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We just don’t know when to stop! With a large chapter and a very active membership, we are blessed with lots of opportunities to gather and it doesn’t take much for us to make plans to do just that! The second half of 2019 was as busy as the first and started with our Ladies of the Knight coming together for Rosé All Day in July. We gathered at the home of Gentle Lady Kathy Long over some beautiful rosés and lots of appetizers prepared by the ladies. Always a great time and a perfect way to share news of what our chapter is doing in hopes of expanding our membership while enjoying a great time together!
August 10 and it was about 95° outside, but it was a wonderful 65° in our wine warehouse; site of our Annual Chapter Business Meeting. It’s a pot luck affair and there is more wonderful food than you can imagine! We pull out all the “leftover” bottles of wine from events during the prior year and it’s all available for this incredible evening of friendship! We visit, we eat, we drink and then we get down to the serious business of reviewing financials, discussing events of the last year (what we liked, didn’t like, new ideas for future events, etc.) and elect officers. In addition, we invited Miguel Cabrera from the University of Houston’s Conrad Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management to join us so we could present him a check to add to the Brotherhood of the Knights of the Vine endowment that we started years ago. It was our pleasure to increase that endowment
Never Stops!
by another $12,500 bringing the total now to just under $100,000 which includes matching funds from the Hilton Foundation. In case you didn’t know, we really are cowboys and cowgirls here in Houston and so on September 26, we returned to the Republic Country Club for wine, barbeque and country music. Boots and hats were all the fashion and above the country music you heard lots of laughter as we thoroughly enjoyed the evening of wine, barbeque beef and chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans and peach cobbler. On October 15, the University of Houston’s Conrad N. Hilton School of Hotel and Restaurant Management celebrated its 50th Anniversary at a Gala Event at The Post Oak Hotel. As a strong supporter of this institution through our fundraising efforts for scholarships and the students’ participation in our Assemblage weekend events, we had the opportunity to attend and show our appreciation and build on this great relationship. While enjoying a delightful evening, we were also able to share information about our Brotherhood with many people there and, in fact, happily connected with one couple who ultimately did join our chapter. Among the fundraising activities that night was a $50 cork pull and a number of our members hit some home runs garnering some outstanding wines including a 1928 Chateau Lafite Rothschild from the university’s storied wine collection. More surprises that night included roaming tenors who totally entertained the crowd. continued >>>
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