Anchor Week

The Gamma Zeta chapter of Delta Gamma at LSU celebrated its annual Anchor Week raising more than $26,000. All proceeds benefitted Service for Sight, the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired and Gallant Hearts. The week’s highlights included Night for Sight, a silent auction, and Anchor Bowl, a flag football tournament. Delta Gamma would like to thank alumnae, families and friends of Delta Gamma for making Anchor Week a great success. 

Delta Gammas at Anchor Bowl

Night for Sight- from Elaine Vidrine, director of fundraising

Night for Sight was such a success this year.  We had more than 150 donations and raised $8,268.27!  I'm so thankful for all who helped me with this silent auction. It was a lot of work! This year, we had a philanthropy presentation for the parents to show them how hard we work throughout the year with Service for Sight and LSVI. We appreciate all the members and parents and alums who came out to the event on Friday, October 21st at the Delta Gamma House.  

Anchor Bowl- from Nicole Verges, vp foundation, and Emily France, director of Anchor Bowl

We had 31 total teams at this year's Anchor Bowl, raising $18,000 for our philanthropy. Fraternity members as well as non-Greek groups formed teams and participated in the annual flag football tournament. We are so pleased with this year's turnout and appreciate our sponsors and everyone who came out to support Delta Gamma at Anchor Bowl!

Member Spotlight: Mimi

For those of you who do not know me, my name is Mimi. I am a Delta Gamma at Louisiana State University. This summer I was lucky enough to be a style intern at HGTV Magazine in New York City. I spent the whole summer going to press previews, meeting people, calling in product for stories, styling photo shoots, and having a blast.

At the beginning of June I packed up my life and moved, by myself, to the big city. I was just a wide-eyed little girl, from Slidell, Louisiana, thrown into this incredibly fast-paced and crazy environment. Needless to say I was lost. It took some getting used to. I started a blog to document my time there- littlegirlbiggerapple.blogspot.com. I didn’t want to miss a thing. It took a lot of cupcakes and a lot of cocktails, with a lot of different types of people to find my way. I couldn’t have gotten through without my many visitors- 4 of my DG sisters were able to come visit me during my time there. They each came at different times, and I chose different New York City must-dos for us to experience together. Lauren and I walked the Brooklyn Bridge and ate a pizza at the famous Grimaldi’s in Brooklyn. 

Lauren and Mimi at Grimaldi's Pizza in NYC

Molly and I saw Chicago on Broadway and ate the best guacamole you’ve ever tasted at Rosa Mexicana in Lincoln Center. Katie (who is my biological sister too) was able to come visit twice- and we spent our time eating too much and shopping even more! When Ashley visited we were able to experience the Frying Pan in Chelsea and find some great deals in SoHo.

It would be impossible for me to tell you everything I did when I was in the city, it was just so much in so little time. They call it the city that never sleeps for a reason! I was trying to sum up my time in NYC, and I found a Carrie Bradshaw quote that says it all:

“They say life's what happens when you're busy making other plans. But sometimes in New York, life is what happens when you're waiting for a table.”

While I was waiting for a table, in line for a cupcake, walking home from work, or hailing a cab, life happened. I didn't even get it until I came home, but I feel like I didn't even know what life could be until I was the little girl in the Big Apple. It took going to a place where I didn't know anyone or anything, to find out who I was - or at least who I want to be. I met so many amazing people, and in meeting those people I came across personalities I didn't know existed and made life long friends. I became comfortable with being alone, and it was that alone time that gave me ideas and forced me to seek inspiration and adventure beyond my comfort zone (and time zone, for that matter). Everything I felt, saw, heard, tasted and smelled was new and exciting. Every day in New York was an adventure. Hell, every minute in New York was an adventure. I wouldn't change one second of my 8 weeks spent there. It was the best summer of my life.

xo, Mimi

Wild About Our New Members

Delta Gamma welcomed 90 new Gamma Zetas on Bid Day. The new members received their bids on Saturday, Aug. 20, after a long week of recruitment. 

The theme of Delta Gamma Bid Day was "Wild About DG," and the DG house on West Lakeshore Drive was adorned with balloons, tiki torches and animal prints accordingly. 

Delta Gamma Bid Day

After a Bid Day party at the house, Delta Gammas continued the celebration at BREC Liberty Lagoon Aquatic Center, a small water park in Baton Rouge. Delta Gammas then went to the Rave movie theater to see "The Help." 

