Pi Beta Phi 2017 Convention St. Louis, Missouri

My Experience in St. Louis [INSERT things about the hotel, St. Louis, include a tour if you participated]

My Experience at Convention [INSERT, things like Pi Phi Express, Foundation Giving Booth –– Halo Heaven, Meet Grand Council, etc.]

Friday Opening Dinner [INSERT a few things you experienced: the band, introduction of officers, last Pi Phi standing and Angelica.]

Saturday Regional Meeting [INSERT key takeaways from your region’s meeting]

Saturday General Session Presentation of charters (Georgia Beta, South Carolina Beta, Delaware Alpha) State of the Organization – One Pi Beta Phi Given by Grand President Paula Shepherd, Foundation Board of Trustees President Beth Sordi and FHC Board of Directors Lisa Scott. Pi Phi by the Numbers: 21,500 collegians Almost 300,000 Pi Phis ever initiated 140 chapters and 288 alumnae organizations FHC has now welcomed 33 chapters into FHC; 10 this past biennium The Foundation invests $2 million annually in our sisters and communities and raised almost $200k on Pi Beta Phi Giving Day 15,500 Pi Phis have been impacted by the Critical Conversations® Speaker Series programs Average GPA is 3.27 and is on the rise Clubs, chapters and individual members have donated more than $2.2 million to The Literacy Fund at Pi Beta Phi Foundation in the last biennium Voting

New Leadership Grand President Paula Shepherd Grand Vice President Collegians Alison Heafitz Grand Vice President Alumnae Amy Southerland Grand Vice President Finance Emory Eison Grand Vice President Communications Jenn Plagman-Gavin Grand Vice President Membership Rae Maier Grand Vice President Programming Marla Wulf [INSERT – your Alumnae Regional Director and specialist team]

Recognition Lunch Guest Speaker: Barbie Tootle [INSERT key takeaways from Barbie Tootle’s message] [INSERT any awards your chapter won]

Legislation Highlights A total of 15 proposals were considered. Proposal #6 was withdrawn from the legislation proposals. Topics ranged from Grand Council term limits to legal wording for collegiate financial obligations. Of these proposals, only Proposal #5 was discussed. This amendment, proposed by Ohio Lambda, moved to change the collegiate officer role of Vice President of Philanthropy to Vice President of Philanthropy and Service. After hearing from both alumnae and collegians, the body voted not to pass the proposition. All other proposals were passed.

Dinner by Chapter [INSERT the impact of the parade of banners. Who was at your table? What was it like to be offsite at Scottrade?]

Model Initiation and Memorial Service [INSERT your key takeaways from model initiation] [INSERT share your feelings on the Memorial Service.]

Heritage Lunch Historical Website launch … check out your alumnae club and all the cool historical things at www.history.pibetaphi.org. HUGE Cookie Shine! Member of Distinction Dr. Ellen Stofan, Virginia Gamma

Alumnae Leadership Summit [INSERT Share your ideas on how to better recruit and retain members. Share some best practices on how to best utilize an Alumnae Leadership and Nominating Committee. Share what new resources you learned were available to alumnae clubs and how best to utilize them. Any other takeaways from this session]

Foundation Dinner [INSERT key takeaways from the dinner] Campaign Launch Shine Through with a campaign goal of [INSERT number]

Literacy Service Event and Read > Lead > Achieve Walk Pi Beta Phi gave away 40,000 brand-new books to children in need in the St. Louis area. [share how you volunteered and what you thought about the service project]

Monday General Sessions Read > Lead > Achieve progress update [Share what resonated with you.] Show video Convention 2019 … where are we headed?

Wine Carnation Banquet [INSERT your thoughts on the evening, awards won, new friends made, etc.]