A group of Thetas from the Gamma Delta chapter of the University of Georgia reunited after many years when we discovered our common love for golf! Mildred Spalding, Benita Nelson, and Jamie Howard and myself are celebrating our win in the Piedmont Driving Club Golf Tournament in Atlanta, GA.

Carol Rosenblum Norstedt is an initiate of Gamma Delta/Georgia.

While in college, we all hear, recite, and believe in “Theta for a Lifetime.” While I treasure my college experience and made lifelong friends that I am only too proud to call sisters, my Theta experience really took flight as an alumna. Theta for a Lifetime. That saying anchored me to Theta for 15 years until the wonderful day when I had the opportunity to reinvest myself in Theta—first as a co-founder of the Westchester Alumnae Chapter, and its first president, then as an alumnae district officer and a trustee to our great Theta Foundation. 

This is why I am Theta. The fact that you can be swept away from Theta by that crazy tide we call life, only to re-discover the open arms of her loyalty, promise, and empowerment 15 years later. I am Theta because there is beauty and strength in the bond that connects us—whether it’s reconnecting with my pledge mom or sister or making a new friend on an airport layover sparked by the fact that her carry-on is a Theta bag.

I am Theta because through her philanthropic spirit, I can help my Theta sisters make the world a better place through Theta Foundation grants and scholarships. I am Theta because along with my fellow Trustees and more than 200,000 Thetas across the world, I can work for the future of Theta Foundation. I can work to ensure that generations of Theta women to come have even more opportunities and resources to affect change in the world for a multitude of causes close to their hearts and ours.

I am Theta…Theta is me. Theta IS for a lifetime.

Lisa Davis Olney, Delta Epsilon/Arizona State, is a Theta Foundation trustee and a member of the Westchester NY Alumnae Chapter.