new colony to join allegheny's greek life

[sweetie adpi]

hello all... some expansion news...

allegheny college in meadville, pa had three presentations for sorority expansion this fall. the groups that presented were alpha xi delta, kappa delta, and delta delta delta. azd was on campus til i believe the seventies, kd and tri delta would be new to allegheny.

allegheny currently has four sororities (adpi, axo, theta, and kkg) and five fraternities (dtd, phi psi, theta chi, sae, and phi delts) active on campus. the most recent colonization of a new sorority was alpha delta pi in '83.

i believe that they'll announce who was chosen once it has been approved by the dean of students, which at this point will probably be in the spring after winter break.


also, some good news for HB - the incoming panhellenic council president is an adpi.

[kddani]

Sorry to crash...

That's really interesting, I didn't know that KD has presented! I'm always happy to see more chapters of sororities in our general area.

[AZ-AlphaXi]

congratulations to all three presenting ...

Allegheny College was host to Alpha Xi's Alpha Rho chapter from 1926 until 1970 ...

[honeychile]

My roomie was Chapter Advisor for HB when it was colonized, which meant that a few of us had a well-worn path to Allegheny College to help with the colonization. It's somewhat surprising to me that there are only four sororities there now, but best of luck to those who presented!

[sweetie adpi]

hey honey, i believe at the time HB colonized, it was the fifth sorority.

sorority chapters became smaller between then and the mid nineties, going from total being i believe 80 or more down to 65. by that point AGD closed, so for the past 10 years or so there have only been 4 chapters.

when i joined adpi, DTD was just recolonizing, so there were now 4 fraternities back on campus (ax rho closed before my time, then delts and fijis in the nineties), phi delts recolonized right after i became an alumna of the chapter.

all four sororities have been at or very close to total for the past four years, and they've had around thirty girls either drop out of recruitment/go unpledged for the past few years, so i think panhel and the administration believe that adding a chapter would both add energy to the existing chapters, and be a good addition to the campus. i'm interested to see how it goes for everyone, i think that it could be a really great thing for sorority life at allegheny.

ta kala, i heard that everyone did a great job with their presentation and everyone was very impressed, but a friend of mine specifically told me that she enjoyed the women of kd quite a bit and thought that you were great representatives of your organization. as i said, i know that all three orgs were greatly represented, but she happened to really connect with you. so here's to you and all three organizations that presented! cheers!

[Hopeful_Bubbles]

Wow, I didn't know about this either. I'm pulling for my Tri-Delt ladies of course, but congratulations to whaever group is selected.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by sweetie adpi

hey honey, i believe at the time HB colonized, it was the fifth sorority.

sorority chapters became smaller between then and the mid nineties, going from total being i believe 80 or more down to 65. by that point AGD closed, so for the past 10 years or so there have only been 4 chapters.

when i joined adpi, DTD was just recolonizing, so there were now 4 fraternities back on campus (ax rho closed before my time, then delts and fijis in the nineties), phi delts recolonized right after i became an alumna of the chapter.

all four sororities have been at or very close to total for the past four years, and they've had around thirty girls either drop out of recruitment/go unpledged for the past few years, so i think panhel and the administration believe that adding a chapter would both add energy to the existing chapters, and be a good addition to the campus. i'm interested to see how it goes for everyone, i think that it could be a really great thing for sorority life at allegheny.

ta kala, i heard that everyone did a great job with their presentation and everyone was very impressed, but a friend of mine specifically told me that she enjoyed the women of kd quite a bit and thought that you were great representatives of your organization. as i said, i know that all three orgs were greatly represented, but she happened to really connect with you. so here's to you and all three organizations that presented! cheers!

Thanks for the status report! When we colonized ADPi, we had something like 90 amazing women show up for Pref. I was simply amazed by the quality of women there - rich, richer, richest! I ended up seriously rushing four, and when we got to membership selection, I remember saying that, of the four I had rushed, three of them were capable of paying the dues for the entire chapter! And all beautiful AND nice!!! I still keep up with one of them, as we have a mutual friend. My roomie, whom I mentioned, grew up in Meadville - her father was then Chairman of the Communications Department at Allegheny - but unfortunately, isn't in the official Colonization picture. She was 8 months pregnant at the time, and was in the little advisor's room when they took it. I'm just totally psyched to have correctly remembered which other sororities were there at the time!

Assisting a colonization has to be one of THE most fulfilling aspects of being an alumna!