Alpha Omega Epsilon
Alpha Omega Epsilon
Tau Chapter Newsletter
May 15, 2007
|[pic] |Our Newest Sisters |
|“Night of the Roses” |[pic] |
|Spring 2007 |Tanya Battye |
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| |Heather Bowman |
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| |Kristin Brezenski |
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|Message from the President |[pic] |
|Greetings from the President! I’d like to congratulate and thank my sisters of the Tau chapter for all that |Alison Buhler |
|we have accomplished this semester. We inducted ten new sisters in April making the Gamma class the biggest |Materials Engr 2010 |
|class since the Founders! One of our focuses this year was on Philanthropy with events such as RPI’s Got | |
|Talent where we organized a talent show with the proceeds going to charity and of course participating in |[pic] |
|Relay for Life (along with a pancake sale to benefit the American Cancer Society). Our new officers were |Hillary Field |
|integrated quickly with our Sisterhood officer recognizing birthdays and organizing weekly Friday dinners for|Civil Engr. 2008 |
|candidates and our Scholastic officer holding various workshops on test taking as well as making a back test | |
|file. Traditions such as Sisterhood Night and our Senior Celebration were continued. I’m proud of what our | |
|chapter has accomplished this semester and I am looking forward to working with these wonderful women next | |
|semester as well. Thank you for reading our Spring 2007 newsletter and of course feel free to contact us | |
|with comments or questions! | |
|Officer Updates |Our Newest Sisters |
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|Spring Rush – Audra Bieg – Vice President |Cait Mounts |
|This semester the Tau Chapter had an incredible Spring recruitment period. Our Winter Wonderland themed Rush |Mechanical Engr. 2010 |
|included an exciting games night, a delicious snowman building contest, and a delightful ski lodge themed | |
|dessert event. Our signature event this semester was our Engineering Ice Cream event where the sisters and |[pic] |
|potential new members all enjoyed the opportunity to share good conversation over some delicious dessert. |Allison O’Neill |
|Nothing draws a crowd like McDreamy, over 30 young women crowded into one living room to enjoy the Grey's |Chemical Engr. 2010 |
|anatomy event and some pumpkin mousse. Between TV nights, Official Rush events, and Sporting events the | |
|sisters of the Tau chapter had a great time and met a lot of new and interesting people. The Tau chapter |[pic] |
|extended invitations for candidacy to 11 young women. We are excited for the fall and a new exciting edition|Sarah Patterson |
|to sorority! |Architecture 2009 |
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|Professional Chair – Sara Winar | |
|This semester the Tau chapter held a public speaking workshop for our sisters, facilitated by the Leadership | |
|Center on campus. We had the opportunity to practice our speech writing and persuasion skills by giving | |
|short speeches on assigned topics. By the end of the workshop we were all convinced that Captain Planet was | |
|indeed the best super-hero and all our fast-food cravings could be satisfied at Taco-Bell/KFC combo | |
|restaurants. This entertaining activity was a great way to practice our presentation skills and receive | |
|feedback from our facilitator as well as each other. We look forward to more fun workshops like this to | |
|continue to develop our professional and leadership skills in the future. | |
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|Philanthropy Chair – Kate Naske | |
|I am extremely happy to report that this semester has been filled with Philanthropy events spanning from | |
|February to the last week of classes. Toward | |
|the beginning of the semester the sisters signed onto The World Community Grid allowing computations |[pic] |
|concerning projects that benefit humanity to be executed on their laptops while they were idle. The sisters |Kathy Rogers |
|all pitched in to purchase a brick that will be part of a wall surrounding a flagpole on campus to benefit |Chemical Engr. 2010 |
|Habitat for Humanity as well. In early April we were busy making stress balls to distribute during finals | |
|week by spooning flour into balloons. It was a lot of fun and a little messy when some of the sisters |[pic] |
|decided to get more flour on themselves than in their balloons. Our creative and artsy sides came out when |Michelle Tanner |
|we made Birthday cards to help Shane Bernier break the world record of receiving the most Birthday cards in |Engr. 2010 |
|one year. We also raised over two thousand dollars for the Relay for Life event on campus as well as hosted | |
|a talent show called RPI’s Got Talent which raised $130 for the American Heart Association. We hope to make | |
|RPI’s Got Talent an annual event and continue to participate in Relay for Life and the World Community Grid | |
|as well. | |
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|Fundraising Chair – Elizabeth DeLouise |Fall 2007 Officers |
|This was a great year for fundraising. In the fall we raised $148 with our nerdy t-shirt sale, and $110 from| |
|selling pancakes. In the spring we raised $142 from an ongoing online magazine sale, $88 from selling and |President |
|delivering Crush soda bottles for Valentine's Day (in the snowstorm!) and $250 from a second nerdy t-shirt |Nicole Labrecque |
|sale. The profit from the sale was split between Relay for Life and our chapter, so we really raised $530! | |
|The most popular selling shirt was "the integral of e to the xy" (not spelled out of course), and we had |Vice President |
|several orders from other A.O.E. chapters as well. We also held a pancake sale to raise money for Relay for |Audra Bieg |
|Life and made $120 there. So overall we raised $1080 over the course of the year. The money for our chapter| |
|will be used to fund the framing of our Charter, helping send 3 sisters to Convention, and supplies for |Treasurer |
|pancake sales and ceremonies. During finals week we are holding another pancake sale to raise money for the |Teresa Amaducci |
|Maxine Turner Scholarship Fund which we hope will be set up by the IEB. | |
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|Social Chair – Dimple Patel |Jess Grande |
|This semester included a wide variety of social events. The biggest of them was the Formal dinner and dance. | |
|The sisters and their dates dressed up and spent the evening enjoying elegant food and fun music at a |Membership Educator |
