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From: Dell DeMeyer <delldmyr(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 7:13 PM
Subject: Hello Sky:
To: <smckenzey(a)hotmail.com>
I'm Dell and a member of Online Gamma and hope you'll join us! I live in
northern California and have been in OLG a long time so am well acquainted
with many of the members and they are all great sorority sisters! Are you
presently a Beta Sigma Phi member on leave or do you have chapters in
Giza? In 1976 a group of us did go to the Greece convention, then flew
down to Egypt, visited the areas around Cairo, then on to Luxor and Aswan
so did see the area where you live. It was an adventure of a lifetime!
We don't do too much in our online chapter and many of us are also in a
land chapter--right now I am president of our active chapter here in
the little town of Gridley located about 50 miles north of Sacramento. I
have been a BSP for 64 years and still find it a wonderful organization and
although our land chapter is busy, I really enjoy meeting more new sisters
and love that about being in an online chapter.
The main thing we do online is a Program once a month and athough it is not
mandatory, it is really fun to read other people's answers to the
chairman's monthly question. We do Roll Call about four times a year and
have lots of casual chatter and some just enjoy reading what the noisy ones
are chatting about!
Every year or so we have put together a gathering and all meet somewhere in
the US. a cruise or Mexico, etc. We've been on hold since the Covid kept
us home but there's always one being planned--just in case! Usually we
have had around 15 attend along with a few husbands or sig. others. Some
of the places we've been include Key West, Shrevesport during Mardi Gras,
Cocoa Beach, FL, Dallas/Fort Worth, Chicago, Denver, Albuquerque for the
balloon festival, Sacramento and north to Chico, CA, Mexico/San Diego, Las
Vegas + times, Savannah, Charleston, Prescott, AZ, Branson, Missouri,
Williamsburg, VA and Ohio and the Amish country just to name a few. We
don't do business meetings because we do not have business, just
friendships and enjoy sharing our common interests. We have even given
rituals while on some of our gatherings.
I am a retired middle school teacher, art and English, have three grown
daughters, three grandchildren who are all out of or in college at this
point--I spend time doing theater mostly summer/fall melodrama productions
and love to travel. I have stayed active on our BSP state area council
board and we travel up and down the state all year visiting and planning
for our state convention usually held in May. Didn't have one in 2020 and
there won't be one this year because none of the big hotels can accommodate
our sizeable group until the virus is over. This has been a quiet year for
sorority around here but my chapter has had meetings in our homes or a
facility that will cater lunch for us and we find plenty to keep us busy,
mostly just have fun.
I do hope you will join us and know you will find it a comfortable group
who are very caring and friendly.
Your sister,
Dell DeMeyer
Torchbearer degree💕