Meet our vp: Membership

Ashley Posey

Position: vp: membership

Born: 6/26/93

From: Poquoson, VA

Major: Business/pre-law

Minor: Spanish

Dream Job: A corporate lawyer

Favorite TV Show: Nashville

Favorite Food: Macaroni & Cheese

What song is currently on repeat on your iPod? Don't Ya by Brett Eldredge

Favorite Greek Event: Formal Recruitment

What made you want to run for this CMT position?

I served as Director of Recruitment/COB last year and fell in love with recruitment. A lot of people don't realize all of the behind-the-scenes work that goes into it, but that is the part I truly enjoy. Especially getting to know the girls coming through recruitment!

Fun Fact about yourself: 

I absolutely love anything that has to do with baseball!

Meet our vp: Foundation

Courtney Conklin

Position: vp: Foundation

Born: August 4th, 1993

From: Great Falls, VA (suburb of Washington, D.C.)

Major: Biology on the pre medical track

Dream Job: team doctor for an NFL team

Favorite Movie/TV Show: Legally Blonde and Revenge

Favorite Food: Macaroni and cheese 

What song is currently on repeat on your iPod? 

This is definitely a throw back to the 90s by "Back Here" by BBMak

Favorite Greek Event: Homecoming Week

What made you want to run for this CMT position? 

I think one of the most important aspects of DG is to "Do Good" in our community. By being vp: Foundation, I hope to encourage all of my sisters to make a difference in our community.

Fun fact: 

My favorite time of the year is the fall --- because 1) it's football season! and 2) it's also Anchor Splash season here at Beta Psi :)

Meet our vp: Finance

Jenna Nikolich

Position: vp: Finance

Born: April 13, 1993

From: Memphis, TN

Major: Biology / PreMed

Dream Job: Doctor for a sports team

Favorite Movie/TV Show: The Vampire Diaries and Hart Of Dixie

Favorite Food: Sushi

What song is currently on repeat on your iPod? Anything LUKE BRYAN

Favorite Greek Event: Greek Fest

What made you want to run for this CMT position? to help better our chapter as a whole

Fun Fact about yourself: I once lost my bathing suit bottoms in a lake. Very embarrassing story but its hilarious.

Happy Spring Break!

We hope everyone has a safe, wonderful and warm spring break!

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Founders Day

On March 10^th Beta Psi celebrated their second Founders Day since recolonizing. This special day took on a Kentucky Derby theme with colorful hats, cream-colored rose cupcakes and a special visit from Rose Paris, granddaughter of Mary Comfort Leonard, one of Delta Gamma’s founders.

Rose was accompanied by her husband, son and daughter-in-law. She shared many remembrances she had of her grandmother. With the help of her son, she presented photos and antiques of her grandmother’s during her stories.

Rose is truly an incredible woman and we were very honored to have had her and her family at our Founders Day celebration!

We also recognized some of our sisters for their achievements in the chapter. The following is a list of awards and the girls that received them.

Dr. Judy Bonner Award - Alyssa Heffley

Anna Boyd Ellington Award - Rachel Bradford

Eva Webb Dodd Award - Meaghan Gregory

Mary Comfort Leaonard Award - Leslie Bacon

Captain Award - Amy Ackerman

First Mate Award - Brooke Bartlett & Katie Blazic

Anchor Award - Keaton Wallace & Elizabeth Wilson

Betty Jones Bentley Friendship Award - Mary Kate McClintock

Rose Paris and Alyssa Heffley, vp: Programming

Mary Kate McClintock with the Friendship Award

 

Meet our vp: Programming

Alyssa Heffley

Position: vp: programming

Born: July 9, 1992 in Frisco, TX

From: Prosper, TX small town just north of Dallas

Year: Junior

Major: Advertising

Double-Minor: Italian & Consumer Science

Dream Job: Creative Strategist/Media Planner for Wieden+Kennedy. They have the most awesome offices for creative advertising all over the world!

Favorite Movies: Crazy, Stupid, Love & When Harry Met Sally

Favorite TV Shows: Parenthood & Nashville

Favorite Foods: Pasta of all kinds (mac & cheese, spaghetti, etc.) & Brownies

What song is currently on repeat on your iPod?: Any song by Eli Young Band. I'm pretty much obsessed with them, it's sad.

Favorite Greek Event: AnchorSplash. It was so much fun! 

What made you want to run for this CMT position?: I really wanted to have an opportunity to help our members continue to grow into the strong, smart, beautiful women they are! Programming lets me plan events for our members that are important milestones on their DG journey, which results in great memories with sisters! I love all of our members and hope to bring out the individual talents of each of them :)

Fun Fact about yourself: I have a tendency to text people in my sleep... it never makes any sense but it can get awkward haha

Get to Know CMT!

 Each week we will highlight a different member of CMT. This week we would like for you to meet our President!

