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Chartered 1958

President’s Message

July 2021

Greetings, EWI of San Antonio:

I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the more mild than usual temperatures here in Texas. I find it hard to believe that 2021 is more than halfway gone. Where does the time go?

July is our annual “Non-Meeting” month and this will take place this Thursday, the 15th. We hope you plan to do something else that brings you happiness on our meeting night. Please consider paying the meeting fee even though we are not meeting in person. The fees collected go toward LCAM scholarships we award to two representatives each year. Speaking of LCAM scholarships, congratulations to Patty Moreno, representing Joeris General Contractors and Amanda Avendano, representing Enterprise Holdings. Amanda and Patty will both be attending LCAM in September. We are proud they will be representing EWI of San Antonio, along with several other representatives of our Chapter.

We were so thrilled to see so many in attendance at the Petroleum Club in June. That night felt like “old times” and it was wonderful to feel so normal. We were pleased to honor Joyce Carothers, sustaining member, with a Lifetime Membership status. Joyce joined EWI of San Antonio in 1981 and served as Chapter President in 1986. On a personal level, I learned so much from Joyce about the foundation of EWI and I will be grateful for the knowledge she shared with me for the rest of my life.

Please continue to keep our sister Patty Russett, representing San Antonio Area Foundation, in your thoughts and prayers as she continues to heal from chemo treatments and prepares for surgery. We are looking forward to Patty returning to us stronger and healthier than ever after she completes this journey.

The relationships we build in EWI are so special. We are fortunate to have one another. Our Chapter is gaining momentum and getting stronger. This all happens because of you and your commitment to the pillars of EWI.

With love and gratitude,

Lori Reed

2020/2021 Chapter President EWI of San Antonio Quadrangle Press, Inc.

*A Subsidiary of Lebco Graphics, Inc.

EWI of San Antonio, 31400 IH 10 West, Boerne, TX 78006 ewisanantonio.org or ewiconnect.com

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MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to bring together key individuals from diverse businesses for the purpose of:

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Promoting member firms

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Enhancing personal and professional development

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Encouraging community involvement

VISION

To enhance professional growth & development within a diverse group of women while empowering them to make a difference

as they inspire others.

VALUES

Integrity | Excellence | Respect | Collaboration

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Happy Birthday

Ernst & Young LLP – 63 years

Omni La Mansion del Rio / Mokara Hotel & Spa—23 years Texas A&M University San Antonio—8 years

Lynn Smasal—Sustaining Member—August 2

Norma Del Toro—Pape-Dawson Engineers, Inc.—August 9

Marisa Castillo—Omni La Mansion del Rio / Mokara Hotel & Spa Aug 15 Lizbeth Gavora—Arcamoda LLC—August 24

Coree Fall—Ernst & Young LLP—August 25

Happy Anniversary

August

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Membership Meeting on June 17, 2021 @ The Petroleum Club

Membership Meeting:

The Re red & Soon To Be Re red Club

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Membership Meeting on June 17, 2021 @ The Petroleum Club

Membership Meeting:

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Membership Meeting on June 17, 2021 @ The Petroleum Club Being honored as a Life Member

Joyce Carothers Membership Meeting:

Lori Reed, Chapter President 2021—presen ng flowers on behalf of San Antonio Chapter to Joyce Carothers

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Special Note to Membership:

EWISP 2021 Winner:

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- $2000 Lianna Villarreal

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CHAPTER Recipes:

Cornbread

1 egg

½ cup sugar

½ cup shortening 1 cup buttermilk 2/3 cup flour

1 tsp. baking soda

½ tsp. baking powder 1 ¼ cup yellow cornmeal

Blend together egg, sugar, shortening, buttermilk, flour, baking soda, baking powder and cornmeal. Do not over mix. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Compliments of Linda Buck

Mexican Casserole

1 lb. hamburger meat, browned 1 can Ro-Tel tomatoes

1 can Ranch-Style beans

1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 can evaporated milk

Doritos or corn tortillas

Mix browned meat, tomatoes, beans, soup and milk. In a 9 x 13-inch pan, Layer Doritos or corn tortillas and ½ of meat mixture. Repeat layers.

