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Originally Posted by adpiucf
People are usually 50/50 with her-- love her or hate her. She was on the cover of the last Adelphean magazine. Personally, I think she'd be a rather controversial speaker at an event b/c people are so divided over her.
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You know, normally I would have agreed with you on that, but after having met her, I really think she would be an awesome speaker at Convention. I say that because, one-on-one, she is nothing like her television persona. She really has a way of listening to you, and she doesn't force herself or ideas into a conversation. Also, she truly enjoyed talking about ADPi, and has at least two family members who are also ADPis. She told me what the connection was with the girl who is now at Georgia Southern, but I don't remember exactly-the music was loud, and she was talking into my ear so that I could hear her, but I don't think I got it all. I know it was in the Adelphean. Oh, I meant to tell everyone that she also said she sent "several" copies of it to her mother! As she should, ha ha! Without her TV make-up and in a noncombative environment she is just so less "threatening," and comes off much softer. Also, the guy she was with was in a fraternity in college, which was actually the reason they were at this event-it was the fiftieth birthday of one of his fraternity brothers. And, we talked about some rush, sigh, recruitment issues. She made a very cute remark about how I was feeling about something that happened recently with rush, which I won't repeat, but believe me, she can relive her sorority days!! Also, I imagine she gave a good bit of time, at least permission, for the Adelphean article. So, while I hadn't thought about her speaking at an ADPi related event, I bet she would be a very interesting, as well as heartwarming, speaker. And I would most definitely want to be there!
By the way, she is so much shorter than I thought she would be. And, she wasn't all dressed up to a T-the event was casual, and she just fit right in with the rest of us. When I get the pictures we took (we looked at the first one on the person's digital camera, and it looked a little light. I said, "That's OK," but she said, "Nope, we gotta take another one!"), I'll post, and yall can PM me your email addresses and I'll send them to you. That is, if I look halfway decent in them!
