Top Five Spirit Points from Campus Candy Event!

Today's spirit event at Campus Candy was a huge success! There were 755 spirit points given out and over $500 raised for the scholarship! Thanks to everyone who stopped by!

Before the top five rankings are posted, first some housekeeping. If you haven't already "followed" this blog, please do so now by clicking the "follow" button on the upper left hand corner! You will need to be signed into a google (gmail) account for this to be an option.

And there is way to get more spirit points! For each blog post, there is a two comment cap per organization for points! Comments must be positive, thoughtful and at least a few sentences. Sometimes, they will be to answer a specific question, but often times, they will just be your thoughts on the post. Be sure to include all two/three organizations to make sure that spirit points are properly given. Please let us know if you have any other questions!

And here it is! The top five orgs after today's event! Congrats on so many spirit points, and thank you to everyone who came out today!

1. Alpha Delta Pi/Alpha Gamma Rho/Pi Lamda Phi
2. Delta Zeta/Delta Tau Delta/Delta Upsilon
3. Alpha Omicron Pi/Sigma Pi/Alpha Tau Omega
4. Zeta Tau Alpha/Beta Sigma Beta/Phi Gamma Delta
5. Pi Beta Phi/Beta Theta Pi/Kappa Delta Rho

Meet your overalls!

Executive Director - Carolyn Hayford

• Organization: Delta Gamma
• Year: Junior
• Major: Economics
• Hobby: Yoga and baking
• Fun Fact: Is training for a half marathon!
• Favorite Greek Sing moment: 
• "My favorite Greek Sing moment would have to be when I was a performer in Spam-a-lot two years ago and they announced that we had won best overall performance. It was just so great that all our hard work had paid off in the end!"

PHC AVP - Megan Ritter

• Organization: Delta Zeta
• Year: Junior
• Major: Math
• Hobby: Being with friends
• Fun Fact: Was called out by B.O.B. at his concert!
• Favorite Greek Sing moment: 
• "At the end of Greek Sing when you look back to the beginning when you barely knew any of the guys and now they are actually your best friends."

IFC AVP - Nick Doyle

• Organization: Delta Lambda Phi
• Year: Sophomore
• Major: Theater/Psychology 
• Hobby: Dancing
• Fun Fact: Is an eagle scout
• Favorite Greek Sing moment: 
• "Right before the curtain opened. I just wanted everyone who worked so hard to have fun out there, and that's exactly what we did. I was so proud of everyone."

Administrative Assistant - Kyle Kramer

• Organization: Phi Kappa Tau
• Year: Sophomore
• Major: Crime, Law and Justice
• Hobby: Wrestling and Soccer
• Fun Fact:  Studying abroad in the Netherlands over the summer.
• Favorite Greek Sing moment: 
• "Getting a whistle last year for practices so I wouldn't have to yell as much."

Security - Lorenzo Massaro

• Organization: Alpha Tau Omega
• Year: Junior
• Major: Crime, Law and Justice
• Hobby: Shooting
• Fun Fact: Half Italian and used to live in Italy
• Favorite Greek Sing moment: 
• "Winning Greek Sing 2010 in Spam-a-lot."

Public Relations - Laura Davis

• Organization: Alpha Delta Pi
• Year: Junior
• Major: Telecommunications
• Hobby: Napping and Reading
• Fun Fact: freshman and sophomore year, kept two frogs in her room who were named Kermit and Trevor
• Favorite Greek Sing moment: 
• "In my sophomore year I was our lead, and the entire semester leading up to the show was great because I got to know so many new people through all of the practices!"

Rules and Regulations - Bridget Beauchamp

• Organization: Delta Gamma
• Year: Junior
• Major: Community Environment Development
• Hobby: Texting and Stand up Paddle Boarding
• Fun Fact: was an extra in The Jonas Brother's Movie
• Favorite Greek Sing moment: 
• "Winning Greek Sing 2010 with my DG sisters and the brothers of ATO and Kappa Sig. We performed Spam-a-lot and it was so much fun!"

Stage Manager - Robin Sinclair

• Organization: Delta Zeta
• Year: Senior
• Major: Industrial Engineering
• Hobby: Anything adventurous
• Fun Fact: Is unable to pronounce the words "Ravioli and Cinnamon"
• Favorite Greek Sing moment: 
• "choreographing dance moves with Megan Ritter in my dorm room"

Special Events - Brittany Pont

• Organization: Zeta Tau Alpha
• Year: Junior
• Major: Political Science
• Hobby: Playing the piano 
• Fun Fact: Best friend auditioned for the part of Rachel on Glee
• Favorite Greek Sing moment: 
• "Watching the performance of "The Lion King" I helped choreograph and direct as a Greek Sing chair perform at THON"

Student Relations - Peter Cusick

• Organization: Phi Kappa Sigma
• Year: Junior
• Major: Management
• Hobby: Golfing 
• Fun Fact:  Wants to be a high school Football Coach
• Favorite Greek Sing moment: 
• "Putting on the rave gloves in Jersey Boys last year."

Marketing - Lyssa Hurvitz

• Organization: Pi Beta Phi
• Year: Sophomore
• Major: Marketing and Public Relations
• Hobby: Danced competitively and is now a dance teacher!
• Fun Fact: Works for Disney and got pulled to be a princess!
• Favorite Greek Sing moment: 
• "Being a chair for Pi Phi last year and watching their final performance. Always lovin' my babies!"

Media and Technology - Meaghan DeMallie

• Organization: Pi Beta Phi
• Year: Freshman
• Major: Marketing
• Hobby: Running
• Fun Fact: Allergic to Mangoes!
• Favorite Greek Sing moment: 
• "The actual performance! The adrenaline rush when we performed was great, I want to do it again!"

And we're all excited for a great year!

Get Ready...

Get ready for Greek Sing 2012! We are so happy to announce our theme for this year and we hope everyone else loves it too! "Dancing 'til the World Ends" is perfect for 2012 so have members of your organization start designing a logo for the logo contest!! It's already time to start giving out spirit points so make sure everyone sends in a design! Not only will the winner receive spirit points, but each design does too!! Make sure all submissions are sent in by 5 pm on April 27th! They can either be emailed to greeksing2012@gmail.com or handed in to the greek life office.

Our first organizational meeting went great and we were so happy to meet all of the chairs! We just know they are going to help us put on such a great show this year and we cannot wait to continue working with them!

Some other reminders:

• Be sure that you and other members of your organization bookmark this blog!! Come fall, it will be interactive and filled with fun information and reminders
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