[greekmom2]

Aaannnd without further adeiu- here is the last entry for this very, very long rectruitment story.



Let me just say that I am a lifelong Baptist tea-totaller, but after two years of this I was in need of … a BIG bottle of vodka or scotch…or maybe Jack Daniels. On bid day I had morphed into a full-blown stressed out fruit-cake mother, and she was fine. She told me that they would go to the rec center for dinner, and they would open their bid cards after dinner and the Rho Gamma reveal. She warned me that they would go immediately to bid night activities, so I probably wouldn’t hear anything from her until later that evening. Longest evening of my life outside of my children’s birth. Around 10 I got a call. I heard happy voices all around her from excited girls. She was walking back to her dorms with some of the girls in her new pledge class….


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Root Beer Floats.


On that night I wrote my first entry on this forum…a thank you for all of the great information we had gotten. It wasn’t always what she wanted to hear, but it helped her. It still helps me understand her world a little better.

Under my regular user name I am AXOmom and my daughter is an AXO at the University of Oregon.


The first thing she did was send a facebook message to her Rho Gamma at Party State telling her how much her support meant to her and how well it all turned out. The Rho Gamma wrote back and told her how happy she was for her and that the message made her cry. She and the Raspberry Parfaits were Kappa Kappa Gammas.


The Donuts that she also preffed at U of O and loved at Party State were Kappa Deltas. Her roommate pledged them and was very happy there.


The Apple Pies were the one group very close to their code name – Alpha Phis. When her boyfriend asked to pin her, an Alpha Phi was with her- she, along with Brooke’s KD roommate and a Candied Apple, were the only non-AXO’s that Brooke invited to that pinning.


The Chocolate Cakes were Pi Phis. A very different group on her two campuses but she she liked both.

The Sorbets/new colony were Tri- Deltas. They got a house the following year right across the street from hers, and as expected did a beautiful job with it. They are doing well as far as she knows.


Two years later the Chocolate Strawberries were added as a colony. They were Kappa Alpha Thetas and next fall will be their first formal recruitment.


Jason, who gave her the good advice, was an SAE.


The first boy she met on campus- cute, clueless boy(about sororities at least) - was a Beta Theta Pi. He’s the guy who pinned her a year and a half later.


There have been members of many, many other sororities and fraternities who affected, influenced and changed her outlook on the whole thing during this last few years and whom she counts as friends.


She had her ups and downs in her sorority. There were days that she loved everything about it and days she thought she made a big mistake (those were rare). She had girls she loved and girls that from time to time drove her up and down every wall of their chapter room (I’m sure she drove more than a few up the walls as well). She became social chair one year (hence the emphasis on social priorities), and it led to a change in her career path. She decided she wanted to become an event planner and she’s pursuing that. It isn’t an experience she would give up for anything and although the road to get there seemed eternal (like this story), she’s always been glad she made it.