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The 354th chapter of Pi Delta Phi was installed at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 15, 2011. The Xi Tau Chapter's Moderator is Dr. Jacques Neefs. Dr. Carleen S. Leggett, Vice-President for the Southeast Region, officiated at the installation ceremony. The installation and first initiation ceremonies were held in the historic Gilman Hall on the Hopkins campus. Drs. Neefs and Leggett jointly conducted the initiation of the new regular and honorary members. The program included the reading of a number of excerpts from French and other Francophone literary works. A buffet featuring various French cheeses and fruit followed the ceremonies. Dr. Leggett will be retiring from the Executive Board this semester, and we would like to especially thank her for your many years of service to and enthusiasm for Pi Delta Phi.

We welcomed the following new chapters in 2011:

• #357, XI CHI, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA (May 3)
• #356, XI PHI, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA (Apr. 29)
• #355, XI UPSILON, Georgia College and State Univ., Milledgeville, GA (Apr. 5)
• #354, XI TAU, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (Mar. 15)
• #353, XI SIGMA, Butler Univ., Indianapolis, IN, (Feb. 11)

The following schools have expressed their intent to reactivate:

• #14, XI, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• #47, ALPHA PSI, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA

The following schools have expressed interest in establishing a chapter:

• University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
• West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, PA
• Boise State University, Boise, ID
• George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
• North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
• North Central College, Naperville, IL
• University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
• Washington University, St. Louis, MO
• Stephan F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
• Union College, Schenedtady, NY
• The New School, New York, NY
• Spelmen College, Atlanta, GA

The annual meeting of the Executive Board took place this year on November 5 at the Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) at Scripps College in Claremont, California.

NEWSLETTER
Read or download the free Fall 2011 Pi Delta Phi Newsletter (PDF). Past editions of the Newsletter are available in the news section of the web-site.

Deadlines: for chapter news items and photos to be included in the Newsletter:

• October 30, for the fall edition
• April 1, for the spring edition

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