Zeta Tau Omega

Busy Zetas!!!

2008-09-29T15:30:00.000-07:00

Hello all you beautiful ladies out there in Zeta land!!! It's been a long time since we have posted and we apologize. We hope everything is amazing with everyone, and there has been alot going on here in good ole Wayne! This summer the Zetas participated in Relay for Life and had an amazing time!! Even though we had a small team, we held our own and walked a combined total of over 200 laps!! This summer we also had rush. The Zeta Tau Omega Summer Beach Blast was very successful and we had 8 new rushes attend. We got to know each other and had a private night swim at the Wayne pool. A good time was had by all!!! In the last month or so being back in school, we have been keeping very busy. We had a camping themed fall rush and we are happy to announce that we have 5 beautiful pledges joining us this semester! If you would like to know more about the pledges please let us know and we would be glad to introduce you!!! We have been working hard at Greek-O practices and are looking to maintain our winning streak and achieve 6 in a row!! Greek Olympics will be October 10th and we hope to have as many alumni there as possible to support us!! We have begun getting back into the swing of things and had a tie dye social last week. We have also begun a new unity activity that will continue throughout the semester! Each girl has been assigned a secret sister and her job is to make this sister feel loved, so far it has been going very well and we look forward to seeing how much love we can spread throughout the semester. We have also reinstated those lovely unity breakfasts on the first wednesday of every month, so if you're ever in town at 7:15AM please join us, we would love to see you there!!! We are also planning a unity retreat for November 20-21 and would love if you could attend! So far Zetas are off to a great start this semester and are hoping to have the best year ever!! If you have any questions, comments, want something in the blog, or want more information about anything please contact us!! We love to hear from the alumni and hope to see you all at Greek-O!!
All our love!!!!!!!
Reanna (Arkansass) and Kayla (Goodwill)

Happy Spring Zetas!!!

2008-03-13T16:12:00.000-07:00

Hello Zeta Ladies!!
Hope you are all having a wonderful week and enjoying the nice weather we have been having! We thought we would just let you girls know some dates to mark on your calender and somethings to get excited about! Formal is coming up! yay! A reminder that Formal is on April 12th in at the Marina Inn in South Sioux City, Ne starting with social hour at 6 dinner and awards at 7 and dance starting at 8. Dinner will be $19.50 and includes. lemonade or water for a beverage, choice of sliced roast beef or slowly roasted turkey for an entree and then three choices for salad, potatoes , and bread and butter. Room prices are $79. If you have made your reservations and they have told you different then make sure that you are under Zeta Tau Omega block of rooms. The number again to call for reservations is 800-798-7980. We hope that you all you are as excited as us!
Also coming soon is the Unity Retreat! This year we thought it would be fun to try something new and going on a Zeta camping trip! That's right girls get out your gear to rough it in the woods with your sisters! The dates for this is April 18-19th! More information will be coming soon but alumni mark it on your calenders and we really hope to see you all there!
In other news, we have been having a very busy semester here in good ole' Wayne. We have been having some great socials and unity activities as well as getting pumped up for formal. We have two pledges who are doing great and we will be having activation in a few weeks. A big congratulations going out to the newly engaged Megan Anderson and Mandy Andreas! We are so happy for you guys!!!
Well thats all we have for now, hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather and crossing their fingers for no more snow! If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or just random thoughts, please please contact us, we are so bored!!! Have an amazing weekend!
Much Love!!!
Kayla and Reanna :)

Spring Semester is here!!!

