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Dear Members of the Indianapolis Alumnae Panhellenic:

W hat a wonderful year for IAP! How do I begin to express my sincere appreciation to the wonderful Board and members for this great year?

Our fall meeting was exciting, interesting and so well attended. The speaker was super, lunch yummy and the decorations beautiful. Thank you to Shari Vickery and her committee for this lovely and successful meeting. December’s Annual Holiday Auction found the group raising more money than ever for the Butler University Community Outreach Pharmacy. The Meridian Street United Methodist Church was a perfect setting to start the Christmas season. Once again Donna Burgard and Margy Moorhead were co-chairs. Thank you to them for their many efforts and to their most able committee for this special event.

January found Chair Margaret Herder and her committee hosting the Butler University Recruitment dinner. It was heartwarming and encouraging to meet and greet the Greek leaders of the future. Margaret and her committee provid-ed a great comfort-food dinner with the fun country decorations.

Lu Hesler and her committee opened the beautiful Kappa Alpha Theta National Headquarters for the February meeting. Many members had not been there and remarked on the Headquarters’ beauty and wonderful Theta collection of memorabilia.

The spring Annual Tasters Luncheon held at the Delta Gamma House at Butler University was another success for IAP. Spring had to be right around the cor-ner as Susan DeVoss, Chair, with Shari Vickery, Assistant Chair, and the IAP committee served yummy food at this two-seating fundraiser.

It is sad to think the Kappa Kappa Gamma year of leadership will be drawing to a close May 14, 2013, at the home of Sally Barrett. It is exciting that Kristen Spriggs will be the next President representing Delta Gamma.

With special thanks to all, this year was exciting, successful and eventful.

Jamia Jasper Jacobsen Kappa Kappa Gamma, IAP President

President’s Letter

Spring 2013

PANHEL LEADER

/Indianapolisalumnaepanhellenic

I AP hosted its 37th Annual Tasters Luncheon on March 14th at the Delta Gamma Chapter House at Butler University. Over 200 hundred ladies, and a few gentlemen, enjoyed the delicious

dishes prepared by IAP members in a "Spring Picnic" atmosphere. The $2200 in profit will fund IAP scholarships which are awarded to Greek collegiate women attending colleges and universities within the state of Indiana. Pictured at right is a sampling of the dishes taste-tested at the October meeting for the luncheon menu.

T his year’s Fall Lunch-

eon was held at Buggs

Temple at Creation

Café on the Canal on

November 15th. Ginny Carroll, a

member of Alpha Xi Delta and

its former Executive Director,

spoke on “The Gift of Sorori-

ty.” She is the CEO of inGiNuity

and founder of the Circle of Sis-

terhood.

The recipients of the four schol-

arships totaling $3,100 were an-

nounced. Two juniors received

$550 each and two seniors

received $1000 each. This

year’s recipients are:

Katherine Graham, Zeta Tau Alpha, Indiana State University

McKenzie Meares, Zeta Tau Alpha, Indiana State University

Kori Steer, Pi Beta Phi, Franklin University

Christina Schaefer, Al-pha Chi Omega, Indiana State University

Tasters Luncheon

Fall Luncheon

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The dinner kicked off the begin-ning of their winter recruitment week. The IAP members decorated ta-bles with spring flowers, pre-pared a delicious buffet of pulled BBQ chicken, macaroni and cheese, green beans, salad, corn bread, sweet desserts and, of

T he Indianapolis Alum-nae Panhellenic mem-bers treated 35 Butler University Recruitment

counselors and the campus Greek Advisor to a Western themed BBQ dinner on January 7th, at the Atherton Union on the Butler campus.

course, sweet tea! After dinner each IAP member talked about her alumnae experiences and how she stayed active within her sorority beyond her collegiate years. We were delighted to receive a lovely thank-you note from the collegiate women after the event.

Butler Recruitment Counselor Dinner

T he IAP Annual Holiday Auction event, held on December 4th at Merid-ian Street United Meth-

odist Church, raised record pro-ceeds for the Butler University Community Outreach Pharmacy (BUCOP). A check for $1,800 was present-ed to BUCOP board members on the Saturday before Christmas by Jamia Jacobsen, Donna Burgard and Margy Moor-head. This student-run organization is housed out of the Neighborhood Fellowship Church on East 10th Street. Their mission is to provide free pharmacy/medical services to

the medically underserved and uninsured populations on the near east side of Indianapolis.

