Blair T Newsletter Assignment
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The document summarizes scholarships awarded by the Alpha Sigma Tau National Foundation, including a $3,750 scholarship to Amanda Pitt and a $3,250 scholarship to Colleen Coffey. It encourages members to apply for the foundation's scholarships and grants for the upcoming academic year. It also shares a quote from Colleen Coffey about how appreciative she is of the scholarship support from the sorority.
Blair T Newsletter Assignment
- 1. WINTER 2009 Volume 20 No 1 Our National Foundation RLWs: Recruitment Boot Camp The Alpha Sigma Tau Regional Leader- ship Workshop is an educational tool for Submitted by Kristin Haskins, Beta Pi ‘87 - National Foundation all chapter members. This academic year Publicity Chair we will conduct eight one day-session events to help collegiate members benefit from the experiences of CAMPUSPEAK This past fall the Alpha Sigma Tau National Foundation, Inc. and its Recruitment Boot Camp. awarded over $25,000 in scholarships to collegiate and graduate members. Top recipients include Amanda Pitt, Delta Chi ‘05, who The 2008-2009 RLWs will focus on pro- received the Lois Schweikert O’Dell Scholarship in the amount of viding member training on core-values $3,750 and Colleen Coffey, Delta Eta ‘98, who received the Rose recruitment. David Stollman of CAMPU- Marie Schmidt Scholarship in the amount of $3,250. Amanda is an undergraduate at SPEAK and his colleagues will be conduct- Christian Brothers University and is pursuing a bachelors in History while Colleen ing core-values recruitment sessions tai- is pursuing her Educational Doctorate in Leadership and Professional Practice from lored for Alpha Sigma Tau. The program Trevecca Nazarene University in Tennessee. will help participants understand how to align their actions with their values so they are recruiting the right people for The National Foundation would like to note that eleven (11) chapter specific scholar- their chapter. ships and three (3) special scholarships could not be awarded as no members applied in the 2008-2009 academic year. The National Foundation encourages applications for all Chapter members will leave not just moti- of its scholarships and grants. vated to recruit but with a plan and skills for how they will use what they learned. If you are going back to college next year, please apply for an Alpha Sigma Tau Participants will learn how to take the National Foundation Scholarship or Grant. The deadline for scholarship applications ideas home, how to help build a positive for the 2009-2010 academic year is March 1, 2009. Please check the website, www. recruitment culture among all chapters at their college, and how to encourage their alphasigmatau.org for information regarding scholarship criteria and to download the members to embrace the new recruit- application. ment ideas. Colleen Coffey, Delta Eta ‘98 recipient of a National Foundation Scholarship: “Being The 2009-2010 RLWs are already being a part of Alpha Sigma Tau is one of the most important things in my life. I continue planned and will focus on personal safety to grow and develop through volunteering. I feel that our sorority has always encour- and risk management for members. aged life long learning. The scholarship I have been awarded was my saving grace this year….I am honored and thankful.” Tau Talk Submission by Vanessa Florence, Zeta ‘91- Editor, THE CREST What a small world we live in. I have met Alpha Sigma Taus around the world - literally. I met fellow Alpha Sigma Tau sisters on transatlantic flights thanks to wearing my comfy letters. I wore my badge one Founder’s Day and found three sisters at my work place. My most memorable encounter was on a fam- ily vacation at Disney World with my kids and my parents. My mom says in the middle of Disney’s Main Street USA, “A-E-T” (Okay, she’ll never get it), “wasn’t that your sorority?” She then points over to another mom wearing an Alpha Sigma Tau jacket! We even did the secret handshake (I always wanted to do that to someone I didn’t know!). So, for this edition of THE CREST, we’d like for you (alumna or collegiate) to leave a reply to this question: WHERE HAVE YOU UNEXPECTEDLY MET AN AST SISTER?
- 2. Keeping in Tune 2009 Officer Academy Turn back the clock and put those leg-warmers back on! This edition we are featuring the words to the 2008 Convention’s First Place Borrowed Music and Original Lyrics winning A lpha Sigma Tau will host nearly 350 participants at the 2009 Officer Academy June 19-21, 2009 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. The focus of the 2009 OA is to provide opportunities for innovation in the song written by the Phi Chapter…Sorority areas of recruitment, new member education, member education, chapter level World (tune: Material Girl by Madonna) governing documents and advising. An expert cast of internal and external national speakers will engage chap- ter officers and staff and advisers in current best practices related to their position with the goal to provide greater services to the membership and raise the operating norm of each chapter. As you conduct elections and appointments this month, be sure to communi- cate with candidates their required attendance at the 2009 OA. Also, be sure to plan for travel and registrations fees in your upcoming budget cycle. Some adored me, some just bored me I think they’re O.K. But when I met those girls from AST, National Educational Event: 2009 Officer Academy I couldn’t walk away Date: June 19-21, 2009 They can beg and they can plead Location: Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA But I just saw the light, that’s right Estimated Registration Fee: Approximately $150-$175 per member; the ‘Cause the girls in the green and gold they were just right, ’cause we are registration fee will include materials, lodging on Friday and Saturday nights, Living in a sorority world Saturday breakfast, lunch and dinner and Sunday breakfast. And I am a Alpha Tau girl Registration Opening: Registration will open in January 2009 You know! That we are living in a sorority Chapter Officers: Membership Recruitment Directors, New Member world Directors, Membership Development Chairmen, Bylaws Chairmen And I am a Alpha Tau girl Some did cheer and some did sing, Collegiate Alumnae Advisory Boards: Chapter Advisers, Assistant Chapter That’s all right with me Advisers, Chapter Consultants, Recruitment Advisers, New Member Advisers If they can’t raise my interest then I Have to let them be Detailed event costs, agendas and registration will be made available in the Some did try and some did lie, but New Year in upcoming communications from the National Organization. I don’t let them play Only girls in the green and gold Make my rainy day, ’cause they are Living in a sorority world And I am a Alpha Tau girl You know that we are living in a sorority world And I am a Alpha Tau girl Living in a sorority world (Alpha Tauuu) Living in a sorority world Living in a sorority world (Alpha Tauuu) Editor...................................................................... Vanessa Florence Living in a sorority world Photosgraphs...................................................................Erika Bukva Boys may come and boys may go And that’s all right you see Graphics .........................................................................Marly Hazen Cause now that I’m an AST They’re all watchin’ me, ’cause everybody’s Living in a sorority world National Headquarters And I am a Alpha Tau girl 1929 Canyon Road You know that we are living in a sorority Birmingham, AL 35216 world; And I am a Alpha Tau girl A sorority, a sorority, a sorority, a sorority 205.978.2179 (P) 205.978.2182 (F) world; Living in a sorority world www.alphasigmatau.org/crest (ALPHA TAAAU)