Hurrah for West Michigan! :) GVSU is in dire need of a Pi Phi chapter, in my humble opinion. Mostly so I can be an active alum in the West Michigan area.

arrowgirl, what school are you at now?

Ah yes, and on Saturday, my dad mentioned that his great-aunt had been in a sorority. Needless to say, I am now on a quest to figure out which one, just for kicks. :) And he didn't think that little fact would be of any interest to me!

Well, I went to Knox College (Galesburg, IL) but had to stop due to financial reasons - I could probably pull off paying for GVSU, living with relatives, except . . . No Pi Phi. You would think since it is fairly big school, it would get on the ball . . . :p Right now I'm in the Detroit Metro area, and I really really miss West Michigan. Everything is infinitely nicer there.

There is a chapter at Western Mich and alum clubs in Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids so there are Pi Phis in the area and ways to be active as alums but I've not heard of any possibilities for expansion at GVSU. How big is the greek system there?

From the GVSU website:

FRATERNITIES:
There are 9 fraternities at Grand Valley --
Alpha Sigma Phi, Alpha Phi Alpha, Delta Sigma Phi, Theta Chi, Lambda Chi Alpha, Sigma Lambda Beta, Sigma Pi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Phi Beta Sigma

SORORITIES:
There are 9 Sororities at Grand Valley --
Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Sigma Alpha, Alpha Sigma Tau, Delta Zeta, Delta Sigma Theta, Zeta Phi Beta, Sigma Kappa, Sigma Lambda Gamma, Sigma Sigma Sigma

arrowgirl, one of my good friends from high school goes to Knox! I didn't know until recently that there was a Pi Phi chapter there, or I would have bugged her to go through recruitment!

On the GVSU note: Hillsdale (my school) is way expensive and Grand Valley has a great football team. I say we colonize there A.S.A.P. so we can all go to school for cheap and still be active Pi Phis. ;)

(Just kidding, I know it's not that simple!)

And you're right, West Michigan is infinitely nicer than the rest of the world. :)

And Hillsdale in the fall is absolutely gorgeous. I loved visiting the chapter and campus, and usually came in the fall because it was such a nice drive coming from Toledo. I was CPP for Michigan 1995-2000.

Greeks in Family

Mom: AOII Alumna Initiate at Ole Miss
Younger sister: AOII at Ole miss
Grandmother: AOII at Newcomb of Tulane
Great-Grandmother: AOII at U of Tenn-Knoxville
Aunts: Kappa Kappa Gamma at LSU
Great-grandmother: Kappa Alpha Theta at Newcomb of Tulane
Great-Aunt: Kappa Alpha Theta at Newcomb of Tulane
Father: Delta Tau Delta at LSU
Grandfather: Delta Tau Delta at Tulane
Great-Grandfather: Phi Gamma Delta at U of Tenn-Knoxville
Cousin: DEKE at Alabama
Uncle: Sigma Nu at Mercer
Cousin: Chi Omega at Ole Miss
Cousin: Kappa Delta at Ole Miss
Cousin: AOII at South Alabama

I have two second cousins who were Pi Beta Phi's at Alabama, if you count second cousins....

^ wow!!! that's quite a list :)

my grandmother and aunt are both chi o's from UNC-chapel hill and my grandfather is a kappa sigma from chapel hill.

I was the first to go Greek in my family. I don't think they really believed it until I came home from break wearing letters, heh.

LOL, my family and friends did that to me as well. My best guy friend's eyes bugged out when he first saw me in letters. I don't think he believed me when I told him I was rushing, but he sure did at then! I also had a cousin who had a bad experience in her sorority, so my family had a hard time understanding my decision to go through and ultimately join Pi Phi. They're ok with it now, thankfully :)

My Mom, two of my aunts, two of my cousins, and myself are all Pi Phi. My grandma and one of my aunts are Kappa, and I have an aunt who is a Tri-Delt. My stepdad was a Sigma Chi.

I am a PiPhi, but my father was a Kappa Sig as well as his father and brother. My sister was a DZ, and my aunt was a tri-delt. So I had some greek background, but Pi Phi was the place for





PI BETA PHI

My sister was a Phi Mu at UMaine but the second I met the Pi Phis on campus I knew that they were my type of girls!

I'm the first greek in my family. My mom went through Rush but didn't think it was her thing.