|beautiful venue in Schodack, NY. Along with this, the chapter participated in social activities with other |Janine Freeman |
|Greek organizations, including dinners with Alpha Chi Rho and Delta Tau Delta Fraternities, and sending a | |
|team to play in the Alpha Gamma Delta 24-hour volleyball tournament. In the community, the ladies partook in |Assistant MED |
|Troy Night Out, a night of food, art, and music in downtown Troy. They also created and played in an |Tanya Battye |
|intramural floor hockey team and had a Superbowl Party at Dimple’s Apartment. All together, the sisters had a| |
|good time with friends and sister while participating in these social activities. |Historian |
| |Ali Kennicutt |
|Sisterhood Chair – Daniela Hock | |
|This semester of Spring 2007 I had the pleasure of planning various events as Sisterhood Chair. The first |Merchandise |
|major event I planned was Sisterhood Night, in which all of the sisters got together to talk about our |Alison Dennis |
|potential candidates. After discussing and voting on 11 girls we ate pizza, watched movies, and enjoyed each | |
|others company. A few days after bids went out I planned our traditional dinner at Bucca Di Beppo, in which |Social Chair |
|all of the sisters and our 11 new candidates enjoyed wonderful Italian food and dessert. I don’t think anyone|Heather Bowman |
|left Bucca that night with an empty stomach! As the weeks went on I planned Friday Night Dinners so that the | |
|sisters and candidates would have more time with each other. Friday Night Dinners gave the sisters and |Professional Chair |
|candidates the opportunity to learn more about each other, share some laughs, and become more comfortable |Elyse Portanova |
|with each other. We all got the opportunity to hear some funny stories from the sisters as some of the | |
|candidates took this time to do some interviews. As the candidate period was coming to an end I was fortunate|Philanthropy Chair |
|enough to get the opportunity to have a sisterhood event during ritual week. I planned the “Touch Someone” |Kate Naske |
|event as was done last semester, in which sisters would touch other sisters who displayed characteristics of | |
|a true sister and friend. This not only made us all feel tingly and cared for inside but also gave us all the|Sisterhood Chair |
|chance to see how much each and every one of us means to each other. After our 11 new girls from the Gamma |Kristen Gurekovich |
|Class became initiated I planned a small pizza party for them. It was a lot of fun having all of us hang out | |
|as sisters and make letters together. This Spring was just an amazing time for all of us and it was a |Scholastic Chair |
|pleasure being a part of making that happen! |Alison Buhler |
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| |Corresponding Secretary |
| |Hillary Field |
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| |Panhel Rep |
| |Emily Pineda |
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| |Fundraising Chair |
| |Norma-Ester Medina |
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| |Webmaster |
| |Elizabeth DeLouise |
|Panhel Representative – Emily Pineda |Congratulations and best wishes to our |
|In the course of the spring semester, the Tau Chapter has bettered the relations that it has with the local |Graduating Seniors!!! |
|Pan-Hellenic Association. We have increased the percentage of ladies that participate in committees, meant to| |
|bring all the sororities together. We even had a sister, Selby Miller, who was committee head. This is very |Sarah Bowman |
|exciting for the sorority. Panhel planned two mixers this semester. The first event was a barbeque. This was |Founding Class |
|a lot of fun and had a great turn out. The other event that was held was a girls' lacrosse game. For this | |
|event, we made signs that showed our support for the team. One of our new sisters is on the team, and we felt|Alison Duncan |
|very proud to support her. Another new tradition that our sorority participated in is "Dress to the Pin." |Founding Class |
|Every first Monday of the month, we would dress in business casual with our sister pins to show our pride in | |
|Greek life. I believe this should be continued into the coming years. The biggest event of the semester was |Emaan Farhoud |
|Greek Weekend. There was a Barbeque to start it off and then Greek Olympics the next day. Our girls had a |Founding Class |
|lovely time with this. I wanted to increase the participation in Panhel this semester, and I hope to do the | |
|same for the next one. |Delilah Gawlick |
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|Historian – Abbey Provine | |
|This semester has been very successful for us. In addition to all of the amazing things we were able to do, |Abbey Provine |
|and the new ladies that we brought into the organization as active sisters, we also decided, as a chapter, to|Founding Class |
|honor two ladies who played a huge part in our colony installation, and in fact, the development of the Tau | |
|chapter. We voted as a sorority to induct two honorary members into our chapter, Mary Dalton and Emma |Laurel White |
|Grundy. The traditions committee is working to develop an induction ceremony, including a flower (orchid) |Founding Class |
|and pin (dolphin). The committee will also be developing a tradition for the Preference party put on at the | |
|end of each rush period. |Sara Winar |
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|Honorary Members | |
|The IEB has approved two honorary members of the Tau Chapter: Mary Dalton and Emma Grundy. Both were |Lynn Bresnahan |
|involved with our interest group but had to leave RPI before we became a colony. Mary graduated in 2005 and |Alpha Class |
|Emma went back to England (she was an exchange student). Alison Duncan wrote of Mary's dedication: "[Mary] | |
|was involved in researching Alpha Omega Epsilon and the process that we needed to go through to become an |Dimple Patel |
|interest group, colony, and chapter...[she assisted] Meghan and Nicole in setting up meetings with the Greek |Alpha Class |
|dean and making sure that there was plenty of follow through." Alumna Meghan Kate said of Emma "[she] helped| |
|encourage me and the other ladies to proceed with the notion of starting a new sorority. Since...Emma was |Daniela Hock |
|departing for London, I took [her] words and encouragement with extra thought...[she was] right there for |Beta Class |
|every brainstorming session and fun gathering." We are excited to | |
|have these ladies become our honorary members and look forward to holding a ceremony to congratulate them in | |
|the fall. | |
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