Monday, July 17, 2017

Pi Beta Phi Spring Semester Recap

It was a fun and exciting semester for Arkansas Alpha! From dance competitions to celebrating 150 years of Pi Beta Phi, this semester was one for the books!

Social Events
Pi Phi’s love sisterhood events! These events are a great way for Pi Phi’s to bond with and share priceless memories with our sisters. On February 13, Pi Phi hosted it’s very own Galentine’s Day celebration! We danced to loud music, took fun pictures and decorated desserts with festive toppings. Another one of our favorite sisterhood events was Pi Phi Recess. During our long finals week, we took a brief “recess” from studying and had a blast in our outdoor courtyard. Jump ropes, hoola hoops, music and free snow cones made it an unforgettable experience.
Functions, functions and more functions! Our exec members really know how to put the “fun” in function. Some of our favorites this semester were dynamic duo and thrift shop. We saw duos like the iconic SNL hosts to an avocado and toast. For the thrift shop function, Pi Phi’s hit the local thrift shop and went all out! We ended the year with Monmouth, our annual formal paired with Kappa Kappa Gamma. This is every Pi Phi’s favorite function. We dressed up in our best dresses, took a nice date and danced the entire night!  

Competitions
One thing is for sure, Pi Phi’s love to dance! This February, some of our girls participated in a singing and dancing competition against every Arkansas sorority called Greek Sing. These Pi Phi’s put in a lot of long nights and hard work, but it sure did pay off. Pi Phi won first place for the fifth year in a row!
We also participated in Sigma Chi’s annual Derby Days dance competition. Pi Phi chose the theme “money” and rolled with it. They wore costumes, painted banners and danced to songs all about money. Pi Phi came out winning second place out of all eleven sororities! 

Philanthropy
Pi Phi’s national philanthropy, Read>Lead>Achieve is really special to us. Each semester we participate in a program called Champions Are Readers or CAR. Pi Phi’s go to an elementary school class room each week and read to kids. At the end of the program, each child receives a reading certificate and a book. It’s really important for Pi Phi’s to share their love of reading to the students in our community.
February 28 was Fraternity Day of Service. We had a fun Dr. Seuss themed event making hundreds of bookmarks. We made the bookmarks into arrows to benefit kids in following along the lines of their favorite books while they read. We took the bookmarks to Fayetteville public library and let them give it to any kid who wanted one!
Pi Phi hosted it’s second Pizookie night! Tickets were only $5 and each person received an entire pizookie (pizza cookie) to themselves. We ended up raising of $3,900 for children’s literacy!


Mom’s Day
Our beloved moms came to Fayetteville to spend the weekend with their favorite Pi Phi’s! We hosted fun events throughout the weekend including Painting With a Twist, dinner at our new house (including shopping) and topped it all off with a workout class and brunch! This is one of our favorite weekends of all!  

150 years of pi phi
This year was extremely special because we celebrated 150 years of Pi Beta Phi! The Ring Ching Roadshow made its way to Fayetteville. In honor of 150 years of our wonderful sorority, one of our sisters is driving “Libbie” across the nation to gather stories and celebrate many years of sisterhood. When “Libbie” and her driver Daphney arrived, we celebrated with food and shared our favorite memories!
This April we hosted Pi Phi’s Founders Day. Arkansas Alpha alumni and current members ate yummy food, girls received awards and we remembered and honored the 12 women who founded Pi Beta Phi 150 years ago.


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