Travelling from Illinois to Connecticut via the interstate highway system offered me plentiful opportunities to ponder random thoughts.
Whenever we are on the highway through metro New York and I see the sign for Yonkers, I want to take a detour and look for the castle where Frank Hinckley Sisson, Beta Theta Pi, and his wife Grace Lass Sisson, Pi Beta Phi, lived. Both were Knox College graduates and both served as Grand/National President of their respective Greek-letter organization (GLO). The traffic and then knowing that my mother-in-law is waiting for us to arrive stifles any thought of actually taking this detour (see http://wp.me/p20I1i-eD). I suspect I’d want a tour of the inside too, and a breaking and entering charge would put a damper on what little time we’d spend in Connecticut.
Each time we head through Columbus, Ohio, I wave at the Kappa Kappa Gamma headquarters. I’ve toured it (and the Delta Gamma HQ, too, in the same city), but would love to see it again. If you’re in Columbus on Saturday, December 14, 2013 from 1-3 p.m., stop at the Snowden-Gray House and Heritage Museum of Kappa Kappa Gamma for a Holiday Open House (https://www.facebook.com/events/1382704995283534/1382705761950124/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity) (see also http://wp.me/p20I1i-oy).
And did you know that the Elf on the Shelf has GLO cousins? Chi Omega’s elf is named Owliver. He started off at Chi Omega HQ and is visiting chapters.
Pi Beta Phi has Emma the Elf. My guess is she is named after Emma Brownlee Kilgore, one of the 12 Founders and the first President. Note the arrow badge!
Emma the Elf in pin attire
If you missed the plethora of Black Friday and/or Cyber Monday sales at GLO stores, there’s still time to take part in Giving Tuesday, December 3, by making a donation to the Circle of Sisterhood Foundation. Sorority women can help change the world! They are doing just that through the Circle of Sisterhood Foundation which is helping to remove the barriers to education for women and girls the world over (to learn more about the Circle of Sisterhood visit www.circleofsisterhood.org; to give on Giving Tuesday visit http://www.circleofsisterhood.org/donate.).
Happy December 3!
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