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DG Hannahs’ News Bytes

Hello again and welcome to another edition of Hannah's Newsbytes! I just returned from a few weeks traveling around Europe with six other Delta Gamma sisters from DC, VA and GA. We had a wonderful time learning about French wine, Provencal cooking, and the Delta Gamma Foundation. Look out for pictures and stories soon!

I hope you all enjoy the start of fall and the last bit of warm weather! See you at the next chapter event on November 17!

In the bonds, Danielle Yates

President

Well Aware: Health and Fitness: The holidays are just around the corner and they will be filled with tasty treats and holiday parties. Don’t worry; you can still enjoy the holidays with the foods you love to eat by staying physically active. Join us as April Black, a certified fitness instructor at VIDA Fitness, discusses ways to make small changes through diet and exercise. Be sure to wear comfortable clothing! Jennifer Middleton, a registered dietician, will also show us ways we can improve some of our favorite dishes this holiday season!

Date: Tuesday, November 17 at 7 pm

Location: VIDA Fitness, 601 F Street, NW, Washington, DC (in the Verizon Center across from Rosa Mexicana)

Cost: Free!

For more information or to RSVP, contact Tonya Richardson at

[email protected].

What not to miss this month

Letter from the President

In this Issue

SIG Events 2

Foundation Focus 3

Collegiate Corner 3

DGs in Provence 4

Member of the Month

5

Sister Snapshots & News

6

Delta Gamma Washington, DC

November 2009

Points of Interest:

• Star Sister Points Awarded!

• DGs in Provence special—PHOTOS!

• Member of the Month

• Marriage & Birth Announcements

• Cut-Away Calendar

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The following sisters earned an “Education & Scholarship” point at last month’s chapter event, “Perfect on Paper” with DG author Maria Murnane. Congratulations: Tonya Richardson, Jen Olsen, Kristen Schuh, Anamarie Rebori, Katie No-varia, Danielle Yates, Mallory Trimyer, Anna John, Lindsey Scwalb, and Anne Raley!

Join us this month at our Healthy & Fitness Well Aware Chapter event and earn your “Personal Development” point!

For more information on the STAR SISTER program,

contact Cristina Gomez at [email protected] or April Black at [email protected]

SIG EVENTS

SweetPeas

Join the DG Sweet Peas at the Launch Zone on November 6.

The DC Metro Area is getting a Children’s Museum! But, not until 2013. Until then, the Launch Zone allows future users to prototype ex-hibit components and programs and share their ideas about what should be included in the new Children’s Museum.

Through the use of images, table-top interactive exhibits, and com-puter kiosks, Launch Zone intro-duces select areas of the Museum, while soliciting feedback and input from future users, including our sweet peas.

Cost: FREE!

Where: Launch Zone, 113 Water-front Street, National Harbor, MD

For directions, including via water taxi, and other information about the Launch Zone, see http://www.ncm.museum/launch_one/hours_and_directions.

For more information on DC Sweet Peas please email Kerri at [email protected]

Dine Out Dine Out will be Sunday Brunch at Beacon Bar and Grill on November 22 at 11:30am. Beacon’s Sunday Champagne Brunch is a DC favor-ite, often voted one of the best in local dining guides. The brunch features a delicious buffet, waffle and omelet stations, and unlimited champagne, mimosas, and Bloody Marys. Please e-mail Tracey at [email protected] no later than Friday, November 13, to RSVP or for more informa-tion.

Lunch Bunch

Lunch Bunch will be November 4, 2009. We will lunch at 11:30am at the ever popular Monocle (107 D St. NE) on The Hill then walk to the Sewall-Belmont House and Mu-seum on 144 Constitution for a tour. Contact [email protected] for more information.

Wine Tasting Thursday, November 5: Best Cel-lars in Clarendon at 6:30pm- Great Holiday Wines Private class and tasting. COST: $0. They will likely offer us discounts on purchases and most of their offerings are under $15. Light cheese and crackers will be served. There is a max and min head count for this event, so RSVP early. Because of the mini-mum head count, please avoid last minute cancellations so that we can meet the minimum and con-tinue to have great events with Best Cellars. RSVP by October 21st with Meredith at [email protected]

Book Club Book club will be on Thursday, November 19 at Brittany's in Capitol Hill

For information contact

Danielle at [email protected].

