Stubbs #FlashbackFriday

This memory with our Beta Eta collegians Alicia, Gina, Alessi, Caleigh, Anna, Kellie and Franklin is from February 2015. Can't wait for Stubbs Educational Foundation's 2017 A Night on the Red Carpet!

Alpha Chi Omega Convention 2016 - #AXOSunshine

It might be chilly and fall-like, but we are remembering back to "fun in the sun" with our sisters in Orlando on this #FlashbackFriday.

We didn’t win any awards in 2016, but we still had fun! (Awards from Convention 2012, #AXOattheArch, and Convention 2010). The Beta Eta chapter won the Community Relations Award, and we were thrilled for them! Xi Omega Xi, the alumnae chapter we share with Beta Eta also won TWO awards (many thanks to their president and Beta Eta chapter advisor, Britain!):  Sisterhood Award and Long Distance Collegiate Support Award!

Plan to join us in Austin, TX for Convention 2018. Jenn said, "Will the hashtag be #KeepAXOWeird?" (love it!)

A photo montage from our treasurer JSBH to share “What’s Convention Like? …” Answer:  AMAZING!

We were so fortunate to enjoy the company of five current collegians at Convention!
Anna, Mckayla, Whitney, Gianna, Mindy

#GivingTuesday #AlphaChiOmega Foundation - where does my $$$ go?

Collegians (and alumnae), why should you contribute to the #Foundation? 

Giving means more scholarships and grants for collegiate and alumnae members. It means that more campuses across the country will get to hear Andrea Cooper (Tri Delta alumna) speak about the tragic yet inspirational story of her daughter Kristin (Alpha Chi Omega sister). Giving to the Foundation ensures the Alpha Chi Omega experience meets the needs of women both today and tomorrow.
with “Kristin’s Story.” 

Giving means more financial support for the enhancement of existing Fraternity programming and the development of new, exciting initiatives such as MyJourney, the ASTP (Alcohol Skills Training Program), #InTune and #AXOGSI (global service initiative).



Thanks University of Oregon, Alpha Kappa chapter for the enthusiasm about #MyJourney! We loved this blog post so much we wanted to share, and show other sisters the Alpha Chi Omega experience in action.

MyJourney is an Alpha Chi Omega-only, four-year program designed to give Freshmen - Seniors real world, life skills training through fun, interesting and research-based, peer-led curriculum. All Vice Presidents of  Membership Programming implement this exciting curriculum in their chapter. Our #alumnae volunteers, Advisors and Specialists convey facilitation and program training to ensure the leaders successful implementation for the sessions. BONUS:  The facilitation workshop and skills look FABULOUS on a resume! Woot! 

Alumnae panel for the senior #MyJourney

Sophomores - love this great #facilitation technique for #logistics

#WhyAlphaChiWed - Creative Collegians! @axo_fsu @xoxmeredith #FSU18

We are excited to showcase the design work of a Beta Eta collegian!

Best of Luck in your Digital Arts career pursuits Meredith!

http://www.mabdesigns.squarespace.com/

Beta Eta Chapter is 85!

Come celebrate your Alpha Chi Omega Sisterhood with the Beta Eta collegians and alumnae!

Our National President Diane Blackwelder will be one of the many honored guests!

Buy your tickets today:   http://www.axobetaeta85.com/
and email AXOatFloridaState AT gmail with any questions.

Schedule

Friday, April 11th

5:00 pm - 8:00pm

House Tours, T-shirt Pick up

Chapter House,

518 West Park Avenue

6:00 pm thru the night

Visit Beta Eta’s Collegians at Relay for life. 

Main Campus Fields (aka:Old Intramural Fields)

1007 West St. Augustine Street, Tallahassee

Saturday, April 12th

3:00 pm Garnet and Gold Game

6:30-7:30 pm

GALA - cocktail hour, silent auction 

Leon County Civic Center

505 West Pensacola Street

Tallahassee, FL 32301

8:00pm

GALA- dinner is served,program begins.