2008-01-28T20:52:00.000-08:00

Hello ladies!!!!!!!
Happy New Year! Hope everyone had an amazing Christmas. We are all very excited to be back in Wayne, and getting back into the swing of things. We started the semester with our spring rush. This semester's theme was "Pirates" and we all had alot of fun. Last Tuesday we initiated 3 girls into the Sigma Pledge class. The fabulous girls are Macaela Post, Becca Luber, and Cassie Salter. All of these girls are freshmen in Wayne and will hopefully be great assets to our organization. This semester the Zetas are staying very busy. We have been competing in intramural volleyball, working on philanthropy hours, we had our first active meeting of the semester yesterday, and we will be attending Face-off for Charity in Sioux City next week.
In other news.....we have a few alumni with exciting news to share. Welcome back to Ashley Weede who has moved back to Omaha. Congratulations to Jenni Beer who is expecting a baby in July and also to Lacey Schwochow who has gotton a job with the Lincoln Police Department. A big thank you to Abbie Rae Powers for hosting a wonderful sleepover while she was home over Christmas and coming to see us in Wayne. The date for formal has also been set and it will be on April 12. It will be held in the Sioux City area. Hope everyone is able to attend. We will have more details coming soon.
Hope everyone is doing well and please feel free to contact Kayla or myself with anything that you would like us to add to the blog or suggestions for us.
Until next time, lots of love!
Reanna Antrim

Happy Holidays!!!

2007-12-04T15:56:00.000-08:00

Hello lovely Zeta ladies!!!! Hope everyone is getting ready for an amazing Christmas. Just thought we would give you a quick shout out and let you know what's going on. We have just finished electing new positions for next semester and things are looking good so far. Your new Alumni correspondents are, drum roll please...... Reanna Antrim, and Kayla Messerole!! Yay. A big hi and hello from us to you!! We are really excited to be gitting in contact with the alumni. We are currently working on sending out the newsletters to all you zetas out there in the real world. We are missing a few addresses so if you don't get one in the next week or so and want one, please let us know and we'll send one out to you. If anyone has any questions, comments, concerns, or just random thoughts, don't be afraid to let us know. We are here to serve you!!!!
As for the sisters still lingering in Wayne America, we are very excited for Christmas break and very stressed, as is the norm around finals week. We are looking forward to the annual Christmas Party at Tacos n More on Monday. We are all pretty psyched about the guady christmas sweater theme we have come up with and we're anticipating laughing at each others winter wear. It's been a pretty exciting semester and we are all looking forward to the next one. We hope everyone has an amazing holiday season. Please be careful if you are traveling and be thankful for all you have this Christmas. Hope you all made Santa's "nice" list!!!
Merry Christmas!!!!!
Kayla and Reanna

Zeta...Tau...Omega....ROCKS!

2007-10-04T09:52:00.001-07:00

Hello My lovely Zetas! Notice the side picture...great news! We once again pulled through and won Greek Olympics!! We also won the Spirit Award! Very exciting weekend here at Wayne State College! Let me just say we were all on our toes because the beginning of Greek Olympics was fairly tight! Katie Egan and Mikayla Parr pulled off the win with their amazing wheelbarrow race!

After Greek Olympics and of course Taco's And More, we had another successful competition winning second at Yell Like Hell. The Dance team got first, followed by Zetas, and then the new Step Team got third. Were thinking about putting our "winnings" towards a fun night for zetas. Saturday morning was of course the wonderful parade, everyone was nice and chipper :) at 6:50 in the morning, which was probably followed by a nice nap for a few! And yay!! Wayne State College won their football game, making it a very successful homecoming week!

Special thanks to to all the alumni that could make it out (hope I don't forget anyone...sorry if I forget you!!!) Jenny Kriens, Amy Hector, Meghan Anderson, Amy Smith, Nikki Wollesen, Erin Gaspers, Lacey Schwochow, Amanda vonSeggren, Deann Settles, Savannah Wissig, Brenda Semerad, Michaela Michalski, Kristen Blair, Amanda Gosnier...and anyone else I forgot!! We sang Lean On Me for all those who couldn't make it!

Now were just planning the rest of the semester away! Trash pick up is next week (lovely!) and then semi-formal just got underway so once again, busy girls! Hope you all are having a wonderful day and have an even better weekend!! loves!

Its been a while!

2007-09-10T13:13:00.000-07:00

Hello lovely ladies of ZTO!

First we want to apologize because its been such a while since we've last posted, things have been crazy as ever at good ol' WSC!

