#alphagammarho

[thehinsonarchive]

The vintage picture party will continue soon. I’ve already started scanning the 1970s #fraternityreunion #alphagammarho #AGR #1970 #1970s @thehinsonarchive (at North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByGDkqbgx_a/?igshid=py0o8jp8mbfk

[iowa-farm-girl]

Last AΓP formal with boy(s)! ❤️👫🚜🌾🌽 #AGR #alphagammarho #AOII #alphaomicronpi #formal #sorority #fraternity #college #iowastate #uchicago (at Isle of Capri Casino - Bettendorf)

[sigmaalphaunh]

Beta Kappa Takes Baltimore

               Three of our sisters were fortunate enough to travel to Baltimore, Maryland a few weekends ago to attend the SigmaAlpha and Alpha Gamma Rho Joint Leadership Conference.  With twenty-six sisters and around one hundred brothers from all over the eastern US in attendance, it was a wonderful opportunity to further the development of collegiate men and women in agriculture. There were many sessions over the one-and-a-half day conference pertaining to the betterment of our chapters, which provided our sisters with tools that will help build the Beta Kappa chapter to be the best it can be.  They attended breakout sessions on values, volunteerism, risk management, current issues in the agriculture industry, recruitment, and much more.

           But the best part wasn’t the materials at the conference—it was the people there.  The sisters and brothers in attendance who felt like strangers were able to talk to one another and came to be great friends.  It’s amazing how the bonds of sisterhood (and brotherhood) extend beyond the individual chapters.  Sisters know they have a connection with every girl in the chapter, but it is often forgotten that there is a connection with every sister from every chapter since the birth of Sigma Alpha at the Ohio State University.  Our family is extensive, a nationwide group of women whose purpose is to strive for achievement and encourage women everywhere to excel in agriculture, despite all cultural and geographical differences. Our Beta Kappa sisters were exposed to this nationwide connection in Baltimore.  We may not know every face of Sigma Alpha, but we are a network and the future possibilities for our sisters are endless.

[ufsigmanuapparel]

Sigma Nu, Phi Mu, AGR Homecoming 2013 

[apofloridatech]

How I Met My Brothers: Nikole

Two Words: Candy Fight. But I will get back to that!

  My first semester of college didn't go exactly how I wanted to. Being in a long distance relationship at the time took all of my time away. I had a great friend group that I found. They were really fun people.

  Unfortunately, my ex boyfriend never let me have a social life... always wanting me to be a recluse in my room on Skype. The next semester... after I lost that friend group... I only had a friend or two. My mother told me I needed to join a club and find something that fit me.

  The beginning of the spring semester I tried really hard to find a group I could fit in with. I listened to the sororities and read all about the different clubs, but nothing was really exciting me... the people weren't exciting me. When I was about to give up, I was walking through the arch at Columbia Village to go eat dinner.

  I was having a particularly lonely day. The first sound that i ever heard coming from this amazing group was the cackling, loud, hysterical, and overly addictive laugh of NONE OTHER than Rosemary.

  I peep my head in to see what everyone is laughing about and duck in surprise as some Smarties go hurling across the room. I look around in complete amusement as a bunch of dorky people are throwing all sorts of delicious sweets all over the room. The first thing that came into my head is, "THESE ARE MY PEOPLE!!"

  That is when Karolyn came into the corner, "Excuse our behavior, we aren't always being this crazy," and went on to tell me all about all the service APO did. I thought, 'THIS COULDN'T BE MORE PERFECT!'

  I was a volunteer all through high school for an elderly home, visiting lonely elders and playing the guitar for them. I finally had found what I was looking for. A family that had two of the most important values to me... never letting the kid inside die and spreading happiness by helping others who need it.

  And now I am part of one of the most amazing groups in the country. I am proud to be a brother of APO... and it all started with an addictive laugh and a candy fight.

~The End

[apofloridatech]

How I Met My Brothers: Andrew

Deciding on a specific time on when I met the people that I happily call brothers today is a very difficult task, mainly because it has been a series of fun times, interleaved with serious heart-to-heart moments.

  If I had to choose one specific time over all others, it would probably be one night spent at Karolyn and Brittany's apartment in Harris, helping Rosemary make garlic knots (taste-testing is hard work) and watching movies, and just talking. That moment was probably one of the bigger turning points, where I really felt like I belonged, and that I had a place there, which was only really reinforced as time went on.

In the end, it truly crystallized on one of the last service projects with Karolyn last fall, the Christmas Cards for Soldiers. It wasn't the event so much as it was relaxing with brothers, and watching through the entire Legend of Korra series in one night, after spending the first part of the day making cards and helping hanging out with brothers.

[apofloridatech]

How I Met My Brothers: Karolyn

College is a time for reinventing yourself, finding yourself, discovering who you really are, and a series of other platitudes about growing up and into adulthood.

  One of the most important ways I did this was by joining APO, and I couldn't have done that without first meeting my brothers.

It was the beginning of my sophomore year, and I had recently gone through my first breakup, as well as having had both my closest friends transfer out of the school.

  I'd had an accident in June, so my wrist was still in a brace, and I was living in Harris with two people I didn't know and an empty room. I needed something to do with my time, and I needed friends.

  The past year, I spent a lot of time doing volunteer work, just as I had throughout high school. The FLL Lego League, beach cleanups, art festivals, I love community service. But walking to downtown Melbourne is a bit of a hike, and being a stupid freshman, I actually had to print out a map. Don't judge me- I have no sense of direction.

On the last weekend of freshman year, one of the guys I hung out with offered me a ride so I wouldn't have to walk all the way, and suggested I join his service group. The thought had been simmering in my head all summer, and when I got back, I knew that I needed a place to belong. I remembered the name and waited until I saw a booth for recruitment.

I took the dive and signed up, not knowing who anyone was, but with the knowledge that we had at least one thing in common. I took a drive with them to the first service event, a trash pickup at Melbourne beach, nearly passed out from lack of water (having refreshments at the end was poor planning, but that was rectified for future events!).

They forgot that I was a vegetarian, and walked to the local grocery store to pick up some hummus and pita bread, seeing as burgers and hot dogs are less than veggie friendly. And throughout the fiasco, I got this sense of fun and friendship that I knew was going to lead me into APO. Three years later, it was the best decision I made in college. My brothers made my college experience worth it.

[apofloridatech]

How I Met My Brothers: Daniel

I met my brothers when I went to the Rathskeller to play pool and eat pizza as was a tradition every night me or my friends: could not sleep, had nothing to do, were hungry for pizza, or were determined to procrastinate on work. (Not me of course I’m in APO I don’t procrastinate much.)

We ordered our pizza and promptly associated ourselves with another group of friends before heading to the pool tables. Then, I overhead someone scream free root beer floats! I pondered how anyone could resist such a temping offer. I would have been called insane to ignore the offer placed forth.

So without a care in the world I took my root beer float and it cost nothing but an explanation of their organization on campus which was worth all the root beer floats in the world. For no reason at all one of my friends urged me to listen.

Introduced to me was Brittany who explained to me what APO was and what they did. At first I was confused hadn’t I met all the fraternities during orientation week? Apparently I was denied ever meeting these people till since they were not considered a fraternity on campus.

APO does everything other fraternities do and more, they cost a lot less than other fraternities, and they aren’t consider a fraternity just because they are co-ed. Another tempting offer I could not refuse. Over the next few days I attended their rush events which included, but not limited to: meeting a lot of people, free food, free candy fights, and building a tower out of soda cans.