Sprinkle grated cheese over the top and bake at 350 degrees until bubbly

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Member Firm News:

Email: [email protected] Page 9 Celebra ng Health Independence

Can you believe we’re in the middle of the summer? We’ve already had a month of pool days, vaca on plans, and lazy, later evenings. Before you know it, the school year and cooler weather will be back upon us. And that’s the truth with most of life. It rushes past us. Ask anyone who is over 40 years old and they will tell you, the older you get the shorter the years become. Yet while me slips away from us, it’s important to not let our health slip away with it.

There’s no doubt life operates at a much faster pace than ever before. Perhaps much of that is technology driven. But we speed through the days going from one ac vity or event to the next. Days rush into weeks and weeks turn into months. Before we know it, years have gone by. And while we’ve been rushing around just “ge ng by”, it’s easy to let our self care slip. Our inten ons are good. We’ll start that exercise rou ne tomorrow or begin ea ng healthier next week. But soon enough, tomorrow becomes yesterday. Plus, think about this for a moment. Do we even have true “health care” in our country? It’s much more sick care oriented and oﬀers treatment a er the fact, a er we’ve eaten poorly for years or skipped the exercise because there wasn’t me. Self care is the true health care because it focuses on preventa ve measures we take to reach our senior years with the best possible quality of life.

So what’s self care? It centers around 4 core areas of good preventa ve health prac ces. Those areas include sleep, hydra on, physical ac vity, and good nutri on. If you’re already thinking you don’t have

me to devote to these things or you simply can’t get a good night’s sleep because there’s too much to do, I’m going to cau on you. Find a way now. Otherwise it’s more likely you’ll be looking at heath dependence versus independence in older age.

We all know a good night’s rest is considered 7‐9 hours of sleep nightly. But what we know and what we do are more o en two diﬀerent things. Yet understanding why it’s so important can be a mo va ng factor. Here are just a few of the many benefits to proper rest. It keeps your heart healthy.

It may reduce the risk of cancer by regula ng your melatonin levels. It reduces your stress and inflamma on, improves your memory, and reduces your risk of depression. Not to men on, our bodies repair and heal when we are at rest. So in essence, adequate sleep is an ‐aging.

Hydra on is easy to overlook. The rule of thumb to remember is to drink half your body weight in ounces of water daily. Drinking caﬀeinated beverages increases the daily amount needed. The eﬀects of dehydra on definitely contribute to numerous poor health issues. Think of a raisin. It’s basically a dehydrated grape, right? No one wants to look like a raisin in old age. Hydra ng will keep you looking and feeling younger.

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Member Firm News:

In terms of physical ac vity, we’ve all heard the phrase move it or lose it. But it’s true. If we don’t keep moving our body, our body will quit moving for us. Good physical fitness habits combine cardiovascular and strength training. Recommenda ons include 75 minutes of vigorous physical ac vity weekly and strength training ac vity at least 2 days each week. Consider the fact that there are 80 year olds in wheel chairs and 80 year olds running marathons. Of course, other extenua ng factors can contribute to health challenges in life. But in general, the more you move, the more likely you will be experiencing health independence and running across the finish line of life.

Finally, let’s talk nutri on. This is tough! I won’t lie. There are some really temp ng bad foods you can eat. It’s hard when we are surrounded by over‐processed, undernourished food choices. A couple simple phrases helped me to clean up my ea ng habits years ago. The first is, “you can’t outrun your fork”. This was eye‐opening for me. As a runner, I always thought if you exercised enough, you got a free pass to eat whatever you wanted. But food is fuel for our bodies. Every fruit & vegetable, for instance, performs a specific func on. So deple ng your body of proper nutri on is like pu ng sand in the gas tank of a high performance vehicle. You’re going to ruin it.