IAP members, Shelli Anderson and Shari Vickery, served as this year's co-auctioneers, creating excitement and driving up bids with their enthusiasm and animated com-mentary.

A special thank you to all Pan-hellenic members for their gen-erous and creative auction dona-tions and to guests and members for their participation and sup-port. Record proceeds also al-lowed us to make a monetary donation to the Meridian Street United Methodist Church's food pantry, in addition to the nu-merous non-perishable food items donated by IAP members.

Centennial Celebration Planned for 2014

Holiday Auction Raises Record Proceeds

Avenue, Indianapolis, as a most appropriate place to commemo-rate this milestone in IAP's his-tory. In addition to the tea and festivities, each member frater-nity will create a display reflect-ing its own history. We are also reaching out to past presidents of IAP to capture their memories of Panhellenic. "Moments in History" continue at IAP meetings as one or two groups offer quick glimpses into their founding and early years. All groups will have been heard from by the time we celebrate the Centennial. Sally Belknap and Ilene Garrett Co-Chairs, Centennial Celebra-tion Committee

T he Indianapolis Alum-nae Panhellenic will cel-ebrate its Centennial on Sunday, October 12,

2014, with an afternoon tea at the historic Indiana Landmarks Center. The Centennial Celebration Committee has chosen this beautiful venue at 1201 Central

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Save the date!

IAP Centennial Celebration

October 12, 2014

Alpha Chi Omega named Tami Shields Silverman its next executive di-rector in January. Silverman will serve as chief executive officer of the Alpha Chi Omega women’s fraternity, the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation and the Alpha Chi Omega National Housing Corporation. A Blooming-ton, Indiana native, Silverman was chief executive officer of Sojourn Shelter & Services, Inc. This facility is the largest domestic violence ser-vice provider in Illinois.

At the 2012 National Convention, Alpha Chi Omega announced the “For Now/ Forever” Campaign to further AXΩ’s mission of encouraging gen-erations of future Real.Strong.Women. The campaign has reached $6 million of its $7 million goal.

New chapters will be colonized at the U of Arizona and at the U of Ar-kansas.

Alpha Delta Pi

Alpha Chi Omega

Alpha Gamma Delta

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Nationally, Alpha Delta Pi is in the midst of a significant expansion effort. Seven new or re-opened chapters will be in place by the end of the fall term 2013.

The local AΔΠ alumnae served dinner for the 30th time at the Indiana Ronald McDonald House, once for every year of the House’s existence.

Phi Chapter at Hanover College celebrated 100 years in April with Cookie Vargo chairing the weekend.

A new chapter was colonized at Villanova U in Pennsylvania.

A new chapter was installed at the U of South Carolina in Columbia with 285 women, marking the largest colonization effort in Alpha Gamma Delta's history.

AΓΔ is recolonizing the Delta Eta Chapter at San Diego State U.

The Winter 2013 edition of the Alpha Gamma Delta Quarterly features the new AΓΔ Headquarters building on North Meridian Street in Indi-anapolis. To view the photos, go to

http://issuu.com/alphagammadelta/docs/quarterly-winter2013

Alpha Phi

Alpha Omicron Pi

Alpha Sigma Alpha

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AOII installed several new chapters during the 2012-2013 school year: U of Arkansas-Ft. Smith, Texas Christian U, Sonoma State U, Kentucky Wesleyan College, U of Washington, Northern Kentucky U, Monmouth U, and Purdue U.

A very special extension event occurred as the Alpha Chapter at Colum-bia University was recolonized and installed in May - 100 years after the chapter was closed!

Congratulations to Chloe Anagnos who was elected as Vice President of BSU's Student Government Association with her "A Spark Forward" slate!

AOII alumnae are pictured at right at the annual Strike-Out Arthritis Luncheon with stuffed panda bears. The pandas are collected for young arthritis patients as a comfort when they visit the Arthritis Clinic at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health for medical procedures.

