dynamic and impressive women! For the opening reception Thursday eve-ning, AJLI arranged for private shopping time with champagne and hors d’oeuvres at Nordstrom; hence, the scarves. Mi-chelle bought several things, including a hot little red dress that is just smashing! Friday found us up early for breakfast be-fore non-stop training all day that started with a message from the AJLI President (and neighbor of Bruce Springsteen), Delly Beekman. I encourage each of you to take the time to read about her on the AJLI website if you are not familiar with her life and work. She is a phenomenal worker, whose lifetime of service to her League and AJLI is truly inspiring. Friday was also the first meeting with the entire conference regarding the proposed dues increase. As I mentioned at our last general meeting, it was a very interesting discussion. All squabbling and haggling aside, we should anticipate a dues increase at the AJLI and local levels in the very near future. On Friday, we also attended the Issued Based Community Impact work-shop for Leagues in the 76-150 active member size, presented by Vicki Clark, who is a fabulous speaker. Having attended the training in Florida, I was familiar

with the “Roadmap for the Future”, but after Vicki’s presentation, I was finally able to link the community impact portion to our League. As I discussed in our last general meeting, we will be implementing this portion of the roadmap this year. It is such a wonderful answer to our problem of spreading our resources too thin. With the community impact drill down, we will be able to focus our resources, which include our funding as well as all your time and hard work, to make the most impact in our community. As an aside, if you have not had the chance to view the five-minute video on the “Roadmap for the Future” that Allyson sent the link back in October, please take the time to view it at your earliest convenience. (Send me an email if you have lost the link.) AJLI is taking time and expense to re-shape our organization so it can stay healthy and strong in our changing world. The changes will affect each and every one of us. Along with community impact, AJLI and our League would like to make sure that members are trained to become leaders; not only

in our League, but also in our community. This adjustment in direction is a good thing for our League and a great thing for each one of us as women. It is so important that AJLI is sending a representative to each League that requests one, to meet with Actives, Provisionals and Sustainers to discuss and answer any ques-tions regarding the roadmap. We hope to announce the date of our visit in the very near fu-ture.

Saturday afternoon, we enjoyed some time off with our friends from the Longview League, President Sharla Visage and President-Elect Leslie Carlisle, and our friends from N. Harris and S. Montgomery Counties, (The Woodlands), President Jenni Skipper and President-Elect Ali May. We visited a downtown open-air market and stood in line 45 minutes for doughnuts from the world famous VooDoo Doughnut. (Ask Michelle about her picture inside VooDoo Doughnut!) The Saturday evening closing ceremony was another opportunity to net-work with other League members and discuss all that we had learned over the last two days. The closing speaker was Chip Heath, co-author of The New York Times best seller, Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard. He was surprisingly funny and informative. After the ceremony, we spent some more quality time with our friends from the Longview League and discussed issues that impact our Leagues. Sharla and Leslie are both wonderful people that I hope to keep in touch with for a very long time. Michelle and I flew home Sunday, tired, but inspired! I cannot stress enough how important it is to attend a training session if you are given the op-portunity. You simply cannot understand how “plugged in” you will be to the League, AJLI and our wonderful mission. If anyone has any questions or sug-gestions, please do not hesitate to contact me!!!

Jennifer Webster

By Jennifer Webster, President-Elect

Jennifer Webster and Michelle Haney

Sharla Visage, Michelle Haney, Jennifer Webster, Leslie

Carlile

8 November 2010

Helping Hands

2010 – 2011 Helping Hands Campaign Partners

CCoorrppoorraattee PPaarrttnneerrss

Platinum Hands - $10,000

Brookshire Brothers

Gold Hands - $5,000

Memorial Health System of East Texas The Journey Magazine

Urgent Doc

Silver Hands - $2,500

First Bank & Trust

Blue Hands - $1,500

DP Solutions Johnson Pools & Spas

Langston Construction Lufkin Industries

Red Hands - $1,000

Bettye & Murphy George Foundation

Green Hands - $500

Abeldt's Gaslight Pharmacy Bancorp South

The Children's Clinic of Lufkin, P.A. Commercial Bank of Texas

Lufkin Dealers Auto Auction Winston & Denman Timber

Woodland Heights Medical Center Zeleskey Law Firm, PLLC

Yellow Hands - $250

A Wild Hair Salon The Advanced Financial Group

Alvis-Brookshire and Associates, Merrill Lynch Angelina Hardwood Sales-Trey & Brigettee Henderson

