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and many of our sisters went to Dalton
State’s Homecoming game to cheer
on our sisters Courtney Sloan and
Kailey Vaughn, who were both on the
Homecoming court.

Lambda Epsilon
U of Waterloo
A highlight of our year was our Roseball,
creatively themed AOII and the City; New
York! It was a great evening and a time to
honor our wonderful sisters with awards.
In total, 27 awards were presented in
academics, recruitment, sisterhood,
and the coveted Founders’ Awards. The
Founders’ Awards were preseented
to Taylor Lambert, Jasmine Santiago,
Melanie Osmond, and Rebecca Little.

Lambda Iota classes! We were fortunate to have the Nu Omicron (Vanderbilt U)
U of California, San Diego awesome ELCs Payton Ramsey and Katie
Our first philanthropy, Alpha Games: Clark to help us build our chapter this raised over $1,500 for arthritis research.
Slime Out Arthritis! was a successful past semester. Our sister Gilda Montes Mallorie Hays was awarded Greek
90s-themed game show with fun (senior) recently won awards for Best Woman of the Year at the ULM Student
challenges for the 14 fraternities and Panhellenic Spirit and 2014 Panhellenic Affairs Banquet. We celebrated 57 years
nine other sororities at UCSD. We raised Delegate of the Year at TCU. as a chapter with a dinner and a silent
$14,313.13 for arthritis! Challenges auction at Frenchman’s Bend Country
included slime an AOII, bop-it/skip-it Lambda Sigma Club, and we hosted a philanthropy
games, taking selfies with AOIIs dressed U of Georgia fundraiser at Raising Cane’s and raised
as Pokemon (gotta catch ‘em all) and A very special event called The Red Rose over $600 for arthritis research.
money wars. The game show involved Ball took place this year with dinner and
a series of 90s pop culture questions in dancing at a private venue in Atlanta. It Lambda Upsilon
a “Jeopardy” setting. Congratulations to happens only once every four years. A Lehigh U
our first winners, Sigma Chi and Kappa Field Party is held the next day with a Our chapter is setting an example with
Kappa Gamma. food truck, band and bonfire. It is always its Green Initiative and new eco-friendly
a wonderful weekend. We also held our provisions. Members performed an audit
Lambda Omicron annual Run for the Roses. It was a 5K on the recycling and trash collected
Cumberland U Color Run this year in Athens, and we from the chapter house. This information
Six of our members were inducted into chose to only use blue and red powder was posted throughout the house to
the Gamma Beta Phi National Honor to represent AOII and the Arthritis keep members informed about proper
Society. The accomplishments of these Foundation. After running through the disposal of their waste. In addition, the
six girls only add to Lambda Omicron’s color, everyone was a walking symbol of House Manager, Maggie Dalena, made a
status as the Greek organization with our joint partnership to help find a cure display of items that constitute as “trash,”
the highest cumulative GPA as well as for arthritis. such as paper towels and plastic utensils.
outstanding campus involvement. The chapter has four Eco-Reps and even
Lambda Tau provided green reusable plastic cups for
Lambda Rho U of Louisiana at Monroe all members to reduce the amount of
Texas Christian U Lambda Tau hosted AOII Goes Blue and trash produced in the house.
We held two very successful
philanthropy events: Sisters for Soldiers
where we collected donations and
packed supplies for 70 boxes, and
our first Sink Out Arthritis! volleypong
tournament (a hybrid of volleyball and
water pong)! In the 2014-2015 academic
year, Lambda Rho initiated three pledge

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