P s:oc:ial clubs In2005,Ju GoJu social dub celebrated its 80th anniversary. On Oct. 29, during Homecoming weekend, the sisters ofJu Go Ju hosted a reception for club alumnae. The reception was held in the Founders Room on campus. The decor For the event was befitting a parry for Ju Go Ju curie pies: Everything was purple, rhe club color. Ju Go Ju members chose the weekend because alumni from across the country were gathered on campus. It was a time when members, both former and current, could be reun ited with dub sisters. Trisha Lil lard, H arding alumna and 1973:Ju Go Ju inductee, said she was excited for the opportunity to see old friends. When she received her invitation to the reception, Lillard said she e-mailed her closest friends and encouraged them to attend the reception. "There were probably about eight or nine ofus there from when we were in schoo\," Lillard said. "It was a lot of fun." In addition to spending time with her friends in the club, junior Ashley Ganus, 2003 inductee, said she enjoyed the opportunity to meet oldet members of her club. "I absolutely loved it," Ganus said. "I thought it was the most amazing thing. It was so neat because thete was an [in– duction] class [from the 1970sJ that had probably 20 people [attendJ. It didn't seem like they had been apart for that many years; they JUSt picked up where they left off." In an effort to bridge the generation gap, the old and new members all displayed their pride for the club. "We did all the Ju Go Ju cheers," Ganus said. "[The cur– rem members taught them some new [cheers], and [the older women] taught us some old ones." Lillard said she also enjoyed getting to interact with the With sledgehammer in hond, senior Richard Kimberly, Sub T-16 member, slams a battered car Sept. 15 as freshmen Steven Cogwell and Kristopher Pruitt and senior Wesley Hall , Sub T-16 member, watch, The car bash mixer had been a Sub T-16 tradition for five years. ·Russell K"k newest members of her club. "They sang their song," Lillard said. ''And they sang the one about a man without a cutie pie. It was cute. And we did our cutie pie song chat they don't do anymore." Ganus said she was most touched by the twO oldest at– tending members. "There were some [inductees1 there from [1940s1. They brought a picture from when they [joinedJ," Ganus said. "Even though they [joined] so long ago, they sti!! had a deep love for Ju Go Ju. It was so neat to be a part of that and see the tradition." Junior Claire Castolo said that meeting Lois Lemmons, 1945 inductee, and Mary Helston, who joined in 1944, the t\vo oldest cutie pies, was her favorite part of the afternoon, too. "They were JUSt telling stories and showing pictures," Costolo said. "One of them got up and talked about how happy she was that Ju Go Ju had stayed the same and was still [made up of] respectable ladies." Lemmons said she enjoyed the interest that the current members had in the histOiY of their club. "There was one other fr iend who graduated in 1951, Betry Starling, we were the three old ones," Lemmons said. "It was all so sweet, the girls had such interest in us and in the pictures, and they asked ifthey could take their pictures with us. Everything they did was so delightful; we thoroughly enjoyed it." After spending the afternoon singing, visiting and sharing stories and photographs, the ladies ofJu Go Ju, both former and current, said they enjoyed the time ofsharing and expe– riencing the traditions of their sisterhood. -Jillion Hicks ond Breonno Wood
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