South Carolina!
 

IHQ posted on FB yesterday: Alpha Gamma Delta will colonize at the University of South Carolina next fall!

[I don't think that's been posted on LaneSig's GreekChat Comprehensive Jumbo List of Who's Going Where.]

It's not posted there yet because his list includes Colonizations for Fall 2011-Spring 2012 only. He starts new lists at the beginning of each school calendar year.

Yay us!

There is a dinner event on the USC campus during the first week of November for Alumnae and IC folks. If it was a weekend, I would go but it's a weekday.

Congrats to AGD and to South Carolina! Hope your colony is a great success!

Infosessions -

Monday, Sept. 17
7 or 8:30 PM at Russell House Theater

Wednesday, Sept. 19
7 or 8:30 PM at Russell House Theater

Thursday, Sept. 20
7 or 8:30 PM at Moore Business School's Lumpkin Auditorium

Does anyone know what the chapter name will be?

http://www.alphagammadeltahouses.com...na-colony.html

This is an educated guess: Theta Omega. Austin Peay was Theta Psi.

I just need to take a moment to say how impressed I've been with this colonization. The support, the staffing are amazing; the house all ready for new members to enjoy; the social media presence has been thoughtful - great pictures on facebook and on twitter; and I can only imagine the energy happening in the house right now. It seems that everything that could be done to make this colonization a success has been done - including an Open House for parents yesterday prior to the interviews starting.

Interviews are happening now through Wednesday. Invitational Parties on Thursday and Friday. Bid pick up is Saturday. Bid day is next Sunday.

Very eager to see what happens here.

I mean seriously. Look at these cookies:

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...90642072_n.jpg

My sister came into town this weekend and she gave me a button that says, "AGD loves the Gamecocks".

I really wanted to go to bid day/pledging festivities, but it's a Sunday. If initiation continues to be planned for the beginning of December, I am so going!

Getting to see my sister AND welcome many more Alpha Gams into the sisterhood is a double whammy awesome weekend!

ETA: My sister, by being on staff at USC, has the inside scoop!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ps5b4d249d.jpg

Found out last week that a friend's daughter is interested in the colonization - parents were going to an info session this weekend. Hoping for a great colony at USC.

Today, I took a picture of the very same wall decoration at the new Zeta Alpha house, in the same spot, in the stairwell!

I have heard that AGD wants to colonize with 300-350 girls - is that typical size for USC?

Total is 285. The largest has 358 members, the smallest has 275. I don't know all the rules, but I thought a sorority could colonize only up to total.