Bartlett, Baggett & Shands Insurance Borgfeld & White, P.C. The Center For Sight Wes Combs, CRNA

Hester & Hester Architecture Laser Hair Removal Therapy & Facial Aesthetics

Whataburger

Purple Hands – Advertisers

Abeldt's Gaslight Pharmacy Alexander, Lankford & Hiers, Inc.

Purple Hands – Advertisers,

Continued

Laser Hair Removal Therapy & Facial Aesthetics Beard Fine Jewelers

Broford, Ltd. / Popeye’s Home Theater Concepts Dr. Brian Humphreys

Edward Jones Morgan Insurance Agency-Terry & Susan Morgan

Outback Steakhouse Donna Quarles Photography

Roderick of Texas Studer Orthodontics

Texas Custom Catering Texas State Bank The Very Thing!

Zeleskey Law Firm, PLLC

SSuussttaaiinneerr PPaarrttnneerrss

Thank you Sustainers for your monetary contribution to our Annual Campaign:

Sustaining Hands ($1,000)

Lisa Griffin

Mary K. Grum

Serving Hands ($251 -$500)

Rebecca Chance Mary M. Henderson

Liz Jeffrey Kathi Johnson

Lynda Langston Kim Wright

Supporting Hands ($250 and Below)

Dot Brookshire Anita Caraway

Lorelle Coleman Dianne Croom

Llewellyn Frazier Andrea Friesen

Kim Kassaw Theresa McKewen

Kelley Moore Mary Moore Nancy Reily

Janice Ann Rowe Thalia Tierney

Jetta K. Westerholm

Holiday Special

10 November 2010

1. I recently became certified to teach ED-4th grade. I also love to sew and paint.2. I am a mother to two beautiful girls and I do a little event planning and design.3. I’m a Senior Associate at Merrill Lynch and I can help with investments and financial planning.4. I do graphic design for The Journey and East magazines. I can help any member with advertising!5. I work part-time for my family’s used car business and have three wonderful kids!6. I am the only female in my family…even our pets are males! So, does that make me the princess?7. I am a CPA and Shareholder at Alexander, Lankford & Hiers, Inc. If a JLL member is looking for an accountant, a tax advisor or a payroll specialist, come see me!8. I teach 6th grade Language Arts at LMS and have two beautiful daughters.9. I’m the Office Manager at Alexander Electric, Inc. and have twins…one boy and one girl!10. I work at Angelina County and Cities Health District as a Senior Health Inspector. I’m also (currently or have been) a Registered Professional Sanitarian, Animal Control Officer, Respiratory Therapist, Medical Technologist and Stay-at-Home Mom.

Please email your answers to Sharon Kruk at [email protected] to win a prize!

Members in the Spotlight By Sharon Kruk, Internal PR

Can you guess the JLL member?

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Michelle Haney Jean Lucas April Brewer Suzy Jungmann Jennifer Webster Samie Monties

Tamara Day Susan Harris

www.beardfinejewelers.com

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Karen Ronaghan Donna Mathis

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11November 2010

What do your long lost childhood best friend, your college roommate, your boss and your

significant other all have in common? If you are one of the hundreds of millions of people using social networks, there’s a good chance that you are linked to them

