Alumni Potluck Birthday Party!

Devin Calambro(NM), Christina Ross(NM), Emma Skallerup(NM), and Rachana Haliyur(bursar) pose for a picture during the potluck lunch.



Sisters, new members and alumni came together to celebrate our chapter's birthday and all of our birthdays in the coming year. We met on campus and each sister brought a lunch food item to share. After eating and socializing, we decorated individual cakes and sang happy birthday. We also shared stories of Gamma Pi tradition.

Our chapter wanted to reach out to alumni and create a new tradtion. We like to celebrate our indiviuality but birthdays are a common thing we all share. Recognizing and appreciating sisters is an important part of creating a stable and supportive environment for actives, alumni, and new members.

By discussing our chapter's tradition, it allows new members to get a sense of who we are and our chapter's purpose. Having events that celebrate each other are just as important as the business aspect of the chapter.

We are very excited to hold this event again! Gamma Pi's birthday is tomorrow. Diokete Hupsala and Happy Birthday!

Life Long Learning Event

We had a Life Long Learning Event last week were sisters met to share about their majors and what they plan to do after graduation. They also dicussed their cultural backgrounds and how that influenced their decisions in picking a career and major. Sisters were paired with a study buddy as part of our scholarship program. The study buddies presented at the same time because they have similar majors.

New members helped facilitate discussion by prompting sisters with questions and talking about why Life Long Learning is a core value of Phi Sigma Sigma. This activity was a way for sisters to share their goals with the chapter. We wanted to promote learning, not only about different types of majors and careers, but about each other.

It was also a great opprotunity for new members to get to know activite sisters better and find out more information of how the chapter runs. They were able to step up as leaders and share with the group in a safe environment. Attendees gained a greater knowledge of who sisters are, their cultural backgrounds, and what they want to do with their futures. New members learned about how events within the chapter run and leadership roles they can take.

Gamma Pi is always seeking new ways to learn and live our core values. Great job, Beta Sigma, for your great efforts!

Plant Ceremony and Life Long Learning

On Sunday, we had the plant ceremony for our sapphire sisters. This is a chapter tradition to signify the growing relationship between big and little. They have been working hard to communicate the values of Phi Sigma Sigma.

We are having a Life Long Learning Event on Wednesday to talk about sister's goals and aspirations after college. Stay tuned for a post about that!

Congrats, Julia!

Julia Smearman just got accepted into the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Masters Program. She'll be hearing from other schools she's applied for in the coming months.

Revelation!

Back row: Steph Layne, Kelsey Williamson, Casey Little, Steph Pully, Tash Ammenheuser, Gina Sim, Liz Pickett, Hannah Dier, and Andrea Murphy

Front Row: Rachael Kelly, Jess Leatherman, Devin Calambro, Jenny Hughes, Negar Ghaffari, Sayeh Saidi, Christina Ross, Emma Skallerup, and Ali Peters

Revathi Chandra and Angelica Demiris

Revelation was an amazing experience this semester as 10 new bigs and little were united!

Thanks to all of the alumni who were able to come out and make the experience even more special.

We will be having out Sapphire Sister Ceremony and Plant Ceremony this weekend so keep an eye out for more pictures!

Michelle McCoy: the artist

Michelle McCoy has a new website displaying some of her graphic design work. Check it out!

www.michellemccoydesigns.com

Congrats, Jen!

Jennifer Kent has been applying to law schools and currently has been accepted to Boston University Law with a $90,000 scholarship! She also received a $60,000 scholarship to Emory University and was expected into Boston College. She is waiting to hear back from several other schools. Jen is a Financial Economics and Philosophy major. She is also the Vice President of the SGA.

UPDATE: Jen recently go accepted into Cornell Law School! She also found out that Boston College gave her a $90,000 scholarship!

Congrats, Maria!

Maria Satyshur just got accepted into Sigma Tau Delta, the English National Honors Society!

She is the Sisterhood Development Chair and Parent and Alumni Relations Chair.

UPDATE:

Maria was also just accepted into Sigma Alpha Lambda, the Leadership National Honors Society!

Congrats, Andrea and Casey!

Andrea Murphy and Casey Little just got accepted into the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Nursing for the upcoming Fall semester!

Andrea is the Risk Management Chair and Casey is the Tribune and Scribe.

Gamma Pi is always aiming high!

Keep an eye out for more exciting posts like this one as acceptance letters start rolling in for graduate schools.

Heather Jones - Recruitment Extraordinaire

Heather Jones is the Vice President of Recruitment for PHA. She did an amazing job and had the highest quota of potential members in over 5 years. Despite having two of her main events canceled due to weather, Heather managed to help chapters schedule new events and give them the resources they needed to run a successful recruitment. She was also an integral part in helping potential members through recruitment by keeping them informed about chapter events and training efficient Rho Gammas. We are very lucky to have her be apart of our own chapter and were happy to share her talents with the entire campus.

Congratulations on your achievement and thanks for all your hard work!

UPDATE:

Heather actually received Greek Woman of the Month for her accomplishments as VP of Recruitment!