Pi Beta Phi - University of Minnesota

2 Pi Beta P hi Legacy Society ($250,000 and above) Margy Hunt Herbert '83 and Brianna Herbert '16 Minnesota Alpha Society ($100,000 to $249,999) Add your name here! Wine and Silver Blue Society ($50,000 to $99,999) Anna Haag Sabiston '02 Angel Society ($25,000 to $49,999) Add your name here! Arrow Society ($15,000 to $24,999) Jacqueline Hjermstad Smith '55 Bridget O'Keefe Gidley '80 In memory of Bonnie Lane Eckenbeck '45 and Nancy Eckenbeck O'Keefe '45 Jill Ingvalson Fischer '86 Katherine Erickstad Schoneman '01 Halo Society ($10,000 to $14,999) Mary Cooke Mulier '59 In memory of Mary Hyde Murphy '59 Jeanne O'Hare '75 Kathleen Morrisey Porter '76 Paula Herbert Gamer '82 In memory of Irene Turner Christy '81 Judith Dutcher '83 Sisterhood Society ($5,000 to $9,999) Sue Knudson Dosal '66 In memory of Mary Hyde Murphy '59 Judy Pitblado Skoglund '69 In memory of Dianne Adair Hart '70 Kari Erickson Gill '76 Allyson Smith Aldrich, Ohio Eta '77 Martha Murphy '77 Elizabeth Mixson Brauer Hagberg '78 Lisa Gamel Scott, Colorado Alpha '81 Marcie Johnson '82 Wende Robinson Kotouc '82 Shannon Mary Fenlon Mather '83 In memory of Irene Turner Christy '81 Cynthia DeSimone North '88 Becky Schwartz Knutson '96 Susie Elling Shuler '01 Alisa Brooks Rudlang '02 Caroline Klohs Geiger '03 In honor of Nancy Huff Allen, Michigan Gamma '48 Ring Ching Society ($2,500 to $4,999) Margaret Paterson Becker '49 Marilyn Noeske Baldwin '50 Elizabeth Rost Wiens '57 Patricia Peterson Sander '60 Patricia Robl Brennan '63 Andrea Walling '65 In memory of Andrea Bonney Scott '42 Karen Beeth Kirt '69 Joan Velie Semmer '70 In memory of Dianne Adair Hart '70 Roxann Goertz '74 Pamela Burkley '76 Susan Mogck Block '77 Leane English Cerven '78 Teresa Battaglia '80 Joann Hageman Dougherty '80 Terry Sutton '81 Hollie List Yeager '84 Stacy Angelus Vucenich '85 Kelly Flanagan Fandel '89 Lindsay Glaser Payne '98 Allison O'Neill Tunheim '10 Carnation Society ($1,000 to $2,499) Rose Schottenbauer Andersen '53 Jo Etta DuBois McClintock '53 Barbara Hedin Bayley '57 Tanner Family Gift Judith Mannerberg Tanner '59 Katie Tanner Tarr '86 Barbara Brown Jordahl '72 In memory of Dianne Adair Hart '70 Mary Jean Petroski Higgins '74 Kimberly Mills Lewis '81 Jane-Anne Kirt Hill '82 Colleen Murphy Penwell '86 Carie Holmes Essig '89 Courtney Comb Sheldon '97 Jac Holmes '02 Join Your Pi Phi Sisters in Building the Future Add Your Name to Our List of Loyal Donors Today Campaign Progress by the Numbers As of October 20, 2021 $1 Million Goal $562,462 Total Commitments 131 Contributor Goal 90 Contributors W e are deeply grateful to the following sisters for committing a total of $562,462 to the Our Home. Continuing the Legacy at 1109 campaign. These sisters recognize the importance of ensuring the future of Minnesota Alpha and have demonstrated a sense of gratitude for their personal Pi Phi experience. We need and ask for your continued support. If you have not made a gift toward this important effort, there is still time! Each donor who contributes $2,500 or more will be recognized prominently in the renovated chapter house. Donors are listed by initiation year in their appropriate giving levels. If an error has been made in recording your gift, we sincerely apologize. Please contact our campaign coordinator at (785) 843-1661 with any corrections. W hen I went back to the Minnesota Alpha Chapter house on October 7, I was flooded with memories from my time living in the chapter house. I also noticed quite a few changes since I was a student at the University of Minnesota. The chapter has 133 members and only sophomores live in the house. The chapter owns another house behind the chapter house referred to as "the annex" to sleep additional members. There are 22 members who live in the main house and 13 in the annex. The chapter is so large that their meetings are held in a classroom on campus, typically starting with a potluck. There are 14 sororities at U of M compared to the 23 when I was on campus in the 1950s. I was a Panhellenic Rushing Chairman as a junior and found an old rushing book in my collection of college papers. When I looked up the list, I found that nine sororities are no longer on campus and three are new. We were limited to 58 members total — actives and pledges. Rushing is now called Formal Recruitment and the term pledge has been replaced by New Member. The basic structure of the inside of the house looks pretty much like it did when I was there 65 years ago. The remodel is to completely redo the downstairs, making it an open area with a more efficient kitchen. They are also redoing the bathrooms and changing the third floor into an eight-person suite with a larger bathroom. The President lives in a room on the first floor with her own bathroom. The "Housemother" is now the House Director, who has a suite on the main floor near the Chapter President's room. Members no longer wait on tables. It is done by young men. When I lived in the house, I had such a great time working in the kitchen to help pay my room and board. Walking the halls and looking into some of the rooms reminded me of many sorority sisters who lived in the house when I did. Their spirit was with me. My Trip to the Phi Pi House By Rose Schottenbauer Andersen '53

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