through an online relationship. The information you share with your online contacts allows you to keep in touch without much effort. But who else is looking at that information? And how are they going to use it? Many people besides friends and acquaintances are interested in the information people post on social networks. Identity thieves, scam artists, debt collectors, stalkers, and corporations looking for a market advantage are using social networks to gather information about consumers. Companies that operate social networks are themselves collecting a variety of data about their users, both to personalize the services for the users and to sell to advertisers. There are many ways that information on social networks can be used for purposes other than what the user intended. Below are some practical tips to help users minimize the privacy risks when using social networks. (Be aware that these tips are not 100% effective.) Try to adhere to the following tips: Become familiar with the privacy settings available on any social network you use. Don’t post your exact date of birth, especially in combination with your location of birth. This information could be useful to identity thieves. If you do consider posting a birthday, restrict who has access to this information using privacy settings and don’t post the year. Be aware that your full birth date, especially the year, may be useful to identity thieves. Don’t post it, or at a minimum restrict who has access to it. Stay aware of changes to a social network’s terms of service and privacy policy. You may be able to keep track of this by connecting to an official site profile, for example Facebook’s Site Governance. Consider subscribing to an RSS feed for Tosback, a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation to track changes in website policies (covers some but not all social networks). Be careful when you click on shortened links. Be very cautious of pop-up windows, especially any that state your security software is out of date or that security threats and/or viruses have been detected on your computer. Use your task manager to navigate away from these without clicking on them, then run your spyware and virus protection software. Delete cookies, including flash cookies, every time you leave a social networking site. Remember that whatever goes on a network might eventually be seen by people not in the intended audience. Think about whether you would want a stranger, your mother or a potential boss to see certain information or pictures. Be especially cautious about photos of you on social networks,

even if someone else placed them there. Don’t be afraid to untag photos of yourself and ask to have content removed. Don’t publicize vacation plans, especially the dates you’ll be traveling. If you use a location-aware social network, don’t make public where your home is because people will know when you are not there. Don’t post your address, phone number or email address on a social network. Remember scam artists as well as marketing companies may be looking for this kind of information. If you do choose to post any portion of this, use privacy settings to restrict it to approved contacts. Use caution when using third-party applications. For the highest level of safety and privacy, avoid them completely. If you consider using one, review the privacy policy and terms of service for the application. WhatApp? rates applications, browsers, platforms and social networks on privacy, security and openness. While this rating system is still under development and is not a guarantee that an application is safe, it may provide users with additional information when making a decision about whether to use an application. If you receive a request to connect with someone and recognize the name, verify the account holder’s identity before accepting the request. Consider calling the individual, sending an email to his or her personal account or even asking a question only your contact would be able to answer. If you receive a connection request from a stranger, the safest thing to do is to reject the request. If you decide to accept the request, use privacy settings to limit what information is viewable to the stranger and be cautious of posting personal information to your account, such as your current location as well as personally identifiable information. Be wary of requests for money, even if they are from contacts you know and trust. If a contact’s account is compromised, a scam artist may use his or her name and account to attempt to defraud others through bogus money requests. Take additional precautions if you are the victim of stalking, harassment, domestic violence, and if you are a job seeker. In the event that your social networking account is compromised, report it to the site immediately and alert your contacts. You will need to change passwords, but proceed with caution because your computer security may have been compromised. If you use online banking, do not log on from the computer that may have been compromised until you have ensured your computer security is intact.

April EarleyAttorney at LawHaglund Law Firm, P.C.107 W. KerrLufkin, TX 75902Ph: 936-639-0007Fx: 936-639-0016

A Word of Advice

Tips for my Facebook FriendsBy April Earley

12 November 2010

Zoo Boo/Thank You

M-F: 8 a.m.-6:30 p.m.Saturday: 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

936-639-2346200 Gaslight Blvd.

