Decorating for the Holidays..

Recruitment Preview- Round 2- House Tours

During Round 2- Service Round, the collegians give the potential new members a house tour. We were able to snap a few photos of several of the bedrooms in a hope to give alumna a virtual house tour.. Be sure to check back throughout the fall semester for posts featuring other rooms in the chapter house

 the photo above and below showcase the 2 girl room to the left of the TV room. They have a view of park Avenue!

 The photos below showcase one of the 2 girl rooms on the East side of the chapter house. These girls have their desk in the study room.

The photos below showcase a two girl room on the West side of the house. It is located at the end of the hallway.

 The photos below showcase a 2 girl room on the West side of the house. The room is part of the 2003 addition. It also has the new bedroom furniture (beds, desks and chairs) that will be phased into the house in upcoming years.

We hope that you enjoyed this post. Do you have a room in the house that you would like to see what it looks like today?? or photos of the chapter house from your time in college?? Be sure to email us at axofloridastate{at} gmail {dot} com and let us know.. We love to hear from our fellow alumnae, parents, sisters and friends!!

Valentines Day Dinner at the chapter house..

Formal!!!

 view when you enter the formal from the foyer

 view of far side of formal, outer wall, tri-delta side

 above fireplace, Beta Eta founders composite

Piano, with built in trophy cabinet to the right of the fireplace.

a little Beta Eta Holiday love....

 The new member class of 2010, and soon to be alumnae initiate and two time Beta Eta mom, Mrs. Corso, decorate the house for the holidays! The house director provided cider, and Christmas music for the occasion!

BH all "dressed up" & decorated for the holidays

The house is beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and Hanukkah. The new member class of 2010 joined together to decorate the house for the holiday season.  The house director, Marie provided Holiday Music, warm cider, and snacks... Photos from outside the house will be posted soon!

Lyre love..

  

Check out the amazing hand crafted wooden lyre given to the chapter by the lovely gentleman of Pi Kappa Phi.

It truly has every detail of our brand!

The lyre is currently situated in the chapters informal living room... 

photos of the informal living room will be on the blog next Wednesday.
. so be sure to check back!

Pink Powder room no more....

Last summer, the chapter worked to upgrade the downstairs powder room. To the best of our knowledge the powder room had not been updated since it initial decoration/coloring from the time the house was built. The chapters wanted a place that they would be proud to show off to guests (all PNM's, chapter guests, etc use the downstairs powder room) and also a place that fit with the rest of the facility.

Chapter Advisor, Britain worked with the house manager, and house director, to finalize plans. The outcome is below:

 

The powder room features a padded bench, with storage underneath. The fabric features mini red carnations. Photos in the down stairs powder room are from the photos taken from the original house grand opening in 1956

The bathroom stalls, feature louvered doors. In each stall a lyre bird print is hung. (will post photos next week of house "art")

The chandelier is the main source of light for the room (other than natural light)

 The corner of the powder room feature a vanity with stools. many out of house sister use this area to get ready for socials/date functions at the chapter house. 

 Above is a close up of the vanity. The cabinets were designed specifically for Beta Eta!

We hope you can stop by and take a chapter house tour!!!



welcome to Alpha Chi

As many remember from college days.. each year the chapter paints the side walk in front of the house to coordinate with the chapters bid day theme.. See this years side walk below..

 

 

 

Do you remember?

When we think about the time we spend (spent) at the chapter house, many of the hours were during meal time. Throughout the years, the chapter has served countless breakfast, lunches, and dinners to sisters. Of course the chapter also has graciously hosted many fraternity gentlemen, alumnae, professors, and parents.

 

 We can assure you that meal time would not have been such a memorable experience with out the work of the countless gentlemen who have worked as Alpha Chi Omega servers /houseboys. 

The above picture is from the 1970s.  Fun fact: the gentleman leaving on the pot in the backround is Mr. Holdorf, he married a Beta Eta, and some years later, his daughter Rebecca pledged Beta Eta!

 

One of the other traditions that has become an occasional event in recent years is formal dinner. I am sure many alumnae can remember the "rules" of formal dinner. From which table to fill 1st, which door to enter the dinning room from, or asking the house director for permission to sit down if you were late, or to be excused if you had to leave early.  And of course we all remember having to run home to change for dinner after class, as we had to wear pin attire to dinner. Formal dinners are now only held at the chapter house for special occasions, and many of the rules have changed.. 

No matter what the meal, one things remains the same, Alpha Chi's begin each meal  after the house director "rings the bell" signaling that the meal is ready, and then all in attendance singing Grace.

We would love to do a Chapter House Spotlight, on some of our servers past.. Do you have a favorite server story and/or photo.. Or have you kept in touch with, or even married a server? Please email us at axofloridastate {at} gmail {dot} com

Carnation Love....

As you might remember, this past summer, we posted about some of the updates that were being doing to the Chapter House. Well, all of the updates are complete, and the chapter has been at work adding some finishing touches! The chapter partnered with the photographer they use for bid day photographs, Always 13 Studios, and had him take some custom carnation photos. Below are the 3 that we chose to order for the downstairs powder room. If you are interested in ordering a print to hang in your own home, click here to view the larger unedited sizes!!

    

Alpha - Chapter House

We often share with you photos from the Beta Eta chapter house.. however, below are photos from the Alpha Chapter House in Greencastle, Indian.. Enjoy.....

 

welcome sign

 

crest in chapter room 

 

sketches of all seven founders line the wall in the chapter room 

(Estelle is pictured above)

 

The "Vault" in the basement where all fraternity archives were kept until they were moved to HQ

 

dinning room 

  

plauqe on site..