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WEC Sets the Pace Center for Girls
From the Board
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! The best of everything in 2006!
HOLIDAY LUNCHEON
I so appreciate all your calls and emails! We really had a good time!
(editor's note: These are just a few of the fabulous photos. To
see them all go to the
WEC
photo albums and click on the 2005 Holiday Luncheon album.
Lots of people to thank:
first, Ann Meacham, Cynthia Hardy, Marilynn Obrig, Melissa Rapkin and
Rene Harrod for modeling the fashions, hair styles and makeup so beautifully.
I know for some it took a real willingness to “step out of the
box”;
second, Brian Trageser and Alex Bonilla from Red Door Spa for hair and
makeup respectively; and their GENEROUS offer to extend complimentary
makeovers to all WEC members…
The guidelines:
? Present discount card and/or mention WEC when making your appointment
(must make an appointment
? Makeover will include hair color (based on consultation), haircut,
style and makeup
? Offer expires January 31, 2006
? Offer is available Tuesday thru Saturday with participating technicians
and last but certainly not least, Suzanne Whalen (a new member) and her assistant Kathleen from A Style Is Born, who without we could have never had the event. Not only did they give of their time, including consulting with each of the models on their 2 outfits, dress everyone, calm the jitters and emcee but they are MOST GENEROUSLY offering all WEC members a 20% discount on anything in the store with and additional 10% of the purchase donated back to WEC.
SHOP AND SPA UNTIL YOU DROP because it’s a WIN WIN WIN!
| Red Door Spa 2598A Sunrise Blvd. Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304 (954) 564-5787 www.reddoorspas.com |
A Style Is Born 260 N. Federal Hwy. Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301 (954) 467-0000 www.astyleisborn.com |
Members and guests, alike, demonstrated tremendous GENEROSITY with gifts for Family Central, Woodhouse and PACE.
Thanks for believing in me! Let me hear from you! president@wecftl.com
JANUARY LUNCHEON
We’re back at the Tower Club on Friday, January 20th. We have another great speaker from our POWERFUL WOMEN series, Marsha Elser. Marsha was the first woman President for the Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
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Date: Time: |
January Luncheon Friday, January 20,2006 11:30 Networking 12:00 Luncheon |
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Place:
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Tower Club, 28TH floor |
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Program: |
Marsha Elser Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers |
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Guest Cost:
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Guest Cost: $25.00 Members are responsible for guest |
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| Menu: |
Tower Club House Salad with a choice
of: 1. Chicken Salad Croissant |
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| RSVP to: |
Please
RSVP (including your menu choice) by Monday, January 16th to rsvp@wecftl.com |
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Do Drop In
Kim Stiles-Pascia is celebrity bartending at BoneFish Mac’s, 2002 E. Sample Rd., Lighthouse Point on Tuesday, January 10th, 7 – 9 pm. She is donating all her wages and tips to PACE. Kim is also volunteering to design and teach a series of classes focusing on communication and motivational skills at PACE.
Luau
Barring any hurricanes (unlikely) or snow (also unlikely) we’re
ready for a beach party. You can do it Hawaiian style or you can do
it Jimmy Buffet style… whatever suits your fancy.
Date: Saturday, January 28th
Place: Ft. Lauderdale Beach, A1A
Directly across from the Yankee Clipper
By the barbeque grills and volley ball nets
Watch the www.wecftl.com CALENDAR and your email for more detail.
Cannon Circle
Wednesday, January 25th
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Hosted by Geri Trodick
Held in American Trophy new Pompano location
831 West McNab Road
The North side of McNab one block west of Dixie Hwy.
You can get directions from the website: americantrophy.net
BOOK CLUB
Date: February 2, 2006
Hour: 6:30 pm
Place: Nancy Fischer’s house
2000 NE 27th Street
Wilton Manors, FL 33306
The book we are reading is John Grisham's "A Painted House."