But we do hope that everyone had a wonderful and safe summer! It went by quick! Our very own Abbie Klein got married to Aaron Powers on August 18th, and then they were off to New Bedford! Cross country! But Abbie is loving school (started grad school at darthmouth) and her and Aaron are nice and settled into their third floor apartment, if you want to know more give her a ring!

Rush start right away as usual, we got six wonderful new girls that seem very egar to volunteer their time and make the sorority a big part of their lives! More to come about them in a bit! Today is their first official meeting for zetas. The theme this year for rush was Celebrate with Zetas! Where each day was a different holiday with many different activities.

Lets see...homecoming is well underway and t-shirts are being ordered! If you need/want a t-shirt contact Jamie Krysl, she can get you hooked up, or just shout me an e-mail ASAP so we can get your order in. Katie Egan is in charge of homecoming, and its coming up shortly so were doing well with practice and such. I hope to see lots of you wonderful alumni there for greek O (5:00 p.m. on Steptember 28th) and then of course tacos 'n' more afterwards...and then yell like hell!!!! Yay!!!!

Thats pretty much all I have to update on (sorry its not longer) but thats Zetas in a tidbit. Send either Nicole Sabata or I (Katie Burns) and e-mail if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions!! Have a wonderful day!!!

P.S. Anna had her baby!!!! On Monday August 27th, a boy, Trent Easton. So send her and her new lil babe some love!

Update!

2007-04-22T09:22:00.000-07:00

Hello Ladies! Hope this post finds you all well and enjoying your Sunday.

Some recent news, Abbie and Aaron set a wedding date of August 18th, 2007...coming soon! Look for more information in the minutes and on here about the place and such. Abbie is also headed to Boston in the Fall after her wedding, she will be attending Dartmouth to get her Masters.

Our very own Miss Jenny Kriens is graduating from UNL on May 5th with her Masters of Arts in Communication, Marketing and Advertising. So if any of you are going to be in Lincoln coming up soon, stop by and say hello! She will be having a Cinco de Mayo- Masters party at the Underbergs, following the ceremony around 1:00 p.m. At 1110 N 81st St. In Lincoln. Please call her to RSVP!

Speaking of Graduation (!) our very own Amy Smith, Meghan Anderson, Abbie Klein, Savannah Wissig, Ashley Weede, Nikki Wollesen, Brenda Semerad and Erin Gaspers will be walking across the Willow Bowl on May 5th, 2007 around 2:00 p.m. I know they would really appreciate some people here to cheer them on, if not, think of them in spirit!

Rachel Callaway-Ene made a surprise trip this last Monday to our Zeta Meeting. She is doing quite well despite the fact she just got her wisdom teeth pulled. She recently obtained her Masters degree in Family Consumer Science in one year, so Congrats to her!! Her and her husband are moving out to Maryland for a year because he had an internship...so if anyone feels like a vacation, go visit!

So you all might be wondering what Zetas have been doing?! Well lets see...formal was March 24th, it went off without a hitch! I would like to thank you all who attended, it was very fun. Formal was held in Fremont, Nebraska, so just a little bit different than in the past but still a very good attendance. All those who could not make it were very much missed and we hope to be seeing you soon. Hopefully I can figure out how to post pictures on the website so you can see a few of them.

Since Formal we've been on a very fast roller coaster headed towards study week and finals! We had a Zeta Bake sale in the library on April 3-5 to benefit Relay for Life. It went fairly well, making around $56. We also held a Easter Egg hunt for the community on that Wednesday (the 4th) for Wayne Community, and of course a Zeta Easter egg hunt the following Thursday.

Our very own Miss Abbie Klein had her senior gallery opening this past April 9th. Her show as amazing. She showed her Fair Lady Collection with her dresses made from mixed media. We were all very proud of her accomplishments.

On the 12th, four girls, Jamie Krysl, Mikayla Parr, Michelle Jones, and Katie Burns competed in the intramural track meet. It went very well considering it was only Zetas and Morey Girls. But since Morey had quite a few more girls, they won the meet..but not without a fight! That same night Zetas had a bowling social.