The other phrase that made an impact is “everything you eat is either building your body up, or break‐

ing it down”. There are no neutral foods. I promise, it becomes easier to make healthier choices when you literally look at food diﬀerently. Plus, you can actually help your body crave healthier foods. That’s what Juice Plus+ did for our family. When we started over 14 years ago, my younger daughter ate corn and grapes. Those were her only fruit & vegetable intake. Today, she is a vegetarian. The point is, you can develop a taste for healthy foods. I’m happy to share informa on with anyone who wants to take preventa ve measures for their health. You can contact me at [email protected]. The bo om line is, when you prac ce good self care, you’ll feel so much be er for years to come. As a result, health independence will be something you can celebrate!

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BOOK CLUB:

The Number One New York Times Best Seller!

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Newsweek ∙ Oprah Magazine ∙ The Skimm ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Parade ∙ The Wall Street Journal ∙ Chicago Tribune

∙ PopSugar ∙ BookPage ∙ BookBub ∙ Betches ∙ SheReads ∙ Good Housekeeping ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ Business Insider ∙ Real Simple ∙ Frolic ∙ and more!

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.

From the New York Times best-selling author of Beach Read comes a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart - she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown - but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glori- ous week of vacation together.

Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since.

Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together - lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.

Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

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CORPORATE NEWS:

SAVE THE DATES for LCAM 2021 Albuquerque, New Mexico

Join us as we REACH, RENEW, and REIMAGINE what the future can bring for both EWI and our own lives!

Here is some of the information and dates you will want to remember:

WHERE:

Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown 2700 Louisiana Blvd NE

Albuquerque, NM 87110

WHEN:

September 16-18, 2021

We will have more details coming soon, but you will want to plan to arrive in Albuquerque by Wednesday evening, September 15, and depart on Sunday, September 19. One tidbit that we are sharing is that we are bringing back the Saturday evening grand celebration!! You definitely won’t want to miss it!

LCAM Registration opens March 1, 2021

$650 Early Bird Registration (March 1, 2021 – June 30, 2021)

$750 Regular Registration (July 1, 2021 – September 16, 2021)

We have a new Chapter Incentive for Leadership Caucus!

Leadership Caucus will be open to any member who would like to pay the $200 fee for Early Bird Registration or $250 for registrations after July 1, 2021.

To encourage Chapters to have their members register early, we are offering the following incentive for Chapters who register during the EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DATES:

$200 each for 1 member

$150 each for 2 members

$125 each for 3 or more members

Registration for Chapter Incentives must go through Corporate office. Additional details will be provided before the March 1^st registration date.

The LCAM Committee is already working hard to ensure that LCAM 2021 is a huge success! We will be com- municating all the fun things that will be happening as quickly as possible once they are finalized. We want each of you to be as excited as we are each step of the way. So please, SAVE THE DATES on your calendars now. Join us as we REACH, RENEW and REIMAGINE what the future can bring!

If you have questions, comments or concerns, please feel free to contact me via email or one of the numbers be- low.

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CORPORATE NEWS:

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GENERAL MEMBERSHIP

MEETING

BOARD MEETING GENERAL

MEMBERSHIP MTG LOCATION

GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MTG

TOPICS

OTHER EVENTS

Thursday,

October 22, 2020 Tuesday,

November 3. 2020 MacArthur Park

Pavilion #1 @ 5:30pm Committee Night

Thursday,

November 19, 2020 Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Old San Francisco Steakhouse—Gold Room @ 5:30pm

Clifton StrengthsFinder w/

Gallup—Zachry Corp.

