I’m on my way out the door without time to write a real post, but there are three things I want to write about.
Cyndy Bittinger, the former Executive Director of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, is an expert on Grace Coolidge. She recently took part in a symposium about the modern First Lady. The session is available on C-Span (http://www.c-span.org/video/?326800-1/modern-first-ladies-part-1). Grace Goodhue Coolidge, a Pi Beta Phi, was followed by Lou Henry Hoover, a Kappa Kappa Gamma. I like to think of them as the Monmouth Duo of First Ladies. Mrs. Hoover is also a discussed in the session. (Cyndy Bittinger, along with Mimi Baird, who is a CCMF Trustee, became alumnae initiates of Grace Coolidge’s Pi Phi chapter a number of years ago. For information about Mimi Baird’s book about her father, an Alpha Tau Omega, see http://wp.me/p20I1i-23X).
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For those who have a creative spirit which needs some nurturing, check out Arrowmont’s last weekend workshops of the season, October 22-25. According to my friends at Arrowmont, “You’d be surprised what you can make in a weekend when immersed in a creative group.” Gatlinburg, Tennessee is beautiful that time of year and even though Arrowmont is about 200 feet off the main Parkway in Gatlinburg, it is worlds away. You will have a wonderful experience, trust me.
See the workshops here: http://www.arrowmont.org/workshops-and-classes/workshops…
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Congratulations to my friends at the Phoenix Panhellenic Association for winning the Harriett Macht Outstanding Alumnae Panhellenic Award for 2013-15!! They are a hard working group of women and they do great things in the community, both as members of their individual NPC alumnae organizations and as an Alumnae Panhellenic. 
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