Home, Sweet Home
When the Lambda Chapter of Alpha Delta Pi hosted the dedication for its new sorority house during Women’s College reunion weekend April 16, residents were wrapping up their first year in the new digs. They also were showing off some generosity of their older sisters who wanted to make certain the younger members enjoyed the same homelike, family experience that they had decades earlier.
Sarah Wahl, WC ’50, former chapter president, donated more than $67,000 in antique furnishings. The donations included a wool Sarouk carpet and a Venetian-style crystal chandelier that Wahl commissioned to honor late daughter Ceslie Alliene Schroder, WC ’83, who was also a former president. Julie Ann Singer “Sis” Hancock, WC ’51, helped out her sorority sister by contributing to the recovery and refurbishment of the antique pieces and new window treatments.
Gainesville interior designer and chapter adviser Maggie Griffin, an alum of the University of Georgia chapter, merged the antique dressings with new fabrics, creating a unique blend of modern sensibility and nostalgic charm. “We’re appreciative of how generous our alumnae have been,” says newer member Katelyn Brown, a junior from Hartwell, Georgia. “Each time I walk into our foyer, chapter room and TV room I am home.”
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- Katey Kibler Williams, WC ’14, and Katie Barth, WC ’14, react during the dedication of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house during the Brenau University Alumnae Reunion Weekend on Saturday, April 16, 2016, in Gainesville, Ga. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
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- Brooke Statham, WC ’00, left, speaks with Anna Sowell Harrison, WC ’10, as she holds her four month old daughter Margarite Harrison. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
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- Anna Sowell Harrison, WC ’10, holds her four month old daughter Margarite Harrison while Alpha Delta Pi member Cassidy Collier helps tie her bonnet before the dedication of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
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- Carole Ann Daniel, an Alpha Delta Pi Lambda Past President and Brenau Trustee, right, hugs Katie Barth, WC ’14, before the dedication of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house during the Brenau University Alumnae Reunion Weekend on Saturday, April 16, 2016, in Gainesville, Ga. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
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- Attendees tour the newly dedicated Alpha Delta Pi sorority house during the Brenau University Alumnae Reunion Weekend. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
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- Carole Ann Daniel, an Alpha Delta Pi Lambda Past President and Brenau Trustee, right, poses for a photo with Katie Barth, WC ’14, and Katey Kibler Williams, WC ’14. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
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- Attendees tour the newly dedicated Alpha Delta Pi sorority house. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
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- Carole Ann Daniel speaks at the dedication of the Alpha Delta Pi Sorority House during the Brenau University Alumnae Reunion Weekend. Daniel was given the award of Alumna of the Year for the Lambda Chapter. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
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- Alpha Delta Pi Sisters Sara Jane Bowers, from left, Cassidy Collier, Jan Maisch, international vice president of collegiate membership, Carole Ann Daniel, a Brenau Trustee and past Lambda President, Katelyn Brown, Maggie Griffin and Kelley Robertson, the Lambda Chapter’s advisor, cut the ribbon on the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house during the Brenau University Alumnae Reunion Weekend on Saturday, April 16, 2016, in Gainesville, Ga. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
