f[}Q�(^ !(I][juQ[njQ�[? n�@ O' ni I � Revisit Rush? . .. Sure, You Can! How long has it been since YOU participated in a collegiate rush? Five years . 10 . not since college? This is the year to change that. Gam ma Phi Beta collegiate chapters need your help. YOU will be pleasantly sur prised at the rewards in store for you. Rush is a fun but hectic time. There are many jobs to be done � large and small. Sponsor Forms to be sorted, re freshments to be prepared and served, invitations and responses to be han dled, Panhellenic assignments to be filled, and tidying up to be done. If all these jobs are left to the collegians, WHO will meet, greet and entertain the rushees. With alumnae support in these areas our collegians will have more time to do THEIR job � select the very best pledge class possible. YOU may be thinking, "I don't need or have time to spend a day washing punch cups or trotting over to the Panhellenic office." Your greatest re wards will come in the midst of the dirty punch cups when you HEAR the shouts of joy when the next party re turn list is read, SEE the transforma tion of hair roller bedecked girls into charming, well-groomed young wom en ready to greet the next party of rushees or FEEL a renewed spirit when the chapter sings our sorority songs. If YOU are not there, YOU will miss it all. There are a few guidelines that Alumnae help collegians by posing as rushees for practice. Here, Sally Archer and Alice Raben rush might help make your return to the alumna "Brooke Shields" at the University of Kansas. collegiate rush scene even better. Do not expect it to be exactly as it was collegiate members . It is most re leet. Each collegiate chapter is charged when you were a collegian. The colle warding to develop those personal re with this responsibility. It is the same giate chapter closest to you, may not lationships. The next time you visit responsibility YOU held when you be the same as your chapter � it may the chapter it won't be just a sea of were a member of a collegiate chapter.^! have a lodge or chapter room instead faces but a real Janet or Cindy. You Nothing has changed. of a house, rush may be less struc will soon see that Gamma Phi Beta Now that your punch cups are fin tured, the chapter may use a different means just as much to them as it does ished, there is tabulating to do before system of rushing. These changes are to YOU. Maybe the setting or circum the report is due to the Panhellenic of natural and normal with the progres stances have changed but the loyalty fice. Gee, this is a lot of work . but : sion of times. Remember this, if the and friendship remains unchanged � a whole lot more fun. If YOU had not " phrase "When 1 was in school . steadfast. If YOU are not there, YOU been there, YOU would have missed should start to pop out. View this 1982 will never know. IT ALL. rush with an open mind, learn about Remember the alumna rush advisor Contact your closest chapter's alum the innovations in rush procedures and and the alumna chapter advisor are na rush advisor and volunteer to revis join in the fun of it all. If you have the only alumnae who may attend it rush this year. The alumnae role is suggestions, give them to the alumna membership selection sessions. This is an important one. Our chapters need rush advisor after rush. Your objective the time for YOU to finish your punch your support. Be there, so YOU won't suggestions are always welcome and cups and reflect on a fun day. The miss it all! may open a new door to successful alumnae role in rush is to sponsor, rec Sue Dorsey Durrett rushing. ommend and support. The collegiate Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee on Rush Make a point of getting to know the role is to sponsor, recommend and se- Education 2 / THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA SUMMER, 1982 Gamma Phi Beta mUinllmKSn' Real Eyes, Real Faces �That's Rush 4 FOR WINTER ISSUE: Share a collegian's view of rush from the side of the rushee. Active Alumnae News 1982 Recommendations Chairmen 7 Alumnae Career Corner Articles a Form to the Alumnae Pacesetter Articles Sponsor a rushee this fall by submitting completed Sponsor chairman. Lunar Lights appropriate Colossal Collegian Articles Take The Credit 12 College Collage News Gamma Phi Betas have the opportunity to earn continuing education units at the Phoenix Convention. Deadline: September 1, 1982 A Grandmother On The Go 15 CRESCENT Elvera Woolner Fitzgerald (Northwestern) is a world traveler and an active CORRESPONDENTS: volunteer in the theater. Please