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Jamie Bero, Clarion (PA)- E0 1988, is proud to be a Delta Zeta. A member of Clarion Fire and Hose Company #1 in Clarion, Pennsylvania, she is the College Chapter Director (CCD) of the Delta Upsilon Chapter at Marshall University, Director Student Affairs at the University of Charleston School of Pharmacy and Head Cheer Coach at the University of Charleston. Jamie was the CCD for the Epsilon Theta Chapter at Clarion University and a member of the Clarion County Emergency Response Team when the photo was taken. She says, Issue 1 - 2012 "The educational aspects of firefighting have always been my favorite. Sometimes the Volume 100, No.1 little ones look up and say, 'Is that fireman a girl?'" In this issue I am a Delta Zeta! ............................................................... .. ... 4 Flame Eternal .......... .. ..................... ..................................... 17 Delta Zeta enriches for a lifetime Recruitment and Legacy Introduction Form........................ 18 I am a Delta Zeta ... I belong ................................................... 7 Guest columnist Jane Carter Handly, 2007 Woman of the Year Alumnae News .................................................................... 20 On Campus ................. :. ........................................................... 9 Membership, Recognition and Sisterhood ........................... 22 Delta Zeta Foundation .... ........................................................ 16 Alumnae and Collegiate Profiles .......................................... 24 Endowments are key to Delta Zeta's future Delta Zeta's JobBound Resources Give Alumnae an Edge ....... 28 Please visit http://www.deltazeta.org/ and go to About Delta Zeta > Publications to read the latest issue. If you would like ro read The LAMP online to help the Sorority to go green, please email us at [email protected]. You will receive an email alert when the next issue is online. If you wanr to conrinue to receive 1l1e LAMP in its hard copy format, mailed to you three times a year, you need not do anything. Thank you! 2 Issue 1 · 2012 FOUNDERS Alfa Lloyd Hayes, 1880-1962 From the President Mary Collins Galbraith, 1879-1963 Anna Keen Davis, 1884-1949 Julia Bishop Coleman, 1881-1959 Mabelle Minton Hagemann, 1880-1929 "I was a Delta Zeta." Anne Simmons Friedline, 1879-1932 Have you ever heard an alumna member of the Sorority THE ORDER OF THE LAUREL Irene Caroline Boughron, J say this? Have you ever said it yourself? (University oflowa) ·I Grace M ason Lundy, E ,J·r ..... While we may think of the Delta Zeta experience as (Indiana University) primarily one for collegians, I'd like to ask you to think Elizabeth Coulter Stephenson, A aJr~• (Miami University) about your life after college- as a career woman, a volunteer, a wife, a mother. M yrtle Graerer Hinkly, 6 Is there a value you have carried with you since your days as a collegiate (DePauw University) Norma Minch Andrisek, rA member of the Sorority that is so much a part of you that you have forgotten (Baldwin-Wallace College) when you acquired it? Perhaps it is leadership, service, compassion, insight, or any of the other tenets of the Delta Zeta Creed that have brought you to Published since December 1910 by DELTA ZETA SORORITY where you are now in your life. And because of those values, your life, Founded at Miami University- Oxford, Ohio no doubt, has been enriched and has served to enrich those around you. October 24, 1902 The LAMP of Delta Zeta - Nancy E. Brewer, A, Editor We found a small piece in the May, 1925 issue ofThe LAMP that asked this (ISSN #0887-2554), same question. official magazine of the Sorority, is published three times a year by the Delta Zeta Sorority, 202 East Church Street, Oxford, OH 45056. \ OL. X I\" POSTMASTER Send address changes to Delra Zeta Sorority, mrlta lrta 1£amp 202 East Church St., Oxford, OH 45056. Send all edirorial material, including Stars in Our Service Flag submissions, ro Delta Zeta National Headquarters ALU1DLF! ! Attn: Nancy E. Brewer, A, Editor Can you pass this test ? 202 East C hurch Street, Oxford, OH 45056 1. Do you wear your pin? (513) 523-7597 z. H ave you written your chaptct· within three months? 3. H ave you v isited your chapter within a year? 4· Do you sub. cribe to TnE LA lltP? 5· Are you paying your life due- ? 6. Arc you a Delta Zeta, or "''<'~" <! you one? OFFIC IAL PUBLI CAT ION OF D e1ta Ze t a F ratern it y Printed in USA. \'t<B B RI)wS Jns r...s , Editor 111.