Epsilon Phi Chapter was reinstalled at Indiana University.

Theta Upsilon Chapter was installed at Boise State.

AΣA has a new philanthropic partnership with “Girls on the Run” in 2012. This partnership marks GOTR as AΣA’s newest national philan-thropy.

Girls on the Run is a life-changing, experiential learning program for girls 3rd through 8th grade. The program combines training for the GOTR 5K running event with self-esteem enhancing, uplifting workouts. Girls on the Run aims to empower girls to celebrate their bodies, honor their voices and embrace their gifts.

Alpha Phi is embarking on a campaign to revitalize the Indianapolis Alumnae Chapter with a spring kickoff event.

Alpha Phi colonized at Harvard this spring. The new colony will join 159 other Alpha Phi collegiate chapters in the United States and Cana-da.

Alpha Phi has been invited to colonize at Northern Arizona U, Creighton U and Clemson U this winter.

Taylor Kinzler (Iota Delta-Rhode Island) was crowned Miss Massachu-setts and will represent Massachusetts at the Miss America 2013 pag-eant. (See photo at right.)

Alpha Sigma Tau’s 39th Convention was held in Indianapolis in June at the Hyatt Regency with more than 300 collegiate and alumnae women in attendance.

The newly-remodeled headquarters building at 3334 Founders Road, Indianapolis, was debuted to a delighted Convention assembly, with tours and an ice cream social.

In December, five alumnae members participated in “Wreaths Across America” at Indianapolis Crown Hill Cemetery and Arlington National Cemetery.

A new chapter was installed at U of Southern Indiana making three col-legiate chapters in Indiana: Epsilon Kappa at Trine U, Angola; Epsilon Lambda at Indiana U, South Bend; and Epsilon Omicron at USI.

Alpha Xi Delta

Alpha Sigma Tau

Chi Omega

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The Alpha Xi Delta national philanthropy is Autism Speaks.

April 2 was “Light up the World Autism Day.” Seven continents lit up as The Halley VI British Antarctic Survey Station was included in this event.

The local alumnae participated with a booth at the Autism Expo at the Fountains in Carmel on March 23.

AΞΔ’s second year "Walk for Autism Speaks” will be held Saturday June 15th, at White River State Park. Local alumnae will help with registration.

Founder's Day was celebrated with the chapter at Indiana University on April 13, 2013.

Local alumnae hosted a basket auction in November to fund the "Back Sack" Program.

This program is designed to feed children during the weekend when they are not in school. The $5.00 cost of one backpack will provide two breakfasts, two lunches and two dinners, snacks and drinks. $800 was raised for this worthy project.

Alumnae members pictured at right enjoy a tour of Oldfields, also known as Lilly House and Gardens, a 26 acre historic estate and house museum on the grounds of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Delta Gamma

Delta Delta Delta

Delta Zeta

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Gail Watts, member and past president of the Indianapolis Alumnae Chapter, received 2nd runner-up for the prestigious Ernestine Block Grigsby Award at the National Convention.

The local alumnae chapter hosted Indiana's 100th State Meet on April 13th.

Over $3000 was donated to Riley Children's Hospital as a result of the "Putt Around for Riley" events held by the local alumnae.

Butler's Delta Lambda Chapter received a national philanthropy award for "Outstanding New Event" with their "Sundaes for St. Jude" event.

Delta Zeta Chapter and the local alumnae chapter at Franklin College both celebrated their centennials in the fall of 2012.

Linda Cantwell, former IAP delegate and current alumnae chapter president, was awarded her Golden Rose pin, representing 50 years of membership.

In the photo at right, Delta Zetas of all ages went to Broad Ripple to enjoy “adult beverages” and watch the IU basketball game together.

In April at Region 7 Day in Evansville, Area Alumnae Director Karen Courtney presented the first Dorris Silverthorn Lamplighter Award to Jody Sparling. Silverthorn, a past ΔZ national council member and long-time Muncie alumnae leader, passed away in 2012.

A new alumnae chapter in Evansville was chartered this spring, the second largest in the state.

