ADPi receives the Golden Lion

Alpha Delta Pi, Eta Pi chapter, has had a very busy yet exciting start to the semester! We recently received a visit from the ADPi International president and began the semester in a spectacular, yet completely unexpected way. Our international president, Ms. Tammy Pinkston, surprised us at our weekly chapter meeting with the Maxine Blake Golden Lion Award!

This was the first time in ADPi history that the award had been given out of the ADPi Grand Convention that takes place once every two years. Traditionally, the Golden Lion has been the most coveted award distributed at the convention, as it “indicates the highest level of performance and efficiency for collegiate chapters of Alpha Delta Pi,” and is “the highest honor a chapter may receive.”

The following Monday (9/26) started our favorite week of the year, ADPi’s Safari Hunt! Safari Hunt is our annual philanthropy week in which we raise money and collect donations and can tabs for our national philanthropy, The Ronald McDonald House (RMH).

We had 16 fraternities and two sororities participate in Safari Hunt this week. These organizations strived to win Safari Hunt through ROARing at sisters, change booths, can tabs, grocery donations to RMH, a Jimmy Johns day, Project Catwalk and Field Games.

Alpha Delta Pi’s mascot is Alphie the lion, hence the ROARing! All throughout the week sisters enjoyed being ROARed at, whether it was a quiet ROAR in the middle of ABP or groups of fraternity men and sorority women ROARing at the top of their lungs in class.

Donation booths on the drillfield and in Squires collected can tabs and change for RMH. Can tabs were donated since it only takes 75 pounds of can tabs to pay for a family to stay in the Ronald McDonald house for a night free of charge!

Jimmy Johns day took place on Tuesday, and fraternities and sororities received points for eating there. The restaurant gave ADPi 15% of all proceeds from that night to donate to RMH.

Thursday afternoon was Project Catwalk, an “anything but clothes” fashion show that took place at Top of the Stairs. Fraternities and sororities created a fashion line that included casual wear, formal wear and a swimsuit and received bonus points for anything RMH or ADPi themed.

Field games ended the week. Fraternities and sororities participated in a multitude of events including tug o’ war, a banana eating contest, a limbo competition and a relay race which comprised of leap frog, a dizzy-bat race, tumbling and pie-ing an ADPi in the face!

The final numbers aren’t in yet, but we’re hopeful that this was our most successful Safari Hunt ever!

What a fabulous and fun way to start the semester! We look forward to participating in other fraternity and sorority philanthropy events as well as other community service projects throughout the coming weeks.

The Golden Lion award!

 Safari Hunt Field Games in Oak Lane