Feels Like Home to Me at Kappa Phi
- ztatlc.alisoncolangelo
- Feb 14, 2019
- 3 min read
Kappa Phi Chapter
Cristopher Newport University
Newport News, Virginia
Kappa Phi Executive Committee
I started off my LAST semester of travel in a familiar place that has definetly started to feel like home! I held off on a blog post because Kappa Phi is a chapter I frequent and I knew I would be returning in February!
Rockstar Recruitment Chair Morgan! My first visit to Kappa Phi was focused on recruitment! Round one kicked off with Philanthropy day! Morgan and I had been planning for this weekend of recruitment since last semester and it was exciting to see it all come together.
It was great getting to catch up with the Area 1 Vice President Collegiate, Mrs. Raechel Biggs! She was my VPC when I was a senior in college and she is someone I look up to, I love every chance I get to work with her!
Two Al(l)isons are better than one!
Round two was focused on sisterhood! I got to meet a new sister on this visit, Allison Glasscock Dykes, who works with Kappa Phi as a recruitment advisor. She used to be a Consultant and we had so much to talk about! It was great getting to meet her!
Recruitment ended with Preference Round! ZTA sister, Erin had an amazing solo performance during the ceremony where she sand "Feels Like Home"!
The chapter celebrated their new members at spring bid day led by the New Member Coordinators Avery and Autumn!
I'll be there for you, and you'll be there for me too!
The theme for Bid Day was Friends! Everyone was decked out in their 90's gear and Zeta scrunchies!
💘Galentin'es Day💘 I headed back to Kappa Phi for my second visit just in time for the week of Valentine's Day! The chapter had a Galentine's Day sisterhood after chapter with fun games and enough candy hearts for everyone!
love the Greatest of all Things
Director of Sisterhood Events, Emily did such an amazing job planning the event and I can't wait to see what else she does this semester!
📍 Gloucester, Virginia
Over the weekend a group of sisters and I took a little road trip to the nearby town of Gloucester to visit two of our beloved ZTA Founders' graves. The Coleman sisters, Alice and Ethel both grew up in and were buried in Virginia where ZTA was founded.
I love Zeta History and I have been so lucky to visit four of our nine Founders' graves during my two years as a Leadership Consultant (hoping to make it to Alice Grey Welsh in Hawaii sometime soon😉)
FRED Fact: In 1988, National Council made sure that every Zeta Tau Alpha Founder got a crest emblem signifying their founding of our organization on their grave.
📍 Mathews, Virginia
After, Gloucester we made another stop down the Civil War Trail to a town called Mathews!
Mathews' Main Street really did feel like you were stepping back in time! They had an old-fashioned malt shop, a general store and several cute antique shops.
We stopped in a few antique shops and spent a good 30 minutes reading through a box of old post cards from the early 1900's and on. It was so fun reading the words that loved ones sent each other from all over the world.
I've been collecting post-cards from all of my visits since I started this job and I got a really special one from Newport News complete with an old one cent stamp!
We ended our day at Short Lane Ice Cream Factory! I had the handmade cherry vanilla ice cream in a chocolate waffle cone complete with some whopped dust that they normally save for the malt's! So good!😍
DG Dessert Derby
My sweet visit with Kappa Phi ended at a Panhellenic Philanthropy event that Delta Gamma put on! I had a great time tasting all the treats with sisters!
Next Up
Headed back to Texas for the second time in 3 weeks! I'm excited to get to some warmer weather and also because this is another return visit for me! I can't wait to see the lovely ladies of Lambda Delta at Texas A&M Corpus-Christi!
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