Below are a ton of pictures from our Fall Rush events! There is more information on these events in the previous post. If you would like to become a member of Mu Phi Epsilon in the future (Spring 2016, etc), check our Prospective Member Page for more information!
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This year, our Fall Rush has been given an American theme with the tagline of "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Mu Phi". All of our Rush events were themed with American or red, white, and blue things. After our initial interest meeting, we had an American Field Day (where we had a pie eating contest, a three-legged race, etc.), an event devoted to eating patriotic themed desserts (yum!), and balloon painting where we threw red,white, and blue paint-filled balloons at a white backdrop. We had a great turn out at our events and are excited to have met so many wonderful individuals. This was the first year that we had a "rush week" rather than spreading out our events over the semester. Below are pictures from our interest meeting, and the pictures from the other events will be in the following posts! Once again, the Baylor chapters of Mu Phi Epsilon and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia got together to host our annual Welcome Fest where we greet our new School of Music students. It is a time when we all gather togther for some good food, fellowship, and enjoy listening to our wonderful Jazz Ensemble! Different organizations in the Baylor School of Music will also set up tables to talk to new students about what they do and let them know how they can get involved. This was also a special year for the School of Music because we are not only welcoming new students this year, but also a new Dean! Dr. Gary Mortenson has come to Baylor this year after serving for 26 years at Kansas State University. We are very excited to welcome all of these new members of our School of Music family, and we hope everyone has an awesome school year! This Spring (and coming up in August), we had four of our members graduate from Baylor University with their various degrees. Congratulations to the four of you, and we wish you good luck on all your future endeavors! Stephanie Colburn
Just before the crazy-ness of finals week, we came together with good friends and dates at Waco's beautiful Cameron Park for our Spring 2015 Take-A-Date. We had a cookout right by the Brazos river, played games, and visited with each other before taking off for the summer. On April 25th, Phi Xi hosted our annual Spaghetti Dinner at Austin Avenue Baptist Church before the School of Music's President's Concert. At the event, guests got some tasty spaghetti (with either red, white, or our "signature" pink sauce), texas toast garlic bread, salad, and desserts from our bake sale. All proceeds go towards our "Music for a Better Future Scholarship" that benefits school children in the Waco area who need funding for private lessons. This April, we had the great pleasure of initiating 5 new members into our fraternity! We are so excited about the coming school year with these talented and wonderful ladies. Congratulations to Rachel Frederiksen, Tori Thibodeaux, Ashley Bogisch, Tori Dinan, and Haley Peeler! This year, instead of doing our typical formal with Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, we decided to have a formal for the entire School of Music. It was a big task, and after many months of planning it all came together. We decided to make the formal a 1920's/Gatsby theme, which actually fit very well because the Baylor School of Music was founded in 1921! The formal was on the 5th floor of the Cashion Building on campus. We had black and gold decorations, a jazz combo playing, fancy finger foods, and of course, the Sinfonia punch that they make for the BSO receptions. We had a photo booth at the event, and there ended up being about 400 pictures taken. So, here is a sample of some of the photo booth pictures below. Enjoy! One of the main things that our fraternity is committed to is service to our school, Baylor University, and the Waco community. One of our service projects this year was a joint project with BUMEA (Baylor University Music Educators Association) called "Classroom Clean-up". The goal is to help a music teacher in the area who needs help with their decorating and/or renovating their music classroom because of lack of funding. This time, we were helping out the choir director at Robinson Junior High. She was just restarting the choir program at the school and was left with an empty room with hardly any supplies. We wanted to help make this classroom one that was fun and engaging for the students. We painted the main wall with the school colors of blue and white, made posters, painted shelves, and decorated the room with crafty things we made. With just one day's work, the classroom was completely turned around! It was no longer a plain and lonely room, but instead, an exciting place to learn! In early April, we had our Big & Little Reveal Night! This is when our pledges finally got to meet their Bigs, who had been secret during the entire pledging process. As always, we had many alumni present who wanted to be here for such a special and important event. During the reveal, our new members get to meet their big (or bigs) and their family. Each family has their own colors and traditions. They are presented with their new family shirt and a gift basket full of treats, crafts, Mu Phi shirts, family heirlooms, and other goodies! |
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