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ALTRUSA INTERNATIONAL, INC.

of Hot Springs Village, Arkansas

http://www.HSV-Altrusa.org

Summer 2007 Santa Display Window

In the “Dog Days of Summer” at Good Samaritan

For the fourth year in a row, members of the HSV Altrusa Club brought their own Santa collections to display at Good Samaritan for the month of August. Old and new, traditional and folk art, Santas from around the world bring cheer to the residents of Good Samaritan in the “Dog Days of Summer.”

Residents and visitors will enjoy a touch of Christmas in August, while outside the “Dog Days of Summer” persist.

Photo by Gail Held

Photos by Linda Logan

Article by Anne Holt

Altrusans participating at the Hot Springs Music Festival were, L/R: Martha-Patton Rogers, Jane Henderson, Anne Holt, Ouida Wolfe, Jan Farnsworth, Linda Logan, Carol Heckert and Mary Kay Latick. Also helping (not shown) were Altrusans Phyllis Fisher and Joan Hoover and Joan's daughter, Darcy, who was visiting.

Projects & Events

Our Altrusa Club joined together again this year to assist at the final concert of the annual Hot Springs Music Festival on Saturday, June 16. Our jobs included selling and taking tickets, ushering, and selling Festival memorabilia. This is the third year we have had the pleasure and honor of being involved with the culmination of this most worthy young people's music program.

After finishing ourr duties, the reward was to be able to hear the marvelous concert these talented and dedicated young men and women performed at the end of their festival. We are looking forward to volunteering again next year, believing we receive much more than we give.

The Hot Springs Music Festival brings together over 250 international musicians and presents 23 concerts and over 250 open rehearsals for music lovers from across the globe.

Besides providing world-class musical entertainment, including jazz, popular, musicals and classical, the Music Festival provides an unbelievable educational opportunity to talented “pre-professional” musicians.

L/R: Valerie Derryberry, Gail Held, Ouida Wolfe, Velma Coolidge, Marie Williams, Carol Heckert and Anne Holt

2007 Hot Springs Music Festival

Each year the Committee for the Village Walk for Cancer Research chooses a person(s) from Hot Springs Village to honor for their valiant effort in the fight against cancer. This year, two of their three “IN HONOR” of “Persons of the Year” are ALTRUSANS — Our own Jan Farnsworth and Ginna Watson! They are pictured (left) in their “Blue Survivor T-shirts.” We are so very proud of them and other dear members of our Club who continue this fight.

All of the money raised by this Walk went directly to the Arkansas Cancer Research Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. This year it went into a fund to be matched dollar for dollar by the State Bond Fund for UAMS to be used for the ACRC expansion project.

Altrusa Cancer Survivors and Supporters

Participate in HSV Walk for Cancer, September 9, 2007

And then we tear the tickets in half? Uh, could you run that by us again?

L/R: Front row standing, Mary Kay Latick, “Survivors in Blue” Jan Farnsworth and Ginna Watson, and Valerie Derryberry; L/R back row, Joan Hoover, Gail Held, Marie Williams and Irene Keith; not pictured, but participating were Carol Heckert and Phyllis Fisher.

Photo by Charles Derryberry

Ferncliff Disaster Kit Assembly

9/14/07

Club members, left to right: Karren Pamperin, Joan Hoover, Ellie Maciejewski, Club President Anne Holt, Carolyn Starr and Service Committee Chair Velma Coolidge

(Two Altrusa husbands helped!)

11/15/07

Linda and Bob Wessel, Anne and Ed Holt, Carolyn Starr and David Pease, and Linda and Bob Logan packed 15--70 lb. boxes of the Health Kits to be ready for the next disaster.

9/14/07

and 11/15/07

Friday, September 14, six Altrusans and two spouses made the trip to the Ferncliff Disaster Assistance Center, near Little Rock, to donate their time in assembling Gift-of-the-Heart disaster kits. Another group returned on November 15, to prepare more kits. This will be an on-going project, as The Hot Springs Village, Arkansas Altrusa Club will be called upon when we are needed.

Supported by Presbyterian Women and Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA), Ferncliff built a 10,000 sq ft Disaster Assistance Center (DAC) capable of receiving and processing significant quantities of disaster supplies. The DAC uses volunteers (such as our Altrusa Club) to receive, weigh, check, repackage and prepare kits for shipment. It also has space where kits can be assembled from scratch, so that these kits are ready to be sent any time to anywhere they are needed.

This is a worthy project, requiring only our labor to contribute — providing assistance to those in need with true Altrusan efficiency.

Photos by Ed Holt