THE LIONESSES PRIDE DELTA EPSILON CHAPTER OF PHI MU PURDUE UNIVERSITY Purdue Phi Mu Parents’ Club Newsletter October 2014
Fun facts Phi Mu is 6th in sorority GPA
Phi Mu 201 Waldron West Lafayette, IN 47906
standings 118 current members 38 new member for 2014-15 flower: carnation colors: rose and white symbol: quatrefoil motto: “les Sœurs Fideles” mascot: Lion, Sir Fidel headquarters: Peachtree City, GA
In This Issue
Introduction to Parents’ Club and House Committee
Our new little Phis
Link to recruitment video
Letter from Parents’ Club President
Letter from our philanthropy chair
Letters from different committee chairs
Spotlight on a Phi
Treasurer’s report
Events
Committee members
HOUSE CORPORATION AND PARENTS’ CLUB ROLES The House Corporation and the Parents’ Club work together with the goal of making your daughter’s Phi Mu experience as pleasant as possible. The House Corporation takes care of the structural and utility needs of the building, pays the workers and other house bills, and collects room and board payments as its primary source of income. The purpose of the Parents’ Club is to help make improvements that are not possible through the House Corporation, and to support the tutoring fund. The primary source of income for this group is annual dues ($50) and the spring Moms’ Day auction. The Parents’ Club maintains a Facebook page and plans to mail at least one newsletter per semester to keep parents apprised of happenings at the Purdue Phi Mu house. You can reach the House Corporation Board president, Sue Spiker, at spike66@frontier.com.
To view the recruitment video follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKxVTk8TYmM&feature=youtu.be
Recruitment finished up on September 15. 38 girls accepted bids to join the house.
Welcome back to all our Phi Mu parents, especially those of our 38 brand new Phis! School is back in full swing, and our daughters are gaining both knowledge and new friends, in large part due to their participation and involvement in Phi Mu. I hope that all of you, new parents and old, get a chance to tour the place they call “home” at 201 Waldron Street; you will be so impressed by the loveliness of the house and by the welcoming nature of the girls who live there. Special thanks go out to the Phi Mu house Corporation board, which continues to manage the house and provide a safe, nurturing place for our daughters to live. I want to thank our Parents’ Club board members (listed in this newsletter) for their help in getting our year started off so well. We were able to meet with the girls on the Executive Board and with House Corporation board members in August to discuss matters of importance to our girls. We will continue to fund tutoring, provide food during recruitment lock-in weekends, and help fund projects I the house agreed upon by all boards mentioned above. Please take the time to read this newsletter thoroughly, including the list of important dates. Feel free to contact your Parents’ Club board members if you have questions, and do try to attend both Dads’ Day this fall and Moms’ Weekend in April. We on the Parents’ Club board all look forward to meeting you soon! Mimi Brookie President, Phi Mu Parents’ Club
Philanthropy Fall is always a busy time for philanthropy and we are super excited for all the events we have lined up. The main event that we are holding is Miracle Mania. This event is basically a giant dance competition between all the different sororities and fraternities on campus. The sororities and fraternities are paired up and they come up with various dance numbers to perform. We are holding this event in early November at LOEB theatre in the Stewart building. Miracle Mania is open to the whole Greek community as well as to the rest of Purdue’s campus, and we always have a fantastic turn-out. The teams have other fundraising opportunities and events throughout the weeks leading up to the competition to earn extra points towards their overall score. The team with the highest score wins the bragging rights and an awesome trophy. This event has always been very successful and we are all very excited to see what this year will bring. Another event we are very involved in during the fall is PUDM. The majority of the house participates each year to raise money for Riley Hospital for Children. Each year there is a competition called Greek Cup, which is a competition between the Greek houses to see who can raise the most money for Riley. We have won the Greek Cup 3 years in a row now and hope to win it again this year! Last year we raised $32,000 for PUMD! Hopefully we will raise this much again, if not more. And this year we even have one of our seniors, Alyssa Fields, on the executive board for PUMD, which is really exciting. Finally, the last event we currently have in the works is talking to Riley Hospital about coming and visiting the children at the facility sometime this semester. A few of the girls in the house have connections with Riley and have been Riley patients themselves. Fingers crossed everything pans out and we are able to go to the hospital. Seeing what all of our donations are going to will help further motivate us and give us the inspiration to keep raising money for this amazing organization. Sydney Owens, Philanthropy Chair
FALL RECRUITMENT NEWS: FROM THE CHAPTER PRESIDENT: Formal Recruitment is over and we have 38 wonderful new Phis to show for it! We took a “values-based” approach to recruitment this fall with
I hope everyone had a wonderful summer! I would like to welcome the parents of
the goal of finding new members who share our values of sisterhood,
our new members! The semester started out fast and furious with workweek and
academic excellence, and campus involvement who will motivate our
then 3 weeks of recruitment! We are so happy to be done and back to a normal
chapter to be the best women we can. Our recruitment committee and
schedule so we can focus on studies! A special thanks to Jamie Schanz, recruitment
chapter members worked incredibly hard the past few weeks to recruit
chair, on a FABULOUS job this year! The chapter pitched in making it a wonderful
the best women on campus and I can confidently say that our hard work
year and Jamie’s leadership was essential to our success. We were able to provide
had paid off! I look forward to seeing how our newest pledge class will
meals during recruitment for the chapter members thanks to our Parents’ Club and
impact the Phi Mu house for years to come.