This past weekend Zeta Girls have been busy as ever! We had our Unity Retreat on the 20th and 21st at the Lutheran House, Abbie's mom, Chris Klien made a special appearance to help ups get it going. On the same dates, Relay for Life participated in the Garage Sale making over $300 to go to Relay! Despite the wind and warm weather they stayed out for quite a while! And closing it up, tonight we have our last active meeting of the semester at 7:00 before we head into study week, finals, and then finally....summer.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

News from Abbie

2007-03-12T20:50:00.000-07:00

Hello ladies...
I just wanted to let everyone know that I am now engaged to Mr. Aaron Powers! We went to Georgia for spring break and he proposed to me on Wednesday, March 7. We have not set a date yet (everyone keeps asking!) but it will be sometime in the future : ) Also, one of the graduate schools that I applied to called me and set up a conference call. We talked for over 30 minutes and they want me to come out and visit them. Hope spring break went/is going well for all of you!
love you,
Abbie Klein

Formal Letters

2007-02-27T21:15:00.000-08:00

Hello Ladies,
It's formal time again!! I just wanted to remind everyone that semi-active, former, and absentee sisters need to write a letter requesting permission to attend formal. If you fall into that category and would like to attend formal, please email a letter to Michelle Frohlich (President) at mfrogs@hotmail.com. Please write "formal letter" in the subject line. MICHELLE NEEDS THESE LETTERS BY MARCH 12TH. Also, make sure you RSVP to Katie Burns by March 12th so she can take care of dinner orders and formal favors. Thank you and have a great day!
*Abbie Klein*

Bracelets

2007-02-21T15:29:00.000-08:00

Hey Ladies,
We have been discussing ordering sorority bracelets in one or multiple colors. We are going to start researching but they will most likely have either our letters or Zeta Tau Omega on them. We wanted to know if any of the alumni or former sisters would like to order a bracelet or two. They should be under $3 (and pretty sweet). *they are the silicone bracelets, like the livestrong ones* IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, EMAIL ABBIE AT abirae_5@hotmail.com
thanks ladies & have a great night,
**abbie rae**

Busy Ladies

2007-02-19T20:15:00.001-08:00

Hey Ladies:

Katie here...giving ya'lls a little update on how busy we girlies have been! Hoping everyone had a good Valentine's day, we had a social last Tuesday where we all got secret Valentine's gifts, everyone got amazing presents! Formal planning is going quite well, expect your invitations soon!! We had our February Active meeting yesterday (Sunday, February 18th) and we took composits! Always a good time :). This week were looking towards another busy week! We have a Marti Gras social on Tuesday where were planning on eating bunches in preparation for Ash Wednesday! And Thursday will mark the third time we will be heading to Sioux City for the annual Face-off for Charity. Should be good food and fun!! Hope everyone has a fun week and it gets a wee bit warmer here in Wayne!!

Weekend in Omaha

2007-02-12T19:31:00.000-08:00

Hello ladies...
This is Abbie and I just wanted to let everyone know that Deann Settles threw a little get-together for sisters in the area this past weekend. Eleven girls attended as we went out to dinner and then to Billy Frogg's. Some of us then stayed at Deann's apartment (with her cat Dot) and stayed up till the wee hours catching up. In the morning waffles and eggs were served and the conversation turned to sisters on campus and ideas for connecting better with the alumni. Also, Anna Detlefsen (Stubblefield) announced she was expecting!!!! It was a great weekend and all agreed we need to get together more often.
(A BIG thanks goes out to Deann!!!!!)

Welcome!!!

2007-02-02T17:41:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone!!!

This is Katie Burns and Abbie Klein, the new alumni correspondents, and we are creating this blog to allow the alumni to access current information about the happenings of Zeta Tau Omega.

The newsletter should be sent out soon, don't forget to check your mailbox!

If any of you have any comments or suggestions feel free to e-mail us at kt_burns13@hotmail.com or abirae_5@hotmail.com.

Thanks! Have a good day, keep checking back for updates!