Convention 2007

[jwright25]

Originally Posted by honeychile

ACK!!!! Who won what?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

hahahaha! I absolutely crashed last night - I had every intention of posting but didn't. I posted in one other forum but have no clue if it was even coherent. I didn't get to meet up with everyone as a group as I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off, but I think I was on the shuttle from the airport with ADPiAkron, but didn't figure that out till later in the week and didn't see her again to mention it!

I have a few notes that I took. I combined my list and the list of one of my advisors to come up with these:

** Golden Lion (in random order) - Thirteen total awarded
Beta Tau - University of Akron
Alpha Eta - Kansas State University
Epsilon Nu - Ashland University
Kappa - Samford
Beta Omega - Auburn University
Alpha Kappa - University of Tennessee, Knoxville (my girls!!)
Zeta Nu - Clemson University
Eta Xi - Presbyterian College
Delta - University of Texas
Eta Epsilon - Miami University (the one in Ohio)
Delta Phi - University of Missouri, Kansas City (first time winner!)
Zeta Sigma - College of Charleston (first time winner!)
Gamma Theta - Mount Union College (first time winner!)

** Stanard Leadership (in random order) - Twelve total awarded
Eta - University of Alabama
Beta Epsilon - University of South Carolina
Delta Nu - Southwest Missouri State University
Beta Sigma - Mercer University
Delta Mu - Sam Houston State University
Gamma Iota - University of Florida
Delta Upsilon - University of Tennessee, Martin
Zeta Beta - North Carolina State University
Zeta Rho - Vanderbilt University
Beta Eta - University of Michigan
Eta Lambda - Albright College
Gamma Phi - East Tennessee State University (my girls!!)

I didn't take down the list of Excellence, Achievement, or Diamond Four-Point Chapters - sorry! - but I do remember Alpha Iota got Diamond Four-Point for sure and either Achievement or Excellence - cause I remember being excited for Honeychile! There were several chapters who moved on up the ladder.

It was a wonderful evening with lots of excitement. Our chapters are accomplishing great things out there, and so many of them have taken great strides to receive this recognition. Our new Grand Council is a great group of women who will do a great job in leading us for the next two years:

International President - Claire Brown Gwaltney
International VP of Collegiate Membership - Anne Charnock
International VP of Collegiate Membership - Susan Swicord Matthews
International VP of Alumnae Membership - Lorraine Alderman Testa
International VP of Finance - Tammie Pinkston
International VP of Organizational Relations - Rosalyn Doze Williams
International Secretary - Sydnee Jack
Executive Director - Linda Welch Ablard (appointed rather than elected, so I believe she will be continuing)
And our new NPC Delegate will be former IP - Kathryn Peddy Goddard

[azureblue]

Convention was amazing! I had such a good time meeting new sisters and reconnecting with old ones. I am so PROUD to be an ADPi! There are great things in our future! I am also thrilled that the chapter that I advise, Delta Phi, University of Missouri - Kansas City, won their first Golden Lion! There was so much excitement, tears of joy and pride that evening. Our province also had another Golden Lion winner - Alpha Eta, Kansas State.

I had the chance to meet ASUADPi, Polarpi, ADPiConniebama, adpideltaup and firstandfinest. What a wonderful group of ladies!

Some other fun Convention tidbits:

Convention 2009 will be held in ORLANDO!!!!

We celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Adelphian

Virginia Stafford, Alpha Beta and past Grand President, has attended 26 conventions, making her the winner of the most conventions attended! We had so much fun with the Convention Song!

We had an alumna in attendance from Delta, Texas, who was initiated in 1934!

Grand Council introduced the 200,000th ADPi initiate! She is the daughter of our District 5 Team Director.

We had the opportunity to participate in the TAKE program, which is a self-defense course in honor of Ali Kemp. You can read about the program here: http://takedefense.org/.

The 2007-20008 Leadership Consultants were announced:
Jenell Bukky - Eta Kappa, Cal State - San Bernadino
Lindsay Hoogher - Gamma Mu, Missouri State
Jessica Lamb - Eta Zeta, Southern Miss
Victoria Moger - Gamma Mu, Missouri State
Callison Rawl - Zeta Nu, Clemson
Jodi Schwaben - Beta Tau, University of Akron
Kimberly Woiwood - Alpha Theta, University of Washington

You can view convention photos at: http://adpiconvention2007.snapfish.com/snapfish. All albums will be loaded by July 8, and will be available for 90 days.
***PM me for the Password if you need it!**

[BBelleADPi]

Originally Posted by jwright25

It was a wonderful evening with lots of excitement. Our chapters are accomplishing great things out there, and so many of them have taken great strides to receive this recognition. Our new Grand Council is a great group of women who will do a great job in leading us for the next two years:

International President - Claire Brown Gwaltney
International VP of Collegiate Membership - Anne Charnock
International VP of Collegiate Membership - Susan Swicord Matthews
International VP of Alumnae Membership - Lorraine Alderman Testa
International VP of Finance - Tammie Pinkston
International VP of Organizational Relations - Rosalyn Doze Williams
International Secretary - Sydnee Jack
Executive Directory - Linda Welch Ablard (appointed rather than elected, so I believe she will be continuing)
And our new NPC Delegate will be former IP - Kathryn Peddy Goddard

One of my former pledge sisters is on the Grand Council! She's been an extremely active alum for years, and lives in the town of my collegiate chapter. Hmm...I bet it'll be kinda weird for the chapter now, knowing that one of the Grand Poobahs could walk into one of their meetings at any time!

By the way, azureblue, I'd love the password to look at the pictures! Thanks!

[polarpi]

Bri, I don't think all the photos will be up until this coming Sunday at the earliest...

[ASUADPi]

to them not getting the pictures up sooner.

[honeychile]

Congratulations to your pledge sister, BBelle! Anne Charnock was PD when I was Chapter Advisor.

Polarpi, I think the new AI president was at the Panhellenic Luncheon. If it's the woman I think, she's really incredible! Was she blonde, very (um...) fit, and bubbly without being silly? She impressed some jaded alumnae at that luncheon, too! I'm positively thrilled for Alpha Iota!!

I wouldn't mind seeing the photos, if someone would PM the password to me, too. I've already told another sister that, if I get to wear mouse ears with an azure blue ADPi bow on them, I am so ready to go to Disney World!

Congratulations to ALL of the ADPi Award Winners!!!!

[polarpi]

Honey, that sounds right (I'll PM you the name and photo password, once I get my papers out )

[FormerADPiTCC]

The password to view the pictures is



Edited by Mod: As per Convention request, the password is to be kept private. Please PM FormerADPiTCC or polarpi for the password.