Stories of Sisterhood

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by WhiteDaisy128

My story of sisterhood is quite long, and some of you already know it if you've been around Greek Chat long enough. It was just published in Delta Gamma's ANCHORA (our magazine). The online version can be found here:

http://digital.watkinsprinting.com/publication/?i=9605

My story starts on page 17...on the right half of the page, it's called, "She may have Died, but I am my Mother's Sister."

I have read this before, but I re-read it and I STILL cried.

[KappaKittyCat]

Originally Posted by WhiteDaisy128

My story of sisterhood is quite long, and some of you already know it if you've been around Greek Chat long enough. It was just published in Delta Gamma's ANCHORA (our magazine). The online version can be found here:

http://digital.watkinsprinting.com/publication/?i=9605

My story starts on page 17...on the right half of the page, it's called, "She may have Died, but I am my Mother's Sister."

I too am crying. That's awesome.

[ZTA72]

Originally Posted by WhiteDaisy128

My story starts on page 17...on the right half of the page, it's called, "She may have Died, but I am my Mother's Sister."

That is such a beautiful story. I was quite impressed with the entire magazine and the other stories of sisterhood. Thank you for the link.

[Penguin08]

Originally Posted by WhiteDaisy128

My story of sisterhood is quite long, and some of you already know it if you've been around Greek Chat long enough. It was just published in Delta Gamma's ANCHORA (our magazine). The online version can be found here:

http://digital.watkinsprinting.com/publication/?i=9605

My story starts on page 17...on the right half of the page, it's called, "She may have Died, but I am my Mother's Sister."

OMG... Thank you for sharing that! It was such a beautiful story.

[nittanygirl]

Originally Posted by WhiteDaisy128

My story of sisterhood is quite long, and some of you already know it if you've been around Greek Chat long enough. It was just published in Delta Gamma's ANCHORA (our magazine). The online version can be found here:

http://digital.watkinsprinting.com/publication/?i=9605

My story starts on page 17...on the right half of the page, it's called, "She may have Died, but I am my Mother's Sister."

I know this is old, but this is absolutely a beautiful story of sisterhood.
I'm sorry for the loss of your mother, but very happy you found such amazing sisters. Thank you for sharing your story with us.

[UofM-TKE]

Originally Posted by WhiteDaisy128

My story of sisterhood is quite long, and some of you already know it if you've been around Greek Chat long enough. It was just published in Delta Gamma's ANCHORA (our magazine). The online version can be found here:

http://digital.watkinsprinting.com/publication/?i=9605

My story starts on page 17...on the right half of the page, it's called, "She may have Died, but I am my Mother's Sister."

Bumping because this is beautiful.

[WhiteDaisy128]

Originally Posted by UofM-TKE

Bumping because this is beautiful.

Thanks UofM-TKE! You made my night. I can't believe it's been almost 10 years. Funny how time just keeps going.

Andrea and I are still dear friends...I recently have moved to MD (we were in England), and our first house guests in our new home were Andrea, her husband, and little girl! We went to the Maryland Zoo together and here are the pics to prove it!

Andrea and me:


And the kids (my two anchorboys and her little DG Legacy):

[AnchorAlumna]

How sweet! LIKE!

[libramunoz]

My story is simple and yet complete. When my Aunt was dx with cancer in 1999, the family huddled around her and we knew that we were going to have to be there for her and do anything that we could with her. Being her neice and I was working at the time, I did everything that I could do to help her.
Fast forward, she was able to survive (breast cancer) and lived until 2003. On my Mom's b-day, Nov 1, 2003, my Aunt had come home from work (and I just happened to be off that day) and said she needed to go to the hospital. From the day that I took her in, she never left. The first weekend that she was in the hospital, her sisters from PDK came into the hospital to visit her. They brought her flowers and candy and something else. Don't remember because I was outside crying my eyes out because of the vision that I had just had about my Aunt. But she was so happy to see them. At the time, she was their chapter president.
They were coming from Ennis (which was where the chapter was located) and at that time, she was in Mexia in the hosp which is about 50 to 60 miles away. When she died 14 days later, after I'd called my Mom at the hospital (I was there with her for the last week of her life and there with her the day she died along with one of her sons holding her hand) and told her I was able to call the Chapter VP and another of the sorors and let her know what happened. They were so sorry and asked if there was anything that they could do to help us. I told them I'd let them know.
At the funeral, all of her Sorors showed up and performed their services for her along with my sorority. It was just so moving to see all of us. Her sisters continued to stay in contact with me and the family after my Aunt passed away. It was hard for me because we are both members of DST and she was my Aunt that I'd known and lived next too on the farm for 21 years. But both my Sorors and hers were so concerned about me and the family that it helped me to be able to pick up the pieces of my life at that time and keep my head from falling into a giant chasm.
FF to 2008. In cleaning out a storage shed on the property, I knew that she had some of PDK's belonging's (since she was the Chapter Pres at the time) I found them again. I was able to call up the current Chapter Pres (and she knew EXACTLY who I was) and let her know that I needed to get their belongings back to them. I was able to meet with her and talk with her and it was like they still wanted to know how everything was going and how the family was--even after 5 years had passed. It was just amazing to see that sisterhood, even through death, can still be present.