Sign up for the annual DG Holiday Tea!

Please join your fellow Washington DC Delta Gamma alumnae for an annual tradition -- the holiday tea. We welcome all DC area alumnae and their mothers and sisters to attend. We will also be welcoming the graduating seniors from American University. This year we are trying out a new location! The hotel has a restaurant called the Tea Cellar that will be catering our event. Please join us to celebrate the holidays in style!

When: Saturday, December 5 - 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Where: Park Hyatt Washington—1201 24th Street (Foggy Bottom metro stop is 4 blocks away/self parking and valet parking available)

Cost: $40 members/$45 non-members (pay online at www.wdcdeltagamma.org/Events.html or via check to “WDC Delta Gamma” mailed to: Danielle Frottier 2725 39th Street, NW #315 Washington, DC 20007)

RSVP to Danielle at [email protected]

Foundation Focus

Children's Eye Screening with Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind –Children’s Holiday Party

Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind is having it's annual holi-day party for children with vis-ual impairments. For the fourth year, WDC DG has been asked to donate money towards presents that are fun and on wish lists of children with visual impairments. We are currently recruiting volun-teers to go shopping, deliver presents, and possibly volun-teer at the party to be held on

Saturday, December 12, at Mount Airy Baptist Church in Washington, DC. If inter-ested, please contact Jen Ol-sen at [email protected]

American Girls Fashion Show to Benefit Prevention of Blindness Society Come support The American Girl Fashion Show to benefit Prevention of Blindness Soci-ety of Metropolitan Washing-ton. The event will be on Sun-day, Nov. 8, 2009 with two shows: 10:30am and 2:30pm.

The location will be the Bolger Center, 9600 Newbridge Drive, Potomac, MD 20854. More information, as well as how to buy tickets can be found at http://www.youreyes.org/contents/american_girl_fashion_show. We are still recruiting volun-teers, so , please contact Jen Olsen if interested [email protected]

Collegiate Corner

This semester the chapter also voted to raise the minimum GPA from a 2.5 to a 2.75 and to institute study hours to con-tinue their academic success.

They had an unexpected COB after a couple students trans-ferred. They organized and hosted a beautiful black and white dessert party where they handed out 5 bids, and now have 5 new members!

Initiation is on Friday, Novem-ber 13 from 6-8, location TBA.

Beta Epsilon continues to have the highest GPA of any fe-male Greek

organization campus and this past semester was no excep-tion. Their GPA was a 3.44, putting their cumulative GPA at 3.42, and making them #1 among all Greek organizations and ahead of the All Greek and All Women GPAs.

"Sisterhood is the essence of all the wisdom of the ages, distilled into a single word.

You cannot see sisterhood, neither can you hear it nor taste it.

But you can feel it a hundred times a day. It is a pat on the back, a smile of encouragement.

It's someone to share with, to celebrate your achievements." ~ Anonymous

SATURDAY

• Arrive by plane at Marseilles’ Marignan airport or train to Avignon (2.5 hours from Paris) with transporta-tion provided to Faucon

• Settle into Maison des Arches and take a walk around the village. See for yourself how the harvest is shaping up in the surrounding vineyards

• Welcome dinner at Le Laurier, Faucon, with Chef Gerard and wines from Le Faucon d’Ore and Domaine Roche Buissiere, Faucon

SUNDAY

• Breakfast at Les Tieulls, the boulangerie in Faucon.

• Depart for the Sunday Antique Market in Isle sur la Sorgue.

• Lunch at Café des Fleurs

MONDAY

• Chateauneuf du Pape to taste the wines of the Popes

• Lunch in Chateauneuf du Pape at La Mere Germaine with tastings

• Visit remains of the papal palace (c.1350)

• Drive to Avignon for sight seeing and shopping

in the chic streets

DGs in Provence Take a peek at all the exciting things the DGs in Provence did while they vacationed in France!

TUESDAY

• A visit to the colorful regional market in Vaison, filling the same streets since 1534. We’ll buy things in the mar-ket to have for lunch at the house. In the afternoon we will have a private “tutored Wine Tasting” at La Madelene, Entrechaux, with Phillip Reddaway, Associate member of Institute of Wines and Spirits (AIWS). His home is a former Benedictine priory built in the 12th cen-tury and is an auberge and wine school. Chef Jude Red-daway will prepare our dinner with wine parings served in the former priory.

