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FALL SEMESTER
FLOODED WITH SUCCESS
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olorado Alpha was excited to start off the fall semester and looked
forward to meeting our New Members. Over the summer, Emerging
Leader Madeleine Stanley '16 and I attended convention in St. Louis to
celebrate Pi Beta Phi's 150th year! After primary recruitment, we welcomed
116 New Members. We had many events planned for the semester,
including our biggest philanthropic event yet, date dashes, Fathers'
Weekend, formal and much more!
It is our goal this year to work on increasing our chapter GPA, and we are
taking the steps necessary to do so. We have implemented structured study
times as well as electronic study files, and have given out awards for high
grades each week. This year, we raised our GPA requirement to a 3.3 high
school GPA for recruitment.
We had a blast planning Layups for Literacy, a basketball tournament
where people in the community formed teams and helped raise money
for Read > Lead > Achieve®. It was our goal to engage the whole fraternity
and sorority community and include children from the Boulder Family
Learning Center in this event.
Elyse Himmelstein '15, our New Member Coordinator, is excited about
all of our New Members and helped make our New Member experience
even better by including more sisterhoods so New Members could bond.
Our chapter put a lot of emphasis on our Big/Little programing to ensure
all of our New Members have a good mentor throughout college.
During Sparkle Week, we had mock datebooks with Kappa Alpha Theta
and Delta Gamma. We had a great time learning from other sororities on
campus. This semester, we had mixers planned with Phi Psi and Sigma
Alpha Epsilon. Overall, Colorado Alpha had a great start to the semester.
We would like to thank Samantha Dyar, our LDC who came during
Sparkle Week. She had great input for our chapter! Colorado Alpha would
also like to extend an invitation out to all alumnae to come and visit
our home!
In Pi Phi,
Nicole Pool '15
Outgoing Chapter President
nipo2606@colorado.edu
Kim Sanbach '16, Ava Longacre '16 and Haven Perconti '16 on Bid Day! Sophomores with Chip, our school mascot, helping move freshmen into the dorms.
