Kansas City, MO-Shawnee Mission, KS Alumnae Club !Chartered 1913 May 2014 y, n, y

Simp ly Pi Phi

Spring Calendar

May Mother GOOSE of all Happy Hours!5.8.14 6-8:00pm Drop by on the

way home or on your way out or just

because. Thank you to all the hostesses, I am indebted for your hospitality to Pi Phi and gracious

willingness to hostess! Please pick a home and reconnect with Pi Phi! Golden Girls Gathering 5.13.14 in the

lovely garden of Margaret Hall (also a Golden Arrow)! For all Golden

Arrows! 2-4. See page 2 for more information.

R.E.A.D at Brighton Gardens 5.16.14

1:30pm. Please join us for the last service event of the year. Please

email mhodgson@kc.rr.com for more information.

Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Training in St.

Louis, MO 6.20.14-6.22.14

No Events! Remember to pay your

dues, thank you.

Happy Spring!

2014 New York Theatre Tour sponsored by Pi Beta Phi is October 23-27

with the extension from October 27-30. To date ! two plays have been selected ! Beautiful "a musical showcasing the songs and life of Carole King# and

Bullets over Broadway "a madcap crime caper in the Jazz Age of NY#$

Okay sisters, all you have to do is show up…bring a 0-6yrs book and/or a

baby-child gift…or just contribute a few bucks at the event. If you are in an

interest group, do your interest but share in a club-wide effort to help young

mothers, honor your mother or a mother you know. We will welcome you,

give you a beverage, a little sustenance and sisters...the last club event of the

year. YES...you can just show up and give back. All donations given to the

Family Conservancy…inspired by Project 39 ladies. Pick a home and stop by!

Thursday, May 8 ! 6-8pm

NORTH OF THE RIVER

Linda Magee – 2404 NE 74th St., Gladstone, MO 64118

CITY

Barbara Hakkio – 3700 Madison, Kansas City, MO 64111

SHAWNEE MISSION

Stephanie Barnow – 3725 W 64th St, Shawnee Mission, KS 66208

SOUTH Barbara Luhrs – 14067 Mastin St., Overland Park, KS 66221

Mother GOOSE of All

Happy Hours!

Last Chance!

Last 2 Events This Year!

Hope to see you!

June

July

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In this day of mapping genomes, we would love to map Margaret Weatherly Hall’s (IL Epsilon) DNA. Margaret comes by the gardening gene from her

father’s family where they were all great gardeners. Her cousins were the famous gardening Weatherly sisters. She had a Victory Garden growing up

and was Sunset Hill’s chairman of the Greenhouse during her school years. The Greenhouse no longer exists but in its day many plants were grown in

this educational environment.

Upon graduation from high school, she attended Northwestern University in Illinois and pledged Pi Phi. Margaret returned to Sunset Hill as a teacher

and cultivated her gardening gene in the Greenhouse fostering many students’ love for plants. She remembered a hidden stone path outside the

Greenhouse and her students excavated the path as one of their many projects. Much to her delight, when she moved away to Charlottesville, VA with

her husband and gardening partner, Dr. Tom Hall, her students planted a Margaret Weatherly Hall “Memorial” Garden in her honor along this newly

excavated path. Fortunately, Margaret lives on!

In Charlottesville, Margaret fell in love with all things Southern in a garden. Though she has never met a plant she didn’t like, she has a special place

for Southern delights like magnolias and crepe myrtles. Everything grew in Charlottesville, their long spring and fall seasons made for remarkable

gardens. Even plants that grew between the bricks were delights. Margaret and Tom love boxwood and were inspired by colonial Williamsburg

gardens.

Upon their return to KC, the couple settled in Prairie Village in a pink house. Everything was pink inside the house; tile, walls, and curtains. Upon

spring, they discovered their entire garden was pink too! Margaret set about to introduce her favorite colors, yellow and orange, into the garden.

Eventually they bought the house next to them from their neighbor Katie while she was alive. Katie loved the plan to create a garden and “Katie’s

Garden” is honored with a poem written by Katie. Originally titled “Elizabeth’s Garden”, the Halls modified the poem to honor Katie in their beautiful

garden.

Margaret loves alliums, “they are perennial and nothing eats them”, and you will note they bring architecture and symmetry to her garden. She is an

avid flower arranger and still tries new plants all the time. Her recent adventure has been with dahlias, “they are cheap and they give a lot of bang for

the buck, I just leave them in the ground”. Margaret’s gardening advice is make sure you amend your soil before you plant! Don’t you wish you were a

Golden Arrow?

From her whimsical garden Folly, delightful collection of peonies and magnolias, tall allium soldiers parading, Chippendale fencing, bevy of shade

loving plants, perfectly manicured boxwood and lovely Pi Phi sisters, you won’t want to miss it! Please do not park to the west in front of the house with the blue roof!

Afternoon Tea in the Garden!

Go lden G i r ls Gather ing for a l l Go lden Arrows

Margaret Weatherly Hall’s lovely garden

Tuesday, May 13 | 2-4pm

2402 West 71st Terrace | Prairie Village, Kansas

Hi ladies, as many of you probably know, our sister and past alumnae chapter president lost 2 loved ones in the terrible shootings at JCC this month. I am holding a fundraiser Trunk Show for a donation to the memorial fund she specified. Please consider doing your mother's day shopping through this link as 100% net proceeds will be donated. Thanks in advance for your consideration and generosity! Hope to see you all at the Panhel breakfast! LINK: http://www.stelladot.com/ts/0gby5

Dear Sisters,

I am sharing this note from the Tri-Delta Alumnae Club President Emily Kuhlman. This terrible tragedy that has shaken our city is calling us all to cherish our loved ones and unite against such evil. As for myself, I have spent many, many days, weeks, months and even a few years visiting my beloved mother-in-law and her sister (both Thetas) at Village Shalom. I am deeply saddened by this senseless tragedy. PPL, Bridget

Beautiful Kappa and Pi Phi Sisters!

Darling Pi Phis Susie & Is!

We had 100 lovely ladies celebrating Monmouth Duo at Country Club Bank! Many thanks to our hostess Pi Phi Mary

O’Connor and our planners Joanna Glaze and Sally Stuart! Well done ladies, it was a

lovely April in Paris evening!