Message from the International President MESSAGE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT
International Executive Board President: Linda Long Boland Vice President: Amy Jordan Tvrdik Secretary/Treasurer: Susan McNeice Susan Weiskittle Barrick Valerie Lawlor Tobi Board Nieland Coree Smith Ex-officio: Sally McCall Grant, NPC Delegate Ex-officio: Linda Wells Kahangi, Executive Director Ex-officio: Diane Spry Straker, Foundation Chair
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Dear Sisters, Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton wrote, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” It has been an extraordinary biennium. There were times it felt magical because we achieved the impossible. And we did it by standing on the shoulders of giants. Alpha Phi has a long history of achievement. For 140 years we have been a Fraternity of visionary women. Women who are not afraid to set their sights high. Women who understand that to achieve greatness, one must risk failure. Women who jump in with both feet and are willing to get their hands dirty. Alpha Phis have always understood that results don’t come from a plan on a piece of paper. It’s the execution of that plan that has the potential to transform a dream into reality. Our great leaders of the past generation, women like Betty Mullins Jones (Gamma-DePauw), Mary Carr Boyd (Omicron-Missouri), Phyllis Sims Selig (Gamma Delta-Kansas), Margaret Knights Hultsch (Beta Nu-Duke, BetaNorthwestern) and Martha Watkins Mast (Beta Nu-Duke), just to name a few, set the bar very high. They defined excellence, and they set the standard for hard work and selfless devotion. The greatest thing about these women? They stuck around, and they became the giants for future leaders. And it continues … In a time when universities were experiencing increased enrollment in the 1980s and interest in being Greek began to grow, Sally McCall Grant (Gamma-DePauw) and Ginny Burson Struble (Beta Kappa-Denison) led Alpha Phi through a period of tremendous expansion. When Alpha Phi needed to rethink the way we were organized and managed, to reconsider and overhaul most of our governing documents, Linda Gardner Massie (Delta Alpha-East Carolina) stood fearlessly at the helm. Jean Cameron Hahm (Gamma Nu-Miami University) with her signature, no-nonsense approach, led the Fraternity through a tough implementation of a far-reaching plan. And, Crista Cate Vasina (Delta Gamma-Northern Colorado) and Laura Malley-Schmitt (Zeta Phi-MIT) took their deep knowledge of collegiate recruitment and extension and blazed a trail to places where they used to say Alpha Fi ... but not anymore. All of us stand on the shoulders of giants. I believe I have been the single greatest beneficiary of this. To serve as Alpha Phi’s International President when all of the planning, hard work and effort of hundreds and thousands of Alpha Phis is culminating in these great achievements, quite honestly, is more than I deserve. It does, however, serve to motivate me. Just as it happens to parents whose children grow up and begin their own lives, before I am ready, my job will be done. The work I did will then serve as shoulders for the next leader. This biennium I stood on the shoulders of our great membership - collegiate and alumnae alike. I wish you all could see the magnificent view (From left) Linda Boland poses with her daughter, Kiley from here. You, Alpha Phi Boland (Nu-Nebraska), Sydney Berger (Beta Epsilonmembers and chapters, have Arizona) and Laura Jen Kin Berger (Gamma Kappa-CSU/ been the biggest giants of all. Long Beach). Alpha Phi Toujours, Linda Long Boland (Gamma Kappa-CSU/Long Beach) International President