Is Sarah Palin a sorority member?

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by breathesgelatin

Just being devil's advocate, but Pi Phi AIed Barbara Bush (the elder, the twin Barbara is a Theta from Yale). And that was post-First Ladydom.

What I saw written about it, suggested that Mrs. Bush wanted to join Pi Phi because she felt an affinity for it and many of her closest friends were Pi Phis. So who knows who approached whom?

Are there any other first lady AIs?

That sounds like Pi Phi does a sort of honorary AI, and my group just doesn't do that. (I say honorary in the sense that I doubt Barbara is attending local AC meetings or advising a chapter.) I think she was also popular across party lines since she wasn't a politician at all and was just a nice, unthreatening cutie.

[SWTXBelle]

Barbara Bush had literacy as her "cause" - so the Pi Phi connection makes sense. She was very active and vocal in the philanthropy that Pi Phi works for, so I think it was a win/win for both. Pi Phis correct me if I'm wrong (I know I read about it in my former mother-in-law's Arrow, but I don't remember distinctly) but I do not believe it was an "honorary" - I think she was an AI like any other AI, in that she was seen as someone who met membership criteria and could contribute to the group.

If Sarah Palin had belonged to a local chapter that went national (although come to think of it, LBJ never was initiated into Pike, which is what the Black Stars became, but I digress) or was heavily involved in a philanthropy of an NPC, then I think AI might be an option. With what we know now, I'd say it's not likely.