SPR Newsletter
SPR Newsletter
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A formal, planned by National Alumni Director (Khushabu Patel), Rutgers Colony President (Yesha Metha), & Northern Regional Director (Ami Patel), was held for the sisterhood on February 4, 2012 at Paradise Restaurant in Central New Jersey. We had approximately 30 sisters and dates from Delta Chapter, Epsilon Chapter, Rutgers Colony, and NYU Colony that attended this event.
SPRING 2012
Bigs and Interviews are needed for 2012 Association! Please fill out the form below or contact [email protected] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFNyQ3FvZXFYUFAtaDcwREtmeDgxNlE6MQ
SPRING 2012
A LPHA C HAPTER
Texas A & M University Alpha Chapter held initiation for their Xi class last month. Welcome to the sisterhood ladies! Manasa Rao (Sister Spontaneous) Aashna Maredia (Sister Elixir) Vaishnavi Narasimhan (Sister Harmony) Akhila Sivakumar (Sister Kinetic)
XI Class Initiation
Alpha Events
Fundraiser at Spoons 2/26 from 12pm - 2pm Social with sisters of Kappa Delta Chi. Service at Genesis Home to spend time with the children there. C.H.I.L.D. Week Events: o Annual Tat a Hand to Stop a Hand o Spelling Bee for the children at Lincoln Center o End the week with a wing-eating contest to raise money for the Stephanie Phillip Foundation, since she loved eating wings!
Tamanna Hoque (President): [email protected] Priyanka Goswami (VP/PR/Social Chair): [email protected] Nikita Patel (Secretary): [email protected] Manasa Rao (Treasurer/Fundraising Chair): [email protected] Akhila Sivakumar (MGC delegate): [email protected] Aashna Maredia (APC delegate/Co-RA): [email protected] Vaishnavi Narasimham (Service Chair): [email protected] Maira Ansari (MGC delegate/Fundraising Chair): [email protected] Priya Tomy (Sisterhood Chair): [email protected] Krishna Rajesh (RA): [email protected] Mehreen Jamal (Inactive): [email protected] Ibtihaj Tayyab (Inactive): [email protected] Nida Khan (Inactive): [email protected] Saria Khan (Inactive): [email protected]
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SPRING 2012
Service Mixer with the brothers of Beta Tau Omega (Turnip Picking)
Service Mixer with the brothers of Chi Psi Beta (Street Clean-up)
G AMM A C HAPTER
University of Texas at Austin Not only have we successfully made a positive impact on our surrounding community, but also within our sisterhood itself. With over 30 sisters, we are able to achieve numerous goals throughout the semester, such as raising thousands of dollars for our community. Within the Greek community here at UT, our sisters have won numerous awards. Our previous President Amy Philip won Most Outstanding President of all Greek organizations at UT, awarded by the Greek Life and Intercultural Education (GLIE) office. Neelam Mistry, current president, and Hiral Patel, both won Emerging Leader and Community Impact awards, respectively. We aim to make a difference not only within out local school and Austin communities, but also abroad by working with Save the Children for disasters worldwide.
SPRING 2012
CHILD week: Gamma chapter will be hosting their annual CHILD week in April; this year we will raise money to help DreamCatchers For Abused Children. On Monday, we start off with a Kick-off Rally to get students attention. Throughout the day, we try to sell food donations and t-shirts to students passing by on their way to class. We also plan to have a snow cone, pop corn, cotton candy machine, & a photo booth. On Tuesday, we will have a service event open to the entire university with Helping Hand Home. On Wednesday, we host our famous Battle of the Sexes event. For this, we invite all student organizations to register and compete with each other for a grand prize at the end. Finally, on Thursday, we end with a fundraiser at a popular local restaurant. Socials and Retreats: For our next social, we want to go to Jumpstreet, a huge gym filled with a variety of trampolines, obstacle course, & games such as dodgeball. We will have an outdoor sisterhood retreat in April. Stay tune for more updates! Recruitment: We are associating our Xi class at Gamma chapter this semester. Association has just begun and we have given bids to 11 girls. Throughout recruitment, we had mixers with Beta Kappa Gamma and Delta Epsilon Psi, made smores, played pool and laser tag, and made blankets for a local childrens center. Service from the Heart: Gamma Chapter hosted Service from the Heart, an annual event that we have each spring. We invite other Greeks to come make Valentines Day cards to be delivered to the nursing homes. This event was very successful this year. Actives
Andrews, Tina Domalapalli, Nisha Grewal, Simer Hassam, Tanisha Hirani, Saima Karim, Shazia Kumar, Radhika Lakhani, Shaheen Maredia, Nilofar Mehta, Pooja Menon, Raakhi Mistry, Neelam Mullapudi, Harika Nathani, Sonia Patel, Bhumi Patel, Binita Patel, Kamaxi Patel, Nehal Patel, Parita Philip, Stephanie Pokala, Deepa Pokala, Sirisha Prabhakar, Pooja Ruxmohan, Shreya Somaya, Devanshi Swali, Ritu Virani, Neelam Zindani, Anam
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Positions
VP External Service Chair Secretary Service Chair Sisterhood Chair
Nu Class Presents
RA
Nu Class: Bhumi Patel, Nilofar Maredia, Parita Patel, Shazia Karim, Anam Zindani, & Pooja Prabhakar!
