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PAGE 3 Delta Delta Delta Undergraduate Legacy Member Inspired by Big-Little Bonds S ince joining the Alpha Beta Chapter of Tri Delta in 2015, I have already made so many incredible friendships and memories that I know will last beyond my four years at Cornell. However, through all the fun that has been the past two years, I can't say I have been surprised. Before and after joining Tri Delta, my mother, Marianne Basarab Marcott '78, and my sister, Jackie Marcott '11, prepared me and excited me for what amazing adventures and relationships would come out of my time with Tri Delta. A consistent thread between my mother's and sister's fond memories of Cornell Tri Delta is the strong relationships they formed with their Littles. My mother's Littles, Lynda Hershey Spalding '80 and Debra Teelon Siegert '78, and my sister's Little, Amarilice Young '12, are still people who my mother and sister consider to be key parts to the unforgettable love and joy Tri Delta has given them. Now, after almost a year, I have gotten the chance to understand how rewarding and fun it is to have a Little. My Little, Isabel LaRaia '19, attends Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, just like me. Even after everything my mom and sister had told me, I would have never expected to become best friends with my Little, but I have. In Isabel, I have found someone who I can mentor and can mentor me in life and in school. Because we are both hotelies, we are fortunate enough to frequently see each other for lunches and in the halls of Statler in between classes. In our friendship, we would both drop everything we are doing to help the other and support each other through the bumpy and wild ride that is college. I feel very fortunate to have joined Tri Delta and to have found a lifelong friend in my Little, just like my sister and mother did with theirs. –Jen Marcott '18 SPONTANEOUS ADVENTURE BRINGS SISTERS CLOSER TOGETHER N ew York City: the city everyone dreams to move to after graduation and the city of ridiculous prices. After receiving a job offer in NYC for the summer, I knew I needed to live in the dorms to make it work. I had lived with strangers in Washington, D.C., the previous summer and found it rather lonely. Knowing I wanted to live with Tri Delts in the city, I found a roommate in Amy Morrison '17. Amy and I had known each other for a while, as we were in the same pledge class, but not that well. It is safe to say that I no longer feel that way. After a week in the city, we were on a mission. We had list upon list of ideas for ice cream shops to visit, stores to shop, and landmarks to go see. The list was great and when we were too tired to explore, we would just watch Disney Channel original movies. My favorite summer memory was when we both came home from work exhausted one night and decided to go try one of the light-up Indian restaurants on First Avenue and Sixth Street. We walked from our apartment, got a table, and realized it was cash only. As soon as we realized that, we both looked up in panic. Emptying our purses on the table, we found that we had a combined total of $33. Not quite enough for an elaborate NYC dinner, but we could make it work. We selected what we wanted on the menu, calculated out the total and added the tip, and realized we even had a few extra dollars for an appetizer. The meal was amazing and when the bill came, we laughed, laid every penny we had to our name on the table, and went home. It was a spontaneous adventure that I will always remember and cherish, seeing as I am always reading NYC menu prices first anyway. Tri Delta claims to create perpetual bonds of friendship, and this summer I found a lifelong friend in one of my sisters who I didn't know that well before. I hope all of you reading this story can think of a similar event that brought you close together with one of our sisters and led you on an adventure! –Alana Askari '17, VP Administration DELTAS IN THE WOODS B efore summer turned to a blink of fall and settled into the depth of Ithaca winters, my sisters and I looked for one last blast of outdoor fun. Alex Evnin '18, Claire Liu '19, and I became friends before recruitment, during training to be guides for Outdoor Odyssey, Cornell Outdoor Education's pre-orientation trip for freshmen. When we returned from leading trips in the Catskills and Finger Lakes in August, we spent just a few days on campus before itching to get back out again. My Big, Orla "Luey" MacLean '18, decided that a lineage trip was just what we all needed and, before we knew it, we were packed into two cars and headed toward Alex's favorite spot on the Finger Lakes Trail, just a half an hour drive from Cornell. Maddy Foley '18, Alex's Big, and Luey had never been backpacking before so Annie Leiman '17, Cassidy Clark '17, and Maddie Klaff '17 soak up Ithaca's beautiful fall weather. (Continued on page 4)

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