AI is Alumna Initation and to become an alumna initate you must be sponsored by either three alumna in good standing, a alumna assocation, or a colligeate chapter.

And my question is what was Octavia Andrew Rush's nick name? (if you have the sisters book you should be able to get his one pretty easy)

Wasn't it "Little Ollie" or something like that? I'll double check when I visit my house today!

texas*princess - woodland violets grow in the wild and in my front yard!! I make violet ice cubes every year, but someday, I'm going to try to make violet jelly!

Violet Ice Cubes???? That sounds so awesome!! How would one go about making violet jelly??

Is my "Little Ollie" right?! I'll wait, just to be sure...

For violet ice cubes: pick the wild violets when they're in bloom, and wash them ever so gently. If you can find an ice cube tray with round or another nice shape, all the better. but what you do is fill the tray halfway, and put the very wet violet on top. Once there's a film of ice on the cube, fill the cubes the rest of the way, and that way, the violet will be suspended in the middle of the cube! My wonderful mama has offered her freezer, should I decide to make a huge amount of these this year! I just have a standard size refrigerator/freezer, so this is a godsend!!

There's a recipe in the Alpha Delta Pi cookbook for the Violet jelly. It takes a gazillion violets to make properly, but looks SO pretty!!

Another idea is to dip the freshly picked violets in (pasturized!) egg white, then in superfine sugar, and allow them to dry. These look simply gorgeous on cakes & petit fours!!

I've never had any luck in drying them, although a florist cousin on mine has done so in a microwave (you can't use a microwave that you intend to cook in!). The color just fades to nothing.

All this and the ChemLawn people want me to buy their product to kill my beautiful violets - HAH!

Thats really close, but not quite.

Okay, it's Little Occie!!

(and my violets are in full bloom!!)


I need this for my own curiosity! What does it take to become a Diamond Four Point Chapter?

*bump*

I wish I had my Alpha manual right now to see if I found it there :)

I'm only guessing. My Alpha manual is somewhere in storage in Mississippi, and I don't think the answer is in there anyways.
Part of the things it takes to become a Diamond Four Point (collegiate) chapter:
Making quota.
Having a certain GPA.
Having no debts to the international organization and paying all international fees/dues on time.
Having no recuritment infractions.

Ok that's all I can think of.... can anyone add to that or correct me if i'm wrong?