Lauren Lock

Position: Chapter President

Born: Little Rock, AR

From: West Chester, PA

Major: History, Pre-Law

Minor: Women Studies

Dream Job: If I could do anything I would be a Spy for the CIA

Favorite Movie/TV Show: Pitch Perfect/Law & Order: SVU

Favorite Food: Chinese

What song is currently on repeat on your iPod?: Treasure by Bruno Mars or I Wanna Dance with Somebody by Whitney Houston

Favorite Greek Event: Homecoming Dance Competition

What made you want to run for this CMT position?: As a member of the Beta Psi chapter I felt that Delta Gamma had given me so much and I wanted to give back. The only thing I could think of that would allow me to give DG my all would be running for president. I wanted to serve our chapter because the women of Beta Psi deserve a leader that will give them their 100%, and will work as hard to make DG the best! I love my sisters and I honestly do not know where I would be without them. A favorite quote of mine is, "I fear I'd be lost at sea if it weren't for my anchor, DG."

Fun Fact about yourself: I can moonwalk, BUT only when Michael Jackson is playing!! :)

Happy Birthday Beta Psi!

The Beta Psi chapter was installed at the University of Alabama on this day in 1947! 

The former chapter house!

The new Beta Psi house!

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Starting the New Year Off Right!

I must say we have had a pretty amazing month here at DG Beta Psi.

On January 7^th the Crimson Tide won their 15^th National Championship. No big deal. If I had to guess, I would say that is definitely the best way to start off a semester. ROLL TIDE! Some of our sisters were even lucky enough to be there for the big game!

Here are some pictures from their trip!

As a senior I have to say, three National Championships out of the four years I have been in college has been such a wonderful experience!

Just a few days later on January 9^th we were lucky enough to have an up and coming country music star from Alabama come perform just for us at chapter!

The very handsome and sweet Aaron Parker stopped by to perform some of his own songs, did some sing-alongs with us and even remixed one of our favorite songs just for us.

You can read his Sweet Caroline Delta Gamma remix or click on the link below to enjoy it for yourself.

"I'm here with a bunch of DeeGees

They're super smart sweet and classy

A boy like me couldn't go wrong

In their mansion here in Tuscaloosa

Notre Dame was the loser

The tide dynasty will keep rolling on"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym43r85aeHM

Aaron was brought to us because his wonderful agent, Julie Behr, who happens to be one of our sisters from the Gamma Chi chapter at Cal State Long Beach. Another quick thank you to Julie and their whole crew! Y’all are welcome back anytime!

Now that Delta Gamma is ‘joining forces,’ Beta Psi is starting a partnership with the Lakeshore Foundation.

Lauren Lock, Courtney Conklin and Alyssa Heffley had the pleasure of spending an afternoon at the Lakeshore Foundation.

Based in Homewood, AL, the foundation is dedicated to enable people with physical disabilities and chronic health conditions to lead healthy, active lifestyles through physical activity, sport, recreation and research.

Fun fact: their campus is also a U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Site!

Throughout the year they host Lima Foxtrot, a series of camps dedicated to impaired military men and women.

In keeping with Delta Gamma national philanthropy of sight conservation, the Beta Psi chapter will specifically be supporting Operation Night Vision, a camp for military veterans who were visually impaired while at war. Hosted every summer, ONV is specifically designed for injured military personnel with visual impairment or blindness.

Beta Psi will be providing aid through financial donations as well as providing volunteers for the camp. We are so excited to start working with them and DO GOOD!

From left to right: Beta Psi President Lauren Lock, vp: Programming Alyssa Heffley and vp: Foundation Courtney Conklin

Lauren, Alyssa, Amy Belcher, director of volunteers at Lakeshore Foundation, Courtney and Susan Robinson, oversees Lima Foxtrot.

Happy Holidays!

We hope everyone had a wonderful time over the holidays and enjoyed their break! Now that we are about to head back for another semester we just want to tell y'all about a few things we did before break.

On December 3rd, Beta Psi hosted its first Milk and Cookies Foundation event! During dead week, everyone was invited to come eat cookies and milk and enjoy live entertainment from The Doctors and The Lawyers. It was the perfect way to take a nice study break. 

We sold about 575 tickets for the event. This means we raised $2,228! Delta Gamma's Foundation received $1,782 from the event. The other $446 went to the Lakeshore Foundation.

Milk and Cookies is a big fundraiser at other schools like Mississippi State, Ole Miss, and LSU. Since this was our first time hosting this event it was definitely a great learning experience for our chapter, and so much fun. It was so great to see the dining room filled with friends from other sororities, fraternities, clubs and our Tuscaloosa alumni group! We hope Milk and Cookies continues to be a huge success every year!

On December 7th, Beta Psi had our annual Holiday Party. This years theme was Tacky Christmas! We had live entertainment from Fly by Radio. It was such a blast and we definitely cannot wait for next year!

We can't wait to see what this semester has in store for us! Don't forget to come back and see what we are up to :)

ROLL TIDE!

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