Current Edition Summer 2012 June 20, 2013

Helping Hands

—by Caroline Wells Hinds, Nu Beta/U of Alabama–Tuscaloosa

Nu Beta Mini-Reunion Benefits Tornado Victims

It was a hastily planned reunion as 16 Nu Beta Sisters met on the campus of our alma mater, the U of Alabama–Tuscaloosa, June 16–19, 2011. There, in a huge, one-time grocery store, we sorted donations received to help victims of the April 27 tornado that killed more than 40 people and left extensive property damage throughout the Southeast. The huge, powerful tornado barely missed our campus.

In addition to our work, we took time to catch up on one another’s lives and families. We sang Chi O songs on the front porch of the chapter house, ate (a lot), toasted one another, Chi Omega, and Nu Beta, and celebrated our years together at Alabama.

The group consisted of Sisters from pledge classes of the early ’70s who now live in six states: Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida.

We discovered, among other things, that you can go home again. The Nu Beta house director and house corporation were of immeasurable assistance in our effort; we thank them for helping us make it happen on such short notice.

Pictured are, from the left, in front, Mary Lee Carr Jones, Bari Allen Jacobs, Debi Moore Wilkins; in back, Charlsa Taul Perdew, Julie Bull Sirmon, Caroline Wells Hinds, Cynthia Rue Chitwood. Attending but not pictured: Lynn Maxwell Shirley, Mary Satterwhite Kennedy, Ruth Satterwhite Meadows, Debbie Jameson Chandler, Gail Jameson Hughston, Lillian Chappelle Montgomery, Nancy Nodine Robinson, Margaret Chandler, and Chi/Transylvania U initiate Amy Trice.
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