Sorority Celebration - 111 years and still kicking!

Last Saturday, I attended the Founder's Day celebration of my collegiate sorority (Sigma Sigma Sigma) in downtown Dallas. The luncheon was held at Children's Medical Center, which has special significance to the sorority. The philanthropy of the national sorority is childrens' play therapy in hospitals, and there are two hospitals in particular that receive large sums of money each year from the sorority contributions from member dues.

As the chapter Treasurer during my college years, I remember sending in that portion of our individual dues to Nationals in order to fund the philanthropy and not thinking too much about it, but now, 9 years after graduating from college, I got to see the recipients of those donations. Children's Medical Center in Dallas is one of those two hospitals that receives our money!

Founder's Day is the 'birthday' of our sorority and this year celebrates 111 years and going strong. We had a luncheon, program and then a tour of the hospital (the parts that involve play therapy - which we sponsor). Our funds also sponsor a fellowship each year. One fellow gets paid a salary/stipend each year from Tri Sigma's donations.

Here is a huge train set (the largest operational model train display in the country!) that has a pathway for the kids to walk through and watch the trains going in tunnels. There are all climates represented somewhere in the train model - it was so cool!!

And here are some shots of one of the play therapy rooms that Tri Sigma sponsors:

This is the decoration on the wall in the Sigma playrooms - a sailboat (one of our symbols):

Here are a few shots from the luncheon:

Here's a pic of the women that were there from the Dallas Alumnae Chapter (there were also lots of collegiate girls from Texas Womens University from nearby Denton, TX). There were women that are "Golden Violets" (Tri Sigmas that have been initiated for 50 or more years) all the way down to women who are just out of college.