Congratulations, Miss New York, Nia Franklin, on being named Miss America 2019! Miss Louisiana 2018, Holli’ Conway, Delta Sigma Theta, Northwestern State University was the Second Runner Up. She along with Miss District of Columbia 2018, Allison Farris, Kappa Alpha Theta, University of Alabama; Miss Nebraska 2018, Jessica Shultis, Alpha Chi Omega, University of Nebraska – Lincoln; and Miss Oklahoma 2018, Ashley Thompson, Delta Delta Delta, University of Oklahoma made it to the Top 15. There were 20 sorority women competing.
Tomorrow is September 11. Please take a look at this post remembering the GLO members who perished. Please share it with collegiate members if possible. The current chapter members likely have no recollection of that horrible day. Some might have just been born when it happened.
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Last week the Carbondale community lost one of its brightest stars. Elizabeth “Liz” Schill passed away. She was a creative, caring and dedicated woman who made life richer for anyone with whom she interacted. She was a Delta Zeta and she spent decades working with the chapter at SIUC. If there was a job to do, she would do it gladly and she would do it well. She will be missed.
I also learned of the sudden death of Harold W. “Knap” Knapheide, III, President of The Knapheide Manufacturing Company of Quincy, Illinois. He was an alumnus of the Phi Delta Theta chapter at the University of Kansas. His wife Ann is a Delta Gamma alumna from the University of Colorado chapter. He and his family funded, through a gift to Monmouth College, the building of a chapter house for the Monmouth College chapter of Pi Beta Phi. The house was given by Knapheide and his sister, Vicki Knapheide Wood (Pi Beta Phi), as a memorial to honor their mother Mary MacDill Knapheide. A funeral is being held this morning at the new Knapheide plant in Quincy.