we really appreciate the help with that! We hope you all will join the Parents’ Club and get involved in helping us succeed! We have a lot of exciting things going on at Phi Mu right now! It is a busy time for all of us as we are in the process of planning Miracle Mania, Dads’ Day, Moms’ Day, and all of our fun social events! We are in the middle of our term as an executive
MEET OUR NEW PHIS:
committee, but I would like to thank the committee for all of their hard work so far!
Abby McKeand
Abbie Sommer
There was a lot of work completed this summer by our wonderful house corpora-
Adriana Bendeck-Rodriguez
Aleah Scheurich
tion! We got to replace the carpet in the basement and got new comfy
Alex Schwalm
Ashley Gordon
als in our lounges! We also had some painting done in the house and are in the
Aurora Bonner
Brittany Geier
process of some cosmetic updates! In case you parents do not know, a lot of our
Caroline Daily
Caroline Waas
free time is spent hanging out in the lounges together watching shows like Law and
Cassidy Higgins
Claire Hornsby
Order or Friends! We really appreciate the new couches from the house corpora-
Claire Wilson
Danielle Bresich
tion!
Ellen Bankston
Emma Toney
Hannah Fischer
Irene Wong
We also have a couple of changes in our supervision this year! We instated Bryana
Jasmin Osman
Kailee Turnbough
Bunte as our chapter advisor! She is from the area and is a great resource for the
Kailey Merida
Kaitlyn Crawford
chapter! We are lucky to have her! We also hired a new housemother who moved
Katie Zlajic
Kay Arora
in this summer! Her name is Donna Tiger and she is a wonderful new addition to
Kelsey Stolz
Kiera Sullivan
our home! She is also from the area and has worked at other chapters as a house-
Lauren Shivley
Leanna Mulloy
mother, but she is a Phi Mu so she is happy to be back home!
Mara Kossoff
Margaret Maysek
Maria Kiamanesh
Nicole Kaminsky
Nicole Loehr
Riley Boots
Samantha Rodriguez
Sarah Jacoby
Sophie Hufnagel
Trista DeBolt
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DADS’ DAY 2014 “The first man a little girl falls in love with is her DAD!” We are going to have a wonderful Dads’ Day this year. It will be on November 8th and we hope you all plan to attend! Purdue plays Wisconsin so plan on attending the game and cheering the Boilers to a win! Thanks to Kristin Ruoff and
PHI MU HOUSE HAPPENINGS (SISTERHOOD COMMITTEE):
Sarah Mumma for all of their hard work planning this event! We cannot wait to see all of our dads and of course our moms are welcome too! The schedule of
Our Sisterhood Development Committee is very excited for the events we
events for the day will be announced closer to time once Purdue announces the
have planned for this semester. In just a couple of weeks we will be taking
time of the game!
a trip to a local pumpkin patch with our newest pledge class! In addition, we will have our very first whole house retreat in about a month! We are also putting a bigger emphasis on reinforcing positive sisterhood in our house by introducing the Supportive Sisterhood Award. Every month this
SCHOLARSHIP:
award will be given to a sister who has truly lived out what we value as a Phi Mu and displayed acts of love and selflessness for her fellow sisters.
Hi, my name is Mykala Shircliff and I am the scholarship chair at Delta Epsi-
We look forward to seeing our sisterhood
lon. First of all I’m so proud of our grades from last semester, we had six
continue to flourish this
semester with the events and retreat planned and we are so happy to
girls get a GPA of 4.0 and over thirty who got a GPA of 3.5 or higher. I’m
welcome our newest members into the sisterhood we value so much.
working hard with my committee to help us maintain our grades and support our sisters along the way. We set up study table hours at the house and are working at implementing an incentive program. Thanks to our Parents’ Club we also have a wonderful tutor fund for every member to take advantage of during the year. I can’t wait to see what this semester brings!
