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Our social today is Preceptor Kappa Iota's (my land chapter) "RUSH" picnic at Utica Park in Angels Camp, CA. It's a beautiful day, not too hot, not too cold. Liz, our Vice President (member of BSP for 52 years), arranged for us to use this covered area, away from the other picnic areas in order for us to have a short meeting and to more privately meet and greet our guests in a nice setting. We don't expect a large crowd, but hope for at least seven of our sisters (we have 10) to be here, along with four prospective sisters, all of whom are neighbors of mine. Usually, we meet at sister houses but since we didn't know how many guests to expect (invited 11); we decided to meet at a park.

Liz put table cloths on three of the tables; two for our meeting and eating. Our food is at this table: baked chicken, baked beans, macaroni salad, fruit salad, an avocado and shrimp salad, two types of potato chips with dips, cookies for dessert, and several types of non-alcoholic beverages (in the ice chest).



I'll introduce you to the guests and members as we go along. One of our prospective members (in the front) is a good friend and neighbor. Mary has been to several of our sorority get-togethers and is seriously considering joining our group (after the first of the year). The woman in the middle is our VP Liz (she's also a member of OnLine Beta); the other woman is Bets, another good friend and neighbor (the one responsible for me joining BSP).



Here's Margaret and Jan ice. Margaret has been in BSP for 51 years, starting in a San Francisco , CA chapter, and transferring to our chapter a year ago. She recently stated to me that she wanted to go on LOA as she has "ride" issues (her daughter and dog, in background, brought her today) and some "memory" problems. Jan ice has been a BSP member for 40 years and in PKI for 10 years. Jan ice was our president 3 years ago (and is my co-chair for the 2010 Relay for Life, Calaveras County , as well as our team co-captain for the Relay).



Three of our prospective members: Mary, Debby, and Carole. All live within 3 miles of me (makes for good driving time and distance for meetings, if they join). Debby and Carole are retired, and Mary works two evenings a week and one day-time for Weight Watchers . However, since our meetings are "currently" the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month (we might change them to the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays), Mary will be able to attend.



Just arriving are Dorothy (left) and Donna (right). Donna went to pick up Dorothy (our oldest sister/member, age 89) at work (yes, she still works; works at a Thrift Store in town, three days a week) so she could have lunch with us and meet our prospective new sisters. Dorothy works on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday, and is the reason we may change our meeting days to Tuesday, in order for her to once again join us. Donna is our Secretary and is also in OnLine Delta.

The green t-shirt has a yellow rose on the front with BSP letters; on back in yellow lettering is Preceptor Kappa Iota of Angels Camp, CA. Our badge (that Donna's wearing) is made of felt, with the bar at the top being the degree for that person (Donna being Master). In the center of the badge is a green frog, also felt; our pins then go on and around the frog (symbol of Calaveras County ).



Left to right - Carol (former Ways & Means chair), Hilda (Treasurer and member of OnLine Delta), Donna, Bets, guests Mary and Carole.

We've had our short meeting and our VP Liz has given our guests an overview of BSP and specifics about our chapter. We played a few of "Sharing our Passport to Adventure" type of games: one was a sheet of paper with pictures of six different hotels from National Parks and we were asked to identify the parks; another was an "elimination-round" of history-related questions with multiple choice answers (i.e. the Wright Brothers were famous for what? A. Trains B. Planes C. Automobiles D. Mopeds); and the last game was a sheet with 12 words scrambled (to be unscrambled) relating to picnics (i.e. nodaelme = lemonade). Everyone had a great time and, for most of us, the history-related questions were the hardest; even though some of the choices were silly, in a lot of questions relating to places, you could pick out the obvious BAD answers but there were two that might be good LOL.



Our fourth guest was the blonde in the dress, Debie. She works four days a week as church secretary for the local Catholic Church. If we change our meeting days, however, she'll be able to join us---another incentive to make a change.

I hope you enjoyed being at our picnic in the park "rush" today. We had a good time, good food, and most likely three of our four guests will be joining our chapter within the next couple months.