Lufkin, Texaswww.abeldtspharmacy.com

• Compounding Pharmacy• City-Wide Delivery• Jobst Supporting Stockings• Mastectomy Fitting Room• Diabetic Supplies

• Therapeutic Shoes• Wheelchairs/Walkers• BCBS Provider & most insurances accepted

The Junior League of Lufkin appreciates

the support of Lufkin Industries

Zoo Boo Many Thanks

13November 2010

Happy November! As the fall leaves are starting to sprinkle all over my green grass, I can feel the rush of the Holiday Season starting to sneak up on us – even if it is 87 degrees outside! If

you are like me, the Holidays bring with it a special combination of sweet memories of my own youth and the excitement of seeing it again through the eyes of the family and friends around me. For some reason, I recall the special details of the scenes at the Holiday dinner table more vividly than I recall the details of our routine family dinners. I can recall what my grandmother wore, what was on my plate, what the gravy smelled like, the prayers my Daddy would say, who sat where, and the topics that silly Uncle Lewy discussed while wearing his Shriners cap at the table (Holiday dinners were the only time he was ever allowed to wear that cap inside!). I can even recall what I was thinking at different Holiday dinners through the years – “what are those grownups talking about?”, “I can’t wait to eat chocolate pie”, “I can’t wait to play with my cousins after dinner”, “was that baby Jesus real at the Nativity Scene?”. The Holidays provide a benchmark for where we are in life – those special moments are frozen in our minds. There is no other time of year when food seems to be the center of comfort moments quite like the Holidays! Food seems to anchor the Holiday gatherings and the memories. I will go ahead and admit it to my friends here, and only because I hope and pray you will still think I am a worthy mother, but I have been a terrible cook since school started back up this year! We may have had more family walks outside with the dog than this time last year; but in between my work and after school swim, football, dance, gymnastics, and various UIL and academic activities, meaningful cooking has been on the back burner. Like, it has been WAY on the back burner, so far on the backburner that I cannot even see it back there on the back burner. Just yesterday after wrapping up a long term project, I asked my son, Whit, what he wanted to do to celebrate – and his answer was “Let’s play the radio loud and cook a real home cooked meal”. That really got me thinking about my own fun memories in the kitchen with my mom and grandmother. Whit was reminding me about the importance of cooking with joy! So we cranked up the radio to the station of his choice and I made his favorite dish: Sausage Pot Pie. The kitchen was a mess with flour everywhere and the sausage chunks were way to chunky from his little hands not able to crumble it like the recipe called for. At one point he was stirring the mixture of flour and milk and it was sloshing everywhere to the beat of the song as he sang and boogied along. Joy was everywhere in the house and the ruckus even summoned Mattie down from upstairs where she was working on her homework. Then she too was joining in and then Blue Bell the dog joined us hoping

to catch a snack on the floor from all of the shenanigans. It was a very joyous night! I have realized as I get older that memories are not really “made”. They just happen. If you gather everyone up at the table, even Uncle Lewy in his Shriners cap, memories just accidently happen. You can’t force the perfect scene – no moment is ever perfect. I could not have planned that crazy cooking moment in our kitchen the other night – it just happened. As a mom, I have learned to set up situations where perhaps just maybe memories will accidently happen. I love the Holidays and all the food and accidental memories that go along with it – it starts with caramel apples at Halloween and ends

with beans and cornbread on New Year’s Day! For this Holiday Season, I am going to learn something from the “Sausage Pot Pie Night” that Whit requested. In fact I am going to take it a step further and I am going to commit to cooking one meaningful meal per week from Halloween to New Year’s. I am not going to stress about making it memorable or perfect either. I am just going to set up the situation and see what happens. I am going to hope that the details of these scenes will forge new memories for my children to compliment the more traditional ones they will measure time with. Julia Childs said two quotes I just love “...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should”, and “Cooking is like love; it should be entered into with abandon or not at all”. While she may have had a fussy recipe in mind when she said that, I think both of those quotes are just so true and remind me that the way our

children and loved ones turn out is worth the effort it takes to keep them on the right path and that we should love them with all our might and teach them the art of joyous living. And cooking with reckless abandon with your family is a way to teach them the art of joyous living! So this Holiday Season you will see us cooking and dancing in the kitchen at least once a week – from casseroles to cakes to candy to pizzas. The kids will be picking out the recipes and the music and my only requirement is that it be something we have never made before. I am quite sure some recipes will not turn out how we will hope and we won’t care because we will be accidently making memories this Holiday season! Turn on the radio and open up a recipe book and let’s just see what happens if you take a time out to cook with joy!

