On the Mooove with Gamma Mu!
Volume 2
Happy New Year! 2005 has come and it has already made an impact. Winter has arrived in Ada and in force, causing problems and even giving students an extended five –day break not seen in over 25 years. But for the Gamma Mu chapter, weather has not kept us from being active.
For the Women’s Craft Fair we made over 15 dozen hand-dipped buckeyes and over 50 hand-made ornaments to raise money for our chapter. The buckeyes sold like lightning and were gone in less than two hours! In addition to the regular ushering that is one of our main service projects during our winter quarter, we decided that we would try sharing our knowledge and expertise in music with the community. We are helping out Lima Senior High School with their Solo and Ensemble Contest and we are going to teach elementary-school-aged children in a program called Ada Friends about music and about our instruments so that we can interest them in getting involved in music when they can start playing instruments. Service projects that we have done for the music department have included: making ornaments and cards for the faculty for Christmas and making cookies for the prospective students music auditions.
For the Christmas season, we wanted to spread a little holiday cheer to people that we knew. For our KKY brothers, we surprised them at their Christmas meeting with cookies, cupcakes and ornaments to show them how much we appreciate and care for them. We also made ornaments for our permanent sister chapter, Epsilon Iota, our rotating sister chapter, Lambda, and for the two colonies individual ornaments so that they would have something to remember this Christmas from our chapter. Christmas cards were also sent out to let everyone in our district know that we are thinking about them during this season of happiness. But Christmas is also a time for remembrance for our chapter, for one year ago we lost our sister Erin Dillon and this year, we also lost another important person, Dr. Sontag, our chapter’s first honorary member and advisor.
Right now, what our chapter is mainly concerned with is communicating with other chapters. We have started our biggest corresponding project yet with Operation Building Bonds (OBB). This is our letter writing campaign that helps our sisters get to know other sisters within the district. We are very excited to hear from you and hope that you participate. Save our Sweethearts is another program that we are going to start in order to help save a music program and keep a special place open. Marimor School is a school for children that have special needs. They have music, fine arts, academic classes, and learn how to adapt to their disabilities. These students come from places as far as Cleveland and Dayton to attend schooling. But, the school because of funds might be closing within the next two years and the music and all arts programs will be gone at the end of this year if we don’t do anything about it. So we are starting a letter-writing campaign to different news sources, talk show hosts, and government officials to help save this school and we hope that the district would also be willing to help keep the music alive.
This weekend is our chapter’s second degree and our officer elections will be taking place in the next few weeks. Very exciting. I can’t wait to see what happens! Anyway, hope to hear from you soon! Sisters ROCK!
Submitted in the Bond,
Sara A. Mraz
Corresponding Secretary
Tau Beta Sigma, Gamma Mu
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