ESU Sororities Complete Most Successful Recruitment Effort in History

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East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania’s National Panhellenic members and affiliated chapters completed their most successful recruitment efforts this semester attracting 75 new women to the chapters.

These unprecedented results increase the sorority population by almost 50 percent. The Spring recruitment activities included a series of meetings with each of the chapters throughout the week in which interested women got to know more about the values, members and goals of each chapter. Each chapter works to better the community with respect, leadership, and service while shaping the individual member’s personal development and scholarship along the way. The recruitment program ended with a Bid Day Celebration, a final event for the new women who have accepted their bids to meet the new chapter members and the disaffiliated recruitment guides reveal which chapter they belong to.

Lisa Upperman, a junior majoring in rehabilitation and human services and special education and rehabilitation from Ventnor City, N.J., and the assistant vice president of recruitment for Panhellenic, explained the importance of the recruitment counselors, otherwise known as the Rho Gammas.

“We had three women from each chapter disaffiliate in order to help these ladies find their homes,” she said. “Their purpose is to give unbiased advice about all of the chapters to the potential new members. The Rho Gammas really helped the process run smoothly.”

“The chapters took everything they had to do, and did it with extraordinary effort,” Lindsay Perine, a senior majoring in psychology from Freehold, N.J., who is also vice president of recruitment for ESU’s Panhellenic Council, said. “I’m so happy with the way everything turned out.”

“Hard work truly does pay off. My executive board and I worked extremely hard to make sure that formal recruitment on ESU’s campus maintained its integrity and the results show that,” Candice Cantore, a senior majoring in public health from Oceanside, N.Y., who is also the president of ESU’s Panhellenic Council, said. “Even though the Executive Board all came from different chapters, we all supported each other, and I could not be more proud of such an incredible group of women. Through all of the ups, downs, and chaos, we helped 75 women find their home in Greek life, and that makes everything worthwhile.”

The National Panhellenic member and affiliated chapters, which participated in the Spring recruitment, included national chapters Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Sigma Tau, Sigma Sigma Sigma, and local sorority Lambda Iota. ESU’s multicultural sororities, Chi Upsilon Sigma and Mu Sigma Upsilon, conduct their membership activities outside of the National Panhellenic formal program and are currently involved in their own recruitment events.

For more information on Greek Life at East Stroudsburg University, contact the Greek Affairs Office at (570) 422-3775.