( 01Urd1 St., E ,·aHsto')n, 111. OA " MIX ..J ~ Paper from FSC respons1ble sources ·~·~~, FSC" C101537 So, you see, the question has always existed. Are we Delta Zetas, or were we Delta Zetas? I'm sure your answer will be, "I am a Delta Zeta!" National Panhellenic Conference In Delta Zeta, ~__g_-~ @ Pronted on Recycled Paper Michelle A. Smith, National President The LAMP 3 Lt. Col. Deydre Smyth Teyhen, Ohio Wesleyan- AP 1330, exemplifies what it is to be a Delta Zeta. She is Commander ofthe Public Health Command Region-South at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. She has received the Legion ofMerit award, Meritorious Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Global 'War on Terrorism Service Medal and the NATO Medal, among many others. Photo by Lori Newman Have you ever heard a Delta Zeta alumna say, '' was a t Z a~" Would you agree that Delta Zeta has enriched your life? those values with us from our upbringing, but within Delta Zeta, we enhance and build upon what we already know. We learn Many alumnae say that their experience in the Sorority has enhanced that we have a responsibility to ourselves, to our loved ones, and their Lives in one or more areas: friendships, family values, work to causes beyond ourselves. We understand that we must create ethic, community service and more. Often, alumnae do not realize change for the greater good, for only then are we all enriched. the influence Delta Zeta has had on them until a later point in their lives. Yet the Delta Zeta experience becomes a part of a woman's psyche from the new member pledge period forward. How does Delta Zeta keep the connection after graduation? Some members may think that their Delta Zeta experience ends The college women of today are connected not only through with graduation from college. They are busy building careers, the real-world friendships made in school, but in the virtual traveling, raising families and later, caring for parents or finding world, where geographic boundaries fall away and diverse new interests in retirement. But membership in Delta Zeta is for relationships flourish. a lifetime. The values that members pledge to uphold as college students never change, and those same values can have a greater Today's new member is connected to Delta Zeta through a pan in an alumna's life, no matter what her life stage. welcome email that asks her to confirm her information via Metro, rhe Sorority's private social network. This initial connection The values behind the Delta Zeta Creed and Constitution are the to Delta Zeta will make h easy for her to keep her information common bond that brings women cogerher in the Sorority during up-to-date in the Delta Zeta membership database, while at the college days. Even though an alumna's life may change dramatically same time provide her wirh contact information for chapter sisters after graduation, those values remain the same. As a member, and, after graduation, for Delta Zetas in any location to which you have those values in common with every woman who is a she may move. Delta Zeta. Those values reunite sisters, strengthen bonds and help the Sorority and you to grow in new and exciting ways. Alumnae chapters join with collegiate chapters in senior recognition ceremonies for graduating members, providing these soon-to-be Those values enable us to enrich .the world. alumnae information about staying connected to Delta Zeta. Metro The Constitution of Delta Zeta, Article III, Section 3, states the allows new graduates to search for Delta Zetas by profession, so qualities which our members must possess. We bring many of they can network with alumnae as they search for jobs or continue graduate school. The LAMP 5 How can I reconnect? information for alumnae members, as well as upcoming reunions. Visit the Reunions and Gatherings page on the Delta Zeta website (go to I am a Delta Zeta from the home page), and post or see gatherings from other Delta Zeta members. If you are interested in volunteering, go to the Delta Zeta website and click on I am a Delta Zeta > Alumnae > Volunteer Opportunities. You can submit a Volunteer Involvement Form, or contact your Area Alumnae Director (under Quick Links > National Directory in Metro). Another way to stay connected is to donate to the Delta Zeta Foundation. In each of our lives, we have an extraordinary opportunity to promote Delta Zeta, create a greater sisterhood for the future and enrich the world. Let's make the commitment to say, "I am a Delta Zeta!" What is a Chapter Association? Chapter Associations unite collegiate and alumnae members of a college chapter for the purpose of establishing close communication and advancing the best Each day of your life, you are connected to Delta Zeta by our core interests of the chapter and Delta Zeta. Each member values. Every action, every interaction with someone in your sphere initiated into the Sorority automatically becomes a member demonstrates to them that you are a woman of "moral, social and intellectual worth." These values are goals we can all strive to attain of her own chapter association (regardless if she affiliates each day of our lives and as citizens of the world community.