A new ΔZ chapter was installed in 2012 at the U of Central Florida; chapters will be colonized in the future at Murray State (Kentucky), West Georgia U and Bucknell U.

Delta Gamma alumnae began celebrating the 100th year of the Indian-apolis chapter at the home of the new Fraternity President, Laurie Ro-selle, in September and continued at Founders Day in March at Oak Hill Mansion.

The new National Executive Director attended the monthly Delta Gam-ma lunch in January, surprising and delighting the local ladies.

Pictured at right is the 2012-2014 Council of Delta Gamma. Fraternity President, Laurie Petrucce Roselle, Beta Iota-Purdue, is in the center of the photo in the green dress. Laurie is a resident of Fishers.

In an effort to continue with the ΓФB pledge of Building Strong Girls, the organization “Girls on the Run” was adopted as another National Philanthropy at the Annual Convention held this past summer.

ΓФВ is scheduled to colonize at three new universities in 2013: Rock-hurst U, U of Central Florida and U of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

The local alumnae chapter hosted a gathering for numerous members of the Executive Council and National Foundation who were in town for a Foundation Event this past fall.

Various events were held throughout the year including annual events such as the Founder’s Day Celebration and Holiday Ornament Ex-change (pictured at right).

Kappa Alpha Theta

Gamma Phi Beta

Kappa Delta

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Chapters will be re-established at Wake Forest, Swarthmore College, and Johns Hopkins in 2013.

A new chapter is opening at North Carolina State in 2013.

Local alumnae and Headquarters are hosting "Bettie Locke Day" this fall to raise funds for CASA.

The local alumnae chapter is hosting three service projects this year for CASA.

Indianapolis Alumnae Chapter has an updated website: indianapolis.kappaalphatheta.org.

A National Kappa Delta KiDs Grant for $2000 was received.

The local alumnae joined with Central Indiana Girl Scouts and re-ceived a $6000 grant to work with them.

KΔ sponsored The Julian Center's “Julian Jam” major fundraiser.

KΔ alumnae sponsored the Career Cruisin’ Conference for area Girl Scouts. Four alumnae members are pictured at right (Brandy Schroeder, Beth Huston, Elisa Cooper and Anna Harvan) at the event.

Phi Mu

Kappa Kappa Gamma

Pi Beta Phi

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KKΓ alumnae hosted the first annual Kappa Kareer Night in partner-ship with local philanthropy, Dress for Success.

Featured panelists included: Julie Hatcher, Executive Director of the Center for Service and Learning, IUPUI; Deborah Daniels, Partner at Krieg Devault, former U.S. Attorney and U.S. Assistant Attorney Gen-eral; Susie Schulte Howard, Chief of Staff at Indiana Family and Social Services Administration; and Jenny Swisher, Entrepreneur and Inde-pendent Fitness Consultant for Team Beachbody. (Pictured at right.)

The 43rd Delta Province Meeting of KKΓ was held in Indianapolis on February 22-24, 2013, for the eight collegiate chapters and twelve alumnae associations in Indiana and Michigan.

Pi Phis from across the country gathered in Gatlinburg, Tennessee in November to celebrate a century of literacy service, which included the dedication of a Centennial Plaza in downtown Gatlinburg. This 100-year commitment to education and literacy first began in this mountain community during a time when women did not even have the right to vote.

For Fraternity Day of Service, members of the Indianapolis IIBФ Alumnae Club teamed up with Butler chapter members to make March 1st a special and memorable day for patients and their families at Peyton Manning Children's Hospital. Dr. Seuss's birthday was cele-brated in grand style with a surprise visit by "The Cat in the Hat." The event concluded with the presentation of two wagonloads of new books for distribution to current and future patients at the hospital. (See photo at right.)

The Rho chapter at Hanover commemorated its 100 –year anniversary on April 13.

The Indianapolis Alumnae group has also existed for 100 years.

This anniversary year will culminate with a luncheon on June 1 at the Sanctuary in Zionsville.

In June Delta Alpha, Indiana U, is hosting the Undergraduate Inter-Fraternity (UIFI) leadership workshops for over 300 collegiate officers of Phi Mu.

Phi Mu will be recolonizing at the University of Cincinnati.

