Getting My Bid at our Speghetti Dinner.

Having a lot of fun on Brotherhood Night

bonding with my pledge brothers

having the biggest smile on my face after being Initiated.

Borrowing my fellow ADPi's hearts...:)

Y Opening my bid card next to a fellow new member at the same time, then hugging my fellow sister for the first time!
Y Returning from bid night activities and finding my door decorated with streamers, signs, and notes, and having my roommate come in from her sorority's activities and giving me the biggest hug and telling me she knew that I'd be a terrific addition to my chapter
Y Alpha retreat with 11 women in a small chapter room with our diamond sisters and wonderful NMC, getting to know one another and hanging out
Y Chapter retreat the folowing day where the Alphas had all been up late the night before, but we still had a great time with the Delta members for the full day retreat brainstorming ideas and playing games
Y Finding out who my diamond sister was
Y Receiving my letters from each "specialty sister" during Diamond Days
Y Getting to experience Initiation from the "sister" side the same day that I was initiated
Y My first formal!

- Alpha Ceremony---my alpha sister and I are still close
- all the sweet notes from sisters that I received every week
- "Baby Got Back" music video
- Lindley, my alphamom and future roomate, who would have thought that later I would sing/be in her wedding?......
- Learning early on, the value of sisterhood and our ritual

Being initiated after 3 years as a candidate.

ETA: Not really a candidate, I should have said a "colonist".

3 years as a colony is no fun -- on the other hand, it was great fun.

Most Memorable Moments as a Beta Sigma Phi pledge...

*Receiving our charter in the mail. Hooray for Delta Pi chapter!!
*Seeing our chapter listed as a new "Friendly Venture" in the sorority magazine...February 2003
*Being named Woman of the Year by my chapter on the day that I received the Ritual of Jewels (the ceremony after the 6 month pledge period)

Most Memorable Moments as an APO pledge...

*Hearing the pledge ceremony for the first time and wondering if the other candidates were having trouble standing still! I was!
*Exchanging gifts after the ceremony. I got a Koosh Ball Slingshot! :)

Erica

Here's another memorable New Member moment:

***I LOVED going to COB events and telling the rushees about my awesome sisterhood, and watching girls get bids a week or so later- looking about as suprised as I did on my bid day :)

Getting my first "set of letters."
Being initiated..literally as a "new member class of one."
Roses,
Silver

Hearing the Alpha Gams singing on my dorm floor on bid night because I was the only one on my floor who went through recruitment so I knew they were there for me!

Finding out that my sister-mother was my sister-mother, because she was the one I adored through rush but she was also our VP Frat Ed and wasn't supposed to get a sister-daughter because of that role.

Greek Week! What fun that was! It was also my Pre-Initiation week (we called it Inspiration Week that year).

Trick-or-Treating for JDF that year.

Donut sales!

Going to Greek Night at the local dance club and singing "We Are AGD!" at the top of our lungs when they played "We Are Family" by Sister Sledge. There are some songs that put me right on the dance floor with my sisters when I hear them on the radio too!

Wow, those were good times! I wish I could go back!

Dee

My Lcaol Experience
 

When I was a part of Phi Gamma Pi my favorite moments as a new member were:

1. GETTING MY BIG!!! :D She was my new member educator, but since the chapter was so small, I got her! I about cried when she revealed herself and I saw my paddle!

2. Phi Gam didn't give letters until activation, so that's my second- getting my first set of letters and proudly wearing them!

3. My friend in AZD giving me a hug when she found out I got a bid! How Panhellenically sweet!

4. My sister telling me that she and my Big were fighting over who would get me as their Little (she was #2 on my list).

5. Being named the unofficial Super Pledge by the president! (Yeah, the terminology is politically incorrect, but Super New Member doesn't sound right.)

6. Having one of my sisters who didn't know me very well tell me that she believed I was the future of Phi Gam since the day she met me!

Ya'll are making me sad because of the rocky start I had (FYI for all you PNMs, I am just a hard person to get to know even though I am very sociable). I wish I had some of the wonderful memories ya'll had!

My best memory, I guess, is getting my bid card and getting my door decorated by sisters.

Crossing and going through the stroll line for the first time at a big event.

Imperial1

My best moments as a new member where (in no particular order):

*My first Big Man on campus competition... I was backstage helping the guys get dressed and lets just say many of our contestans where very VERY easy on the eyes!

*Getting my big sis. I had no idea who it was going to be until I went through the ceramoney.

*Getting my bid, that I wasn't sure I was going to get.

*Going to my first event as a new member and getting hugs from all of my sisters... I have never fealt more welcome in my entire life!!!

*And picking out my first Zeta bag!!!

1. getting my big...i had to do the "big sister" ceremony alone because I had missed it when everyone else got theirs, it was special and fun and she was from Pittsburgh.

2. Getting my bid because I wasn't supposed to have one, let alone get one to my number one choice.

3. Our initiation...it was the most beautiful day, like God was smiling on our initiation.

4. "Sprinkle Cheese!" ...hehe, inside jokes.

*getting a call from my friend who had just gotten her bid card that there was one for me in the same row:)
*walking down the stairs and being greeted by my future big at bid night:P
*coming late to the bid night party because i had to go to a meeting at work or be fired :rolleyes:
*getting my heart and meeting my heart tree:)
*going to dinner with some of the craziest girls:cool:
*learning all the fun things about alpha phi;)
*hearing that we couldn't do a scavanger hunt becuae it's considered hazing:o
*getting my big and my twin and becoming part of the best tree in my chapter :p
*being initiated:D
*going to my first formal meeting:cool: