{"id":3503,"date":"2009-01-29T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:55:23","slug":"tea-and-orchids-event-celebrates-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/tea-and-orchids-event-celebrates-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea and Orchids event celebrates women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2021\/09\/Holmes-Tootle.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3504\" width=\"313\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2021\/09\/Holmes-Tootle.jpg 591w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2021\/09\/Holmes-Tootle-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday, January 29, 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PRINCESS ANNE, MD -Tea and Orchids, one of the many events taking place at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore during homecoming week, February 8-14, offers a unique opportunity for women in the community to share an afternoon tea with women at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Celebrating women of power, purpose and pizzazz, is the theme of this year&#8217;s event slated for Wednesday, February 11, at 3 p.m. in the Student Services Center.&nbsp; The event features a keynote speaker, live jazz, hors d oeuvres, door prizes and a silent auction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The keynote speaker, Wilma Holmes-Tootle, is an educator, philanthropist and community leader from Freeport, N.Y. She worked her way through the education system from classroom teacher to high school dean of women, principal and director of personnel. A retired career educator, she is currently a consultant and community advocate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A treat to the ears, solo jazz saxophonist Everett Spells will perform jazz standards, popular and original music from his CD at the tea.&nbsp; A native of Newport News, Spells plays tenor, alto and soprano saxophone.&nbsp; He has performed with musical greats Frank Foster, Billy Burgess Gardner, Consuella Moorhead, Bill Lee, Steve Wilson, Bill Drummon and the Wooten Brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Tea and orchids promises to be an event to empower and invigorate your mind, body, soul and philanthropic spirit,&#8221; said Kimberly Conway Dumpson, Esq., CFRE, director of Alumni Affairs and Planned Giving at UMES.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tickets are $25 benefiting the UMES Foundation Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Educational Advancement through Technology Endowment.&nbsp; IRS rules provide for a tax deduction of the amount you contribute less the estimated value of the benefit you receive.&nbsp; The estimated value of benefit is $15 per person.&nbsp; For more information, contact Dumpson at 410-651-7686.&nbsp; Co-sponsors of the event are Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Delta Sigma Omega and Alpha Omicron chapters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>###<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Gail Stephens, assistant director, UMES Office of Public Relations, 410-651-7580,&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:gcstephens@umes.edu\">gcstephens@umes.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, January 29, 2009 PRINCESS ANNE, MD -Tea and Orchids, one of the many events taking place at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore during homecoming week, February 8-14, offers a unique opportunity for women in the community to share an afternoon tea with women at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Celebrating women of&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/tea-and-orchids-event-celebrates-women\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Tea and Orchids event celebrates women<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}