From the pen of the Supreme Basileus

Apr 11 2013 7:59 PM

CALL TO BOULÉ

July 6-11, 2013 Renaissance

Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel

The number 19 Chi Eta Phi Bullet Train is nearing its final destination. It has been an awesome journey for Chi Eta Phi and those elected to serve this great organization. The Event Planners and Committee have planned well for you. Eta Phi Chapter and the city of Mobile have worked diligently to prepare for an enjoyable time. The hotel awaits your arrival and the Board of Directors is expecting you. The Sixty-second Boulé is slated to be informative, educational, and socially uplifting.

The scheduled date is July 6-11th at the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel, located at 64 South Water Street. Mobile Alabama 36602. Members of the Board of Directors will arrive on Friday July 5th to prepare for the Board meeting at 1:00 PM. Activities for the membership will begin on Saturday July 6, 2013 with the Mobile Museum Tour sponsored by Eta Phi Chapter. Preregistration is required for the Tour. The Tours will begin at 9:30 AM.  Guest may arrive three days prior to the conference and stay three days after the conference for the same rate, so consider spending the 4th in Mobile.

The Boulé Leadership Session will begin Saturday evening. We will all meet together to symbolize unity of Chi Eta Phi Leadership from six thirty to seven thirty PM. Although there will be a brief update for the delegates, the Board of Directors is asking that Chapter Basilei instruct delegates in their role and duties prior to the arrival at Boule’. Mentoring and instruction begins at the chapter level. Please have delegates prepared upon arrival.  Current and potential leaders of Chi Eta Phi Sorority are invited to attend the leadership presentations. Come and share with the Board of Directors and selected Committee Chairs information vital to the maintenance and success of the organization.

See the sidebar for the complete list of the week's events!

Milded D. Fennal
19th Supreme Basileus

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The Delegation to Haiti:

Soror Eleanor Peterson, Chair International Programs and Projects, Omicron Chapter, Northeast Region; Soror Priscilla Murphy, National Secretary, Tau Eta, Northeast Region; Soror Mildred D. Fennal, Supreme Basileus, Chi Phi Chapter, Southeast Region, Soror Sarah Killian, National Organizer, Gamma Chi Chapter, Southeast Region, Soror Claudette Rainey, Committee member, International Programs and Projects, Southeast Region. Soror Lovene Knight, Second Supreme Anti-Basileus, Delta Chapter, Southwest Region.

While in Haiti the members of Chi Eta Phi Sorority became parents to forty-nine orphans at Orphelinat Refuge des Orphelins. We will be supplying the children with clothes, school supplies, dried foods and a generator when electricity is restored. This is a national project and will be managed through the International Programs and Projects Committee; Soror Eleanor Peterson is the Chairman of that group. Although we are asking for supplies, you may donate money to help defray the cost of shipping and travel for the committee. This project did not make the budget under the new circumstances. Send clothes, school supplies and dried foods to Soror Peterson. Send monetary donations to Soror Fayrene Tolbert, payable to Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc. and label/designate as funds for Chi-Haiti Connection.

The Orphanage is run and operated by Ms. Yvrose Pressor DeLeGrand.  There is a staff of helpers, a social worker, and a nurse.  While in Haiti the delegation interacted with the children, some of them were given special attention and some were hugged and/or held. All of the children are beautiful. They talked to us in French, and sang American Spiritual songs in French for us as well. These children need a hand up, not a hand out. Hand outs do not work in Port Au Prince.