(back row) VP - Corey Acosta, Social Chair–Archer Hodges, Fundraising Chair–Tom Butler, Dr. Weeda, and Dr. Colvert. (bottom row) D2 Rep–Morgan White, President–Yesha Banaji, D1 Rep–Betsy Henson, Editor–Taylor Roger
Acosta’s home. New initiates, faculty ZIP members mentioned above, and our executive council were present. Tis year we took a new approach at initiation to instill all the foundations of Xi Psi Phi into our new members. For the first time in some years, we are advancing towards once again incorporating ritual into initiation. President Yesha Banaji and VP Corey Acosta took hold of the reigns on this with some guidance from Dr. Cov- ington. In the end, the new initiates understood all of Xi Psi Phi’s morals and delightedly took the oath. To continue our chapter’s post-initiation tradition, the night ended by ZIP members meeting the new initiates
D1 New Initiates with Dr. Colvert, Dr. Weeda, and Dr. Covington
at Earnestine & Hazels for a night of entertainment, drinks, and soul burgers. Tere have also been many other
events, fundraisers, and works-in- progress happening this semester for our chapter. Another small event we held was the ZIPs cornhole tourna- ment. Hosted at philanthropy chair Justin Cooper’s house, we allowed all students of our college to sign up teams to compete. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon gathering to play some games and watch plenty of col- lege football. Our chosen fundraiser for this semester was selling embroi- dered quarter-zip sweatshirts. Te fundraiser was mediated by secretary Britta Ristau, fundraising Chair Tom Butler, and treasurer Kristiana Teno- rio. We were able to sell over 200 sweatshirts, and they were such a big hit there has been talk about opening another order at the beginning of the new year! Last but not least, we have finally
D1 initiates (from top-bottom, left-right)– Kayla Webb, Betsy Henson, Lakyn Bell, Katelyn Ridley, Alexis Bourgeois, Anita Pitts, Emily Arnoult, and Maria Monserra
XI PSI PHI QUARTERLY
kick-started our alumni reach-out program this semester. It has been a dream of our president’s since she first got involved with the executive council. Our VP and fundraising chair first put together a small news- letter with a few words from Dr. Covington incorporated. Ten, they obtained a list of over 800 alumni from our chapter as well as their
addresses. With a big group effort, our council stuffed and stamped envelopes for all of them to get them ready to send out. For the alumni that are located around the Memphis area our council worked in pairs to hand deliver the newsletters to them, and then the others were mailed. Our intentions for this program are to get more alumni involved in our activities that we host throughout the year, and hopefully in the near future we can host a yearly alumni dinner for everyone to get back together. We really want to the follow through with the long-lasting friendships that this fraternity allows us to develop. Also, within the newsletter, recipi- ents had the opportunity to sign-up for our emailing list so we will bet- ter be able to keep them in the loop, send them quarterly newsletters, or so they could make donations if they choose to do so. We are very excited and thankful
for the opportunities that we have had to grow our chapter this semester. It has taken a lot of time, meetings, and effort from our council members and active chapter members to make such big changes and stride towards new goals. It has undoubtedly been rewarding thus far, and we hope to see that rollover into 2019!
Taylor Rogers Editor & Social Media Chair
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