New Member Profile: Connie Chaney
Connie Chaney moved to Fort Lauderdale in 1984. Working as a paralegal
and raising two beautiful daughters, she entered the self storage business
in 1990 with her ex husband. In 1997, another facility was built at 17th
Street Causeway and Miami Road. I own and manage that facility now. The
storage facility is a state-of-the-art five-story building, fully air-conditioned,
with individual door alarms, smoke evacuation system and all the bells
and whistles. Customers keep coming back and refer other tenants and
feel they are part of the family when they are on the premises.
2005 was a very good year for me. Space Plus Self Storage was voted "Best
of 2005", I received recognition from the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber
of Commerce as "Small Business Owner of the Year" and from the Broward
County Council of Chambers as "Small Business Person of the Year".
I received an Interior Design degree from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale
and am now in the Leadership Broward Class XXIV. I had a very rewarding experience
working with the renovation of Childrens Home Society and raising money for
Womens Way and a number of other charities. The friends I have met the last
few years through these organizations has been a very rewarding experience
who challenge you to be all you can be, and have helped me attain the level
of success that I enjoy today.
I am currently working on an office condo project at Hillsboro Boulevard and
I-95 in Deerfield Beach named Deerfield Park Professional Center which will
be completed by the end of 2006. I have built spec homes in North Carolina
and Florida. When someone asks what I do that is a rather hard question to
answer. I find that with work it is important to be able to be creative and
nourish your spirit and grow with different endeavors.
My greatest source of pleasure is spending time with my daughters and family.
My youngest daughter graduated from UF this year (Go Gators!) and is currently
working at Bank United in the Officer Training Program. My other married daughter,
operates her own business as well and is married to the most terrific man and
has made be very happy to be the Grammie of Ashley, age 5 and David, age 2.
My life is filled with people, places, work, and things that touch me everyday
with courage and joy and make me know how blessed I am.
Member Profile: Dr. Suzie
Dr. Suzie is a Board Certified Optometrist, practicing in the South Florida
area since 1997. She has practiced in various clinical settings including
a busy HMO in Miami, as adjunct faculty at Nova Southeastern University
and as an independent optometrist in a corporate optometry setting (For
Eyes, Inc.) It was her desire to have an office that was warm and inviting
as well as, highly functional. She opened the King & EYE, LLC, her
private eye care office and eyewear boutique just over three years ago.
Located in East Fort Lauderdale it gives her the opportunity to live in
the same neighborhood as the majority of her patients. As she puts it, "I
love the idea of being the hometown doctor. I am always available to my
patients 24/7." Dr. King specializes in solving difficult eyeglass prescription issues especially for musicians, athletes and "special needs" patients. She fits a full spectrum of contact lenses. Approximately, 15% percent of her practice now involves the management of LASER refractive surgery patients. Suzie recently received the Dennis Kennedy O.D. Excellence in Eye Care Award from TLC Laser Eye Centers.
Her passions are simple: Stephen, the Lighthouse of Broward, and her three Airedale Terriers. Stephen and Suzie have been "seriously dating" for the past 17 years. She is the current President of the Board, for the Lighthouse of Broward, which is the only agency providing independent living skills for the visually impaired and blind of Broward County. She is looking forward to a fun Spring 2006 when she hopes return to the dog show ring with her newest Airedale addition, Neville. Dr. Suzie is on the board of Leadership Broward and the National Association of Women Business owners. She is a member of Gold Coast Executive Networking group.
Dr. Suzie is a native Floridian and a product of 13 years of Catholic school. She grew up in North Miami Beach back in a time when she could ride her horse for miles on what was then, Ives Dairy property. She moved to Fort Lauderdale in the early 80's and has called Coral Ridge home for the past 17 years.
Members Doing Business with Members
Vivien Godfrey writes:
Thought you might like some information about the private investigator work that Diane Brucks-McDonald has been doing for me. About a year ago, my mail man delivered to my home a letter addressed to Sherie DeGroff. It was a statement from Merrill Lynch for an account in Sherie's name. The mail man delivered it to me because it also had the words Bluewater Books & Charts on the letter and my mail man knows that my husband and I are the owners of Bluewater.
It turned out that Sherie was a former employee of Bluewater who had left the company before we bought the business and had died shortly afterwards. I asked several longstanding employees and some did remember Sherie but did not know of any relatives.
