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Cheyenne Mountain Resort

Rep: Rhonda Scurek

Cheyenne Mountain Resort is located at the southern end of Colorado Springs in the shadow of Cheyenne Mountain. Offering the consummate upscale resort experience, Cheyenne Mountain Resort is the ideal destination for conferences, social events, and meetings as well as a great weekend get away spot.

Regarded as one of corporate America's most trusted meeting partners, the Cheyenne Mountain Resort features 316 guestrooms and suites, 35 dedicated conference rooms, Corporate Learning Center with on site Ropes Course, Media Center and a full service business center to support the most demanding meetings. Superb dining, a Pete Dye designed championship golf course, fitness center and a talented attentive staff complete this unparalleled environment.

Rhonda Scurek, Senior Sales Manager for Cheyenne Mountain Resort has been a member of EWI since October of 2002. A member of the Colorado Springs hospitality community since 1991, she had the opportunity to work with EWI on various monthly meetings throughout the nineties. With a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education, Rhonda began her hospitality career at the Sheraton Colorado Springs Hotel with stops at the Antlers Doubletree and LeBaron Hotel prior to landing her current position at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort. The best thing about her job is the networking and travel.

A confirmed Trading Spaces addict, Rhonda and her family spend the weekends starting a new Do It Yourself Home Project, hiking, or coaching her two kids, Cameron and Kelsey in soccer. When she gets a few minutes of alone time Rhonda can be found reading or scrapbooking.

Have You Met These New Members?

President's Message You are Invited! Conferences and Annual Meeting by Sally Seidlitz

We are only two months away from the first Spring Conference, which will be held in San Antonio, Texas on May 15 - 17. If you have the time, going to a conference with Executive Women International is a wonderful energizer. I have been to Birmingham, Alabama and Chicago, Illinois and have met gals from all over the country. The relationships that form and the bonding that happens in so few days are simply amazing. Executive Women International is an incredibly diverse group of women and after attending a conference you feel as though you just meet several new best friends.

If you can't make it to San Antonio, Texas perhaps Charlotte, North Carolina on June 19-21 would work. Believe me, if you went to both conferences you would see some of the same women. These are wonderful opportunities to enhance your personal and professional development while visiting premier cities in the country.

The 2003 Annual Meeting will be held in Denver, Colorado on September 26 & 27. Our chapter is planning to make arrangements for as many as possible to go up to Denver. There will be more information about Denver in future issues of our newsletter.

Marti Hartman and I are scheduled to attend the San Antonio Conference. If you would like to join us, all the information is on the Corporate website, www.executivewomen.org., or you can call us and we'll talk you into having a wonderful experience.

EWI Scholarship Basket

Please help to fill the H-U-G-E basket provided by Beth Alexander, Cache Basket. We already have the following items for the "Executive Woman" basket: a weekend stay at The Broadmoor Hotel; a gift certificate from Springs Spa and Salon; sunglasses from Op-Tech Laboratory; and, a pair of 14k oval amethyst earrings from Zerbe Jewelers. A big thank you to these participating firms. When we are done, the basket will have a value of $2,000-5,000. Let's keep going! Items we are still looking for are a computer (am I dreaming?); airfare; car rental; cell phone; clothing gift certificate; passes to local venues. What do you want in this basket --- and then hope to win!!!???

This basket will be raffled off through all the chapters in EWI. The "Executive Woman" basket will be on display, and awarded to the lucky winner at the Denver EWI convention, September 24-27.

Please contact Jane Marshall, 473-4186, jane@pioneermfg.com, if you would like to donate item(s) for the basket.

Scholastic Classic Golf Tournament
September 15, 2003
Colorado Springs Country Club

Help support our scholarship fund with our ONE fund raiser for this year! Format: Shotgun start, Four person scramble, 18 holes

We need:
Players, Hole Sponsors, Beverage Sponsors, Luncheon Sponsors, Prizes in sets of 4, Goody Bags

Volunteers will be needed for registration, hole stewards, mulligan sales, etc.

Contact:
Jean Roblewsky at 272-7540, djroblewsky@msn.com
Bea Steahlin at 599-3067, steahlin@aol.com
Verna Severson at 572-2647, vernajs@woodfordmfg.com

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Please send submissions for the Chapter Pulse to:

Contact: Kathy Wallace

Phone: 548-0582

E-mail: kawallace@msn.com

Next Deadline
April 25

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Thank you.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Last Month's Meeting

"Perfecting Connecting"

The EWI March meeting was held on the top floor of Phantom Canyon Brewing Co.  Our speaker was Sarah Michel, who coached the group on Perfecting Connecting or how to really use networking contacts for the benefit of all parties concerned.  She addressed the 60 Second Drill of "So What Do You Do?" - be clear, concise, catchy, connect & communicate. One of Sarah's favorite quotes is by Zig Ziglar - "You can have anything you want in life, if you help others get what they want first." You can contact Sarah at 719-576-2045, sarah@sarahmichel.com.

The family-style meal was excellent, and there was a great turn-out of our EWI members.

Did You Know?

by Wanda Reaves

She was born in Karney, Nebraska and grew up in Neosho, Missouri and she definitely prefers Colorado Springs!

"I thought I had died and gone to heaven" she said upon setting up house in our town. By the way Neosho is not far from Joplin, Missouri She attended the University of Missouri and majored in Journalism with an emphasis on Women's Magazines. At the age of 21 she interned at the Better Homes and Gardens in Des Moines, Iowa. She loved the excitement of New York City where she wrote for the Ladies Homes Journal for a year.

