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Rush was spread out over a couple weeks, only on weekends, so it was 3 weekends in total. I had so enjoyed my time at the Airedale Terrier party and knew that was the only sorority I wanted to be in. I spent the week in Rich and Michael’s dorm room watching out the window for Airedales to walk by (because their dorm was more in the middle of campus where you could see a lot of people). Each sorority had baseball type jackets, which were worn year round, and each sorority had a different color jacket. I kept my eyes pealed for the Airedale jackets and would get excited whenever I saw one.
Around Wednesday, we got invitations for the second parties. The Airedale one was a grass skirt on the front with an invite to their Luau on the inside. I also received an invitation from the Labradors. I talked to Nancy and found out that she had not been invited back to any parties. What??? How can that happen??? Oh, she didn’t make grades. She’d had a 1.99 our first semester of college (a little too much partying I think!) and you had to have at least a 2.0 for every sorority on campus. Whoa! Grades matter? Who knew??? Well, I had a 3.8.. so if grades matter, then I have NOTHING to worry about, right? I sought reassurance from Michael, Rich, Karen and Theresa (they knew I didn’t want to be in their sorority and were OK with it) and they all assured me that I was the ideal sorority girl and I just had to pick where I wanted to go. I wasn’t quite so confident by this time.
So, Saturday comes and I go to the Airedale party only. If the Labradors couldn’t talk to me the first time, they didn’t get a second chance. Humph! But, I wondered now if maybe I should have given the Russian Toy Terrier a chance though. Kirsten really loved them when she went to their party. Oh well, what’s done is done. Renee was going back to all four parties. She liked things about each of them. She was so positive! We didn’t have to cut until Preference.
I went into Airedale Terrier very excited because I’d had such a good time before. I am pretty sure that I wore a floral print skirt and maroon sweater with black pumps and the same jewelry as before. The details on this one are sketchier, but I remember the food! They had a huge fruit platter with tropical fruits and toothpicks with the fluffy plastic things on them. They also had a fruit punch. The nametags were pineapples. The girls were in beach attire (shorts and t-shirts, not bikinis or anything). We talked for a long time and this blonde gal named Sherri, who I had talked to for a long time during the 50’s party, came by and chatted again. She was so nice and friendly. I really liked her. Some officers got up and talked about what our altruistic project was (we called it that, not philanthropy then), finances, leadership, etc. The President was especially impressive and was running for President of Student Government. I also heard that she had a 4.0! She was an incredible woman and I admired her a lot. Every single woman I met was friendly and fun. Libby was at that party and I was glad to see her there. All the girls I talked to seem to know things about me from high school.. like what clubs I was in, where I was from, etc. That really impressed me too. They seemed to really like me and I really liked them. During the party, we were each presented with a lei and a keychain with the sorority flowers on it. Yes, I wanted to be an Airedale. They kept singing this same song that got so stuck in my head. “I just wanna be an Airedale” I loved that song and hummed it constantly.
We would receive invitations to Preference by Wednesday. I was checking my mailbox over and over all day long and finally.. an envelope. Wait, and another envelope too! Two Preference invitations???
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Good hearted people make mistakes. 
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