Golden Glimpses • Spring 2021

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Twin Sisters Follow Different Sigma Paths While most of us still refer to

Scholarship Chair. She won

the women whom we have

Outstanding New Member

known through our affiliation

and Most Outstanding

with Tri Sigma as sisters,

Collegiate Member.

throughout the years, there

After graduating Cum Laude

have been many times when

and being inducted into

siblings have become “sisters

several honor societies,

in Sigma.” Constance Swank

Ilene earned her Masters in

and Ilene Swank Garrett

College Student Personnel

were initiated into the Kappa

from Michigan State

Chapter at Miami University,

University. She served as

Oxford, OH, on the same day May 3, 1970. They are biological twins, but their lives

Assistant Dean of Students Constance Swank, Helen Marie Eggert Snyder and Ilene Swank

have seen different paths since then.

Ilene Swank Garrett, Kappa Chapter

at Hanover College, and Freshman advisor at her

alma mater then went on to work in the areas of professional recruiting. While doing Organization

Although many Tri Sigmas go through recruitment

and Staffing for GE in Louisville, KY, she married

in the fall semester of college, Ilene Swank

her husband, Wayne, in 1988. They have lived in

Garrett attended informal winter recruitment at

Carmel, IN, since they married, except for a year in

Miami University, OH. She was already involved

Paris, France.

in other campus activities and believed sorority

After joining the Greater Cincinnati Alumnae

membership would add another dimension to

Chapter for five years, Ilene became very involved

her college experience. The Tri Sigmas in the

in the Indianapolis Suburban Alumnae Chapter and

Kappa Chapter were genuinely interested in

Indianapolis Alumnae Panhellenic after moving to

and supportive of one another as individuals,

Carmel. She has held several leadership positions

and the sorority’s values aligned with hers. She

in both groups and has attended four Tri Sigma

eventually served as the Chapter President and the

Conventions. Ilene shares several of her dearest


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