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Nessa Burns Reifsnyder Honored with Society's Star and Crescent AwardSubmitted by Craig Cheslog on February 2, 2006 - 01:43.News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MORTON GROVE, Ill.—Nessa Burns Reifsnyder of Mt. Desert, Maine, a 1986 graduate of Bowdoin College, was recently awarded the Alpha Delta Phi Society’s Star & Crescent Award, the highest distinction the Society can give to one of its graduate members. Burns Reifsnyder was presented with the honor during the closing banquet of the Society’s Seventh Convention and Leadership Training Conference, hosted by its Brunonian Chapter at Brown University in Providence, R.I. “Nessa provided remarkable leadership as the president of the Bowdoin Chapter’s graduate organization during the most difficult time it faced in its history,” said Alpha Delta Phi Society President Craig Cheslog (Bowdoin 1993). “She took on a huge undertaking while maintaining a job, a household, and a growing family. Nessa proved remarkably successful in the hard tasks facing her, handling herself with strength, intelligence, wit, and grace.” Burns Reifsynder agreed to serve as the Bowdoin Chapter graduate organization’s president just a few months after the college announced its decision to close its Greek system. She led the chapter’s negotiating team that reached a settlement with the college over the disposition of the chapter house, creation of endowments to support literary activities, and continued to give the Bowdoin Chapter’s graduate members the opportunity to meet as a group. Burns Reifsynder was the Bowdoin Chapter graduate organization’s president from 1997-2005. She also served as the Honorary Chairperson and Presiding Officer of the Society’s Fourth Convention, hosted by the Bowdoin Chapter in 1997. She was the first woman to hold this position in the history of the Alpha Delta Phi, which dates back to 1832. The Alpha Delta Phi Society is a literary society and one of North America’s foremost coeducational Greek-letter institutions, with five active chapters. The Alpha Delta Phi was founded by Samuel Eells in 1832 to encourage free thought and to supplement classroom education. In 1992, after years of controversy over the status of women within the organization, the Alpha Delta Phi formally separated into the Alpha Delta Phi Society, which would accept women, and the all-male Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. ### |
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