Thursday,

December 17, 2020 Tuesday,

January 2021 Maggiano’s at the Rim

@ 7pm Holiday Social & Game

Thursday,

January 14, 2021 Tuesday,

January 30, 2021 Tulsa Chapter Zoom Leadership and Work Life Balance

Thursday,

February 2021 Tuesday,

February 23, 2021 No-meeting

Thursday,

March 18, 2021 Tuesday,

March 2, 2021 Zoom Meeting Speaker Dr. Monica Mills Thursday,

April 15, 2021 Tuesday,

April 27, 2021 Zoom Meeting Presenter Rebecca Le Vine Thursday,

May 20, 2021 Tuesday,

May 25 2021 Norris Event Center EWISP & ASIST Scholarship Banquet Thursday,

June 17, 2021 Tuesday,

June 22, 2021 Petroleum Club Membership Meeting/Social

July 2021 Tuesday,

July 20, 2021 Non-meeting Non-meeting

Thursday,

August 19, 2021 Tuesday,

August 24, 2021 Maggiano’s Little

Italy Membership Meeting

September LCAM Albuquerque, NM

2020 - 2021 Membership Meeting Dates, Board Meeting

Dates, Location, Topics & Other Events

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2020 - 2021 Officers and Directors

President Lori Reed

Quadrangle Press, Inc.

210‐828‐8191 [email protected]

Membership Director Kelley Butler

The Frame Gallery 210‐430‐7952

[email protected]

Vice President/President Elect Cheri Wiese

The University of Texas at San Antonio 210‐458‐5127

[email protected]

Program Director PaƩy RusseƩ

San Antonio Area Founda on 210‐772‐4432

PRusse @saafdn.org

Secretary

Frances Dominguez Holt Cat

210‐765‐8834

[email protected]

Publica ons Director PaƩy Moreno

Joeris General Contractors 210‐477‐1926

[email protected]

Treasurer Paƫ Berger CPS Energy 210‐353‐8922

[email protected]

Fundraising Director Le y George

Circle K 210‐692‐2190

Le [email protected]

Sergeant‐At‐Arms Kelsey Hankins

Porter Loring Mortuaries 210‐227‐8221

[email protected]

Director‐at‐Large Coree Fall

Ernst & Young, LLP 210‐242‐7165 [email protected]

2020-2021 Chapter Advisors

Advisor

ChrisƟna Casiano Bill Miller Bar‐B‐Q 210‐225‐4461 ccasiano@

billmillerbbq.com

Advisor Vicki Chapman SWBC

210‐321‐7535

[email protected]

Parliamentarian Debbie Saldaña H‐E‐B

210‐938‐8382 Saldana.debra@

heb.com

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2020 - 2021 Committee Chairs

ASIST & EWISP Alicia Clark

Enterprise Holdings, Inc.

210‐882‐1421

[email protected]

Membership Director Kelley Butler

The Frame Gallery 210‐430‐7952

[email protected]

Hospitality & Roster Brenda MarƟnez CPS Energy 210‐353‐2465

bmar [email protected]

Roster

Brenda MarƟnez CPS Energy 210‐353‐2465

bmar [email protected]

Membership Reten on Vicki Chapman

SWBC

210‐321‐7535

[email protected]

Courtesy & Communica ons Coree Fall

Ernst & Young, LLP 210‐242‐7165 [email protected]

Philanthropy Donna Dimond Zachry Corpora on 210‐871‐3214

[email protected]

Nomina ng ChrisƟna Casiano Bill Miller Bar‐B‐Q 210‐225‐4461

[email protected]

Strategic Planning/Investment ChrisƟna Casiano

Bill Miller Bar‐B‐Q 210‐225‐4461

[email protected]

Social Media & Historian Lorie Lopez

Merrill Lynch Wealth Management 210‐805‐2831

[email protected]

Chaplain Bobbye ScoƩ Holt Cat 210‐824‐4900

bobbysco @yahoo.com

Bylaws/Standing Rules Kelsey Hankins

Porter Loring Mortuaries 210‐227‐8221

[email protected]