After spending two weeks in Missouri, my visit to Shorter seemed well, short. (yes, I just laughed to myself a little at my unintentional pun--SINS) I hopped off the plane and the sweetes adviser ever Ms. Kathy picked me up from the Atlanta airport. Somehow or another we got on or off the wrong way on 85 to Rome and ended up by Georgia Tech’s campus.
Recruitment was going on so of course we had to stop by the Phi Mu house to see what was going on. I really wanted to take a picture outside the house but there’s really no appropriate way to say to a Pi Chi “Hi! Do you care if I take a photo outside this house before y’all start the timers and 100 plus Phi Mu’s starting chanting their door song really really loud?”
So instead we pulled into the parking lot at the athletic fields right across the street and creeped watched. Ms. Kathy’s daughter is a Phi Mu at Georgia Tech but was disaffiliated as a Pi Chi this year. We kept trying to spot her but no luck. Hard to tell a tall brunette in a sea of PNMs and Pi Chis.
Theta Zeta Chapter House at Georgia Tech-Lahump is inside somewhere I bet
Turns out, Phi Mu CC Lauren H. was probably in the house during all this and I’m just thankful we didn’t cause any commotion or she would have given me grief. Probably about as much as the time I attempted a U Turn in the Mini Van when we “left” Megan at HQ during training.
Anyway, after our little side adventure we made it to Rome and I headed straight to recruitment practice. Shorter University recently updated their name from Shorter College and they are updating the campus right along with it.
Every campus seems to have a designated quad--except for my own.
Recruitment was during the school year so I had the mornings to catch up on reports and prepare for workshop at night while the women were hopefully sitting in class expanding their knowledge. I was so lucky to meet Christy Todd- a former CC, National Academic Excellence chair for Phi Mu and Membership Adviser for Nu. She was so great to have to perfect little things on the skit. In case you somehow were under the wrong impression let me clarify that my theater experience is limited to a pioneer women skit in the 4th grade talent show that I would like to forget. I know the chapter was so thankful for Christy’s presence but I don’t she realizes how much I learned from her from just watching. It amazes me how inspiring someone can be in such a short time.
Yes, I asked for this photo. It's the second oldest CFA, it's practically a historical landmark.
Shorter’s campus does not have Greek housing so there are 3 rooms on campus that the 3 sororities alternate using for recruitment. The first round is a philanthropy/open house round where they do a craft to benefit the chapter’s philanthropy. Phi Mu’s craft was to color paper bags that included supplies like stickers and markers for a child at a CMN Hospital to decorate a door hanger! I have loved experiencing philanthropy night because it’s not something WKU does right now.
Philanthropy Night
Mary Young (National Membership Director) arrived right before those parties started and I once again, learned so so much from just watching and listening. I love to learn new ways to present conversation workshops. I have some new ideas for those next few chapters I’m visiting—watch out J We spent the next day scouring Michael’s and Walmart for anything pink, lion or ladybug to decorate the room for skit/sisterhood night.
The chapter brought a ton of great stuff—but whoever said a room during recruitment looked too Phi Mu-y? That’s what I thought, it just can’t. The cashier at Michael’s probably thought we went a little overboard but that’s OK—she just wouldn’t understand.
Phi Mu’s skit night theme was “Phi Mu-Where all your dreams come true”. The scene was a college dorm room and the MD who is a theater major wrote a hilarious skit. Oh, skit night you have my heart. 3 skit parties seemed like a breeze after 12 at Chi. Craziness.
A T-shirt Wall takes lots of coordination & planning- don't be fooled.
It was my duty as CC to taste test the Starbursts prior to the parties to make sure they were OK for PNMs to eat. They were sufficient.
I left before Preference and Bid Day but Mary Young let me know Nu made quota plus 2! I may get more excited than the chapter when they make quota. I still don’t know how I managed to take zero photos with the chapter at Nu. I guess we were all just working so hard and making quota plus quota additions. I’ll take that over my silly little photos any day.
One more Red Towel photo? Oh, but of course!
The gates on the Quad stay closed all year except for Convocation and Graduation. The entire freshmen class walks through the gates while all the other students line the sidewalks to welcome them. The president of the university gives a speech as well. After graduation every May, the seniors walk out the other side of the gates in their caps & gowns to symbolize the closing of the gates of their collegiate years.
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