WEDNESDAY

• Tour Arles. Visit the Roman arena which is now used as a bull fighting ring

• Lunch at Le Bistrot du Paradou with tasting

• Tour the vineyards and winery with tasting at Do-maine de Mourchon, Sablet

THURSDAY

• Depart for the Market in Nyons. At 10a.m. we have a

private cooking lesson with cookbook author, Lyddie Marshall, at her chateau in Nyons. We will be the cooks for the lunch making Turban de Souffle au Parmesan (Parmesan Souffle’ in a ring mold), Pintade Rotie De La Drome (Guinea hen), Spicy Ratatouille and Galettes de Pommes Chateau (apple tart).

FRIDAY

• Depart for Orange to tour the antique theatre, largest of the three remaining theatres

DGs in Provence

Member of the Month: Eleanor Cartwright

Eleanor opened her home in Provence, France to the Wine Tasting sisters of Washington, DC alumnae chapter. Six members spent the week of September 19-26

with our knowledgeable and French speaking hostess touring the Provencal countryside, visiting several markets that dated to the 16th century, tasting Cote de Rhone wines, taking cooking lessons and generally having a great adventure. Based from her house in the charming village of Faucon, we explored many towns and the

countryside of Provence. Thank you, Eleanor!

Sister Snapshots & News

Sisters’ Spectacular News to Share Best Wishes to Keri Ann Hayes and Collin Tatusko who married this October!

Marci Thomas celebrated Columbus Day by welcom-ing a new baby boy, Lachlan Love Thomas, into the world! He arrived at 5:00am with a vigorous cry. He weighed 5 pounds 4 ounces and was 18.3 inches long

(mostly all legs). He has such a sweet disposition and is focused on eating with gusto followed by satisfying naps. Dylan relishes his big brother role and, for the moment, is enjoying keeping us well informed by regu-larly announcing his baby brother's activities. Don't miss Tiffany Shaw Waddell with the first reun-ion of South Carolina (Epsilon-Chi) which she helped to organize in the current Anchora, p. 36 or online: http://digital.watkinsprinting.com/publication/?i=22967

WDC is a 2008-2009 Five Star Alumnae Excellence Award winner. See what your chapter and certain mem-bers have been up to on pages 32 and 17 of the current Anchora.

Please share your congratulatory wishes with these sis-ters next time you see them.

If you know of a sister who has something to celebrate or a sister who could benefit from DG Does Good as-sistance (a home-cooked meal or a cheery card), please email know, [email protected].

Several years ago, Shanti Patching Halter said goodbye to the WDC DG chapter, Book Club and Gourmet Gammas, a special interest group of which she was a founding member. Shanti is now the mother of two and the wife of the Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, Bill Hal-ter. In town this month to be sworn into the Supreme Court Bar, Shanti spends some of her free time blogging about her family (see photo) and the never

ending search for just a bit of peace in the busy life of today's mothers. To view or comment on Shanti's blog, see: http://peace.littlerockmamas.com/ The October Lunch Bunch first toured Dumbarton House and Museum hosted by docent Carol Harman (Delta Iota). Then went to Bistrot Lepic for a wonderful lunch.

At Bistro Lepic in Georgetown: (l to r) Molly Strozier (Delta Iota), Helen Gordon (Beta Iota), Joyce Maguire (Delta Iota), Julie Ann McLaughlin (Upsilon), Tanya Hamilton (Mu), Megan Moffit (Beta Gamma), Karen Menatti (Beta Gamma), Natasha Pedroza (Gamma Iota), Carol Harman (Delta Iota), Robyn Hickey (Alpha Sigma), Lola Reinsch (Beta Iota).

DATES TO REMEMBER:

NOVEMBER DECEMBER

• November 5, Great Holiday Wines December 2, Wednesday Wine Bar Night

• November 6, Sweet Peas December 4, DG Sweet Peas Cookie Decorating

• November 8, American Girl Fashion Show December 5, Holiday Tea

• November 17, Well Aware: Health & Fitness

• November 22, Dineout Brunch

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