Lacy Miller, Tiffany Mohre, Marissa Liantonio and Elisa Gutierrez at the water park

Our recruitment chairs this year, Kasey Mang, Lexy Graves, Sam Duhe and Katherine Barrios, put in endless hours of work to get this outstanding pledge class. We also would like to thank our advisers, Emily Burris Hester and Jill Roshto for their dedication to making our recruitment an enormous success. 

Our recruitment team: Sam Duhe, Kasey Mang, Katherine Barrios and Lexy Graves

We are thrilled to welcome these 90 women to the Delta Gamma family!

Our new members are:

Rachel Aillet

Emily Anderson

Emily Annaloro

Savannah Ballard

Chelsea Bonck

Devon Bondi

Nicole Bonura

Victoria Boraski

Maddie Brewton

Adria Broussard

Rachel Chappell

Andree Comeaux

Elizabeth DeLee

Rachael Doyle

Maddie Duhon

Dara Dye

Kristen Farren

Amanda Ferguson

Andrea Garcia

Christina Granier

Angelis Gray

Caroline Gremillion

Katelyn Gross

Caroline Guidry

Elisa Gutierrez

Rosalie Haug

Kay Hecker

Allison Herrera

Becca Indest

Morgan Juncker

Danielle Keuss

Colleen Kimball

Haley Kinchen

Brooke Kitchens

Emily Knobloch

Ciara Kraft

Abby Krake

Mary-Elizabeth Lago

Alyson Lang

Rebecca LaPorte

Taylor LeBlanc

Madeleine Long

Caroline Lowder

Ashley Loze

Annelise Mann

Emily Mason

Katelyn Matthews

Sam McFatter

Meredith McGoey

Allie Messonnier

Bailey Miller

Peyton Millet

Ashley Mizell

Kayla Moffatt

Tiffany Mohre

Evann Monju

Morgan Mount

Kaci Murphy

Megan Nalewaik

Lyndsay Neel

Ashley Nerin

Lily Olson

Demi O'Neal
Hannah Padial

Sara Pennington

Camille Pere

Rachel Pharr

Amy Phillips

Anna Plaisance

Katy Powell

Kayla Purcell

Rachel Rhodes

Emily Richard

Chelsea Rodriguez

Mallory Scott

Morgan Simpson

Jenna Siudy

Amanda Sowa

Briana Spence

Emma Stasi

Abby Thevenot

Rebecca Thiberville

Nikki Tomboli

Jen Tuohy

Julie' Viguerie

Autleigh Vineyard

Madi Walker

Jenn Watzke

Brittany Webber

Amanda Wells

Shelby Williams

Delta Gamma New Members at Bid Day

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

In this first post, I'd like to take the opportunity to remember one of our most exciting events from this past year, lectureship. 


Today, I was contacted by an LSU employee who's writing a piece on Gamma Zeta lectureship for a scholarly publication called the Journal of College and Character. 

You can imagine my surprise that three months later, we're still getting recognition for our second lectureship. But then again, should I be surprised? It was absolutely incredible and heartrending, after all.  

For those who may not have had the opportunity to attend, Gamma Zeta hosted its second Delta Gamma Foundation Lectureship in Values and Ethics featuring New York Times best-seller and inspiration for the film 127 Hours Aron Ralston. We overflowed an auditorium seating 1,200 who were eagerly awaiting the free event on campus.

If you haven't seen the movie, he survived the impossible after being trapped for almost a week by a half-ton boulder, with seemingly no hope for survival. He severed his own arm with a pocketknife to save his life and began hiking to his survival when helicopter rescuers discovered him.

Losing an arm was a small sacrifice for Ralston after initially believing he had no chance for survival at all. Ralston hasn't let this setback stop him from doing what he loves. He has continued his outdoorsman life without hesitation and became the only person with a disability to ski from the summit of Denali, the tallest mountain in North America. He also became the first amputee to row his own raft through the Grand Canyon.  

What better speaker with a more remarkable story could we have asked for in our second lectureship. His story still both haunts me and inspires me as well as people around the world as evident by 127 Hours' six Academy Award nominations. 

Thinking back to the 1,200+ people who packed the LSU Union Theatre to hear his unimaginable experience told first hand reminds me of one of the reasons Delta Gamma truly stands "for hope, for strength, for life." I hope Ralston's story continues to inspire people to never give up, no matter what the circumstance, and I could not feel more privileged to have taken part in bringing him to the LSU community. 

See you next time!