Kappa Alpha Theta's have Flaming Festival in Oklahoma City
Pansies (Kappa Alpha Theta flower) greeted guests as they arrived at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club for the 54th annual Flaming Festival. (Photos by Helen Ford Wallace).
The Kappa Alpha Theta Flaming Festival at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club featured White House Executive Chef Walter Scheib. He cooked there from 1995-2005 and has written a cookbook called “White House Chef: Eleven Years, Two Presidents, One Kitchen.” The Festival, featuring 18 decorated tables, a pantry filled with homemade foods, candles, and 18 commercial tables, was from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. and Scheib spoke at noon.
Scheib also planned the luncheon menu with wonderful recipes from his cookbook which included sweet corn and Maryland crab soup, lime and tequila-glazed chicken breast with tropical fruit salsa and mango barbecue sauce and peach and blackberry cobbler with honey lavender ice cream
Table themes included “Our Most Important Guests…Our Children” by Kim Henry; “Falling for Theta,” by Sarah Geiger, Kristen Bohanon and Dana Clifton; “Award Night on the Silver Screen” by Linda Kennedy Rosser; “Whimsical Christmas” by Oklahoma City Theta Moms Club and “A Sentimental Sisterly Social” by Judy Phillips and Janie Axton.
Two Pi Phi guest tables were also featured: “Sisters Birthday Tea-Dreaming of Paris” by Aimee Harlow and “Pi Beta Phi Celebrates 100 Angelic Years with OKC Thetas” by Betty Crow, Beth Hammack, Debbie McCord, Jan Smith and Kay Smith.
Among the commercial tables were Bebe’s, Casey’s, Trochta’s, 42nd Street Candy Co. and No Regrets.
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