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Remember the Tau Beta Sigma recruitment events? Rosebud was invited to join, and her roommates were just as supportive and enthusiastic as if it had been an NPC delegation that showed up in their official chapter jerseys at the door to the suite and offered her an envelope with the crest and an official welcome. They filmed her opening up the envelope and jumping and clapping and squealing. Yay! The next day my Alpha Gamma Delta Sister who has known Rosebud all her life took a vase with TBS red roses and TBS colored ribbons over to her dorm to celebrate her. Rosebud is looking forward to weekly meetings and shopping for TBS-themed merch. John Denver was in TBS! And Lizzo! And Count Basie! Pretty cool. AND their badge has 14 pearls… like another beautiful badge I know <3
After accepting her TBS bid, Rosebud started receiving presents and clues from her big sister and attempted to figure out who it was before the reveal at the formal pledging ceremony. She ended up with 4 different Beanie Babies, and a pretty hand-painted canvas for her wall, and lots of candy and notes, and she LOVED all that suspense and excitement. She was very happy that she already had a yellow dress for the ceremony, and felt bad for any of the other TBS new members who had to hurriedly find something yellow to wear. Welcome to sorority life, lol. She is now the historian of her membership class (basically official photographer), which is similar to the social media manager leadership positions she held in her high school marching band and chorus. After one of the home football games she helped with organizing the uniforms for dry cleaning, and has spent a lot of time with her big sis and grand-big: having lunch, doing crafts, shopping… It’s ideal, really. Everything I had hoped would happen for her.
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When Ca’ d’Zan followed up with Rosebud, she thanked them for inviting her to join, but said since she had already accepted a bid to TBS, she wanted to focus on that in the fall. She said she didn’t want to pledge 2 organizations in the same semester and risk spreading herself too thin and not fully upholding her commitment to either group. The VP Recruitment at Ca’ d’Zan was very gracious and made it sound like they would be happy to see Rosebud again in the spring for informal recruitment events. Whew, no bridges burned.
Rosebud happily helped her roommates get ready for their initiation into Casements, and took pictures of them all dressed up in their white dresses, even with their required white socks. Why white socks? They have no idea. I flippantly suggested that maybe they just had the floors redone in the room where ritual is being held, and they don’t want heel marks all over the room (memories of how protective the basketball boosters were of the shine on the gym floor were flooding back). My mom thinks maybe it is a modern attempt to adapt something specific in their ritual, like the way many groups now use battery-operated “candle” lights instead of actual candles because of fire hazards. It’s a mystery. All the NPC orgs were initiated within 2 weeks of each other. It was very festive on campus and on social media!
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