TJA Women are Everywhere!

February has been a busy month for the members of TJA!  Let us share a couple events that you might have seen us:

The Visions and Voices event.  Social Chair Jaymie mentioned it at our January meeting, and as a result, several TJA members attended the day-long event, complete with catering from the always delicious Papa Johns!  

All of us tried different workshops, from swing dancing, to playing piano, to making collages with computers!  We met a lot of people, both current students and past alumni.  The event went swimmingly, with lots of planning and support from Visions and Voices, an initiative put forth by President Nikias himself, back when he was Provost.

Our February meeting.  February is always a special month, as we get to invite our Scholarship Recipients from the past year to visit us!  This year, we had an unprecedented five girls attend our meeting, all of whom were exceptional ladies of USC and helped remind us why we do what we do!

Here's Dawn posing with some of her celebrated recipients.  The girls spoke up at the meeting to tell us about themselves, and most added a sweet note to our Babble Box thanking us for our efforts!  Such a great group!

The Trojan Family Reception.  President Nikias and his wife, Nikki, as the new heads of USC, have decided to do a several-city tour, one of which stopping at LA Live in Downtown LA.  It was beyond gratifying to see a third of our membership attend this wonderful event.  We even saw past members there too!

TJA past and present members: Jenny, Carina, Sherry, Ashley, Nancy, Randyn, Dawn, Stephanie and Janine.

Both Randyn and Janine had to attend the event early, as Presidents of their respective groups, to participate in photos with President Nikias.  As a result, they got to sit up front to watch the President give a very rousing speech to a group of 700 people!  See it for yourself:

As part of the reception, there was a virtual bounty of food and drink made available to us.  And it was delicious!  It was a Mediterranean spread in honour of the President- olives, goat cheese, pita bread, sun-dried tomatoes, shrimp and octopus salad, bacon-wrapped dates (delicious!) and goat cheese fritters!

 Randyn enjoying the selection.

New member Ashley grabs some food!

Nancy and her cute husband loving the dessert bar.

And one cannot wax poetic enough about the dessert bar- mousses, tarts, creme brulees, cakes- it was heaven.  All in all, we had a wonderful time celebrating the President and the start of his legacy at USC!

The USC vs. Oregon basketball game.  Social Chair Jaymie came through again with a wonderful event for us TJA members to attend!  Most of us met at McKays before the game to have some dinner and drinks.  President-Elect Ashley joined us for a bit before heading off to the game to work!  The rest of us- Jaymie, Janine, Kendra, Jodie, Katie, Logielyn, Carina, Ashley Z. and her mother- grabbed good seats in the stadium.

We got great seats!

We won!  Cue obligatory Fight Song!

There you have it!  TJA girls ARE everywhere!  Stay tuned for exciting Benefit news coming and we hope to see all of you at our March meeting!  Fight on!