Reinforcing our Friendships
Beyond our Fundraising activities and our Service activities, we get together to celebrate our mutual interests and to just plain have fun. Socialization not only helps reinforce our friendships, but facilitates our service and fundraising efforts in strengthening ties between us.
Home Dinners—Eating and Greeting
Perhaps the favorite activity is the Home Dinner which is held approximately four times a year. When there is a fifth Monday in a month, we meet at a member’s home or at a public facility to relax, socialize and just enjoy one another’s company.
Members are annually divided into Home Dinner committees. The committee develops the menu, provides the food, and decides on any special activities. Visitors, including husbands, are encouraged to attend Home Dinners.
Creating International Ties
Through Soroptimist, we are able to develop and build friendships with clubs around the world. We currently maintain Friendship Links with Soroptimist clubs in Stockport, United Kingdom, Akashi, Japan, and Makati, Philippines. In addition to exchanging letters and reports with these clubs, some of our members periodically are able to personally visit with them. And, of course, we always open our hearts and homes when they visit with us.
Celebrating special days
Whether it is Christmas, installation of new officers, our club birthday, or another holiday, we are always ready to party! We enjoy decorating for the occasion and just letting our newly coiffed hair down for awhile. If we don’t have a special event to celebrate, we will sometimes just make one up! Called Girls Night Out, we will get together for a social evening of just plain fun. Perhaps it will be a chick flick topped off with dinner at a local restaurant, or a musical at a local theatre, it is fun, it is friendship, and most of all, it is Soroptimist.
