1993 (according to the article in the Adelphean, Winter 2003)

Your turn texas*princess!

Side note: For those of you that are active, and those of you that are advisors, This would be a great thing to reactivate in your chapters! I think it would have been a great honor to be a part of the ADPI Academic Honor Society while I was a collegiate. :) Just an idea!!!!

Oh! Since it's my turn I'm going to give you folks an easy one!

Which flower is commonly used by ADPi chapters to symbolize the woodland violet since woodland violets are so hard to find? (I believe they are hard to find b/c they only grow in the wild?)

Sherra - GU reactivated the ADPi Academic Honor Society this semester!! I think it's a great way to get sisters motivated :)

All right, my brain's fried, because I *usually* know this for certain, but isn't it the African Violet?

ETA: If so, here's my question: What chapter was the first own to be chartered in California? (I can't think of anything really interesting right now, so here we go :D)

Psi- Berkely

These ladies were LOUD and PROUD at DLC! :) I sat in front of them and they just kept me smiling the whole weekend because they showed such spirit!


*** My question ***
1) What is AI?
2) How do you go about AI in ADPi?

AI is Alumna Initation and to become an alumna initate you must be sponsored by either three alumna in good standing, a alumna assocation, or a colligeate chapter.

And my question is what was Octavia Andrew Rush's nick name? (if you have the sisters book you should be able to get his one pretty easy)

Wasn't it "Little Ollie" or something like that? I'll double check when I visit my house today!

texas*princess - woodland violets grow in the wild and in my front yard!! I make violet ice cubes every year, but someday, I'm going to try to make violet jelly!

Violet Ice Cubes???? That sounds so awesome!! How would one go about making violet jelly??

Is my "Little Ollie" right?! I'll wait, just to be sure...

For violet ice cubes: pick the wild violets when they're in bloom, and wash them ever so gently. If you can find an ice cube tray with round or another nice shape, all the better. but what you do is fill the tray halfway, and put the very wet violet on top. Once there's a film of ice on the cube, fill the cubes the rest of the way, and that way, the violet will be suspended in the middle of the cube! My wonderful mama has offered her freezer, should I decide to make a huge amount of these this year! I just have a standard size refrigerator/freezer, so this is a godsend!!

There's a recipe in the Alpha Delta Pi cookbook for the Violet jelly. It takes a gazillion violets to make properly, but looks SO pretty!!

Another idea is to dip the freshly picked violets in (pasturized!) egg white, then in superfine sugar, and allow them to dry. These look simply gorgeous on cakes & petit fours!!

I've never had any luck in drying them, although a florist cousin on mine has done so in a microwave (you can't use a microwave that you intend to cook in!). The color just fades to nothing.

All this and the ChemLawn people want me to buy their product to kill my beautiful violets - HAH!

Thats really close, but not quite.

Okay, it's Little Occie!!

(and my violets are in full bloom!!)


I need this for my own curiosity! What does it take to become a Diamond Four Point Chapter?

*bump*

I wish I had my Alpha manual right now to see if I found it there :)

I'm only guessing. My Alpha manual is somewhere in storage in Mississippi, and I don't think the answer is in there anyways.
Part of the things it takes to become a Diamond Four Point (collegiate) chapter:
Making quota.
Having a certain GPA.
Having no debts to the international organization and paying all international fees/dues on time.
Having no recuritment infractions.

Ok that's all I can think of.... can anyone add to that or correct me if i'm wrong?