I then called Gayle Metcalf at Merrill Lynch and asked for her help in having the address on the account changed to our store address. She was able to do this.
I then asked Diane if she could help us find any relative of Sherie's
who might be entitled to the money in the Merrill Lynch account. At
this time Diane is researching this for us but so far has not found
any person who remembers Sherie and no relative. We will wait and see!
The
Executive Grapevine: news and notes about WEC members. (send them email
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Ann Meacham writes: Here is a photo of Drazia
Rubenstein and me having
lunch at a café across from San Lorenzo church in Florence.
We spent almost 2 weeks in Tuscany in September and had a wonderful
time!
Ronnie Karlin writes: Saturday, November 26, 2005 @ 4:44am LAUREN
ELLEN WONG was born 7lbs. 5oz. and 21” long. Mother and baby are
doing well!
Joyce
Shore writes: I will be appearing on HGTV 's Designer Challenge
on Thursday, Jan 5th at 9:30.
Melissa
Rapkin writes: 
I am chairing a charity golf and tennis tournament on
January 13 (see attached brochure). I welcome any WEC members to play
or donate raffle prizes. All proceeds go to scholarships for children
for after care and summer camp.
Condolences to Norah Weiss, her mother passed away November 28th.
Shanna Munden writes: I will
be traveling to Las Vegas to the Remax International convention to pick
up my Lifetime Achievement Award at
the MGM Grand on Feb 27. My daughter in law, and son with their racing
team received 2 national racing awards. Gina finished in the top 10
in the country as a race car driver in 2 different classes of races.
note from Ronnie: Shana lost her husband on December 20th.
After a heroic operation that saved his life, his pulmonary artery
broke and he bled to death. Let’s continue to show our support.
This is what makes this such a special group of women!
Ginny
Forster writes: Putting Hurricane Season in Perspective
On even years, my husband and I spend Christmas with my family outside
of Boston; odd years are with his family in Florida. This year is a
Florida year, so we headed to Boston pre-Christmas to see my family
on December 2-5. During this brief visit we enjoyed temperatures that
peaked at 21 degrees, wind gusts of 30-40 mph which dropped the windchill
to well below zero, plus snow and ice. We former northerners quickly
forget all this when we are busy living without power for days on end,
standing in line outside Home Depot on a supply run, or scrambling
to get our shutters up in time. This visit clearly brought back to
mind all the reasons to live in Florida - even with our %$#@&*
Hurricane season.
Marilynn
Obrig was mentioned in the Miami Herald regarding the sale of a $16.25
million house. Please click on the link to read the article
here.
Great job Marilyn!
Dorothy Eisenberg was chosen as one of 5 finalists (out of a cast of
thousands) for Excellence in Accounting awarded by South Florida Business
Journal. Congratulations, Dorothy!
Ronnie Karlin writes: So sorry to have to share ... Lee Sheffield’s husband has passed away as a result of a heart attach he had earlier this week. Condolences to Lee and the family.
CULTURAL EVENTS
- An invitation from Claire Vickery:
5K Walk/Run, Race for Pace
We all finished! Ronnie Karlin, Melissa Rapkin, Sheri Rudolph and Emily
Rushin and along with friends, family, business associates and anyone
else we could coerce into join us met in Wilton Manors at 7:30am on Sunday
for this great event. This is the first year in ten that they’ve
done it and despite that this was a rescheduled date (thanks to Wilma)
and the weekend before the Holidays there was a pretty good turn out!
COL Leigh Coulter, our May speaker and an avid support of PACE was out
there and won a prize for first place in her age group. Great job to
all who participated!! We’ll look for the rest of you to come out
next year!
PACE would like to invite you to share an hour with them to hear their
story and meet the girls:
Tuesday Jan 10 10:00am
Wednesday Jan 18 10:00am
Tuesday Feb 8 10:00am
Wednesday Feb 15 10:00am
Located on North Andrews Avenue between Oakland Park and Sunrise
Please call Kathleen Ryan to schedule your tour 954-561-6939 x317
WEC sets the Pace Center for Girls
The PACE fundraising luncheon was a huge success! Thanks to Melissa, Dee, Roberta, Lynda, Ginny, Rene, Joyce, Dorothy, Geri, Jan, Toby, and Edie for attending and showing your support.Along with our GENEROUS contributions (WEC donated $1000, many of our members made individual commitments) $78,150 was raised in gifts and pledges. We will continue to contribute throughout the year! There will be a box at every luncheon to collect Incentive Store items, see the list below.
