Congratulations to Leeza Gibbons, who won the competition!!
It’s down to two competitors on Celebrity Apprentice. In the Season 14 finale, which will air on Monday February 16, 2015, Leeza Gibbons and Geraldo Rivera compete for the title. Gibbons became a member of Delta Delta Delta while she was a student at the University of South Carolina. Rivera, who graduated from my high school before I did, is a member of Tau Delta Phi.
Gibbons was the opening keynote speaker at the 2014 Tri Delta Convention held in Indianapolis. What a thrill it must have been for the collegians and alumnae to hear her speak!
Leeza Gibbons speaking at the 2014 Tri Delta Convention.
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Pete Smithhisler, president and CEO of the North-American Interfraternity Conference, responded to an opinion which was published in Newsweek a week ago calling for the fraternity system to be dismantled at all colleges and universities. Smithhisler’s excellent response is at http://www.newsweek.com/praise-frat-life-campus-305518.
“Haters gotta hate,” to usurp a popular meme, has been going on for as long as Greek-letter organization have been around. The post previous to this one is about George Ade, a Sigma Chi (http://wp.me/p20I1i-21y). I didn’t mention it in the post, but the Sigma Chi chapter at Purdue, the chapter to which Ade belonged, had won a court battle to establish the chapter at the university a short time before Ade became a member. To see the 1915 version of Smithhisler’s letter, written by a Delta Tau Delta, see http://wp.me/p20I1i-1is.
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On February 11, 2007, Sigma Sigma Sigma member Carrie Underwood won a Grammy Award for Not Ready to Make Nice.
Celebrating birthdays today are Sheryl Crow and Burt Reynolds.
At the University of Missouri, Sheryl Crow became a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, Sigma Alpha Iota, and Omicron Delta Kappa. Burt Reynolds became a member of Phi Delta Theta at Florida State University.
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And this, from the facebook feed, just because. It has nothing to do with GLO life, but it does have to do with one of my favorite things, thank you notes. The note was written by another native Long Islander. And it was written to a man, Michael Feinstein, whose music, radio show Song Travels (http://www.npr.org/series/150560513/song-travels), and television show (http://www.pbs.org/michael-feinsteins-american-songbook/) I so enjoy. (I will not mention that I first saw Billy Joel perform at the Syracuse War Memorial during a snow storm or that I am impressed with his stationery.)
Michael Feinstein
Just received this! I love that Billy Joel takes the time to write a personal note – and not a text!
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