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CORVETTE TODAY #226 - Elfi's Silver Pearl Sisterhood
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Jul 12, 2025
I found out about Elfi's Silver Pearl Sisterhood from an article I read in America' Sports Car magazine from the National Corvette Museum. I had never heard of this group, but once I read more about it, the more intriguing it became. Lexi Stewart from the National Corvette Museum joins your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, to give you all the details! Ladies, be sure to join the Sisterhood. Guys, tell your spouse or significant other about this. It's a very interesting episode of CORVETTE TODAY!
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called Elfie's Silver Pearl Sisterhood.
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and Lexi Stewart, development
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coordinator for the National Corvette
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Museum, is here with me to talk more
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about this. Lexi, welcome to Corvette
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today.
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Thank you so much, Steve. I'm really
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excited to be here and talk with you
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today, especially about the Sisterhood.
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They're a great group of gals.
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I'm so looking forward to this because
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that article was so interesting. Lexi,
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first off, explain to our listeners and
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viewers exactly what Elfie's Silver
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Pearl Sisterhood actually is.
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Absolutely. So the sisterhood is really
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a philanthropic group of women and they
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have all come together because of a
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shared passion. Corvette all gifts to
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the National Corvette Museum are
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impactful. But the sisters realize that
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when you get 25 or 30 ladies together
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making gifts, it really gets things
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going and can make things happen.
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That's really impactful. Now in 2019,
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Leslie Gardner helped start the
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sisterhood, didn't she?
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Yeah. So Leslie actually worked with the
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previous development coordinator to
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create an opportunity for the women of
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Corvette to make their own impact on
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preserving and sharing Corvette story.
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They've been an active group for 5 years
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now.
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That's really cool. Now to be a member
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of the sisterhood, what is required and
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what are the dues?
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So to be a sister, you really just need
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to get connected with me. It's also very
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important to connect with the other
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sisters. But once that annual
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contribution is made to me, and right
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now it's $1,000 a year. Once that is
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paid to me, you're officially considered
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active. You get on the email lists, get
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the newsletter, and the invitations to
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the meetings.
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Very nice. And I know the sisterhood has
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raised a lot of money. In the first
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year, they raised $28,000, didn't they?
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They did. So that first year was
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amazing. And you know, that was just the
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collection of their individual
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contributions. One of the new pieces
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that they're getting ready to kick off
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is leading fundraisers to further
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support their annual initiatives.
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That's really cool. And this is all
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based upon Zora Arcus Dunto's wife,
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Elfie Dunto, isn't it?
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Yes. The famous co-pilot. She just
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embodied such grace and such knowledge
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and passion about Corvette. And the
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women really feel that she was an idea
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role model really for, you know, what
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women in the Corvette industry can and
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should do.
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That's really cool. Well, Lexi, let's
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about Elfie's Silver Pearl Sisterhood.
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Lexi, how does the sisterhood decide on
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So, the sisterhood meets twice a year.
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Once at the bash and once at the
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anniversary.
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Oh,
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yeah. So, usually at the bash, it's more
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then at the anniversary celebration is
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initiative will be for the year.
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Nice.
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Yeah. So we give them three ideas and we
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try to keep them diverse, give them some
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based, education based, or even
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something tangible.
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That's really cool. Now, let's talk
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about some of the funds from the
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sisterhood that have gone to the
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National Corvette Museum and what have
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they helped fund.
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So the very first year they did a
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Damsels and Design exhibit. If you've
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Corvette design. And they really found
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sisterhood as many of them have
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grandchildren of their own. So, I think
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that because this program helps us
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three whole schools.
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Wow, that's amazing. Now, this year,
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when does the sisterhood get together?
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And where will the donation go? Or do we
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know yet?
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We don't know yet. So during our great
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caravan and anniversary celebration this
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year, the sisters will be meeting at the
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museum in the boardroom on Thursday
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morning. And during that meeting, they
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will actually decide where the 2024
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funds will go.
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Very nice. Well, Lexi, let's take our
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Steve Garrett. With me is Lexi Stewart,
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the development coordinator at the
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National Corvette Museum. We are talking
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about Elfie's Silver Pearl Sisterhood.
15:03
Lexi, when a woman joins the sisterhood
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with her thousand donation, what do they
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get from that?
15:08
You know, when they first make that
15:11
contribution, they're joining a
15:12
community with that shared passion, and
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they get both a literal and figurative
15:17
seat at the table.
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That's really nice. And really, the
15:20
sisterhood provides women with a means
15:22
to get more involved in the National
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Corvette Museum, don't they?
15:26
Absolutely. you know, all of the
15:28
philanthropic work that happens at and
15:31
around the museum just goes to further
15:34
promote our mission. You know,
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preserving and celebrating America
15:38
Sports Car's legacy. And so everything
15:40
that they do is really centered back to
15:42
that, but it also gives them the
15:44
opportunity to connect with women they
15:46
may have never met. We've getting close
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to 40,000 members here at the National
15:51
Corvette Museum and our event
15:53
registration is continuously growing and
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a lot of times if you're not in a club
15:59
together or you haven't been here or
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involved with the museum for the same
16:03
amount of time, there's a lot of folks
16:05
that you never meet. So the sisterhood
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really provides women with a core group
16:08
of ladies that they can be excited to
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see at least twice a year.
16:12
That's really nice. Now, how does a
16:13
woman join Elfie's Silver Pearl
16:15
Sisterhood? And do you remember how many
16:17
members you've got in there right now,
16:18
by the way?
16:19
Yeah, we fluctuate a little bit just
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because sisters are considered active
16:24
once their annual contribution has made.
16:26
Right now, we've got about 26 active
16:28
sisters. We actually had three new
16:30
members join just at the bash this past
16:33
year.
16:34
Nice. Now, how can a woman join the
16:36
sisterhood?
16:37
You know, anybody who's interested in
16:38
joining, I would highly recommend that
16:41
they connect with some of the current
16:42
sisters. I as the development
16:44
coordinator here at the museum am
16:46
honored to be a facilitator for this
16:48
group, but it's really the sisters, you
16:50
know, making the decisions, doing the
16:52
work, and they at anniversary this year
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will be sporting their brand new
16:57
lanyards, and they're a bright Tiffany
16:59
blue color. So, this is going to make
17:01
them very distinguishable. So, highly
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recommend if you see somebody with those
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lanyards on, I promise they want to tell
17:07
you about the sister.
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That's nice. Now, you had said you're
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the coordinator. So, you're kind of the
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liaison from the museum to the
17:15
sisterhood, aren't you?
17:16
Yes. You know, my role is facilitating
17:18
their meetings, providing them with the
17:20
options. And, you know, the sisterhood
17:22
is a great group of ladies. They are
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very passionate and very dedicated. And
17:27
so it's just my job to make sure that
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they have the space to meet, they have
17:31
the means that they need and really
17:33
connecting them with what's currently or
17:35
up and coming at the museum for those
17:37
ideas on what needs their support the
17:40
most.
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Very nice. Now once again, if someone
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wants to join, can they get a hold of
17:44
you or the National Corvette Museum to
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join the sisterhood?
17:47
Absolutely. I highly recommend giving me
17:50
a call directly, email. If they've
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already seen some of the sisterhood
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marketing materials we have and they're
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ready to get going, I'm happy to do
17:58
that. Or if somebody's looking for more
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a sister, I'm always happy to have that.
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That's awesome. Lexi, thank you so much
18:08
for being on Corvette today with me and
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talking about Elfie's Silver Pearl
18:12
Sisterhood. Thank you for the
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there, anyone who's joining us for the
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anniversary celebration, please grab one
18:20
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18:23
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