i haven't seen anyone. have i missed the meetup? somebody give me a call, since my internet access is limited.

My best friend called me from Convention last night and held up the phone so I could hear them singing, "Alpha Delta Pi is a sisterhood, you can trust in it always...." Isn't that sweet? I've been singing it all day!

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Some Pics So Far from Convention - WE ARE ALL HAVING A GREAT TIME WISH YOU WERE HERE

Omigosh! You really DID lose weight! You look lovely, Connie!

PICTURES
 

Anyone know where we can view the pictures for Convention? I lost that slip that came in our packets. Thanks, ladies!

hahahaha! I absolutely crashed last night - I had every intention of posting but didn't. I posted in one other forum but have no clue if it was even coherent. I didn't get to meet up with everyone as a group as I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off, but I think I was on the shuttle from the airport with ADPiAkron, but didn't figure that out till later in the week and didn't see her again to mention it!

I have a few notes that I took. I combined my list and the list of one of my advisors to come up with these:

** Golden Lion (in random order) - Thirteen total awarded
Beta Tau - University of Akron
Alpha Eta - Kansas State University
Epsilon Nu - Ashland University
Kappa - Samford
Beta Omega - Auburn University
Alpha Kappa - University of Tennessee, Knoxville (my girls!!)
Zeta Nu - Clemson University
Eta Xi - Presbyterian College
Delta - University of Texas
Eta Epsilon - Miami University (the one in Ohio)
Delta Phi - University of Missouri, Kansas City (first time winner!)
Zeta Sigma - College of Charleston (first time winner!)
Gamma Theta - Mount Union College (first time winner!)

** Stanard Leadership (in random order) - Twelve total awarded
Eta - University of Alabama
Beta Epsilon - University of South Carolina
Delta Nu - Southwest Missouri State University
Beta Sigma - Mercer University
Delta Mu - Sam Houston State University
Gamma Iota - University of Florida
Delta Upsilon - University of Tennessee, Martin
Zeta Beta - North Carolina State University
Zeta Rho - Vanderbilt University
Beta Eta - University of Michigan
Eta Lambda - Albright College
Gamma Phi - East Tennessee State University (my girls!!)

I didn't take down the list of Excellence, Achievement, or Diamond Four-Point Chapters - sorry! - but I do remember Alpha Iota got Diamond Four-Point for sure and either Achievement or Excellence - cause I remember being excited for Honeychile! There were several chapters who moved on up the ladder.

It was a wonderful evening with lots of excitement. Our chapters are accomplishing great things out there, and so many of them have taken great strides to receive this recognition. Our new Grand Council is a great group of women who will do a great job in leading us for the next two years:

International President - Claire Brown Gwaltney
International VP of Collegiate Membership - Anne Charnock
International VP of Collegiate Membership - Susan Swicord Matthews
International VP of Alumnae Membership - Lorraine Alderman Testa
International VP of Finance - Tammie Pinkston
International VP of Organizational Relations - Rosalyn Doze Williams
International Secretary - Sydnee Jack
Executive Director - Linda Welch Ablard (appointed rather than elected, so I believe she will be continuing)
And our new NPC Delegate will be former IP - Kathryn Peddy Goddard

Convention was amazing! I had such a good time meeting new sisters and reconnecting with old ones. I am so PROUD to be an ADPi! There are great things in our future! I am also thrilled that the chapter that I advise, Delta Phi, University of Missouri - Kansas City, won their first Golden Lion! There was so much excitement, tears of joy and pride that evening. Our province also had another Golden Lion winner - Alpha Eta, Kansas State.

I had the chance to meet ASUADPi, Polarpi, ADPiConniebama, adpideltaup and firstandfinest. What a wonderful group of ladies!

Some other fun Convention tidbits:

Convention 2009 will be held in ORLANDO!!!!

We celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Adelphian

Virginia Stafford, Alpha Beta and past Grand President, has attended 26 conventions, making her the winner of the most conventions attended! We had so much fun with the Convention Song!

We had an alumna in attendance from Delta, Texas, who was initiated in 1934!

Grand Council introduced the 200,000th ADPi initiate! She is the daughter of our District 5 Team Director.

We had the opportunity to participate in the TAKE program, which is a self-defense course in honor of Ali Kemp. You can read about the program here: http://takedefense.org/.

The 2007-20008 Leadership Consultants were announced:
Jenell Bukky - Eta Kappa, Cal State - San Bernadino
Lindsay Hoogher - Gamma Mu, Missouri State
Jessica Lamb - Eta Zeta, Southern Miss
Victoria Moger - Gamma Mu, Missouri State
Callison Rawl - Zeta Nu, Clemson
Jodi Schwaben - Beta Tau, University of Akron
Kimberly Woiwood - Alpha Theta, University of Washington

You can view convention photos at: http://adpiconvention2007.snapfish.com/snapfish. All albums will be loaded by July 8, and will be available for 90 days.
***PM me for the Password if you need it!**

We're so glad that those of you that attending had a good time and enjoyed yourselves.

Torrey and I are also glad we survived the week in one piece:)

Look forward to being just another attendee in Orlando!!!

Emily

My body is still in protest of the lack of sleep and withdrawal from coffee for this week, but I'm already planning on going to Orlando in two years! :)

Random notes:
Honey - the chapter president where I advise roomed with AI's president - she's a VERY sweet woman! (I think I remember AI getting Excellence this year :))

My alumnae association was awarded Diamond 4-point AND Achievement!!! (SO incredibly excited)

Will write more later, but it was fun to *randomly* meet ADPiConniebama when we *happened* to sit next to each other during the business meeting on Thursday ;)

I had such a great time, but I just got home today (yeah major delay out of Boston yesterday so I missed my connection, didn't get to leave until this morning).

Convention=good, hotel=bad

I'm very conflicted right now, on Wednesay when we checked in, there was an incredibly rude worker from the hotel, yeah guess what, she was initiated on Saturday. I'm like Ahhh. I told my mom what went down and she was like "just because she is your sister doesn't mean you should ignore the fact that she was rude and lacked customer service skills", which is so very true. A part of me just feels bad, but my mom is right.

I really did like the food. The pork tenderloin and asparagus was fantastic. And the filet mignon could be cut with a butter knife. I believe I would have enjoyed an outdoor pool - not that I had time to lay out though! I hate that I never could meet up with you guys. I had a purple ribbon on the top of my nametag. :D But it's time consuming to keep up with 20 people and meet with all the others that I needed to meet with.

Looking forward to Orlando! The hotel is adjacent to Sea World, so that should be nice. I used to live in that area - across the street from Universal Studios. Great mall in Orlando - ha! Plus I have direct flights to there from my home airport....

VLS next summer is in Atlanta at the hotel right on airport grounds. Can't remember if it is a Marriott, Sheraton, Hyatt, or what. But it looked lovely.

Hate to hear about your delays, Brianna. I wondered about that - especially with the folks going to or through Texas.

has anyone tried looking at the convention photos? the only group i can pull up is VLS 06.

One of my former pledge sisters is on the Grand Council! She's been an extremely active alum for years, and lives in the town of my collegiate chapter. Hmm...I bet it'll be kinda weird for the chapter now, knowing that one of the Grand Poobahs could walk into one of their meetings at any time!:D

By the way, azureblue, I'd love the password to look at the pictures! Thanks!