Trojan Candy was definitely looking forward to meeting and hearing fellow USC alumnus Elex Michaelson who was the keynote speaker at the February Town and Gown Scholarship Luncheon.
As requested, Trojan Candy walked to the front center table to take a picture of Carol Fox, Katharine Harrington, Peter Weil and Carol Greenhalgh.
Then I took a picture of the guest speaker Elex Michaelson. He posed with TGLA member D'Arcy McLeod, who had invited him to be the speaker, and fellow Trojan and KABC reporter Alysha Del Valle.
D'Arcy McLeod, Virginia Naeve, Linda Givvin, and Carol Fox watched as TGLA President Nikki Dana presented a check to Town and Gown President Pat Whitman to renew our partnership in Day of SCervice. TGLA is proud to be a sponsor of this worthy event. Thank you to Town and Gown member Kathy Shirley for this picture.
We welcome volunteers who wish to participate in this Day of SCervice project to be held at the Town and Gown building on March 11 from 11 am to 2 pm. We will be making jewelry for women with serious illnesses. You can register to volunteer at www.eventbrite.com/e/uscaa-alumni-day-of-scervice-tickets-31790849286 (Click/tap the link).
Trojan Candy arrived at the TGLA general meeting at USC's Davidson Center twenty minutes before the meeting time. As usual, the room was buzzing with conversation. I always like to take pictures of any guests whom a TGLA member invited.
I managed to take this picture of more guests. Sandy Johnston invited three guests to our meeting today. She posed with two of her guests, Suzanne Stillman and Marcia Montez.
Right after our meeting started, there was a "Secret Surprise" in the agenda. Recording Secretary Mary Indenbaum and Parliamentarian Carol Thueson said that TGLA is going to honor one of our founders who recently moved out of the Los Angeles area and who may not be able to attend every special event, meeting and board meeting as she has done for years. Mary and Carol told our members that our honoree, Janet Eddy, founded the TGLA in 1960. Janet graduated from USC in 1953 and earned two more USC degrees in 1978 and 1991. Janet then took the podium and told us that the first TGLA members represented a broad range of wonderful women. Trojan Candy wants to add that Janet was one and still is one of those "wonderful women." FIGHT ON, Janet!
After our business meeting finished, Vice President of Programs Mary Hall introduced our guest speaker Dr. Sharon Wood. Sharon earned her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D from USC. She works as a Clinical Psychologist in Behavioral Medicine. Her presentation was about how coffee became to be grown in Hawaii and about the coffee plantation she and her family have built in Hawaii. The name of Sharon's product is Arianna Farms. Here is a picture of various Arianna Farms coffee packages that Sharon displayed on a table. Sharon told us that coffee came to America in the late 1600's. The Arabian Empire cornered the market at that time. In 1825 Sharon said that coffee seedlings came to Hawaii.
The next four slides display the chronology of the coffee growth in Hawaii.
My husband Jim and I braved the rain to attend the Half Century Trojans Afternoon at the Symphony which featured the USC Thornton Symphony at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. My sister Patti Poon, who is a member of the Half Century Trojans, also came with her husband Dudley. Before the concert, we had lunch at the adjacent Kendall's Brasserie. The food, especially the desserts, was scrumptious.
Quite an enjoyable afternoon.