[NutBrnHair]

Convention 2012 was amazing. After attending 15 of them, I can honestly say that they just get better every time!

Highlights for me...

• Our first Make-a-Wish child was with us 10 years after her wish was granted at Convention 2002
• Model Initiation performed beautifully by Mu Chapter (Cal-Berkeley)
• Meeting xo_kathy after being friends on GreekChat for 8 years
• Governing Council's video of "Call Me Maybe" at Revelry
• Anna Funderburk Buckner, Alpha Beta (Auburn) being elected S.T.B.
• Jane Sutton, NPC Chair and Alpha Xi Delta, being a good sport as we sang the "Chi O Hokey Pokey"
• Dent Partee, 95-yr-old alumna winning a Lifetime Service Award
• Current G.H.s escorting Former Council members at the President's Banquet
• Jean Mrasek being honored
• Unbelievably "spot-on" keynote by Amazing Race winner and Chi O Sister Cindy Chiang Halvorsen
• Nancy Utley Jacobs, Woman of Achievement, saying, "Congratulations to all us women who do way too much, but do it smashingly well."
• The Foundation raising over $50K at the Owl Tree
• Beth Chapman's crazy, fun, high tech Revelry
• Songs from the "PersepheTones" a.k.a. the Convention Chorus
• Having lunch with the delegates from my initiating chapter when they were given the Award of Achievement
• Floating down the Lazy River at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge the day after Convention ended!