Love, Jennifer McCall

Take a Time Out

By Jennifer McCall

...to cook with joy

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15November 2010

Provisional News

Our Provisional year is off to a fantastic start! I have to say we absolutely rocked the Ropes

Course in September! We spent the day getting to know one another and enjoying many laughs (mixed with a few tears) as we tested our skill on the ropes, definitely

a day to remember! Also in September, our class was given the opportunity to attend the monthly Rainbow Room Board Meeting. The board members familiarized us with the organization as well as what it takes to keep them up and running! We were thrilled to learn that we have such a wonderful resource available within our community. Each year the Rainbow Room supplies Thanksgiving baskets to a number of families within the CPS system, this year we as the Provisional Class decided to take on this project as our Done-in-a-Day task! We have decided to make enough baskets for 20 families, that’s 4 more than they were able to give last year!! So if you need us during the month of November you can find us buried under a pile of canned goods, turkey certificates, hand baskets, and cellophane! On behalf of the Provisional Class of 2010-2011, we are so excited for this upcoming year and look forward to making our community shine!!

Stephanie Love

By Stephanie Love, Provisional Done in a Day Chair

16 November 2010

Sustainer News

Len and Phil Medford have a new grandbaby! Daughter Amanda and husband Jamie Galati are the proud parents of Lila Layne Galati, born October 13th in Ft. Worth. This is the first grandchild

for Len and Phil who were in Ft. Worth for her arrival. Jonna Jones also has a new grandbaby. Robert Jackson “Jack” Thompson arrived on Sept 22nd. Proud parents are Meggan and Chris Thompson of Huntsville. Baby Jack weighed 6 lbs 9 oz. and is named after two of his great grandfathers. Jack almost arrived on Meggan’s birthday, which was Sept 20th. Terri and Rocky Thigpen are excited about son Austin Thigpen’s engagement to Ainsley Horn, daughter of Nancy and Jeff Horn. Austin made it official by proposing just before the Panther game on October 1st. Ainsley is the JV Cheer Sponsor at Lufkin High School. They are planning a June wedding. Many Lufkinites traveled to Boerne, Tx for the wedding celebration of Natalie Hill and Zane Price. Natalie, daughter of Barbara and David Hill, married Zane on October 2nd in a small family ceremony, and afterwards celebrated with family and friends with a beautiful reception at The Clubs of Cordillera Ranch. The evening was perfect and everyone had a wonderful time! Kittie Davis celebrated her October birthday with a surprise party at Ralph and Kacoo’s hosted by husband Mike with help from their children, Mollie, Scott and Jamie. Kittie was speechless when she arrived to find a large crowd of family and friends! It was a fun evening! Kay and Don Neill, who live in Tyler, were in Lufkin for Kittie’s surprise birthday party. Kay is excited that their oldest son, Scott, has accepted a job with Huntington State Bank as a Commercial Lender and has moved back to Lufkin. Son Morgan is a civil engineer with the Collin County Office of TxDOT and currently working on the I-75 Corridor. Youngest son Taylor will graduate from Baylor in December, 2010. He is engaged to Melissa Windham, who is a SFA graduate from Katy. They will marry on November 11, 2011. Kay and Don traveled through 7 western states this summer, sightseeing and visiting with old friends. Running to see the boys, golf and the deer lease are keeping them busy now. We are deeply saddened by the sudden loss of Karla Smithhart Yates on October 16th. Our condolences and prayers go out to her family during this difficult time.

