VPFD Ideas

We have a full slate of VPFD ideas from last month as well. It looks like ya'll have come up with some great ways to educate your chapters.

The AR Alpha Balfour Celebration was held on September 21, 2008. Chapter Archivist, Allie Welty, refurbished several of the individual scrapbooks and they were on display for all visiting alumni and family members. This was such a great way to allow our alumni, current members and family to see they history of Arkansas Alpha in an informal setting.-you could use this idea at any gathering you have. Pull those old histories out for Founder's Day, Alum Events or Cookie Shines!

LA Alpha has a cookie shine planned for the first chapter meeting that we are allowed to be back in our house. They are going to tie it into the Values Refresher Workshop-way to mulit-task!

LA Beta made up a rap to do at the new member meeting to help the new girls start memorizing the founders

MS Alpha so far brought the seniors in and had them dress up as the founders, to help the girls associate the names with faces. We have also taught songs about Pi Phi facts. We are also using the NM CD a lot. We hook a computer up to our TV, and have the girls go through the CD along with the VPFD. We think that the NM have really benefited from using the CD

MS Beta has been sending weekly FH facts through our “Pi Phi” Facebook group.-What a wonderful way to reach all members!

OK Alpha planned a formal meal on Thursday, September 25th at 6:30 p.m. for the new members. The purpose was to teach the new members the etiquette of pi phi formal meals and show them how it works

Throughout this month’s chapter meetings, OK Betas have continued to play “Heritage Cup”. The VPFD tests the knowledge of the chapter through asking questions about history, founders, symbols, and more. The first person to exclaim or to find the answer gets a point for her New Member class. At the end of the semester, the New Member class with the most points will win a prize and it will be announced at a Cookie Shine

After meeting this coming month TN Delta plans on holding a “Ring-Ching” night where every member decorates a silver blue cup and learns the Ring-Ching song. We will then have an ice-cream social.

According to the module, I have been focusing on Texas Alpha’s chapter history. Our archives has a book that contains notes and information from 1902, when Texas Alpha was founded, to the 1950s. I have read excerpts from the first hand account of how our chapter was founded

TX Beta has held two training sessions with the new censors in order to hold productive, quiet meetings and picture shows. They have definitely improved and our last slide show was quieter and ran more smoothly with their help-having training with censors will help all chapter meetings run smoothly

TX Gamma educated the chapter on some of the history behind our initiation ceremony because we are getting close to initiation had the madrigals sing Pi Phi songs to practice for the initiation banquet

TX Delta's charter was shown to the chapter and explained during meeting. Also those who wore their pins to meeting received a reward.-you would be surprised at how many of your chapter members probably don't know where the charter is. What a easy way to educate them. Also a great idea to give a small reward for wearing the pin!

TX Eta has gone over more chapter histories. This month we went over the beginning of our chapter. We looked at pictures from the first recruitment and and talked about charter members

TX Epsilon used the story “Ignorant Children” from the New Member CD, a few members of our chapter created a video reenacting each part of the story with narration in the background. They dressed up as the 12 Founders and even added in little interviews including one on why the Arrow was chosen as our official symbol. The video was very funny and our members loved it because it was more interesting than just reading the story to them from a piece of paper. The video was also shown to the New Members at their meeting.

TX Zeta has been practicing “Ring Ching” as a chapter in every meeting of September/October as a refresher for the older members as well as for the newest members who may not have known it before.-this is a great idea to get older member involved. Younger members might not know Pi Phi songs and during chapter you might have a group of seniors lead the chapter in songs!

Way to go VPFDs! I am so proud of all of the history and heritage you are teaching your chapters