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recruitment prep excitement

My visit to the University of Montevallo was filled with recruitment conversations, songs, and preparations!  This welcoming group had planned two full days of a recruitment workshop that I was able to help facilitate.  Their genuine excitement to share DG with others was evident and I enjoyed learning about what DG means to them at this small University in Alabama!  Here are some pictures of my visit to Zeta Nu!

My guest room! 

Practicing door chants for recruitment! 

DG Pilgrimage

1873.  Lewis School for Girls.  Oxford, MS.

This line is something every Delta Gamma memorizes....the date and place that Eva, Anna, and Mary founded their club of "mutual helpfulness" that soon  became a way of life for thousands of women.  And I was the lucky CDC that got to visit this place! 

Our Alpha Psi chapter at the University of Mississippi is in the place our founders attended school (the Lewis school was later absorbed by Ole Miss).  The chapter takes much pride in Delta Gamma history and ritual, and their house sure shows it!  They have a Founders Room filled with artifacts from the Lewis School, and letters written by our Founders!  I even got to see the famous historical marker for our Fraternity!

To make this visit even more special, I was able to go with the chapter president to Kosciusko, MS which is the small town where our founders were born and raised.  In 1994, Delta Gamma created a Founders Memorial at the church where Eva, Anna, and Mary grew up in and features one of the two original portraits of our founders.  And who was our tour guide you might ask?  Oh, just Mary Comfort Leonard's niece!!  At age 92, she happily gives tours to any Delta Gamma who stops by and she shares special stories about her memories of our lovely founders :)   After spending time in the Founders room, she and her Anchor Man (her husband) drove us to the site of two of our founders graves.  Putting cream roses on these sites will forever be one of the most meaningful memories I will ever have as a CDC!  Now I can check the DG Pilgrimage off of my Bucket List :)

The church our Founders attended

Mary's niece is in the middle!! 

Mary Comfort Leonard

Eva Webb Dodd

getting BACK on track!

Well as you can see, things have been a bit busy as I have neglected this blog for quite sometime!  Each time I tried to write, something else would come  up and sadly my chronicles of CDC life took a hit.  But don't fear, I am starting to get back on track!

Since my visit to Tennessee, I have had some pretty exciting visits and am ready to share!  Before I start, here is a bit of inspiration for my writing....a new favorite song I can't get out of my head!