Ancient History Recruitment Thread

[monmouthian]

The next day was bid day. The way bid day worked at Monmouth in 1987 was that every rushee had to wait in her dorm room (all women lived on campus) and wait for a knock between 4 and 5. Your rush counselor or a sorority member would come by to deliver a bid or tell you "no bid." The rushees were supposed to wait in their white dresses. Once you had your bid, you were to go immediately to Wallace Hall (an academic building) where you would join your pledge class before running out to meet your sorority.

At 3:30, I was showered, dressed and ready to go. I read a book and waited for a knock. At around 4:15, someone knocked. I opened the door to see a woman in a white dress. She handed me an envelope. I opened it and it said


BUTTER PECAN

aka

PI BETA PHI!

I was so happy. I yelled and hugged the Pi Phi who brought the bid, and then half ran/half walked up the hill to Wallace Hall to meet my new pledge class.

Once we got to Wallace, they directed us to different classrooms. We could see the sorority women standing outside on the lawn waiting for us. The Pi Phis and KDs were all wearing white dresses. Kappas were all wearing black dresses. After all the pledges were sorted out, they sent us all running out of the front doors of Wallace Hall to meet our new sororities. There was lots of hugging and crying.

After the hugging and crying stopped, we had a Panhellenic candle lighting on the lawn of Wallace Hall. Everyone was given a candle and we stood in a big circle. Each sorority sang one of their songs and we passed the flames from person to person.

Afterwards, we were taken to Holt House for bid day festivities. Two out of three girls from my freshman orientation group (the volleyball player and the Pork Queen) were also in my pledge class.

It really was an awesome pledge class. One of my pledge sisters ended up sharing my major and is one of my favorite people to this day. I know I would have been happy in any of the sororities, but I'm really happy to have ended up where I did.