The 2012 Convention thread: Did your group have one? Did you go? Share!

[TPA85]

Originally Posted by WhiteRose1912

We had our centennial this year, back in Ann Arbor. It was my very first Convention. I roomed with a couple undergrads from one of our Florida chapters, and TPA85, the person I can point to as the reason I joined Theta Phi in the first place. I'm pretty sure we made the undergrads crazy.

My favorite things about convention were:
-The tour of Ann Arbor when we got to place white roses on the graves of some of our Founders. It was especially awesome because we had some decendants in attendance and they were able to tell us things about the family that aren't just "textbook knowledge" about our Founders. We also got to visit the original house in this picture of the Founders:

It has been turned into a triplex and people live there so we weren't able to go in but many chapters took pictures in front of it.



- SONGFEST! If we just had a weeklong songfest, I'd go. The energy in the room was awesome and it was nice to just have fun with everyone.

[NutBrnHair]

Convention 2012 was amazing. After attending 15 of them, I can honestly say that they just get better every time!

Highlights for me...

• Our first Make-a-Wish child was with us 10 years after her wish was granted at Convention 2002
• Model Initiation performed beautifully by Mu Chapter (Cal-Berkeley)
• Meeting xo_kathy after being friends on GreekChat for 8 years
• Governing Council's video of "Call Me Maybe" at Revelry
• Anna Funderburk Buckner, Alpha Beta (Auburn) being elected S.T.B.
• Jane Sutton, NPC Chair and Alpha Xi Delta, being a good sport as we sang the "Chi O Hokey Pokey"
• Dent Partee, 95-yr-old alumna winning a Lifetime Service Award
• Current G.H.s escorting Former Council members at the President's Banquet
• Jean Mrasek being honored
• Unbelievably "spot-on" keynote by Amazing Race winner and Chi O Sister Cindy Chiang Halvorsen
• Nancy Utley Jacobs, Woman of Achievement, saying, "Congratulations to all us women who do way too much, but do it smashingly well."
• The Foundation raising over $50K at the Owl Tree
• Beth Chapman's crazy, fun, high tech Revelry
• Songs from the "PersepheTones" a.k.a. the Convention Chorus
• Having lunch with the delegates from my initiating chapter when they were given the Award of Achievement
• Floating down the Lazy River at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge the day after Convention ended!