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This
year, Zonta Club members Renee Dreusicke, Connie Dehner, and Chris
Huff presented yellow roses to April Doolin, Patricia (Pat) Snyder,
and Verdeen Ingram. Please join us in thanking these women for their
hard work and dedication to our community!
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The club
honored April Doolin for her leadership and involvement with various
community activities including Integrity Holdings whose focus is on
revitalizing downtown Lincoln through the renovation of aging
buildings; the Historic Preservation Commission of Lincoln; and the
Harvest of Talents for World Hunger Holiday Homes Tour. April was
key in the development of the Land of Lincoln CEO Program, which is
an entrepreneurship education program for high school students, and
she was also the founder of the Young Professionals of Lincoln.
Pat
Snyder, now retired, served as a local attorney’s trusted secretary
as well as executive secretary to the President of Lincoln Christian
University. She was a longstanding Sunday School teacher and
workshop leader of ‘Leaving Your Heartprints’ and ‘Sharing the
Harvest’.
Thirty-five years ago, after watching a television commentary on
world hunger, Pat had an idea to ‘harvest’ the many talents of
people in our community for the sake of sharing our blessings with
those in unfortunate circumstances. Her original idea founded the
giving process that our community well knows as “Harvest of Talents
for World Hunger.” Her idea was not only embraced by the Lincoln
Christian Church community and became an annual event on the fourth
Saturday in October, but years later the Mayor of Lincoln also
proclaimed this same Saturday every year to be “Harvest Day in
Lincoln.”
Pat’s
vision gave way to many other community activities reflecting the
talents of those involved to raise funds - 100% of which are given
for hunger relief. Lincoln’s Harvest of Talents has raised over
$2,239,735.82 for hunger relief in 28 countries, including the
United States. Under Pat’s guidance, the Harvest of Talents has
grown from a local church effort to a community-wide event that now
has eight sister Harvests in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, and
Tennessee.
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Verdeen
Ingram is married to Larry Ingram with two grown children, Shanda
(J.D.) Ryer and Orry (Becky) Ingram. She is a lifelong and very
active member of St. John United Church of Christ, where she is
involved with the Bell Choir, Chime Choir, and occasionally sings
with special groups. Verdeen is currently serving on the Church
Council and is co-chairman of the Mission Committee.
She has been instrumental in purchasing coats for kids for CAPCIL
with St. John’s Thanksgiving offering, purchasing school supplies
that may be needed, organizing Toys for Tots projects, collecting
food items monthly to donate to the CAPCIL Food Pantry (along with a
Thanksgiving Food Drive in November), and the recycling program at
St. John UCC. Verdeen has been an active member on the CAPCIL Board
since 1994 and participated in several committees including the
Fundraising Committee as well as the Cheeseburger in Paradise event.
She is the current chair of the Resource Development Planning
Committee that assists with program evaluation and improvement. She
volunteers several times per month, delivering meals to homebound
seniors in Logan County through the “Meals on Wheels” program and
she is an active ‘Guest Reader’ in the Head Start classrooms.
She has also been involved with Up in Smoke on the Square for more
than 4 years overseeing the kids’ “Q” competition, which offers a
fun way for youth ages 7-11 and 12-15 to participate in a
hamburger-grilling competition.
Zonta International is a worldwide service organization of
executives in business and the professions working together to
advance the status of women through service and advocacy. If you
would like to learn more about the Zonta Club of Lincoln, visit our
website at http://
zontadistrict6.org/lincoln
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