Happy happy happy day! I just heard that one of the girls I recommended to Iota pledged AOII at Illinois last weekend! YAAYYYYYYYY! I was a little surprised because she is an Alpha Chi Omega chapter legacy and could easily have been in a lot of houses down there, but I guess she picked the right ALPHA house in the end!!!! :)

yay Barnard! Iota is my chapter so I am glad she is there! Alpha Chi Omega is really strong at U of I - that's great that we wooed her to a different Alpha house!

LB picked up 21 lovely NMs. I believe quota was either 28 or 31.

:)More to the Alpha Chi legacy story coming-gotta hear what happened from her mom, who is SUPER happy she's in AOII, though, and told me this in follow up:

DD's very close friend from home also went through FR at Illinois. They were not in the same Rho Chi group and did not see each other at all during the whole period. Wellllllllllllll, imagine their total excitement, joy, and surprise when they finally saw each other for the first time in weeks at bid day, and both were in... (wait for it)

A-A-AOII
ALPHA OMICRON PI
ME FOR MY FOR AOII
OH HOW I LOVE MY AOII!

That's when you know that you and AOII are MFOE! Add THAT to the interesting places you have found AOIIs!

I have to say, it's nice to have the RFM at work, because honestly, she could have been strung along at some of the other houses for while, but with nearly 98-99% returns at houses like Theta and Chi O, and massive bloodbath cutting early on at places like those, she was able to narrow her focus and in her own words "really talk and get to know the girls." The rest is history!

Hugs to LB! Hope they can easily COB back to quota!

Things must be changing - those 2 chapters wouldn't have come to mind as having top return rates when I was there. Interesting. (Not that they were bad - they just weren't as strong as some others.)

From what I heard, DG, Theta and Chi O all had great returns. I don't know about the other houses.

For the past few years, Theta and DG consistently have been the unofficial "top" houses to join, at least from the point of view of the mothers and daughters in our area.

Tau Results!
 

Tau chapter at the University of Minnesota got quota of 18 new members!!! This includes 2 legacies!! They also had the highest return rates of all sororities, including 99% after day 1! Now they're need 5 more members to reach campus total of 75!

They're very excited, and are expecting to be at total by the end of this week.

Great Job TAU!!!!!!

Dozens of roses for Tau! That is terrific news! I hope they are doing the happy Pi dance!

Today is bid day at our newest colony at Columbus State! Happy thoughts and roses to them!

spring 08 recruitment
 

Gamma Theta chapter will be hosting spring recruitment events on Jan. 16-18 from 8-10 pm. I am stoked about our new spring 08 panda babies!!! ill update accordingly :)

Indiana U/Beta Phi Rocks Recruitment!
 

Hey all! Three Cheers to the sisters at Beta Phi for matching 58 NMs on Monday!! I think that's even higher than last year! YEA! :)

That's wonderful! I was wondering how they did!

I also wanted to give a shout out to the Beta Phi Alumnae relations chair. I'm not a Beta Phi alum, but since I live in the area (Indy) I was included in their founder's day celebration invitation. Since I do not live close to my initiation chapter, being invited to another chapter was very cool.

Nu Omicron (Vanderbilt) made quota for 50 new members!

Such exciting news!

Chi Epsilon's Pref Parties are this Saturday. Wish them luck!