PAK Omega Chapter Snapshots: October 2015

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

A Halloween Omega Chapter Meeting

Our meeting was held on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 6:00 p.m., at the Vicksburg Senior Center. All the tables were adorned with cute Halloween hats. Our guest speakers talked about The 'Sip Magazine and our Philanthropic was Family Development.

A cute little witch!

The food and drinks were so good! Thanks to hostesses, Katie Hossley, Chris Patin, Ginger Berney and Lucy Spanger.

Mummy bites!

A delicious fruit salad.

Pumpkin dip with graham crackers! Yum!

Chocolate cakes with pineapple on top!

Delicious mini-sandwiches and you just can't eat one!

Pumpkin cheese ball and crackers!

Conducting our sorority meeting with Alice reading the Treasurer's Report to the far right.

The 'Sip Magazine

Lauchlin Fields ~ Publisher & Editor

1915 Mission 66, Suite E, Vicksburg, MS 39180

501.573.9975 - editor@thesipmag.com - thesipmag.com

President, Ginger Berney introducing Erin Norwood (left) and Lauchlin Fields (right) to talk about their new magazine, The 'Sip!

Lauchlin Fields, Publisher/Editor

Erin Norwood, Design Director

A table full of Secret Sister gifts!

Opening up our Secret Sister gifts! I got a $25.00 gift card to Cracker Barrel and also a miniature jeweled salt/pepper shaker set.

My sister, Laura Love Ables got a really nice Secret Sister gift of a metal pumpkin.

Joan Donovan and Laura Love Ables enjoying fellowship.

Lucy Spangler showing off her secret sister gift.

What a cute Halloween towel. Lucy loves it!

Lucy also got an awesome Halloween wreath from her Secret Sister!

After opening up our gifts everyone enjoying some social time together.

Lucy showing off her favorite witches hat!

Monday, October 5, 2015

October PAK Omega Chapter Meeting

Date & Time: Wednesday, October 7th at 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Place: Senior Center

Speakers: Lauchlin Fields & Erin Norwood - The Sip Magazine

Hostesses: Katie Hossley, Chris Patin, Lucy Spangler and Ginger Berney

Philanthropic: Family Development:
Mom/Baby Programs: diapers (any size), wipes, bottles, bottle brushes, newborn onesies, educational toys, rattles, sippy cups
After School Program: school supplies
Reward Closet: laundry soap, bleach, dish-washing detergent, toilet paper, paper towels, soaps

Sorority Sister's Brother Dies

John William Loviza

Nashville, Tennessee ~ John William Loviza age 84, passed away unexpectedly September 27, 2015. He was born June 1, 1931, to John Joseph and Mabel Harris Loviza in Vicksburg.

His initial employment was with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg, which sent him on projects throughout North Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Greenland.

He joined Hercules Powder Co. in 1958 as a demonstration blaster. John advanced through successive assignments in Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, New York, West Virginia and Delaware. He was employed in the explosives industry up until the time of his death, spending the past three decades with Hermitage Explosives Corp. of Nashville.

Mr. Loviza was a member of the International Society of Explosives Engineers and The Moles. He was a communicant of Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Donelson, Tennessee, for many years. Besides his parents, he is preceded in death by his wife of 55 years, Emily Pierce Loviza, and two sisters. He is survived by his sons, Bill (Ann Crecelius) Loviza of Joelton, Tennessee, Tom (Carol) Loviza of Midlothian, Virginia, Mike (Mary) Loviza of Bear, Delaware, and a daughter, Alise Loviza of Madison, Tennessee; sisters, Blanche (tom) Irby of Madison, Alabama, and Myrtle (Bobby) Alvarado of Vicksburg; and a brother, Joe Loviza of Vicksburg; six grandchildren; and special friend Katherine Bryan of Nashville. Visitation was Thursday from 3 to 8 p.m. at Phillips-Robinson Funeral Home, 2707 Gallatin Road in Nashville, and Friday one hour before the service at the funeral home.

Services were held at 10 a.m. Friday, October 2, 2015, at the funeral home chapel with the Rev. Robert Spickard and Father Phillip Halladay officiating. Internment followed at Spring Hill Cemetery.

Pallbearers were grandsons and family friends. Honorary Pallbearers were the employees of Hermitage Explosives Corp.

Greetings

Our Greek Letter Sorority is the foundation for furthering our education, perfecting our personalities, raising our standards of character and living, through the medium of association with girls of mutual interest and desires.

The Rituals of Pi Alpha Kappa divulge the true meaning of the objectives and ideals of Pi Alpha Kappa.

The Membership of Pi Alpha Kappa comprises a group of girls with mutual aspirations and interests, and offers a basis for friendship that may be unequaled in any other walk of life.

It is here you will be privileged to exchange views with girls of your own standard of living and be rewarded by their opinions.

What you derive from your affiliation with Pi Alpha Kappa will depend upon your reciprocity and your earnest desire to attain highter standards through the medium of this Sorority.

COLLECT

"Our Father, we thank Thee for Thy bounty of blessings, not the least of which is the privilege of coming together here. We ask Thee the blessings of Wisdom, Thy most precious gift, to walk with us through our meetings and through all the days of our lives, to be with us when decisions are made, wishes and desires spoken, and above all Dear Lord, in making our choice of friends and companions. Thy strength sustains us in distress. Thy constancy is the staff upon which we lean in illness, and the knowledge that Thou are with us always gives us the courage to meet reverses and adversaries with uplifted faces and cheer in our hearts. May we have the grace to accept defeat smiling and success with humility and always be aware that except for Thy generosity there would be neither."

~Josephine Willis~