Do you think I can fit into your suitcase if you go? ;)

Here's an idea -- we organize GreekChatTours, with which we go to founding sites, graves of founders and other places of interest for the serious Greek.

Who's in?

me,me!!

and yes, sister, you can stow away in my bag!

LET'S GO!

I am in!

In related to this thread, today would be Alice Grey Welsh's 131st birthday. In this article from Themis, there is a picture of her gravestone.

After 50 years, a proper Aloha for a Founder

Three of us went today and cleaned one of the medallions today. I promised you pictures. Here are the before and after pictures:

Before http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1..._medallion.jpg


After http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1..._medallion.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ders/grave.jpg

how fabulous! thank you all so much. it looks remarkable!(((((hugs))))) to you all!

is that a pot of strawberries i spy in the after photo?

Why yes it is. She is after all the Founder who received them as the gift, so we thought it was fitting!

i remembered that- i love that story and it is indeed fitting!

AWESOME!!! You ladies did a great job. Snaps to you for taking the initiative to do this.

Zeta love!

We figured out a better way to clean the medallions and make them shiny again! Cut a lemon in half, cover it with salt, and scrub. Worked like a charm.

Here are more pictures of Mary Cambell Batte-Jones (also known as Cammie:

Before (Medallion): http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...edallion-1.jpg

Middle of cleaning: http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...edallion-1.jpg

Final cleaning: http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ion_after3.jpg

Cammie's gravestone mid-cleaning: http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ders/grave.jpg

Cammie's gravestone fully cleaned (still wet from the cleaning): http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ave_after2.jpg

Della Lewis Hundley's graves
 

The other Founder who is buried in Norfolk, is Della Lewis Hundley. Her marker is for the most part flat, so her medallion looked really bad.

Before (Medallion): http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ion_before.jpg

Before (Grave Marker): http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ave_before.jpg

Cleaned Medallion: http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...lion_after.jpg

Cleaned Grave Marker: http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ker_after2.jpg

I had help with this project from two others in my alumnae chapter. I only have a picture of me and Corinne (Kim took the picture): Here we are: http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...d_I_cammie.jpg

We are planning on going over to visit the three graves on the Peninsula (other side of the Bay for us - about twenty minutes in good traffic). We are not sure what the medallions look like on those graves, but we are going to be prepared to clean them also.

Anyone know how I can make the pictures smaller? They are huge!

OMG THAT IS BEAUTIFUL!

i know that you don't want to toot your own horn, but please send this in to Themis.
this is so worthy of a story in our magazine.