campus life student highlights Epsilon Honors New Sweetheart, Receives NIC Award of Distinction
A special tradition awaits the woman Epsilon Chapter chooses each year as Beta Sweetheart. The surprise announcement and serenade are held at Bellevue Cemetery in Danville, Kentucky, where famous Sweetheart Leila McKee is buried alongside her extended Beta family. As brothers knelt near McKee’s tombstone this fall, their masks hearkened back to the sad story of her original Beta beau, John Young Craft, Centre 1878, who was among the 13,000-20,000 deaths in summer 1878 from a yellow fever epidemic. Not marrying until well into adulthood, for years McKee wore Craft’s badge on her neckline (pictured). A lifelong Beta supporter, she recommended the pink rose as the Fraternity flower, which was adopted in 1889. This year, Katie Nettesheim joins McKee as a fellow Sweetheart. As the chapter comes off its second win of the NIC Chapter Award of Distinction since 2017 – only the second Beta chapter to ever twice receive the honor – there’s no better time to be part of Beta history at Centre.
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