The PACE Mission
"PACE provides girls and young women an opportunity for a better future through education, counseling, training and advocacy."
*PACE
Center for Girls Broward is an alternative educational and counseling
program for at-risk girls ages 7– 17. For many of our girls, PACE
is the last hope to avoid a life of conflict, despair and failure and
instead embrace a life filled with achievement, dignity, serenity, and
grace.
Two Fridays a month, the girls at PACE go “shopping” at the Incentive
Store.
For currency they use points earned from completion of class work, good attendance
and participation in special projects. Most of the 80 girls at PACE earn a
trip to the store on Incentive Friday. In addition, girls with the highest
points have their names entered into a special auction. The girls love Incentive
Fridays and always know when there are new items on the shelves.
at 954-561-6939 ext. 317. Some of the girls’ favorite items are listed below:
| School Supplies Paper Crayons Journals Art Supplies Craft Supplies Pens, markers |
Uniforms Socks Sneakers Underwear Khaki shorts/ pants Gift certificates to Target, Wal-Mart, KMART Solid colored cardigans or polo shirts |
Hygiene Products Soap Deodorant Mouthwash Hair Products Shower/Bath Gel Shampoo/Conditioner Toothpaste/Toothbrush |
| The Fun Stuff | ||
| Purses Jewelry Nail Supplies Perfume & Cologne Stuffed Animals Games/Toys |
Candles Makeup Picture Frames Tapes & CDs Scrunchies/Hair Clips Books & Magazines |
Movies Sunglasses Gift Certificates to Burger King, McDonald’s, Wendy’s Disposable Cameras Watches & Alarm Clocks |
NOVEMBER LUNCHEON
Thank you for believing in girls!
Women Empowering Women(WEW)
Pat
McCarthy recently won an award at the
Broward Art Guild for Judge’s
Recognition.
The oil painting is entitled, “Froggy’s In Love” and
it is part a series of paintings with the same theme.
WEC Board of Directors
2005-2006
President Ronnie Karlin
Past President Dee Moustakas
Nominating Committee
Cannon Circles
President Elect Vivien Godfrey
Fun(d) Raising Committee
VP Finance Dorothy Eisenberg
Treasurer
VP Corporate Records Cynthia Hardy
Corporate Records
Historian
By-Laws Committee
VP Internal Involvement Nancy Fischer
Social Committee
Programs Committee
Greetings Committee
Newsletter
VP Community Involvement Melissa Rapkin
Mentorship (FX) Program
Women Empowering Women (WEW)
Community Outreach
Public Relations
VP Membership Marilynn Obrig
Membership Committee
Membership Luncheon
Directory
Webmaster
All contact information is available for WEC members on our Members Only website. If you are a member and you don't have a name and password, you can contact Chris Guld for more information.
Upcoming Events
Friday, January, 20 – Luncheon with Marsha Elser, Academy of Matrimonial LawyersWednesday, January 25 – Business Cannon Circle at American Trophy, host Geri Trodick
Saturday, January 28 – Luau on Ft. Lauderdale Beach
Wednesday, February 15 - Luncheon
Wednesday, March 15 – Luncheon with Commissioner Ilene Lieberman
Tuesday, April 18 – Luncheon with Mary Becht, Director, Broward County Cultural Division
Monday, May 15 – Luncheon
Thursday, June 15 - Luncheon
Board Meetings
Friday, January 6
Friday, February 3
Friday, March 3
Friday, April 7
Friday, May 5
Friday, June 2
The purpose of Women's Executive Club is to give executives the opportunity
of fellowship with their peers in diverse fields; to promote the image
of the woman executive; to further the interrelationships of such executives
and to promote the general welfare of their businesses and community.