Mardi Gras is traditionally celebrated on 'Fat Tuesday', which is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent. This year, Mardi Gras is on Tuesday, February 16, but for Delta Zeta we are celebrating on Wednesday February 17. Join us for our Delta Zeta Happy Hour virtual Mardi Gras event on Wednesday, February 17 at 6:30pm. Wear your purple and green beads and bring your own drinks or favorite cajun food as we celebrate with our sisters.
To join us click link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85875663778Passcode is: DZ
Or Call: 1-408-638-0968 Meeting ID: 858 7566 3778
Join us for announcements and then we will celebrate and learn about Mardi Gras and visit with your Delta Zeta sisters. Since event is virtual you can still stay true to any Lent commitments that you start that day. All food will be virtual--the best way to keep the pounds off.
If you have never been to one of our virtual events, you are missing a great opportunity to be with your sisters. Need help with either calling in or going online contact Susan Norman, 602-789-1700 ordzarizona@cox.net. It may still be a while before we can safely meet in person. We want everyone to stay safe!
Centennial Vault: Phoenix Panhellenic First 100 Years
We are opening the Phoenix Panhellenic vault on February 18, 2021. The Panhellenic Archive/History Committee is inviting you to a special event. We have heard from many of you that you did not get to see the Centennial photo slide show or are anxious to view it again. At this special event, the 100 year Phoenix Panhellenic slide show will be shown without commercial interruption. The show itself is approximately 20 minutes long. After the show, you are welcome to stay and reminisce with other Panhellenic women. Many Delta Zeta women are pictured throughout the show. DZ Birdie Fowler Keen was the fourth Panhellenic President 1923-24 and she is the Founder of the Phoenix Alumnae Chapter. She is in the show several times. Others you will recognize are Pat Wells, Mary Pat Pepping, Sue Pickles, Susan Norman, Lee Ann Witt, Lorna Green, Cindy McParland, Ashlee Lepa, Mary Peterson and Diane Stanton. Come and stay for a few minutes or linger. We just hope to see you at the event as we again celebrate our extraordinary Phoenix Panhellenic 100 year history.
Thursday February 18 at 7pm AZ time
Event zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83422585218 Password: PPA100.
Did you miss getting a pdf copy of Panhellenic 100 year history, which includes the profile of DZ Woman of Impact, Judith Hardes, or have questions about the event contact: archives@phoenixpanhellenic.com
National is excited to announce the dates for the Spring 2021 Truly Connected Networking Night events, our virtual networking opportunities for collegiate and alumnae members. Similar to the fall, they will host two opportunities to connect and network per month – one based on a targeted professional development topic and one night based on industry. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask career-specific questions, share their experiences and expertise, and begin creating relationships with sisters of different chapters, ages, and backgrounds. Truly Connected Networking Nights will take place at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, 7:00 p.m. Central, 6:00 p.m. Mountain and 5:00 p.m. Pacific time. You can register for the fall 2020 virtual events by clicking the links below:
Don’t see your desired Professional Development topic or specific industry? Let us know by filling out this brief form. Be sure to keep checking the Truly Connected Networking Nights webpage for more details about our featured speaker for each virtual event. You can also listen to the recording of our Fall 2020 Truly Connected Networking Night events here.
Delta Zeta Sorority launched Truly Connected, our first-ever professional women’s conference, in 2016 in Atlanta and have since brought the event to Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City and Washington, D.C. The goal of Truly Connected has always been to connect with members, build skills necessary for navigating a career post college and provide professional growth opportunities for our members. These events have been a manifestation of the Sorority’s strategic plan and promise to enhance alumnae engagement, while also nicely combining our commitment to lifelong learning with the shared desire to empower women to lead and serve.
We are excited to see this opportunity grow and hope you will join us for a Truly Connected Networking Night this spring!
Delta Zeta Phoenix Alumnae Calendar
Due to COVID it may be a while until we are able to meet safely in person. Book club meets on the first Tuesday of the Month at 7pm and our Happy Hour Events are every third Wednesday of the Month at 6:30pm. If you need help to join us at these virtualevents contact email:dzarizona@cox.net.Please join us at these upcoming virtual zoom events:
February 17 at 6:30pm Phoenix Delta Zeta Alumnae Mardi Gras Virtual Happy Hour. See above for details. Click link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85875663778 Passcode is: DZ Or Call: 1-408-638-0968 Meeting ID: 858 7566 3778
Thursday February 18 at 7pm Phoenix Panhellenic 100 year history slide show event.
Event zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83422585218 Password: PPA100.
Our January selection was White Oleander by Janet Finch. The DZ book club virtual zoom event to discuss it will be Tuesday February 2nd @ 7 pm. The link for the virtual book club in February is:
Password: DZ
Or call in 1-253-215-8782 meeting id 87440371740
Thanks to Ashlee Lepa for moderating the DZ book club. We have enjoyed great conversations at book club.We have been discussing today's woman and our place in the world. It's not just about the book selection. It's more fun if you have read the book, but not required. You will enjoy even if you have not read the month's book.
Our February book is American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. “From its heart-stopping first sentence to its heart-shattering last, Cummins’s story of immigrants is just what we need now. Gritty yet sensitive, realistic yet hopeful, grand and granular, American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins is a Grapes of Wrath for our times.” ―Don Winslow, author of the New York Times bestseller The Border. Join our discussion on March 2 at 7pm for this book. Remember the book is only the start of our conversations.