Emeritus Sustainers There are 12 Emeritus Sustaining Members of the Junior League of Lufkin. I am going to feature as many as possible in the coming months, beginning with Jetta Westerholm. Jetta Koch Westerholm joined the Lufkin Service League in 1956, just 3 years after the organization was formed. She has been an Active member or Sustainer since 1956, except for three years when she and Dr Koch moved away so he could do his Residency in Ophthalmology. Jetta recalls vividly taking her Provisional test while in the hospital to give birth to her second child. Her first placement was working at The Bargain Box, the League resale shop, located on Second Street, selling donated clothing. Many items sold for as little as 10 cents. One of Jetta’s favorite placements was Vision Screening which began in the 1960’s through the efforts of Jetta’s husband, Dr. J C Koch, Lufkin’s first ophthalmologist, and Louis Bronaugh, the optician who worked with Dr. Koch. These two community leaders helped create the Vision Screening placement which has benefitted thousands of school children. Jetta and Dr J C Koch were married for 38 years. Dr Koch suffered a stroke at the age of 49 and was disabled for 12 years. The Kochs have 3 children, John Koch Jr, Jetta McGinniss, and Jennifer Conway, who is a Sustainer also. Jetta has 8 grandchildren and recently her first great grandchild was born. After Dr. Koch’s death, Jetta married Harvey Westerholm, who had been her Sunday school teacher for 30 years at First United Methodist Church. They were married for 10 years. Jetta has been an active member of First United Methodist Church most of her life. She has served on the FUMC Board, on many committees, and is president of her Sunday School class. Jetta currently plays handbells at Christ Congregational Church also. She has taught school off and on from age 21 until age 78. Preschool Spanish at Harmony Christian School was Jetta’s last adventure in the classroom. While attending Rice University in Houston, where she minored in Architecture, Jetta worked as a draftsman for Humble Oil Company. Photography, playing bridge and dancing are favorite pastimes. At age 81, she was president of the Lufkin Dance Club. Currently, Jetta volunteers at Woodland Heights Hospital, the Mosaic Center, the Forestry Museum and Temple Theater. She is always on the go. A little known fact about Jetta is that she danced in Vaudeville between movies at the Majestic Theater and Lowe’s Theater in Houston and between acts at the Shrine Circus! This interesting and busy Sustainer has twice been selected Sustainer of the Year, in 1987 and again in 2002!

Kathy Barrett

By Kathy Barrett

Sustainer News

714 Largent Street • Lufkin, Texas 75904 • (936) 639-1397

Business Items Put February 12, 2011 on your calendar for the 2011 Charity Ball. There will be more details to follow. The Mosaic Center will have a Thanksgiving Open House on Sunday, Nov. 14th from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. All Junior League Actives and Sustainers are invited to attend to learn more about their educational training and spiritual mentoring program. The League Holiday Tea will be Dec 1st from 4:00 to 6:00 pm at the Museum of East Texas. This will be a joint party of Sustainers and Actives. Sustainers are asked to bring an unwrapped Christmas gift for women attending classes at the Mosaic Center. Suggested items are costume jewelry, nail polish, hand and body lotion, cosmetics, cosmetic bags, picture frames and fragrances.!

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JLL December Social –Morrison Supply

Mary Byrd

Melissa RadkeJLL Tea – MET

Stephanie Rasmussen

Carolyn BeaversJennifer Cumbie

Michelle Combs

Shelia GillespieLisa Flournoy

Marcia GriffinPaula LeevesLinda Stafford

MET – Family Day

Doran Gipson Anita Caraway

Vanessa DurhamDemesa BarnhillLlewellyn Frazier

Jeanie McCusker

Laura MikealBarbara Hill

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Tammi AxelsonClaudia DeArmond

Amber YoungbloodEmily Watts

Joy Scott-Killam

Kelley MooreDonna Willis

Crystal PerryCathey Friesen Luanna Semlinger

Cindi Andrews

Laddie WilliamsGeneral Meeting

RSVP for Dec 1 Tea Nelda HortonTerri Zeleskey

Cindy NealMarcy Weibe

Joan Temple

T.J. PattersonCissy SeelyCinda Taylor

Monica GunterNancy Moore

Carrie IversenRona Friesen Tracie Reynolds

Ann WatsonBoard Meeting 5:45

Misty ZelesekyJean Dillahunty

Julie CastleberryCarol Zbranek

Stephanie GustafsonDonna Quarles

Elizabeth Perkins

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Coston Elementary

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