SPRING 2012
D ELTA C HAPT ER
National Service Day
Delta Chapter held its Annual National Service Day at Northern Home this past semester with the brothers Delta Epsilon Psi, Iota Nu Delta, & Sigma Beta Rho. Northern Home is an after school program for young boys and girls. Many of these children come from abusive families. Around Halloween, the sisters at Delta Chapter put together a haunted house for the children of Northern Home. Temple University
SPRING 2012
E PSILON C HAPTER
Awards:
United Greek Councils Outstanding Chapter -2011 National Boards Chapter of the Year 2010
On February 9, Epsilon Chapter held their Annual Chocolate Lovers Fantasy (yummy!)
B INGHAMTON C OLONY
Last semester, we hosted one of the biggest greek life events, the Charity Stroll Competition, and raised over $1300 (See pictures to the right). We are hosting our annual Charity Stroll Competition again on Friday, April 13, 2012. We are donating to the Stephanie Philip Foundation and hope that the event will be even bigger then it was last year. We would LOVE alumni and active sisters support! Contacts: President, Maisha Khan, ([email protected]) & Sanam Mehta ([email protected]) Accomplishments: Only greek organization to receive a grant from Binghamton to host a program. DKD at Binghamton University is ranked #1 as highest GPA in the Asian Greek Council and overall 18/40 for total fraternity and sorority and 5/14 in sororities for GPA, which is quite the accomplishment for us!
SPRING 2012
B AYLOR C OLONY
Baylor University
We held a fundraiser at 3 Spoons on February 17, 2012. On November 9-10, 2011, we held our second annual Spread the Warmth Event at the North Village Community Center. We made blankets for children at the Family Abuse Center in Waco, Texas. Afterwards, we helped Beta Kappa Gamma wrap toys for their Brothers Kollecting Gifts Week. Contact Simarjeet Grewal ([email protected])
Alpha Class Initiation
R UTGERS C OLONY
Rutgers University
SPRING 2012
UNT C OLONY
Founding Line Initiation: Nazia Ali, Sonia Juma, Kiran Charania, Seetal Mamdani, Sarah Ali, Jainy Thomas, Jessley Varghese, Sharon Jassar, Emlynn Chazhikat, Angela Philemon, Dhara Patel, Alyna Nathoo, and Odira Obiaju
NYU C OLONY
New York University
We met challenges throughout our colonization process but Im proud to say that our hard work has paid off. I want to thank my line sisters for their perseverance and my fellow national sisters for their dedication and commitment to our establishment. We are so excited to be the newest colony and we look forward to getting to know and love this sisterhood! - Jennifer Kistama ([email protected]) Accomplishments: Recognized by NYU in November 2011 and Nationally on December 10, 2011 Recognized by both IGC and MGC with one of our sisters on the MGC executive board First and only South-Asian focused and service focused sorority on campus Were working hard to make a name for ourselves here by means of workshops, cultural shows, open service events, mixers, fundraisers, and lending support to many organizations on campus
Founding Line Anisha Mukhi, sister essence Richa Agrawal, sister ElectriK Zabeen Noorani, sister COSMiC Jennifer Kistama, sister eMpire Megha Jain, sister Vitality Shruthi Mathew, sister Premier Nitasha Maindiratta, sister Dolce