read the Crescent assign With 16 ments in the Crescent Communi Camp Sechelt Camper Grows Camping Experience que, which you can obtain from International Philanthropy Chairman Judy Graham writes about her close your president. association with camper Tina Campbell. ��[pdJF'u'DuQ^QQl}! In Memoriam 17 College Collage 24 Editor-in-Chief Lunar 18 and Cradles 28 Kris Brandt Riske Lights Couples Career Corner 20 30 1222 E. Cordova Directory 22 Pacesetters 31 Casa Grande, AZ 85222 Active Alumnae Alumnae Editor Margy Molden Wiltamuth 1700 Kiva Road ON THE COVER: Hugs and smiles mean the conclusion of another successful Silver Spring, MD 20904 rush week at Kansas State. Collegiate Editor: Cindy Welch 8-D Rue Maison Birmingham, AL 35209 Gamma Phi Beta USPS 137-620 Feature Editor The Crescent is published quarterly in Fall, Wmter, Spring and Summer by the Gamma Phi Beta 7503 Marin Drive, CO 80111. Printed in the U.S.A. Natalie Meyer McKenzie Sorority, Inc., Englewood, by Compolith and Maury Boyd & Associates. Second class postage paid at Englewood, CO and addi 531 S. Burton Place Graphics tional mailing offices. Arlington Heights, IL 60005 Postmaster: Please send notice of undeliverable on Form 3579 to Gamma Phi Beta, 7503 Business Manager: copies Marin Drive, Englewood, CO 80111. Randy Stevens Guerra Central Office Subscribers: Send changes of address, notices of marriages and deaths to Gamma Phi Beta, Central Office, 7503 Marin Drive, Englewood, CO 80111. SUMMER. 1982 / THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA / 3 Shawn Burke greets rushees at Rho Chapter at the University of Iowa. Natalie Imersik, Laurie Hayden and Nancy Geis are the entertainers on French cafe day at the Uni versity of Nevada. Real Eyes, Real Faces Rush? Webster has one half page of Walking into those houses was like definitions for this particular word. To walking into the Twilight Zone. Once sorority women and hopeful sorority I got past the door, the interrogation women across . the nation and Canada, began: "What's your name again? . one rush has distinctive definition. Where are you from? . Why did Webster probably didn't have sorority you decide to come to our school? rush in mind when he wrote this defi . Why did you want to go through it . nition but . definitely applies. rush? What's your major? . Rush: An eager movement of many Do you have any questions?" to to a people get place, as to a new The grass wasn't greener . only territory or a region where gold has re thicker. I'd go home at night and cently been found. dream I was being eaten by big, white, I am a recent past hopeful. I've nev plastic smiles and overgrown question er viewed rush from the inside� only marks. from the outside. I always thought the I began to think I was destined to grass would be greener on the other live my college years on the duller side side of the fence. of the fence, never knowing what real I remember so well standing each ly went on behind those doors. And night in front of a house, watching so I'd wanted to know so badly. I'd want rority women run out with their ed to be a part of the songs and smiles smiles and songs. I was always hoping and sisterhood since I was young and they wouldn't overlook me, and one my mother had told me about her of them would want to escort me in golden sorority years. side to where I knew the treasure By the time I got to the last house I'd would be found. "Let the grass be decided I was definitely a misfit. All at this I'd to the other women who Rushees at Cal. St.-Long Beach glimpse a bit of greener house," say my went through Disneyland with Linda Lever and Pam Carson. self. the Great Gold Rush with me already 4 / THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA SUMMER, 1982 Miami collegians sing a song to complete their "South Pacific" rush skit. Posing as characters from the "Wizard of Oz" are UCLA collegians Lynne Robinson and Carrie Begley. A tropical island beckons rushees to Delta Iota Chapter at Purdue. That's Rush *^ ^ �**�- *-'^-C, f' seemed to know what sorority they would pledge. But not me. My feet must have been too big. Maybe I need ed a nose job. 1 should have done my nails. I followed my escort beyond the doors with little less than enthusiasm. 1 sat down and braced myself for the bombardment of smiles and question marks that never came. Instead I heard a real voice say, "Tell me about your self, Lauri." She hadn't forgotten my name! And she didn't care what my major was! I looked up and saw real eyes in a real face that was truly inter ested in me! I was amazed.