Sunday, April 13th

9:30-12:30

brunch, house tours, and tshirt pick up

Chapter House

518 West Park Avenue

10:30 am

Brother of Hermes & Mother Pinning Ceremony

Babysitting List Reminder

Reminder!

Epsilon Tau Epsilon prepares a new babysitter list each semester. Beta Eta chapter members fill the list, and you will find collegians with experience who love to babysit. We encourage alumnae to utilize the list and share with friends. The resource provides a service for alumnae, a fun job for the collegians and a chance to increase and spread the Alpha Chi Omega bond of lifetime sisterhood. Contact Us!  

Collegiate Chapter Spotlight - @UFAXO Sisterhood Retreat - #WhyAlphaChi

In honor of UF's fantastic career day in November (shout out VP-ID Cassie Bailey) and volunteering to host #MyJourney facilitator training (shout out Savannah Posgai) for Beta Omicron, Gamma Iota, Gamma Chi, Gamma Pi and Theta Sigma, we are showing some fun photos from Gamma Iota's Fall Sisterhood Retreat.

Sisterhood retreats and activities like KROM, KRONM, KROS fall under the office of vice president of membership programming. Savannah P worked hard with her committee to plan a fun-filled, relaxing and interactive day. The day revolved a "Fall Fair" theme with a special sign, games and a "bake off" (with prizes), yummy snacks and lunch and team building.

We love to see our collegiate chapters engaging in events that strengthen the bond, allow time for relaxation and are safe.

pumpkin decorating

"fall fair" games - marshmallow eating competition

tip for a positive event:  post the agenda and menu - you build excitement & set attendees at ease 

#AXO Collegiate and #DVAM Spotlight with @MaryKay!

Thank you Mary Kay for all your work to end Domestic Violence!

We love this collaboration as many Alpha Chi Omega sisters are Mary Kay consultants too.

Alpha Chi Omega & Mary Kay Photo Contest

Vote for your favorite photo! 

The chapter with the most "Likes" by noon, Friday, November 1, will win a MARY KAY celebrity makeover experience and a $5,000 grant to the domestic violence awareness organization of their choice. 

For complete contest rules, prizes and info, visithttp://bit.ly/1bvxtX3.

Our Local Chapter Beta Eta - is in the running!

Our Awards from #AXO Convention 2012 #TBT

We're playing catch-up and decided October (our founding month) was a great opportunity to reflect on our blessings from Convention 2012 in St. Louis, MO.

ETE worked SUPER HARD between Convention 2010 and 2012 and we were rewarded with FOUR alumnae chapter awards!

If you follow our tweets (@AXOETE) you might have caught us winning the awards back in July.


The box arrived; the excitement built!

We won the following:

• Domestic Violence Outreach
• Collegiate Chapter Support - Local
• PACE
• Fine Arts

We will use the neat Alpha Chi-themed awards as prizes for our sisterhood events!

Recapping 2011 Alpha Chi Omega State Day: Florida #TBT

One of our beloved collegians Tracy - a rockstar this one! She served on the executive board at Beta Eta, Rho Lambda and numerous other organizations and honor societies at FSU. She went on to receive her J.D. from UF. During her time at UF she served as the New Member Education advisor. Here she speaks on behalf of Alpha Ch Omega Foundation; she received two scholarships from Foundation during her time in school. Tracy radiates our five membership criteria!

We always make time to purchase stars at the Star Booth to honor our sisters and assist Foundation!

Look at this fine group of Beta Eta alumnae and collegians! We appreciate all they give to Alpha Chi Omega and our lifelong Bond of sisterhood.

State Day in Florida 2013

Remember our previous post where we described State Day?

The Beta Eta collegians and Epsilon Tau Epsilon alumnae enjoyed a fun and productive day at Stetson hosted by our Gamma Chi chapter. The morning was spent learning about our Strengths and how we can focus on those to make ourselves more productive executive board members, chapter members and Alpha Chi Omega citizens. After a yummy lunch, we broke out to learn about utilizing social media, MyJourney, MissRepresentation, financial accountability and more. It was a fun day of meeting new sisters and honing our personal best to become Real. Strong. Women. 

