It's Tea Time

Today, the CA Delta Pi Phi's put on their first ever alumnae tea with the help of our Alumnae Advisory Committee and our House Corporation.  Girls got to the house hours before the start to help set up by making beds, cleaning bathrooms, and throwing open the windows and curtains.  Our lovely staff and incredible house mom, Diana, provided us with curried chicken sandwiches, cucumber sandwiches, cranberry-onion bites, and an assortment of desserts ranging from lemon bars and brownies to five different types of cookies.

(From left to right: Melissa Romo, Hailey Denenberg, Cathy Flanagan, Sami Rose, Jackie Powers,  Steph Choengkarn, and Stephanie Lang)

By 2 o'clock, we were ready and waiting, current CA Delta's waiting outside, in the living room, by the dining room, and throughout the house, prepared to give house tours and chat with alumnae.  The first to arrive was Marian Hope, a CA Delta Pi Phi from 1945, one of our oldest alumnae members to attend the tea.  We were able to award her as well as a few others with the Golden Arrow recognition, an accolade acquired by being a Pi Phi for fifty years.

From left to right: Jackie Powers, Megan Siniscalchi, Alex Preece,
Nicole Bendaom, Molly Mogan, Grace Cahalan, & Michelle Sandhu

We were also able to award our seniors for their dedication to our chapter with a bouquet of white daisies, encouraging the sort of "loves me, doesn't love me" mentality of picking houses and cherishing the fact that our seniors picked Pi Phi and volunteered countless hours to the success of our house.  Amongst these girls were our past President- Alex Preece, VP Membership (Recruitment)- Molly Mogan, and VP Fraternity Development- Jackie Powers, who all served on our exec board last year.  We're so excited to see these girls do amazing things with their lives, but at the same time, we're going to miss them so much.

All in all, our first ever alumnae tea was a complete success.  We were so happy to be able to open our home to past CA Deltas and past Pi Phi alumnas so that they could get a chance to see how much the house has changed since they were last here.  Some even said that they hadn't been back to the house since they graduated from college!  We loved hearing their stories about the house, listening to old rivalry songs (watch out anchors!), and hearing how much sisterhood meant to them even after all of these years.  We can't wait to do it again in a year, this time with even more Pi Phi's!

PPLM,

Laura