Friday, October 22, 2010

Indianapolis!

Hello Friends!

I Have been here in Indy for quite some time. Over the past month and a half I have been focusing on helping to start a brand new chapter here at Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis aka IUPUI. So basically IU and Purdue both have programs here, and the 2 colleges combined to make a campus in Indianapolis, aka IUPUI. The campus is pretty urban, but not as urban as Atlanta! It is like Georgia State about 10 years ago in terms of campus culture. On campus, there were already 2 sororities, and we make the 3rd!
Recruiting women on campus was so different than at K State. Most of the women didn't know a lot about the Greek life that was already at their school. Some women hadn't heard of sororities before. However, there was a decent amount of women who were really interested in ZTA and had been waiting for us to come onto campus! All in all, the experience meeting hundreds of new women was amazing.
TThis picture is an example of some of the PR we did on campus. We chalked really late at night to celebrate our "Think Pink Think Zeta" week!

IUPUI now has a beautiful new chapter of 81 Zeta Tau Alphas!! The New Members are just dazzling! They are independent, focused women who are learning all about ZTA. I have been here in Indy through the recruitment process and I am facilitating the New Member Program here with them. I am having a great time helping to build this amazing chapter, where there was nothing before.
This is a picture of Dani, Mrs. Tilly, Myself, Mrs. Kirwan, Mrs. Conrad, Gemma, and Mrs. Mauro! These women are AMAZING ladies who dedicate so much of their time to ZTA. Without their hard work, we could not make any of our colonizations possible!

This group of women is what I had been working towards for a few weeks. These days, I am helping to guide them to understand what being a ZTA is all about. I am so proud to call this wonderful group of women Zetas! They are such an inspiration to me, as they know little of what ZTA is, but their passion grows daily.

I will be here in Indy for quite some time (I think). The first week of November I will be leaving for a few days to go to North Carolina for an extension presentation, and then I'll be back here! I hard it gets quite cold here, so let's hope I don't freeze!!!
Lots of love from me to YOU!

Lexie