I stand corrected. Yes there is a Meeting Planner employed by EO. The position that was eliminated was the Convention/Conference Planning Chair because it was unnecessary. My bad. I should know better than posting something without looking it up first. :)

The position at Convention that was eliminated was the international officer position of Convention/Conference Planning - Executive Office hs a staff member that is officially ADPi's Meeting Planner - the reason they did away with the IO position was because there's now a staff person dedicated to doing the things the volunteer position had previously done. Another reason we now have a meeting planner is that there are 6 District Leadership Conferences to plan for as well as the summer event and other committee and task force meetings that take place throughout the year.

I attended my first convention this past summer in Arizona and had an amazing time! I paid my own way out there because I thought it was a very important expierience to have as a collegian and I am so glad I got to make it. I just hope I can afford it again by the time Boston rolls around and I'm an alum!!!

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I probably met you at the airport since I was one of the greeters. I hope you had a wonderful time at convention. It was a blast. I loved meeting all the sisters. (And listening to some complain about the AZ heat and others thanking god that their hair wasn't all frizzy. LOL)

BTW: Welcome to the boards!!!!!!!


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Hopefully I'lll save enough money to go. I've never even been on a plane! I'm moving in with a sister in June, I'm so excited to be with sisters..Our chapter closed down so we don't see each other as often.

Just read in our newsletter (for the alum assoc.) that there will be an ADPi auction at convention. I'm not sure if it is a silent auction or what. But that sounds kind of exciting, although the bad thing is that how many collegians (if they even wanted to bid) would be able to compete with the alums, who would most likely have more money to put down for bidding.

From what I understand from those that are gathering the items for the auction is that there will be items that the collegians will be more likely to want and then there will be other items that alumnae may want...

And sometimes I think there are just as many broke alumnae as collegians :)

I know. I think I was one of those broke ones last year. LOL.

Since I am on the Alumnae Director team planning the "Lion's Share Challenge Silent Auction" - I can tell you that there will be items available for purchase and any sister in attendance should be able to have enough $$ to purchase them - even those of us poor alumnae!

I'll give you a sneak peek of how things are being planned...

There will be "grab bags" available for "x" amount of $$ (not decided yet) and those bags will have different ADPi trinkets, memoribilia, etc. in them.

There will be some "bigger" items available for auction - and it will be a silent auction.

I can tell you that a 3-volume set of Loyally and a badge mold (the ADPi badge, not ADPhi or Adelphean) will be part of the auction portion.

All of our proceeds are going to the ADPi Foundation.

Can/Will there be reserves set on items? I'm thinking about donating something, but only if it brings in $x. Is that really tacky, since proceeds are going to Foundation? :o

You took the words out of my mouth! I've purchased a couple things from ebay, knowing that I would donate them, but darn, I'd like to see that they get at least what I paid for them!

I will ask the "chairs" of the project if they have even thought about that. To my knowledge, you are the first to ask.

I'll keep you posted.

I can't believe that Convention is less than six months away! I will finally be attending my first one...it only took 9 years as an ADPi to get there! Has anyone else decided to go?

I'll be there- haven't missed one since 1991 :eek:

"humming" This is convention number 1, number 1, number... this is convention #1, have you been to 2?? (A song we sing on the fun Old Timer's Night) :)

I'm *hoping* I'll be there this year - it'll be my 2nd! :)