Minutes of DRURY UNIVERSITY PANHELLENIC COUNCIL
March 25, 2014
The regular meeting was called to order by President Desirae Fowler at 7:15 in the Student
Activities Office. The roll was called by Secretary Kathryn Wilson.
ROLL CALL: Panhellenic: Desirae Fowler [Y], Elle Hammond [N], Emily Kruse [Y], Megan Reed
[Y], Ashley Sivils [Y], Laddie Miller [N], Kaleigh Jurgensmeyer [Y], Kathryn Wilson [Y], Rhianon
Brown [Y], Kiah McCarley [Y], Ellen Mitchell [Y], Jenny Scoggin [Y]
Advisor: Andrea Battaglia [Y], Brandon Lawson [Y]
GUESTS Ryan Demore (see IFC announcements)
PREVIOUS MINUTES Previous minutes were approved as distributed.
BYLAW REVIEW
OFFICER REPORTS
President:
 Officers should keep on track with their personal goals.
 Officers need to determine what size polo she needs.
 Officers need to have three sentences about each member written in third person.
 Elle is working on the National Panhellenic report.
 Megan, Elle and Desirae will meet to discuss the restructuring of the voting process for
recruitment counselors.
 Desirae will talk about Greek life this Saturday and Discover Drury.
 Megan can hold a Q&A for parents about Greek life.
 There is a dinner held before the freshmen first day.
o Parents usually attend this.
o This dinner will be on June 26th.
o Panhellenic members should keep this date in mind.
o Use the Hoblit for this dinner.
 Badge day will be different next year.
 Delegates need to talk with their chapters about moving Greek Week to the fall.
o Great kick-off event for new members.
o Possibly get a Greek-week committee made up of non-Panhellenic/IFC
members.
 Scholarship deadlines are coming up.
o There will be incentives for students that fill out these applications.
o Panhellenic officers need to fill these out as well.
 May 6th will be a recap meeting.
o Chapter advisors and others are welcome to come.
o Individuals can give their input about how the Panhellenic Council is doing.
Vice President:
 No report.
Recruitment:
 Delegates need to turn in early move-in forms.
 Megan will order a shirt for the new Fraternity House Director.
Involvement:
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The advisor dinner will be held on April 16th from 6-8 p.m.
o Panhellenic members should attend this dinner.
o Laddie will bring more information about this at the next meeting.
Secretary:
 Kathryn will upload events to the Wiggio calendar as soon as Greek Week is finalized.
 Panhellenic members should continue to send finalized dates to Kathryn.
Events:
 Ashley is finishing the packets to send to the chapter presidents and Panhellenic
members.
 Greek Week events are as follows:
o April 7th:
 At 6:00 pm there will be a banner painting and BBQ.
 At 7:10 there will be a Cardinals game.
o April 8th:
 Survival games (tug-of-war, speed pyramid, water balloon toss, etc.).
 Ashley will reserve Wieser or another area in case of rain.
o April 9th:
 Panthers for Prevention Tent event 11-1.
 Have food catered during this time.
 “Wear your letters Wednesday”
 Greek Goddess pageant.
o April 10th:
 Canned castles on Sunderland field.
 Greek Picture.
o April 11th:
 Concert at the quad.
 Greek Excellence awards.
 Setup times will be determined shortly.
 Delegates need to take this back to their chapters.
Marketing:
 Kaleigh will create a Greek Week Facebook page.
 Sam and Kaleigh will use a hash tag related to Greek Week for twitter.
o Other students can use this hash tag too.
o Hopefully we can get the hash tag to trend.
 There could be a prize for the Greek Week winner.
o Possibly furniture or a plaque with the winner’s name put by a tree.
o Kaleigh will email Betty Crow about this.
Treasurer:
 Delegates should ask if their chapters need the number of girls in attendance for Badge
Day.
 Emily sent out the new member invoices.
 We have only spent $24 on general spending purposes.
o Emily reviewed other dollar amounts spent for the Panhellenic budget.
 Emily will meet with Baily on Thursday.
 Drury will see budget requests sooner now.
o Greek life is now considered to be class 4.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Chapter news
 Pi Beta Phi:
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Initiation week will be next week.
Pi a Pi Phi went really well.
 Donations are still coming in.
Tri Delta:
o Tri Delta prefers to have spring recruitment on February 8th-12th.
Zeta Tau Alpha:
o Initiation week is this week.
o Princess night will be March 29th.
 This is for little kids.
Kappa Delta:
o The 5K went really well.
o $1,300 raised to prevent child abuse.
o KD thinks more girls should be on sober squad to prevent binge drinking.
Advisor Announcements:
 Delegates need to have academic chairs send their chapter’s academic information
(individual member grades) to [email protected].
 We need to look into the AFLV award.
o Possibly apply for some awards.
 We need to change the way we do some things.
o Getting a calendar in earlier, etc.
 The Springfield police could not do the security walk through.
o This is being rescheduled.
 Jacob Popa will be attending the IFC meeting.
o Brandon will keep Ashley in the loop.
o She can attend the IFC meeting.
 We need a system for Greek Week setup.
o There can be a signup sheet.
 Presenters need to practice.
 Cardinals tickets will cost $2 for students.
 Vito will be in charge of the concert quad event.
IFC Announcements: (Ryan spoke)
 Brian Shipman met with Ryan and Desirae.
o There is a philanthropy opportunity on May 10th from 8 am - 12 pm.
o Students can take furniture from homes to beautify the area around Drury.
o Possibly require each chapter to have 10 individuals volunteer for this event.
 Two shifts of 5 individuals.
 Breakfast and lunch will be brought to volunteers.
 Panhellenic members should be there as well.
o Brian would like to announce Drury Greek life in the newsletter if we are able to
help.
 April is Sexual Assault Prevention month.
o On April 16th there will be a student speaker.
 April 23rd is solidarity day.
o Support rape victims.
o Wear denim.
 Planning for Greek Week is important.
 Marketing for Greek Week is also very important.
o Dates and events need to be announced.
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Fliers can be made.
Posters in the CX, FSC, Gym.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will be held April 1st in the Student Activities Office.
ADJOURNMENT: Meeting adjourned at 8:20 pm on March 25, 2014 in the Student
Activities Office.