Beta Eta Exec Board with the super cute letters painted by Gamma Chi chapter

Networking and Debriefing at lunch.

The granddaughter of an Alpha Chi Omega Founder! This is Nellie Gamble Childe's granddaughter

Learning Good Advice for Life!

Lindsey Bishop, PCC for FL, sharing the day's agenda - great room!

Jenn Butler's favorite part:  Talking with MyJourney Leaders and facilitators - vp-nmes, vp-mps and vp-pr&ms

FSU Recruitment 2012 Recap

New Member Class 2012!

Our Alpha Chi Omega chapter at FSU enjoyed a successful Recruitment last week! On Sunday, they welcomed 74 New Members. Many thanks to all the alumnae who provided recommendations for Potential New Members, to all who attended Recruitment Preview, and especially to those who helped at parties and/or stayed up late helping at tally. You are appreciated!!

Congratulations also to our sisters at Gamma Iota chapter at the University of Florida on their excellent Recruitment. Our UF sisters welcomed 68 New Members last week!

The FSU AXO VP-Public Relations and Marketing created this wonderful video recapping their Bid Day:

Beta Etas Abroad

The Beta Eta sisters enjoyed study abroad opportunities in abundance during 2011, and then they popped up throughout the 2012 Florida State University Study Abroad booklet - how fun is that?

Follow the blue arrows and enjoy!

Cassy (legacy of AXO and KROM Coordinator)

Catalina (VP of PR and M) - she had two internships in the communications field this summer - she is on fire!

Corine (VP of ID) - she swam with sharks this summer in a marine biology lab

Ashley C (Tallahassee native and 2006 President) - she is a PR professional in Chicago now!

MyJourney - Alpha Chi Omega's amazing program for collegians

Jennifer (Theta Lambda, Clemson) our treasurer and a member of the Beta Eta and Gamma Iota advisory boards CANNOT CONTAIN HER EXCITEMENT about Alpha Chi Omega's launch of MyJourney.

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Welcoming FSU AXO Graduating Seniors as New AXO Alumnae!

Sunday, April 22nd, we hosted Hall of Commitment for the graduating seniors at the FSU chapter of Alpha Chi Omega. We're so proud of these young women, and amazed by how quickly four years can pass. 

gifts for the seniors 

 our newest alumnae!

carnations for the ceremony

 cookies to enjoy after the ceremony

Thank you to our alumnae, representing four collegiate chapters, who performed the ceremony!

And our second ceremony, Thursday, April 26th:

Helping a Collegian who helps families with Cancer

We think it is important to support our collegians who are nearby and far away from teh Tallahassee and Thomasville area. This is a worthy cause and one touching and affecting many lives:

To my Alpha Chi sisters,

My name is Bre Vergess and I am the president of Alpha Chi Omega, Pi Chapter at UC Berkeley. I would appreciate it if you could help me share my story with your chapter!

When my father, Dr. Russell Vergess, was diagnosed, I was 12 years old. In the year following the news, I was forced to grow up faster than my friends and I tried to understand how this thing called “Cancer” was making my dad so sick so fast. He was an incredible man and he was my hero, but through his fight and until the day he passed away, his priority was always me. He wanted me to have a normal life and have fun, and more than anything he didn’t want to leave his only daughter behind. The strength of my father and the power of the cause pushed me to fight back in my own way.

Arriving at the University of California, Berkeley almost 3 years ago, I came across an organization called Camp Kesem. Camp Kesem is a free sleep away summer camp for kids ages 6 to 16 with a parent who has or has had cancer. It is simply a week for them to have as much fun as possible, given the support and attention they need.

This year is my third year with Camp Kesem, and my second year as a coordinator, but what has kept me so deeply drawn to this organization can hardly be described to you in a letter. It is an 8 year-old boy with nothing on his mind but the pure joy of reaching the top of the rock climbing wall. It is a group of 10 year-olds who have known each other for 2 days laughing and working together to win the scavenger hunt like they’ve been friends for years. It is sitting face to face with a 13 year-old camper who can’t seem to understand why “this thing” has happened to her, and seeing my young, vulnerable and afraid 13 year-old self staring back at me. I can’t help but think of my dad and what Camp Kesem would have meant to him- knowing the magnitude of a parent’s love for their child and through that, what camp provides not only to the kids, but to the parents.