PJ Heyliger
Our sister and Phoenix Alumnae Chapter member, PJ Heylinger has illustrated another book for the young and young at heart. PJ, an art major attended a University in Oklahoma and the University of Hawaii, she did her graduate work at the University of Mexico. Her oils, acrylics and watercolors have been exhibited and collected in New York, New Mexico, Oregon, California, Spain as well as many others parts of the world. One of her paintings hangs in the Jimmy Carter Library. She has circumnavigated the world six times always looking for a new place to snorkel. As a member of the International Circumnavigators Club, PJ was awarded a certificate for visiting all seven continents. We are so happy that PJ and her husband Stan how live in Paradise Valley AZ. You can order the book now from Amazon here.
A Word From Our DZ Book Club Moderator
Have you ever wondered about the experiences of the women who came before you or even the women around you?
I don’t mean their day to day stories at lunch of being busy, fighting traffic, and the latest shows to watch....
Do you wonder: Are there juicy details of struggle and perseverance? What obstacles have they overcome that made theirs and our lives so different? What has made each of our lives so rich with experience?
If so, the Phoenix Alumnae DZ book club is the place for you! Our monthly book is chosen based on conversation starting story lines.
If you think book clubs are about grammar and prose, think again! Skip the technical reviews of plot lines and character building.
This book club gets into the spicy and juicy details of our own experiences as we relate (or don’t relate) to the characters and their strife.
Don’t miss out on what multiple generations have to share in a quick, no drive, hour long zoom once a month!
Sincerely, Ashlee Lepa, JD
Delta Zeta Phoenix Alumnae Dues are Due for 2021
News About Dues from Treasurer Lorna Green
As most of you know, our Annual Turtles & Pearls Luncheon was cancelled last spring, after many of you had sent me your $35 luncheon payment. If you would like, I can convert that payment to your dues, which just happens to also be $35. Just let me know if you would like to do that at lornagreen47@gmail.com or call me at 602-290-6475. Four of you had also paid for a senior * (thank you). If you would rather not pay dues at this time, please let me know if you want a reimbursement check or to just apply it to our April (hopefully) Turtles & Pearls event.
Here is the list of those that had paid for Turtle & Pearls and I can convert to dues:
Pat Wells *
Mary Chandler
Lee Ann Witt *
Lorna Green*
Mary Pat Pepping *
Judith Hardes
Dusty Tingstrom
Suzy Jylha
Ann Haggerty
Jean Lee
Ann Gay
Diane Gangloff
Shellean Roberts (2 reservations)
In addition, thanks to the following women have already paid their 2021 dues which are due now:
Anne Gay
Julia Butterworth
Emma Thomas
Michelle Rodriguez
Mindy Quiroz
LoAnn Bell
Ruth Kovac
Ann Ketcham
Mary Chandler
Wendy Lombardi
Susan Norman
If you are not on either of the lists and want to pay your dues, you can use PayPal or mail them. You can send a $35 check made out to Delta Zeta Sorority to: Lorna Green, 4723 E. Voltaire Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85032. Or you can pay on line with any major credit card. Check it out at: https://www.deltazetaphoenix.com/join-us.html
Blast from the Past
Pictured are Phoenix Delta Zetas attending the 2019 Holiday Celebration at the home of Lee Ann Witt.
Also check out our Facebook page every Thursday for more "Blasts From the Past". https://www.facebook.com/DeltaZetaPhoenixAlumnae
Due to COVID-19 our Lunch Bunches will not be meeting in the near future. If you want to get on the Phoenix/Scottsdale Lunch Bunch email list (they meet on different days and different locations thru the valley) contact Pat Wells:RaWells@aol.com The Westside Lunch Bunch meets every other month on the first Monday at Mercers restaurant in Peoria. Contact Anne Gay: elizg1@frontier.com, to get on this contact list.
Our Pi Zeta Chapter at ASU News
Pi Zetas your opportunity to apply for a Phoenix Panhellenic Scholarship is now!
Phoenix Panhellenic Association is once again offering scholarship awards to Arizona women who are members of one of the 26 National Panhellenic Conference sororities. Although scholarship amounts may vary from year to year, last May $30,000 was awarded to fourteen Arizona undergraduates and alumnae. Scholarship checks will be made out to the student and the university that the student will attend. Previous recipients may apply in succeeding years. Scholarship decisions are based on academics, contributions to sorority and school, and financial need.
For more info join the Panhellenic virtual event on February 10
AVA SIPS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS! Pop in our Virtual Open House any time between 6 and 7pm on February 10th and Phoenix Panhellenic Council Members will be available to assist you with your scholarship application and answer any questions!
Have a more in depth or personal question about your application, not to worry, we can put you into a private Breakout Room with a Council Member where you can ask those questions and even share your screen.
It is with great sadness that we inform you that our sister and fellow alumnae chapter member Diane (Dee) Shonk Deihl passed away January 23, 2021. She made sure that her family informed us. Dee was often at Lunch Bunches and our special events. She attended Southern Illinois University and was initiated in the ΓΩ chapter. She earned a BS in English and a MS in Business Administration. Most of her career was as an educator. She received her Golden Rose in 2010. Notes to the family can be sent to her husband: Henry Deihl, 23613 N 77 St, Scottsdale, AZ 85255.
If you have "news", please share with your DZ sisters. Send info and photos to
Susan Norman at: dzarizona@cox.net
All info is due on the 25th day before each month.
If you are a Delta Zeta Alumna in the Tucson area, there is an alumnae group.
Contact President: suzanbryceland@hotmail.com
Phoenix Panhellenic Association
Since we are limited in the numbers of volunteers that can work at the Phoenix Open to earn money for Scholarships, Phoenix Panhellenic is having a giving week. Donate at least $15 by Noon on February 1st to get your 3 BINGO cards and the Zoom link to the BINGO Party at 6:30pm on February 1st! Many other opportunities are available. This is your chance to help earn scholarships for our Panhellenic women and you don't even have to get your feet wet.
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