Zonta Club of the Pikes Peak Area June 2004 Newsletter Volume IV, Issue 6

PEAK VIEW! from Teri Hermans

Your new Board met on May 22 - what a great ZONTA Team! We have so many extraordinary ideas AND we can only accomplish our goals and plans with your help!

We look forward to moving the Zonta Club of Pikes Peak area to an exciting, forward thinking 2004-05 Year, and we need the help of each member to make that happen! Your talents, creativity, and professional skills are needed on a committee!

We will be calling you to sign up and if you do not hear from us by the June meeting, you may call one of the board members or you may sign up there!

We can accomplish ANYTHING we set out to do because this group has incredible skill, talent and professionalism! The following will not necessarily happen in the next year....but lets think BIG....WHAT IF THE ZONTA CLUB OF PIKES PEAK AREA ...

• Increased its membership to 50 or 100 people?
• Raised $25,000 or $50,000 to fund international and local projects?

Meeting TIME Changes: Please note...Regular Meetings will continue at the Police Station but will begin at

• 5:30 pm for social and food
• 6-6:45pm-Speaker
• 6:45-7:45-Meeting
• Agendas for the meetings will be sent out approximately 1 week prior to the meeting

See you June 21...the agendas will be sent to you in early June!
Teri

Visit the 57th Zonta International Convention web site!
They have information about New York and the Convention hotel.

June Birthdays 7 - Karen Pauley 8 - Rosalie Dorland 10 - Betty Hudson 12 - Kate Brewster 16 - Susie Nulty 17 - Ava Heinrichsdorff 20 - Sharon Roggy

Member Profile - Bobbi Hamilton

I began life as a robust 11 lb 9 oz baby girl, was yellow as a gourd with long, thick black hair. Have you ever heard a mother say "I don't think this is my baby"? But I was born at home, so she couldn't deny that I was hers.

I married in September following my graduation from high school and had my first of four sons exactly one year later. Other than that I have always been what I like to think of as "a late bloomer".

My husband was a farmer. We farmed 1100 irrigated acres and raised wheat, corn and milo. I was my husbands main truck driver and had a beautiful, big, white tandem truck to drive. I helped with the irrigation and sometimes drove a tractor. When my husband bought an airplane, I was scared to death. I have always had a fear of heights that I just couldn't conquer. So, white knuckles and all I learned to fly that plane and was soon taking my boys and flying around the countryside.

During this time I had a burning desire to learn about investing and the stock market. So I went to the library and checked out a couple of dozen books and over a couple of years, I taught myself enough and had saved up enough money that I began investing in the stock market. To my complete amazement I was pretty good. I soon joined one investment club and helped the ladies at the bank start another investment club. That was a good experience because when I moved to Colorado and wanted to join an investment club, nobody would let me in. I was forced to start my own investment club and soon started a second one. So now I currently belong to two.

Once I discovered I was reasonably intelligent there was no longer any limits on my desire to do everything. I started working as a bookkeeper for a grain elevator when my youngest son was in the fourth grade (Dr. Spock said it was okay). I worked there for ten years and was the manager when I quit. I took a five year hiatus at my husband's request but I hated retirement. During my five year retirement I agreed to take over as president of the Women's Council at my church to try to revive it from its moribund state. And revive it I did. It was a group to be reckoned with when I resigned five years later to start attending college. I still didn't realize I was smart then and so with fear and trepidation I started college as a business major. I graduated Magna Cum Laude. Probably the most gratifying milestone in my life, even above getting my pilot's license.

The summer after I started college I got my real estate license. I liked to say, "I'm a full time student, full time Realtor and an occasional wife". Two years later I opened my own real estate office and one year after that I went to Denver, took the securities test and got my securities license. I hung out my shingle as a Financial Planner also. I always hoped and planned to get the CFP designation but unfortunately life interfered and I never achieved that goal. I was making plans to get my certificate as a travel agent and open a travel agency in my office. I always wanted to do everything. But once again life intervened and I ended up closing my office and moving to Colorado.

Once in Colorado I spent a year and a half helping my husband get the Mountain Man business going. We bought four territories and used those four territories to bring my sons and their families to Colorado.

After our Mountain Man business was going and my sons had all moved to Colorado I started my real estate business in Colorado. It was rough for awhile but I worked hard and have done okay. I started working at RE/MAX All Stars in 1994 and was making good progress when I broke my leg, (compound fracture, all alone, up in the mountains, bleeding, crawling through the snow) and then two years later I broke the other leg. Not quite as dramatic as the first. The doctors said "What is wrong with this woman? Is she a natural born klutz or what"? I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. That was a day to remember.

I now have a Team. Jennifer Lane and Rachelle Staker are two brand new agents that I have trained and now work with me. I moved from Woodland Park to Colorado Springs to be closer to the office These are some of the concessions I've had to make to Mr. Parkinson.

My latest venture is to start a BNI group and to be it's first president. We are the Powers Partners and we are the fastest growing, sharpest and the best. I have also started a new business as a Prepaid Legal associate and have achieved the rank of director.

So what's next? I don't know, but I think I'm up to it.

KUDOS to Kate Brewster and Teri Hermans for their wonderful work on the 20th Annual Fashion Show and Luncheon - A Great Success!

Here you have the opportunity to thank and/or praise your fellow Zontians for something above and beyond. Send all contributions to the newsletter editor - nulty@csdco.com.

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Dates to Remember . . .

Refreshment Schedule for Upcoming Meetings MONTH FOOD DRINK June '04 Earlene Herman & Renee Troppe Liz Groothof-Croddy July Ellen Slavitz & open Ava Heinrichsdorff August Ice Cream Social September Helen Smithwick & Shannon Rowan Kris Wells October International Pot Luck Dinner November open & open Susie Nulty December Holiday Dinner January '05 Teri Hermans & Liz Groothof-Croddy Helen Smithwick February Phyllis Zell and Betty Edwards Betty Hudson March open & open Susie Nulty April Sharon Roggy & Kate Brewster Rita Jones May Installation Dinner Thank you ladies!