District Governor Message
Dear Brothers and Sisters of Delta District #16
Wishing a very Happy New Year to everyone. Let us all focus this year to get our membership dues paid and submitted to Headquarters and District by March 31 of this year. Look around in your communities and seek our potential new members. Ask non-members to join and be a part of the AHEPA Family by inviting them to membership and providing an application. Let’s make 2025 a year of growing our membership and getting all membership dues submitted early in the year.
My travel schedule is continuing as my plans include a visit to San Antonio to visit with the Brother of both San Antonio and Austin. It is exciting to announce that the Austin chapter has reactivated.
Our SKEPSOU Newsletter is emailed out twice each month, and if you are not receiving the email newsletter, please send your name, city and email address to the SKEPSOU Editor Christian Chicles (email Christian@eastcoastdm.com) to be added to the regular email list. In addition, send photographs and articles about your chapter events and activities to Christian to be included in the Newsletter.
Make your plans to SAVE THE DATE for our Delta District #16 Convention joint with District #17 on June 27 – 29, 2025 in beautiful Albuquerque, New Mexico. Make hotel reservations at the Embassy Suites by Hilton with this link:
https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/ahepa-district-conference/
The room rates include breakfast each day and are 2 Room Suites with a King Bed or with 2 Queen Beds for $159.00 per night available from June 26 – June 29.
I hope to see all of you at this exciting Convention in Albuquerque in June. It will be a fun filled time for everyone and a great opportunity to meet the wonderful AHEPA and Daughters members of District #17. Start making plans and reservations now.
Thank you all for the support and the work you continually do for our wonderful AHEPA Family. Please reach out to me at my contact information below, should you have any questions or comments.
Fraternally,
Lance Wm von Uhde III
AHEPA District Governor
Delta District #16
(504) 621-6692
lwuhdeiii@gmail.com
Welcome to 2024!
It is an honor to be elected as your District Governor for a second term. Thanks to you, WE have made our presence known throughout the Daughters of Penelope that WE are alive and well in District #16. I was blessed to have a wonderful group of women serving on the District Lodge – Lt. Governor Dori Smallwood, Treasurer Cathy Paraschos, and Advisor Elizabeth Horiates. I expect this year to be even better with the addition of Jeannette Papadopoulos as District Secretary.
The Daughters of Penelope Delta District #16 Lodge had a busy year as we were asked by the Grand Lodge to host the Western Conference. As things turned out, Delta District #16 would be the site for sisters from Districts 17, 20, 21, and 22 to join us for a day of sisterhood. What an honor and yet what a task to take on. The Sisters of Delta District #16 enthusiastically responded to my call for help. We came together and poured out our Texas Hospitality. It was a memorable event with those coming from out of state leaving with a bit of Texas in their hearts.
Three months later, the AHEPA and Daughters District Lodges hosted the District Convention held in The Woodlands, Texas. I am pleased to say that the Daughters District Lodge played an integral part in the decision-making for this event. Thanks to this collaboration, the result was an impressive event as recounted by all those that attended. I hope this relationship continues this year as new opportunities arise for us to work together for the betterment of our respective organizations.
In theta pi.
Paulette Pastor
District Governor
Delta District #16
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