Camp Kesem is many things: it is adventure, new friends, new experiences. But more than that, it is an inexplicable joy and passion that comes from a common bond that our campers share. It is a place of growth and confidence. It is a source of strength and hope. It comes from a need that changed my life seven years ago, but today, with every camper, their family, and their story, Camp Kesem has drawn my heart closer to its cause.

Camp Kesem is run by college students, and between 2001 and 2010, the organization grew from a single campus hosting 37 campers to a national movement with 37 camps in over 22 states. There are 1.7 million cancer cases a year in the United States that affect individuals and their families, and while the support network is there for adults, the special emotional needs of the children of cancer patients is often overlooked. Camp Kesem is just beginning to address this need.

Camp Kesem, Berkeley, raises $70,000 annually to bring 80 campers and 40 counselors to camp, and we are continuing to grow and expand each year. I would really appreciate any support you can provide - whether it's just reading the Camp Kesem website (www.campkesem.org), forwarding this information on to friends/family, donating, or inquiring about other ways that you can help. All donations are tax-deductible. With your help, we can make this year's Camp Kesem an overwhelming success!

Donate online on my personal fundraising page at: http://tinyurl.com/73bzjd3

In the bond,

Bre Vergess

There are several chapters of Camp Kesem hosted by universities all over the U.S. If you or someone you know has children and has fought or is fighting cancer, or is interested in starting a CK on your/their campus, go towww.campkesem.org for more information.

Beta Eta Founders' Day - 83 years and Still Achieveing the Heights

The Beta Eta collegians invited their local ETE alumnae over for the 83rd Founders' Day Dinner. Beta Eta was founded at the Florida State College for Women March 29, 1929.


We enjoyed viewing the chapter's charter, seeing the gentlemen of Sigma Phi Epsilon who stopped by to bring chocolate-covered strawberries for the occasion, and dining on chicken marsala. Alumnae from old chapters to young chapters attended the event. We represented Pi chapter, Beta Eta chapter, Theta Lambda chapter and Kappa Xi chapter.



Marie the house director always decorates for the seasons and she sent the alumnae home with Gerber daises set in spring buckets - what a treat!
















Brittany, Sara, Lizzie, Laura, Diana, Katelyn, Abigail

Meagan, Britain, Danielle, Isla, Kate and Erin

Alumnae Panhellenic Scholarship Luncheon Recap

Saturday, February 11th we enjoyed an afternoon of sisterhood at the Alumnae Panhellenic Scholarship Luncheon at Auction at the FSU Kappa Alpha Theta house.

one of our two tables of sisters (Aaryn - front right - is a sister from Kappa Xi chapter at UWF!)

more sisters at the luncheon

Inspirational speaker this year was DeeDee Rasmussen, Kappa Alpha Theta, Chair of the Leon County School Board

 Jenn and Amy reporting on how Alpha Chi Omega used the 2011 Philanthropic Grant to benefit our local domestic violence shelter, Refuge House (learn more about our project here)

Jenn presenting the 2012 Philanthropic Grant to Kappa Alpha Theta.

Libby, center, won a 2012 Eugenia F. Kenshalo Scholarship! Jenn, right, gave a wonderful introduction of Libby that began "She is the kind of member every sorority wants." Kathy Dilworth, left, was named Alumnae Panhellenic Woman of the Year, a well deserved honor!

 These 8 FSU Panhellenic collegians were honored for their academic achievements. All have grade points above 3.7! Libby, far left, and Stacia, fourth from right, are both Alpha Chi Omegas.

This is the beautiful Panhellenic Scholar pin the 8 collegians above received. 

The luncheon is also a fundraiser with a silent auction and a live one. Thank you to our sisters who donated items, including Barbara, Margaret, Amy, Betty and Jennifer. Auction items: 

The Kappa Alpha Theta House Director and collegians were lovely and gracious hostesses for the event. We appreciate their hospitality and loved seeing their beautiful home.