FALL MIRACLE MANIA: Our main event this fall that we are very excited for is Miracle Mania. This event is mainly a giant dance competition between all the different sororities and fraternities on campus. We pair up the sororities and fraternities and they come up with various 5 minute dance numbers and then perform them at the event. We are holding this event November 12th at 6:30PM in LOEB Theatre in the Stewart building. We open the event up to the whole Greek community and to the rest of Purdue's campus, and we always have a fantastic turn-out. All money raised will go towards the Children's Miracle Network and Riley Children’s Hospital. If you would like to donate money to this event please make checks payable to Children’s Miracle Network and mail donations to the address below. Any amount would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Sydney Owens and Bridget Eckrich, Philanthropy Co-Chairs Phi Mu House 201 Waldron Street West Lafayette, IN 47906
MEET DONNA TIGER: Our fantastic new housemother is from Attica, Indiana. She is the mother of four children and a true boilermaker. She is a big
supporter of
women’s basketball and attends all of the games! Before coming to live with us she was the housemother of Pi Beta Phi. She is a Phi Mu from Purdue and is happy to be back at her home with all of us! We like to call her Mama Tiger, so feel free to as well! Please stop by and meet her next time you’re at the house. We really enjoy her and love all of the hugs we get when we go to chit chat in her office!
SPOTLIGHT: Amy Hoogenboom Amy, a junior in industrial engineering, interned at APT Electronics in Anaheim, California. She spent time in each phase of manufacturing. APT makes printed circuit boards. One project she worked on was looking into ways to reduce their energy consumption and paper usage. Amy said: “My favorite part was getting to pick the brains of all the really smart people in the company and get advice from them. “
Amy & her brother
Hello from your new treasurer, Susan Billlman! Question: Who is responsible for this famous quote, “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” And the answer is Brigham Young. We cannot help our Phi Mu women unless we continue to have everyone’s support! Parent dues are $50 per year. Checks should be made
2014 Delta Epsilon Executive Board Heather Hollingsworth - President Psychology, Newburgh, IN
out to Phi Mu Parent’s Club and sent to:
Kendra Roberts - Vice-President of Committees
Susan Billman 14901 Little Eagle Creek Avenue
SLHS, Warsaw, IN
Zionsville, IN 46077
Erin Lammott - Vice –President of Chapter Developments Management, Lebanon, IN O4/05/2014 Balance
$5,408.03
Emma Franke - Treasurer
Income: Spring Auction
7,779.00
Dues
——
Total Income
7,779.00
Accounting, Seymour, IN Maddy Carroll - Secretary SLHS, Decatur, IN
Expenses: Monthly Banking Fees
(30.00)
Tutoring
(752.50)
Fall Recruitment Meals New Checks
(1,000.00)
Jamie Schanz - Recruitment Director Nursing, Westfield, IN
(23.95)
Total Expenses
(1,806.45)
09/16/2014 Balance
11,380,58
Madi Schmid - Provisional Member Director Management, Geneva, IL Sydney Wiley - Panhellenic Delegate Management, Lebanon, IN Mary English - Risk Manager
Events
Biological Engineering, Owensville, IN October Break
October 11-14
Miracle Mania
November 12 6:30
Dad’s Day
November 8
Thanksgiving Break
November 26-30
Finals
December 15-20
Commencement
December 21
Christmas Break
December 21January 11
.
Second Semester
January 12
Spring Break
March 14-22
Mom’s Day
April 18-19
Finals
Ma y 4-9
Commencement
May 15-17
Sydney Owens - Philanthropy Co-Chair Interior Design, Wexford, PA Bridget Eckrich - Philanthropy Co-Chair Biology, Indianapolis IN Mykala Shircliff - Academic Excellence Chair Art History, Zionsville, IN Laura Haselman - Social HTM, Scituate, MA Alexa DeRoo - House Manager Nursing, Plainfield, IN
Phi Mu Parents’ Club Mimi Brookie - President
mvbrookie@indy.rr.com
Cheri Trachtman - Vice-President
CTrachman@mail.hhsc.k12.in.us
Susan Billman
susan.billman@comcast.net
- Treasurer
Tricia Garland - Media
triciagarland@gmail.com
Sherri Pea - Secretary
sherrilynn619@gmail.com