Hello, everyone! My name is Haley Sansom and I am the new
Alumnae-Collegiate Relations chair for the 2012 school year. I am very excited
about this position and can’t wait to update this blog all year! Our chapter is continuing to grow rapidly and
we are accomplishing great things.
Since
the spring semester began, we have been hard at work with service projects,
sisterhoods, fundraisers, and parent’s weekend. Our sisters have all done a
fabulous job putting together these events and we have all been having a great
time!
On
Friday, January 27th, we had our first service project of the
semester. Our service chair, Brittany Nateece, organized a service project at
Three Square Food Bank in Las Vegas. At the event, we helped the organization
bag food for underprivileged children in Clark County. These bags of food are
distributed on Friday after school gets out and contain enough food to sustain
a child for the entire weekend. The children that qualify for this program are
given these for free each week to ensure that children aren’t going home
hungry. We had a great time at the food bank, and helped them prepare 2,500
bags of food! It felt great knowing that because of our efforts, children would
be fed for the weekend. After we finished bagging, we got a tour of the
facilities and learned about the impact hunger has on our community. This
service project was an eye-opening experience for us all!
Following
the service project, we had our first sisterhood of the semester! Our director
of sisterhood, Shardonnay Summerhays, planned a “crafternoon” for all of our
sisters. She purchased wooden letters of the first initial of everyone’s names
and brought a ton of crafting supplies! Everyone had fun decorating their
letters and bonding with sisters. It was fun getting to see the creative side
of all of our sisters!
On
Valentine’s Day, our director of philanthropy, Haley Findlay, organized a “Kiss
Away Cancer” booth to help raise money for our philanthropy. At the booth, we
sold “candy grams” for $2 and gave away free baked goods. We had a great time
spreading awareness about breast cancer and showing our love to the UNLV
community. Our sisters baked all kinds of treats and brought them to the booth
to give away!
The
weekend of February 19th, our parents all got together for our annual parent’s
weekend! Our sister Katie Rose did an amazing job of organizing a weekend of
events that was fun for everyone! On Saturday night, we all met at Firefly for
social hour, where we served appetizers and mingled with everyone’s parents. We
showed a slide show of pictures and video clips and played Zeta trivia with the
parents. On Sunday, we had brunch at Gordon Biersch and did our raffle. Our
prizes consisted of show tickets, lotion/makeup sets, yoga gift certificates,
coffee/tea items and luxury blankets. We really enjoyed sharing our sisterhood
with our parents and showing them why we love being in Zeta Tau Alpha as much
as we do! Between the “Kiss Away Cancer” booth and the raffle on Parent’s
Weekend, we raised $1,046 that we will donate towards breast cancer education
and awareness!
And
last but not least, we had a social with the gentleman of Sigma Alpha Epsilon last Thursday! Our external social chair, Lexie Rosa, planned a fun night at a local restaurant with delicious food! The theme was “dress to impress” and girls had to wear something
pink and boys had to wear something purple. It was fun socializing with people
we hadn’t met before and catching up with people we already knew. Plus, it’s
always nice seeing our beautiful sisters get dressed up!
So, as
you can tell, we have all been busy Zetas, but we wouldn’t have it any other
way! We are still determining what our spring philanthropy will consist of, but
if you would like to sponsor/support us, please contact our VP1, Allie Singer,
at asinger89@gmail.com or our director of philanthropy, Haley Findlay, at haley@easystreet.com.
We hope to continue being this active throughout the semester and look forward
to all of the wonderful events we have planned!
ZLAM!