[LucyKKG]

Oh wow, I cried, too. How sweet!

[WhiteDaisy128]

Thanks ladies. It meant a lot for me to share the story because so many people have jaded images of Greek Life (not that anyone who gets the ANCHORA would, but that's besides the point). And, obviously, the Greek message board I wrote about is Greek Chat...and user HannahGirl is Andrea from my story.

[GammaPhi88]

I'm bumping this up because I've got a story.

This weekend, I broke up my boyfriend of almost a year. Even though I ended everything, I still felt miserable. Recruitment is approaching, and in the middle of practicing bumping, I burst into tears almost out of the blue. My sisters rallied around me...even those I didn't know that well. My big whisked me out to dinner, and when I got home, girls in my pledge class took me out to a party at one of my favorite fraternities. The next day, I was still feeling down, and about ten or so sisters came up to me when I arrived at work week and asked if I needed to talk; and that night, some sisters took me out for dinner. And over the weekend, sisters from all pledge classes; even those who I didn't know that well (theres 100+ in my chapter) texted me or facebooked me telling me that they are there if they needed to talk.

It was weird...I didn't think I would get support like this because it was just a breakup, and not a bad one at that. But the fact that my sisters are that supportive was amazing, and I know that no matter what happens, they are there for me.

[kappa_dancer]

Spring semester of last year was probably the hardest time I've faced in my life so far. Everything around me seemed to be falling apart and each day it was becoming more than I thought I could handle. One weekend in particular stands out. I had gotten locked out of my bedroom in my apartment on Friday night (thanks maintenance!) after all my roommates had gone home for the weekend, leaving me with only my car keys and my cell phone.

Saturday afternoon (after getting back in my room) I had gone to eat with a friend of mine, and on my way home I was rear ended by an F-250. I drive a Corolla, so it wasn't pretty. Fortunately, I wasn't hurt. As I was standing on the side of the road dealing with the police, I notice another car pull off and park in front of my car. One of the older sisters gets out and runs up and hugs me, checking to see if I was ok. At this point, I didn't know her very well so the fact that she did that meant a lot to me.

After I got home from dealing with the car accident, I decided to take a nap. I wake up to find that my kind-of boyfriend ( I don't even know what we were) had decided to let me know that we were done and that he never wanted to speak to me again on FACEBOOK. My feelings were very much involved with this guy, so obviously I was devasted, especially given what happened earlier in the afternoon. I texted my new member coordinator (she knew about a lot of my problems) and told her that I finally reached my breaking point. She immediately called me, and even though she was home for the weekend, she stayed on the phone with me for 45 minutes, calming me down and letting me know I'd be ok. She and a few other sisters would text me every so often to check up on me and making sure everything was alright. Without their help, I don't think I would have made it through that night.

[Sister Havana]

Here is a great story from my alma mater!

Sorority rallies behind sister following cancer diagnosis

[Little32]

An in-town radio station was running a contest for Lion King tickets. You could either win a costume contest or a trivia contest to get the tickets. I had never seen the show and had heard so many good things about it that I thought I would try to go a win them.

I went down to the venue, with no costume, because I figured that I could win the trivia contest (because, I confess, I love the movie). Anyway, when I got there, no one else was there, so I figured that I was a shoe-in. After I had waited about an hour, at the last possible moment, this woman arrived in costume. The DJ told me that in order to participate in the trivia contest, I would have to have a costume, otherwise the other lady would get the tickets.

So I quickly tried to find a makeshift costume, tying my scarf around my waist for a tail. A woman that I had been chatting with offered to do "cat" make up for me, because I did not have any make-up. As we walked toward her car and I saw her plates, I realized that she was a soror.

Long story, she made me up, and went about her way. I won the tickets, which were excellent seats, and I never had a chance to thank her for her help. She did this for no reason other than the kindness in her heart.

This is just one of the many examples of the sisterliness that I have seen again and again among my sorors, even in the smallest ways. The Alpha Kappa Alpha women that I have encountered have always been so sisterly to me, even when I was a complete stranger. This was one of the things that really drew me to this sisterhood in the end.

Oh yes, and a cyber shout out to that soror who took time from her day to lend me a helping hand.