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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