Volume 1 Issue 1

Newsletter Date

February 2014

In this issue:

Yeah Im Feeling 22 New Members!

New Members New Goals, New Executive Council Big/Little Week Strong Academic Focus

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The Upsilon Lambda chapter of Chi Omega was delighted to welcome 22 new members home on January 11, 2014! One of the largest pledge classes in the past 4 years. Great job, ladies!

THANK YOU!
Abbie McGohon- Goshen, KY Sydney Pitts- Erlanger, KY Ellie Powell- Indianapolis, IN Cassie Schoborg- Covington, KY Hilary Sheets- Crawfordsville, IN Kori Siebert- Borden, IN Elaine Simpson- Lexington, KY Alesha Smith- Rushville, IN Haley Spalding- Louisville, KY Cami Trachtman- Carmel, IN Alex Weeden- Stoughton, WI Our chapter had a fabulous recruitment this year. We got the highest number of new members since I have been at Hanover. We very high return rates to every party but especially after 2nd party we had a 100% return rate, which rarely happens. Also, all of our new members referenced us first. We are now the largest sorority house on campus. I think something we did especially well this recruitment was Continued on next page

Rachel Bowling- Columbus, IN Maddie Burdick- Indianapolis, IN Sara Clute- LaGrange, KY Madison Conway- Elizabethtown, KY Rachel Effinger- Versailles, KY Brittany Ferrell- Hillsboro, OH Kelly Gehlbach- Wilmington, OH Kylie Hawks- West Lafayette, IN Millie Larson- LaGrange, KY Gaby Leith- Lapel, IN Carly McCay- Argos, IN

New Goals, New Executive Council

recruiting our values and incorporating those in to our recruiting, that way our new members were aware of our 6 purposes and ready to exemplify them as well. We Its a new year, full of new ideas, goals and executive council! Here is a introduction to the young women who will be leading Chi Omega this upcoming year. also did a good job of making our presence known on campus positively throughout the year through social media and various events and organizations on campus. Overall I may be biased but I think it was the smoothest recruitment we have had in the past couple of years. I was very proud of everyone and happy that they had such positive and willing to help attitudes and made recruitment so great. I also really appreciated the help of my advisor Emily Wilson and our wonderful PanHellenic recruitment chair and Chi Omega sister Emilee Roberts!

Sarah Hasewinkle
President Biochemistry To speak kindly To keep a good balance between my position, school work and my other extracurricular activities.

Lauren Schultz Treasurer Communication To place scholarship before social obligations To reorganize Chi Omegas budget and teach sisters about smart financial practices for life after collage. Hali Hootman New Member Educator Communication To be discouraged never To help the new members flourish into beautiful Chi Omegas and to remind the chapter of all the wonderful rituals that Chi Omega has.

Sarah Love Vice President History To be womanly always.. To maintain our G.P.A ranking and implement incentives to acknowledge and support sisters in achieving both individual and chapter academic goals.

Megan Meyer Personnel Chair Paige McGuirk Mathematics Secretary To choose thoughtfully that course To live constantly above snobbery which occasion and conscience deof word or deed. mand to put on a great fashion show next winter, to increase the cardinal cabi- To successfully influence people to make responsible choices and to nets events and help make everyone boost the chapter morale as a whole. excited to get involved with the chapter!

Kathleen Brinegar 2013 Recruitment Chair

New Goals, New Executive Council

Bailey Davis
PanHellenic Delegate Kinesiology To act sincerely To provide our house with a positive relationship with the other members of Panhellenic and IFC as well as educating our chapter about different sororities and fraternities. every single girl that goes through recruitment and increase number of girls signed up for recruitment as a whole.

MAKE A WISH FACT

Autry Graham House Manager Environmental Science to be discouraged never To make the house a tidy, comfortable, homey atmosphere for all of our members The mission of the Make-a-Wish Foundation is not so much focused on the curing of the child's disease but about the curing of the child's soul.

Liz Dessauer
Recruitment Chair To be womanly always, to be discouraged never. for our chapter to genuinely know

Big/Little Week: February 9-14th 2014

Big Little week felt like it was the longest week in my "Chi Omega Journey." It added to the excitement of my new membership in the sisterhood, and made me more interested to my future in Chi Omega. I also really enjoyed getting old articles of clothing that had been in my Chi Omega family since the 90's, along with other things that were specifically passed down within my family. The entire big/little experience has impacted my time in Chi Omega in many ways. It gave me a role model and friend that I can always go to. It has taught me how to be a proper big for my own little. And most importantly, it has made me appreciate not only my Chi Omega family members, but my other sisters in Upsilon Lambda even more. All in all, that week in my beginning months as a Chi Omega is without a doubt a week that I will never forget. Sarah Hasewinkle

A Strong Academic Focus!

The Upsilon Lambda Chapter of Chi Omega is proud to have received the number one G.P.A. ranking for all of the Greek houses, including all other sororities and fraternities on campus fro Fall semester 2013. While all members worked towards achieving this impressive goal, those with outstanding grade point averages received recognition from the chapter through a Deans List Brunch, hosted on the nineteenth of this month. 24 of our active members made Deans List, or received a 3.5 or higher. In addition, two of the members did so while studying abroad! More recently, Hanover Colleges Dean Jobe and his wife, Terry Jobe, a fellow Chi Omega sister, graciously accepted our invitation to attend our first formal dinner of the new 2014 semester. Currently, Chi Omega members are striving towards meeting their newly set academic goals for this semester. Each member has recorded individual goals for each course along with an overall G.P.A. goal. Thankfully, our Chi Omega members have a secret weapon; they are all wise owls! Sarah Love

Study Tips Find a place on campus either in the library, chi omega house and study their everyday. Study at the same time everyday. This will help train your brain to be focused. Use an agenda to write down homework and test due dates.

Alumnae Announcements
Theresa Hartzell (92) moved into a Marketing Communications role with her employer, Honeywell Aerospace in 2013. She'll be focusing on the Defense & Space business. Theresa recently left the desert of Arizona to move back home to Indiana. She's living in the Fishers/Noblesville area and looks forward to spending time with her Chi O Sisters.

Have an announcement? Contact the current Alumni and Parent Relations Director Sarah Brocker to be added to the newsletter. brockers15@ha nover.edu

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UPCOMING EVENTS
Internship Tables February 18th Study Tables February 20th Formal March 29th