Kappa Alpha Theta - Purdue University

Alpha Chi Facility Corporation P.O. Box 2164 West Lafayette, IN 47996 Address Service Requested ATTEnTion: This newsletter is intended for alumnae and parents. If your daughter is still attending Purdue University, she will receive a copy at the chapter house. If she has graduated, please mail us her new address so we can update our records. Thank you. Theta Kite Visit Alpha Chi's website, www.alphachithetas.org, and like us on Facebook at Kappa Alpha Theta-Alpha Chi Chapter. At the head table, Alumnae Relations Director Payton Swan '12 (left) began the readings and lit the first candle for Founders Day. Seated from left are Vice President Finance Laura Poletti '12, guest speaker Noraleen Young, project archivist for Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity, Facility Corporation Board President Mary Lincoln Campbell '64, Chapter President Lauren Schmidt '11, Ritualist Sam Pendleton '12 Facility Corporation Board Vice President Judy Bernet Evans '64, and Alpha Chi Facility Director Linda Doyle. AlphA chi celebrAtes Founders dAy F ounders Day is celebrated each year by Kappa Alpha Theta chapters across the country. This year, the Alpha Chi Purdue founders luncheon was held at the Lafayette Country Club. Fran Frick Bitzer '79 chaired the celebration, which was attended by active members as well as returning alumnae, 169 in all. Members of the pledge classes of 1939 and 1964 received their 75- and 50-year pins, respectively. Two Thetas attended Founders Day whose roots go back to Alpha Chi's beginnings. Ruth Frier Oliver '41, above left, had two aunts and her mother as members of Phi Lambda Psi, the local sorority that became Alpha Chi. One of the aunts, Bernice Duryea Nicol 1915, graduated from Purdue and was accepted as a charter member of Alpha Chi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta. Nancy Crockett Ince, above right, was a Beta Theta at Indiana University. Her mother, Birda Faye Goslee Crockett, DePauw 1910, lived in West Lafayette and helped write the petition to Theta National in 1915 for Phi Lamb to become Alpha Chi. Birda Crockett worked tirelessly on behalf of the Alpha Chi chapter until her untimely death in 1932. Members of the pledge classes of 1939 and 1964 received their 75- and 50-year pins this year. Above are seven members of the class of 1964 who attended the luncheon. After they received their pins, they serenaded the room with a song from their era. Back row, left: Kay Murphy Yeomans '64, Judy Bernet Evans '64, and Patricia Ellis Eckel '64. Front row: Peggy Warner '64, Jackie Malless MacKenzie '64, Mary Lincoln Campbell '64, and Julane Kraay Ziegert '64. Mary Lincoln Campbell '64, president Alpha Chi Chapter Facility Corporation, and Lauren Schmidt '11, chapter CEO at Founders Day. Elizabeth Bitzer '12 and her mother, Fran Frick Bitzer '79, at Founders Day.

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