She met her handsome husband Marshall at the University of Missouri and they have enjoyed thirty-seven years of marriage. "With the usual ups and downs" she said. Before moving to Colorado Springs she and Marshall lived in Portland for seven years where they had two children, Andy and Denise. She stayed at home with her children.

After arriving in the Springs in 1973, Marshall began his work in construction for G. E. Johnson. Sunny Colorado Springs was a welcome change to them all after rainy Portland, Oregon. They owned their own construction business for many years and employed from 19 to 32 employees. Her experience helping to run that business prepared her well for the position she now holds.

This is one energetic woman so staying home with her children didn't mean that she wasn't doing and learning with volunteer activities outside the home. She enjoyed learning with the Toastmistress organization.  She obtained two master's degrees. One is in Sociology and one is in Counseling from UCCS.

Her hobbies are golf, reading and gardening. Most of her traveling consists of visits to relatives, but she and Marshall did enjoy a visit to Hawaii not long ago.

She is now writing a book about how to get the most out of life which she hopes to have finished by this time next year.

She says the job she has now is perfect for her. It uses her writing skills with a weekly article in the Gazette and she feels blessed. She enjoys the community involvement and helping consumers and businesses. She has been with the business for eleven years and in 1992 she became the Director. By now I am sure you have guessed that this talented woman is an asset to this community and an asset to EWI. Her name is Carol Odell.

April
Chapter Meeting

RSVP Guests and Regrets ONLY
Jeanne Roblewsky djroblewsky@email.msn.com

RSVP by April 4th!

What: April Chapter Meeting
Date: April 9, 2003 - 5:30PM
Topic: "Ireland & Women Traveling Alone", speaker Tini Campbell (voted favorite speaker from 2002)
Where: Jack Quinn's - "Jack's Attic" 2nd floor, downtown
Cost: $32.00 (Note: This month's fee includes purchasing our new and improved magnetized name tags. Guests will pay only $25.00)

Membership Status

Member Firms - 77
Additional reps - 15
Sustaining - 6
Life - 9
Honorary - 1
Transitional - 1

Membership Postings

Firm: Re/Max Properties Inc.
Rep: Judy Arends
Classification Major: Real Estate
Classification Minor: Real Estate Agency
e-mail: jjarend@pcisys.net

Firm: Keller Homes
Rep: Marcina Strang
Classification Major: Business Service - General
Classification Minor: Construction Service
e-mail: marcis@kellerhomes.com

Firm: Management Advantage Inc.
Rep: Beth Jones
Classification Major: Real Estate
Classification Minor: Property Management
e-mail: beth@managementadvantage.com

Member firm: Gesundheit Center, LLC
Rep: Kim Roseland
Classification Major: Health Care
Classification Minor: Support Services
e-mail: kim.roseland@att.net

Announcements

Important - In order to keep our records current and to insure that you receive the newsletter and special announcements, please notify Kathleen O'Leary (228-3024, koleary@pepsilane.com) when your email address changes!

The EWI Regional Spring Conference for 2003 will be held May 15-17, 2003 in San Antonio, Texas.

Condolences

Our thoughts are with Barbara Winter, who's mother passed away last week.

Kudos

Bea Steahlin reports:

"SINTON DAIRY WAS AWARDED THE VERY PRESTIGIOUS IRVING B. WEBER AWARD FOR QUALITY EXCELLENCE. THIS AWARD WAS PRESENTED TO OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM AT THE QUALITY CHEKD SPRING MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE WHICH WAS HELD IN DENVER THE WEEK OF MARCH 17. DESPITE THE HEIGHTENED QUALITY STANDARDS AND RIGOROUS SILLIKER LABS SCORE THAT FAR EXCEEDED THAT OF THE FORMIDABLE COMPETITION.

SINTON ALSO WON FOUR OTHER AWARDS: MERIT OF EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR FLUID MILK QUALITY; ONE FOR CULTURED PRODUCTS QUALITY. THIS MEANS THAT MORE THAN 90% OF OUR PRODUCT SAMPLES SUBMITTED MET OR EXCEEDED QUALITY CHEKD'S STANDARD FOR EXCELLENCE. THE OTHER TWO AWARDS WERE FOR BEST NEW USE OF THE NEW QUALITY CHEKD TRADEMARK, AND THE BEST OF SHOW AWARD."

Minutes

Executive Women International
Colorado Springs Chapter
Record of Board of Directors Meeting
March 6, 2003

Kelly Wood, standing in for President Sally Seidlitz, called the meeting to order at 5:00p.m.

In attendance were Kelly Wood, Joan Saucerman, Beth Alexander, Lorrie Todd, Kathy Wallace, Jean Roblewsky, Verna Severson, Bea Steahlin, Kathleen O'Leary, Kay Atwood, Ana Golden, Vanessa Moorman and Linda Williamson.

A motion was made to proceed with the purchase of new nametags for members at a cost of $7.00 each.  Members to be informed at the April meeting

Meeting was adjourned at 6:00pm.  The next Board meeting will be Thursday, April 3rd at 4:30 pm at Accent Digital Imaging.

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Corporate Office Contact Information

515 South 700 East, Suite 2A

Salt Lake City, UT 84102-2801

Phone (801) 355-2800

Fax (801) 355-2852

Website:www.executivewomen.org

Email:ewi@executivewomen.org

P R I N C I P L E S

• To bring together key individuals from member firms of EWI to achieve world-class status as an organization through applied standards of excellence.

• Forge and cultivate mutual business and professional goals through personal association and interchange.

• Afford the opportunities and structure for leadership and professional development.

• Provide a wide scope of community, educational, and philanthropic services and contributions.

• Encourage flexibility and adaptability in a membership as diverse in its demographics as in its interest, needs, and staying power