After months of National Headquarter staff and volunteer collaboration, a brand new website was unveiled.

In the summer of 2013, the first Regional Leadership Conferences will be held. This new format will help executive officers and emerging lead-ers receive training and leadership programs from Sigma Kappa volun-teers.

In March the Sigma Kappa Foundation Board of Trustees held a recep-tion on the IUPUI campus. It was attended by local alumnae, and colle-gians from IUPUI, Purdue, Ball State and Indiana State University.

The local chapter continues to support the Walk to End Alzheimer's with an Annual Giving Dinner. Other activities of the chapter include a monthly Senior Lunch Bunch, Sigma Kappacino, and Dinner Out On The Town.

Sigma Sigma Sigma

Sigma Kappa

Zeta Tau Alpha

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ΣΣΣ has entered into a partnership with CHARACTER COUNTS!, the nation’s most widely used character education framework.

Expansion for Tri Sigma includes a newly installed chapter at the U of Nevada–Las Vegas. Colonization plans for 2013 and 2014 include re-turning to Missouri State U, Grand Valley State U, Kansas State U, and U of Southern Indiana, as well as a new colony at the U of Arkansas.

At each chapter event, the Indianapolis alumnae chapter of ΣΣΣ col-lects designated items such as canned goods, paper goods, and family board games for local charities such as Bradford Woods, Goodwill, Jul-ian Center, Flanner House, and Second Harvest.

The photo taken at right is from the annual holiday gathering featuring our Make It, Bake It, Fake It auction of holiday items with the proceeds going to ΣΣΣ national headquarters home in Woodstock, Virginia.

ZTA celebrated the return of the Alpha Chapter at Longwood U on April 8, 2013.

ZTA was recognized by the Central Indiana Komen for the Cure Affili-ate with the Corporate Achievement Award as a National Sponsor of the Survivor Program. (See photo at right.)

In January two sisters competed in the Miss America Pageant – Miss Florida Laura McKeeman and Miss Indiana Merrie Beth Cox.

The local alumnae group raised over $1400 in support of a ZTA Foun-dation Recognition Scholarship by selling Finals Survival Kits to colle-giate members at IUPUI, Indiana U and Indiana State U.

In March, the local alumnae group recognized members who had achieved 10, 20, 30, and 40 year membership milestones. Fifty year members will receive their White Violet pin at this year’s Indiana Zeta Day.

IAP Officer Rotation

Fall 2014 Chi Omega

Fall 2015 Sigma Kappa

Fall 2016 Alpha Omicron Pi

Fall 2017 Zeta Tau Alpha

IAP Officer Roster

Outgoing Officers for 2012-2013 Position Incoming Officers for 2013-2014

Jamia Jacobsen, Kappa Kappa Gamma President Kristen Spriggs, Delta Gamma

Kristen Spriggs, Delta Gamma 1st Vice President Susan DeVoss, Delta Delta Delta

Susan DeVoss, Delta Delta Delta 2nd Vice President Shari Vickery, Alpha Xi Delta

Shari Vickery, Alpha Xi Delta 3rd Vice President Sally Belknap, Alpha Sigma Tau

Sally Belknap, Alpha Sigma Tau Corresponding Sec. Bryn Masiuk, Zeta Tau Alpha

Barbara Hunley, Delta Zeta Recording Secretary Margaret Herder, Alpha Chi Omega

Kelly Bluish, Gamma Phi Beta Treasurer Kelly Bluish, Gamma Phi Beta

Ilene Garrett, Sigma Sigma Sigma (Acting)

Membership Chair Emily Ruch, Zeta Tau Alpha

Gail Gates-Zermeno, Gamma Phi Beta Council Advisor Jamia Jacobsen, Kappa Kappa Gamma

IAP delegates serve in rotation for the of-ficer roles in order of their organization’s entrance into NPC. Each group serves a 5-year commitment to rotate through all the offices (3rd VP, 2nd VP, 1st VP, President, and Council Advisor). However, the same delegate is not required for the entire 5-year period. The next few years of rotation schedule are listed above to assist your group in planning for dele-gates. It is helpful for incoming delegates to participate in IAP the year or two prior to assuming office.

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