ALPHA PHI
The Epsilon Eta Chapter of Alpha Phi has been extremely busy this month. We started out with our informal spring recruitment, and gave bids to 9 beautiful women. We participated in heart health with the health center and held a red dress fashion show during activity hour. This year is Alpha Phi’s 40th anniversary at Old Dominion University. We celebrated our anniversary on Saturday February 6, by holding a Red Dress Gala for current sisters and Alpha Phi alumni. The Gala was a huge success. We raised over 2,000 dollars and over 45 alumni came representing pledge classes all the way up to fall 1999. The following day we pinned our new members. On February 10, we had a sisterhood event where sisters made Valentine’s for each other. Alpha Phi will continue to stay busy this month. We are preparing for Cardiac Care week leading up to our big Philanthropy event on February 18, Cardiac Arrest.
Alpha Xi Delta
Two semesters ago Alpha Xi Delta adopted a new philanthropy called, Autism Speaks. Since then we have been raising money for the organization and in addition to that participating in Autism Speaks Walks. Those walks took place in Richmond and in D.C. last fall. This semester we are cooking meals two times a month at the Ronald McDonald house, which we have enjoyed doing for several years. We also have a Sisterhood Activity once a month and we have our Sisterhood Retreat on February 27th. This spring we are also focusing even more attention to Autism Speaks with our AmaXIng Challenge Week. This week of events will take place April 19th - April 23rd. During this week we will have events on campus such as, a 5k walk/run, karaoke contest, flag football competition, scavenger hunt and a puzzle palooza contest. We are extremely excited to have events where the entire campus and community surrounding the campus can get involved and raise money for our philanthropy, Autism Speaks.Delta Zeta
Delta Zeta had many exciting events going on in January. We had our ELC come visit us and she had many good ideas for everyone in our chapter especially those with executive and chair positions. We participated in a “study with the Greeks” study session that supports Greek unity and good academics. January was also Stalking Awareness month, and Delta Zeta attended a “Stalking Survivors” lecture where past and present Old Dominion students shared their personal stories about stalking and how to protect yourself. Our main focus in January was our Spring Recruitment for new girls to add to our sisterhood. We had events every day during the last week of the month and ended up pinning nine new girls. January was a very successful month for Delta Zeta and we look forward to getting to know our new sisters.
In February, Delta Zeta will be focusing more on unity within the chapter while we are getting to know our new sisters. We are participating in several events with SAC such as movie night and novelty baskets. We are having a sisterhood event and making cupcakes the day before Valentine’s Day with an “anti-love” theme. We will also be going to another “Study with the Greeks”. We will be doing an event at ODU After Dark sponsored by PHC. The following week, we will be having progressive dinners with our new members. Each pledge class will be bringing different foods such as appetizers and desserts. We look forward to even more time with our new sisters.
Pi Beta Phi
This past January, we celebrated our chapter loyalty day in the North Cafe. We invited the Greek community to celebrate with
us by hosting a huge cookie shine in the Newport News room. We also showed a slide show to those who attended and had a great time! January was a very special month for us because we initiated 17 new girls after they have worked so hard and have turned out to be really great sisters. We elected our new officers for 2010 and are really excited see how they serve Virginia Delta.In February, we are getting ready to host our 45th Reunion for Virginia Delta at ODU. We have invited about 600 alumni and have activities planned all weekend such as a campus tour, lunch, and arrow stitching. The new officers are getting together to go over the calendar and add events where necessary, so there may be more to come!
Zeta Tau Alpha
Our main event in January was a retreat that we had on the weekend of the sixteenth. Our chapter met in Webb on the majority of the day Saturday and then again on Sunday with our province president. We enjoyed spending that time together and that retreat made our chapter grow closer and stronger. We also had a 2 co-sponsorships that we attended for stalker awareness month. We had two sisterhood events in January. The first we all got together and watched the popular show The Jersey Shore. We met at one of our favorite restaurants, La Herradura for dinner one night as our other event. January also started out intramural basketball season, where we are ranked # 2. We also did our first Adopt-A-Street in January, where we clean up the trash on 43rd street to keep our community clean.
One of our most important philanthropy events is Hoops for the Cure which is February 21st. Breast-cancer survivors come to celebrate their fight against breast cancer and to help raise awareness. We volunteer and hand out t-shirts, pom-poms, and other spirit items to show them we care. The basketball game is a “pink-out” and even the nets on the court are pink. We have a sisterhood event February 9th where we are going to be making and decorating cupcakes for Valentine’s Day. We will also have a sisterhood event to make tie-dye shirts for the Hoops for the Cure game. Our annual Crush party was February 6th. Each sister drew another sisters’ name and had to find them a date. The dates were kept secret until the dance when we walked in and our dates found us. This year is was at Baxter’s on Granby St. and we all had a wonderful time. On February 20th we are having an alumnae social at Color Me Mine where we will go and paint pottery together with our alumnae.
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