Guild Presents Opera with $41K

Cindy Niggemyer, left, president of the Toledo Opera Guild, and
Suzanne Rorrick, executive director of the Toledo Opera, hold a
check of more than $41,000 presented at the guild closing luncheon.

Summertime is finally here, and Toledo Opera Guild members certainly earned some fun in the sun as they wrapped up the 2013-2014 opera season with a significant donation to the Toledo Opera.

Executive Director Suzanne Rorrick received a check for $41,736.86 at the guild's closing luncheon earlier this month at Belmont Country Club in Perrysburg. These funds are vital for the staging of the upcoming season's performances of "Tosca," "Susannah" and "Lucia di Lammermoor."

Cindy Niggemyer, president of the guild, announced at the luncheon that 19 new members have joined the group and that its Board of Trustees will have more than 30 members.

Marcy McMahon, nominations cochairman, conducted the induction for the 2014-2015 Executive Committee:

President…………………….…..Cindy Niggemyer
First Vice-President……………...Shelli Jacobs
Second Vice-President……….….Joyce Stenberg
Third Vice-President……….……Barbara Baker
Recording Secretary……….….…Carol Sizemore
Corresponding Secretary…….…..Sue Rosenberg
Treasurer……………………….. Kelly Rectenwald
Assistant Treasurer………………Mary Beaber
Members at Large……………….Barbara Bettinger, Barbara Brown, Clare Gorski, Linda McBee
Past President……………………Traci Schwann

From left:Kelly Rectenwald, Joyce Stenberg, Shelli Jacobs,
Mary Ankenbrandt Beaber, Sandra Honemann and Linda
McBee at the closing luncheon at Belmont.

Niggemyer reported that the Executive Committee met in retreat in early May to discuss policies and procedures for the coming year, as well as at a meeting prior to the closing luncheon. Special thanks was given to hostess Barbara Bettinger.

Also honored at the luncheon were guild members who had organized the following events, with great success (lead chairmen listed first):

Mad Hatter: Laura Draheim, with Barbara Bettinger and Mary Beaber.
Celebrity Wait Night: Shelli Jacobs, with Barbara Brown and Barbara Bettinger.
Phashion of the Opera: Traci Schwann, with Karen DeNune, Diane Rusk and Shelli Jacobs.

Committee and board meetings resume Sept. 3. Have a great summer!