If you were part of a sorority, you don’t easily forget recruitment. The long days and nights, preparing so your parties are just perfect, your tired feet, trying so hard to remember the face with the name and the list goes on.

I still think about recruitment when I am planning a work function or meeting someone new. I always remember to be at the same level as them and don’t bombard them. Somethings just stay ingrained in your head forever.

And while I am no longer a collegiate going through recruitment, I still get excited when this time of year comes around. I say a little prayer for my chapter on a successful rush. I cross my fingers that their parties will go well and preference ceremonies will be filled with girls they can’t wait to call their sisters. And I wait anxiously to hear the results from Bid Day. Yesterday, was the day of waiting.

The news was broadcast in the typical 2010 way — Facebook. I was so incredibly proud and excited to read that the Zeta Delta chapter at Towson University has 30 new members. The number is astounding. It blew me away. But it is something that is very well-deserved. Since 1979, I know Zeta Deltas have been working hard to make the chapter a home for collegiate women. More than 500 women have come together to live a purpose and be part of the group that will last for a lifetime. Yesterday that commitment was renewed as 30 new members ran across Burdick Field and joined their new sisters for the very first time.

Zeta Delta is very much alive and well in 2010. I am so happy that this chapter has overcome the odds and made it to the top. Congratulations Zeta Delta! Wear your spriit and sisterhood proudly on campus every day, but especially today!