Sunday, April 17, 2011

New Delta: Kate Leitner

Kate Leitner


Hi! I am Kate Leitner. I am from Lexington, South Carolina. I graduated from Lexington High School and I loved it. I am a psychology major and I am thinking about sociology as a double or minor. I am a member of the PC Choir and the PC Chamber Choir. I have always loved music and been a part of choirs my whole life but the choirs at PC are a whole other level of music, which is a true passion of mine and I am very excited to be a member. I hold the positions in ADPi of co-song chair with Laura Irick, we will be filling our chapter with ADPi love through song everyday or at least leading it. I am also Panhellenic Delegate for my class. I feel ADPi is the sorority that I belonged and chose because of the girls in this chapter. I am not saying that other chapters have bad members, it is just that I feel I would have chose the girls in ADPi to be my friends if there was no label for the group, these girls are all so involved in campus and just good role models that I wanted to help model my life after and with. I also loved how I feel like everyone in ADPi knows each other, while I may not be best friends with some of the older girls I still feel that if I needed something I could call them, and they say hey to me when I walk by. One thing about our chapter that I don’t really like is that I don’t feel we are as involved in our philanthropy as we should be. Yes, we get can tabs and yes we all do a visit, but I feel like with our philanthropy we as a group could be more involved and we could bond better. For example, pledge class trips to RMH and diamond family trips could be advertised. Another idea is to get a local philanthropy so we can see firsthand what is happening and be more easily involved, since it would be closer. In our lovely chapter, we have so much happening!!! We had senior pass down last Sunday, which as a new delta I was very excited!!! It was also very emotional because it finally became real to me that Kat was leaving; however, she did pass down to my Mufasa, her large lion. I have had my eye on him since the day I ran down those stairs and now he is mine, and it’s like a little piece of her gets to stay here at PC with me. Saturday is Black Diamond! It was held at the South Carolina State Museum, and from what I hear, that is kind of a HUGE deal. I am so excited for my sisters that got to go, from what I heard it was a blast! Myself, along with my fellow ADPi Choir members were in Augusta, Georgia singing in an opera all day and were very sad we missed formal, however we all drew black diamonds on our hands in retaliation. The girls I have all talked to said it was so much fun and I am a lot jealous I was not there. The GIN system makes my life so much easier and I feel, the chapter is so much more organized with it, I wish the calendar was updated more often though. Also, for those of us who miss chapter sometimes, there was something about what happened on there. As the year is coming to a close I am very sad to see ADPis graduate but I am so excited to get some new ones next year!!! Let’s just hope next year doesn’t go by as fast as this year!



Kate and her diamond family