Pi Beta Phi - Texas A&M University

Aggie Arrow Texas Eta Chapter of Pi Beta Phi at Texas A&M University Spring 2023 W elcome to the inaugural edition of the Aggie Arrow! The Texas Eta Chapter House Corporation (CHC) is excited to introduce our new alumnae outreach effort through newsletters that will arrive each fall and spring. Each release will include a chapter update, a feature on a Texas Eta alumna and, of course, pictures and updates from our collegians. Please keep your address, email and personal information up to date by returning the biographical update insert from inside this newsletter. In the fall of 2022, CHC announced a new strategic direction guided by the professional building and security assessments completed in October 2021. These assessments have formed the baseline for prioritizing how CHC will initiate capital improvement projects over a five-year period. CHC immediately undertook several projects to initiate the process of upgrading and improving our security posture to further protect the women of the chapter. The assessments also indicated that we must update our technology and educational spaces to meet the needs of our collegians being educated in a technology-driven world. It is amazing to think that in 1988, when the chapter house opened, no one owned a computer; many of us were still using the Northgate typing service to type our papers. CHC is hard at work on plans to increase educational space, expand the chapter room to meet the growing demands of Texas Eta and enhance the interiors in a manner that reflects the beauty of our sisterhood. Looking forward to Texas Eta's 40 th anniversary in 2025, I am thankful for the gifts Betty Westbrook Trant, Texas Alpha '44, the Brazos Valley Alumnae Club and charter members gave us when they founded this sisterhood. It is now time as Texas Eta alumnae to come home to our chapter and share our time, talents and treasures to secure the future of Texas Eta now, today and always. In Pi Phi, Tara Bradburn '87 Texas Eta Chapter House Corporation President tbc90@aol.com Linking Pi Phi Sisters Together T E X A S E T A L A U N C H E S N E W A L U M N A E R E L A T I O N S P R O G R A M Founders' Da y 2 0 2 3 From left: Julie King Crawford '92, Jane Abernathy Richard '89 and Samantha Leech Wilson '90. From left: Trinity Wolf '21 and Leah Goss '21. From left: Dani Shavlan '20, Samm Richardson '21, KK Morris '21, Ava Blackburn '21, Trinity Wolf '21 and Leah Goss '21. From left: Allison Magruder Richardson '97 with her daughter, Mary Elizabeth Richardson '22.

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