Alpha Phi Quärterly Publication of Phi International Since 1888 Volume ALPHA 112, PHI FRATERNITY A Alpha Fraternity Number 2 Spring 2000 Founders FEATURES Clara Bradley Burdette ('76), died 1954 Florence Chidester Lukens ('75), died 1885 Martha Foote Crow ('76), died 1924 Ida Gilbert Houghton ('76), died 1916 Jane S. Higham ('76), died 1949 Regional Conferences 2 Kate Hogoboom Gilbert ('75), died 1900 Elizabeth Grace Hubbell Shults ('75), died 1895 Expedition 4 Rena Michaels Atchison ('74), died 1933 Louise Shepard Hancock ('76), died 1932 Bishop Catherine Waynick 5 Clara Sittser Williams ('75), died 1925 International Executive Board Breast Cancer 6 International President: Jean Cameron Tindall Y-ME-RACE Vice President: Linda Long Boland Secretary/Treasurer: Carole Salerno Building Purchase 28 Mary Rekart Ulich 6106 15753 Monica Kennedy Monczka Laura Malley-Schmitt Photo at left: Amy Pfannenstiel Bunszel Judith Segerer Watson Nancy Gee Gaul (AM-Purdue), middle right, Valerie Lawlor participates in the Y-ME race in Chicago, Ex-Officio: Sally McCall Grant, NPC Delegate Editorial Advisory Board May 1999 with her sister, Barbara Pagano and Chair: Lisa Marlene Sawyer nieces, Colleen and Jenny (see story, page 6). Susan Weiskittle Barrick Margaret Knights Hultsch Cover photos, clockwise from top: Lesli Davis Nadolski Jan Jones Owen The Northeast region Expedition TM winners Foundation Directors are (back, left to right) Joanna Reinhardt Chair: Mary Carr Boyd (A-Syracuse), Katie Augustine (A-Cornell), Vice Chair and Treasurer: Susan Brink Sherratt Nadine Feinstein (A-Cornell), (front) Brooke Secretary: Kathleen Feeney Hiemstra Susan Weiskittle Barrick Morganstein (A-Syracuse), Meghan Exley Gayle Goodman (A-Syracuse) and Dede Bocala (A-Cornell). Michelle Marchant Jean Cameron Tindall The North Central Midwest region's Outstand- Historian: Betty Loveland Heinze ing Alumnae Chapter award goes to Chicago Alpha Phi Quarterly Staff Lakeshore, represented by President Ann Editor: Christine Spiegel Brinkman (ZA-lowa State), at left. Northwest E-mail: quarterly@alphaphi.org Suburban, represented by President Sue Tinnish Alpha Phi Home Page http://www.alphaphi.org (B-Northwestern) and DuPage Valley, repre- Executive Office sented by President Cindy Meyers Plate Interim Executive Director: Barbara Thomas (F-DePauw), receive honorable mentions. Address: 1930 Sherman Ave., Evanston, IL 60201 DEPARTMENTS Phone: 847/475-0663 Fax: 847/475-6820 Taking a break from running the South Central E-mail: fraternity@alphaphi.org Regional Conference are (back, left to right) Foundation Office Regional Manager Linda Boon DeFee (FI-Texas Foundation Executive Director: Nancy Owen Craig Address: 1930 Sherman Ave., Evanston, IL 60201 Tech), Human Resource Coordinator Volunteer Foundation Phone: 847/475-4532 Fax: 847/475-9982 Message from the IEB 1 Recruitment Melissa Willmarth Ermis (EQ^- E-mail: foundation@alphaphi.org Texas A&M), Collegiate Membership Coordinator National Housing Corporation Trustees On Campus 11 Theresa Rajczi (OT-Rensselaer), NPC Delegate President: Corry Mack Doty Vice President: Phyllis Sims Selig Deana Koonsman Gage (Fl-Texas Tech), Founda- Karen Howe Alumnae Pride .20 tion Liaison Sheila George Bright (Fl-Texas Diane Spry Straker Tech), (front) Epsilon Omega deuteron (Texas Jean Fenstermacher Thomas People .24 IEB Liaison: Carole Salerno A&M) Special Governor Gina Garner (EQ^- National Panhellenic Conference Texas A&M), Alumnae Membership Coordinator EO Staff Profile .25 Alpha Phi Delegate: Sally McCall Grant Amy Jordan Tvrdik (O-Missouri), Site Coordina- First Alternate Delegate: Linda Gardner Massie tor Debby Perkins Anderson (FQ--Midwestern Second Alternate Delegate: Deana Koonsman Gage NPC Update .26 Third Alternate Delegate: Linda Groves Root State), Human Resource Coordinator Assess- ment/Evaluation Diane Flower Waggoner (EQ^- Reunion .27 Texas A&M and ZM-Colorado State) and Site Letter to the Editor 28 Coordinator Nancy Hodges Edwards (Q-Texas). Alpha Phi Quarterly Editorial Policy Claire Gorman, daughter of Dorothy Strand All persons interested in submitting materials for publication in the Alpha Phi Quarterly are encouraged to send them to the editor at the Announcements .26 Gorman (FK-CSU/Long Beach), plays in the Executive Office. The editor reserves the right to accept, deny or edit Foundation's raffle tickets during the Pacific any materials submitted. Unless otherwise requested, all photos sent to Web Site 31 Northwest Regional Conference. the magazine will become the property of Alpha Phi International and will not be returned. No digital photography will be accepted. Bulletin Board .32 Articles may be sent by mail, fax, e-mail, or on a PC disk. Please send your information to the editor by May 1, 2000 for the summer issue and July 15, 2000 for the fall issue. Materials received after these dead- Alpha Phi Foundation .33 lines will be considered for the following issue. 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