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Originally Posted by AGDee
Yes, Therese is currently the Recruitment Consultant for Great Lakes 2 (Ontario, Buffalo and the three southern Michigan chapters)! She spent a long time on the Collegiate Programming team. She was also the CA at Alpha Pi when I first became a CA. She is one of the many VST in Michigan that I think of as the "Leslie" VST, because Leslie W. was so dedicated and inspirational to us that we wanted to stay involved. She was our PDC when I was a new member/collegian and then was the PDC when I was first a CA at Zeta Alpha. She was probably an "Area Supervisor" or the DCO when you were at Chi. I remember thinking "I want to be a Leslie someday".
I remember your FA too, because Chi was under me when I was on the Finance Team and working with 13-South (before the changes in Provinces in '97). It was one of the chapters I never had to worry about then because the FA had been in place so long she had the finance reporting down to a science.
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You know, now that I think about it - there is another CA that I remember (Michelle G). Now that I think about it, I'm trying to remember if Therese was our CA before becoming PDC, or if I'm remembering her only as PDC and Michelle was the CA? I was elected to my first term on EC as a freshman, so I was still learning what all the roles were and who was who! I know that Therese was very involved with our chapter and remember meeting her multiple times, so I was thinking at first she was an advisor then jumped up to PD? (The memory gets foggy over the years!)
Our FA was a very dedicated lady - she was also very involved with our House Corp. We had another woman (Janet E) on our House Corp who was very involved - she'd show up to plant flowers, etc. We didn't have a whole lot of alumnae support (meaning a variety of different individuals involved), but the ladies who were there did a lot to try to help us!
I always thought that I would have had more constant involvement since graduating. (I did participate a little - a semester as an advisor, which I had to give up b/c the following school year I became housemother while taking some grad classes.
Then I started off as secretary for our alumnae group, but then I ended up moving to Ohio.) But I always thought I would be one of the "super involved" people too - the "Leslie W" type person you're mentioning, I suppose. (I am fairly certain that she was either our Area Supervisor or involved somehow with Chi while I was on EC - the name sounds very familiar. If I'm thinking of the same person, she'd be Leslie R.W., correct?)
I think that it was so heartbreaking/emotionally draining for many of us when Chi closed, that I needed to take a breather from holding an office or a leadership role. (Especially since I became pregnant with my first child right around that same time - and then became pregnant with my second child while the first was only 5 months old.
Had my hands full for awhile.
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But, now they are 3 and 2, and its much easier now to add in some Alpha Gam responsibilities than it was while trying to juggle 2 infants.
Actually, they love going over to the chapter house with me - at Christmas time, they made cut out ornaments from dough with the girls (while I reviewed and signed some reports), etc. Its fun for them to get a bunch of attention from the girls when we drop by.
(At least I'm only 33 - I still have time to try to squeeze in a few of the Honors despite having had a break in service earlier
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