​Xi Iota Phi Chapter Highlights: Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi

Submitted by Lisa Addington

The ladies of Xi Iota Phi have had a wonderful spring full of activities and growing friendship.
February found us having our meeting at the home of Lisa Addington, we celebrated our Valentine Queen Karen LaJaunie with a card shower and dessert. We then held our annual Valentine dinner at Sinclair’s Restaurant in Blue Springs.

For March some of our members visited the renovated Harry S. Truman library and enjoyed lunch together afterwards at the Courthouse Exchange on the square. Bobbie Brubeck was our host for our March meeting. She continued our program series about the friends in our lives and how they make us who we are.

We elected our new officers for the upcoming year as well. Our incoming officers are Karen LaJaunie, President, Linda Ebert, Vice-President, Karen Blau, Recording Secretary, Bobbie Brubeck, Corresponding Secretary, and Chris Smith, Treasurer.

April was a busy month for us, we had our Founder’s Day dinner at the home of Chris Smith, we had a wonderful salad bar, with pie for dessert and played Banana grams for fun afterwards. April’s meeting was held at the home of Diana Boyce. We also had our yearly Mother/Daughter tea at the end of the month. Our theme for the tea was Momma Mia, keeping with it being Mother/Daughter. We had lasagna, salad, bread and cake. Our activity was a matching up game of famous mothers and daughters.

During our monthly meeting we reviewed our By-laws and Standing Rules, we also signed up for a committee for the upcoming year. Diana Boyce was our hostess.

May’s meeting was held at Debbie Wood’s home and we held our Installation of Officers, voted on our changes to the By-laws/Standing Rules, and discussed our budget for the year as well.

To celebrate our Woman of the Year, Cathy Talley, we went to the Bella Italian Restaurant in Lee’s Summit. We held a card shower for her and we also revealed our secret sisters with a card and a gift. We drew names for our new secret sister too. It was a great evening and a wonderful finish to another year with each other.