Say hello to cozy vibes and goodbye to 2025 in this year’s final TV Room episode. Hosts Mindy Tucker, Southern Methodist, Avery Sadler Hill, Mississippi, Meredith Davies, Rhodes, and Lexi Leggs, Millikin, bring the banter—all mixed with heartfelt gratitude and behind-the-scenes wins that made this year one for the books!
Dive into the standout moments of 2025—from historic Day of Giving results to welcoming new sisters at UConn, celebrating alumnae milestones and strengthening our partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Along with these accomplishments, you’ll hear some lighter things, including holiday drink preferences, winter break plans and everyone’s hottest takes. The hosts open up about their own wins and what the year looked like behind the scenes, all while keeping the banter and warmth that make this series feel like home.
Grab your peppermint, pumpkin or gingerbread drink and settle in. This is the Delta Love finale you didn’t know you needed and the perfect send-off before we step into 2026.
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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Let's Talk Tri Delta. I am Mindy Tucker,
Tri Delta, from our Theta Kappa chapter at SMU, and I am on the proverbial couch in
the TV room, sort of, with my favorite co-hosts here for our episode of the TV
room today. Joining me are, of course, our favorite, witty, wonderful, and always
fabulous co-host, Avery Sadler Hill from Mississippi, Meredith Davies from Rhodes,
and Lexi Leggs for our Millikin chapter. Hello, everybody. Hi. You guys look so cozy
today. I know. We're trying to be cozy and holiday-ish as we head into the end of
the year. This is our final episode of.
two of us here are already leaning in this direction. And I didn't know whether or
not to talk about it, but since we're, since we're here and we have our stockings
behind us, my first hot take is decorating for Christmas, if you decorate for
Christmas, pre - Thanksgiving, post - Thanksgiving. What are your thoughts?
I think my answer is really obvious. I am pre. I am first um I woke up on
November first and my fiancé had gotten all of the Christmas boxes out and said
here you go um we're ready to go and I believe that thanksgiving is a day in the
Christmas season rather than like the end of thanksgiving beginning of Christmas wait
Meredith I have to pause because I think you just said your fiancé and I don't think
that we've talked to I don't think we've been on the podcast since you've gotten
and engaged. Yes. I got engaged. Listeners. Congrats.
So exciting. If you don't want to get engaged or have a baby, do not drink the
water at Tri Delta right now. The staff is like, it's happening. Seven babies this
year.
Lots of weddings. It's so fun. So.
So exciting. Okay. Mindy. Lexi. thoughts, feelings. So growing up,
we always decorated the Christmas tree right after Thanksgiving. Like, that was our
Black Friday tradition. But as an adult who is exercising her own free will, I am
definitely before Christmas, like right after Halloween, kind of a decorator.
And my boyfriend and I were having a conversation about that. And he's like, wait,
why are we just bypassing Thanksgiving? I'm like, I'm not putting turkeys everywhere.
I would much rather Christmas decorations. So that's where I'm at. You know, free will,
do what we please.
So I, the Christmas is like my thing. It is, I do it up. The kids know,
like, buckle up because there will be elves and there will be things and surprises
and ice skating and all the things, all, every year.
And it's a lot. And I just can't get organized enough to do it before Thanksgiving.
I would do it all year round if I could. I just can't get there.
And it will be great. But I just can't get organized enough to do it any earlier.
Yeah. I was, I was on FaceTime with my, actually my whole family like three times
this weekend, because we're all kind of spread out now. And my sister just got
married. And this is my second Christmas married and away from home.
And my sister and I have everything done. But I think it's because we don't
celebrate at our house. So like, I want to enjoy the Christmas time in my apartment
before I leave for a week and go celebrate at my parents.
And my dad was like on neck, he was with my mom at home. And he was like,
Ash, we're so behind. They've already ordered their Christmas cards and their wreaths
are hanging up. And we haven't even done that. We don't even have anything down and
my mom is like we don't do that and Lexi I’m with you growing up we did it the
day after Thanksgiving so my mom's like we're not changing that everybody's going to
be here we're all going to do it together once we all get home uh this week for
thanksgiving so I see both sides I only do it because I'm not celebrating Christmas
in my apartment in that place yeah each his own yeah Like,
everybody gets their own version of the holidays, right? Yes.
I have another thing that I'd like to discuss. And from getting ready for this
podcast, I sense that maybe we're all thinking about what's on TV and the streaming
services and the YouTube TV conundrum. But have y 'all,
have any of y 'all been watching Dancing with the Stars?
on at that very moment. And that was so cute. Everybody was talking about it.
People, I mean, so many of our staff were meeting for the first time and there
were so many connections about dancing with the stars and all the conspiracy theories
from the season and all the hot takes. I feel like that's also what's going on in
our chapters right now. They're having Dancing with the Stars watch party at the
house. So we're not we're not misaligned here. I feel like all three Tri Delta, Every
age and stage is watching in some way, shape, or form. Hello, Tri Deltas in the TV
room. That's why we're here, everyone. It is the point of the show in our
sisterhood is to gather around the television and have a good night together and
cheer for these people. Well, if y 'all haven't watched, have y 'all watched Secret
Lives, or have heard of it. I've heard of it. Okay, we need to get you guys on
some more reality TV. Whitney, who is kind of the villain in Secret Lives of Mormon
Wives, I only watched a few episodes of first season. Maybe I should get back into
it, but didn't love her. She joins Dancing with the Stars, becomes the fan fave.
Like, is actually so incredible. Let me tell you something about her. She trained
growing up at a dance studio with one of the Crows. So, the professional dancers who
are partnered with a star, Whitney, who is a star, dance at the same dance studio
as one of these girls. So, she came on and honestly was like so great at the
beginning. Dancing with the stars works, judges, scores, audience votes. Maybe Secret
Lives of Mormon Wives brought her down, but I was a convert of Whitney. Like I
loved, I loved watching her. And just got voted off in the semi-finals,
which you guys, I guess, don't feel as much passion about this as I do, but maybe
our listeners do, but I'm, like, devastated. Is that comedian guy still on there?
Mindy, he got off two episodes ago. I also, like, he can't dance.
He is very funny, and I'm sure a really nice guy, but not a very good dancer. So
I was like, why is he still here? Audience votes. And everybody loved him.
And he made it past the Halloween week, which was his birthday. And everyone was so
nervous that he was going to get voted off that week. And he stayed. And he was
so emotional, talked so much about how this experience has changed his life. He's,
like, found a new passion. And his life isn't over now that he's older. And it's
like the sweetest thing ever. So, I'm for, I'm loving these. You can't, I mean,
I guess you can. Sorry behind the story. Yeah. But it's so, but it's just like,
It's been so great, but I was kind of sad about Whitney getting voted off. But I
guess I'll have to talk to somebody else about that. I was on the other side of
this whole thing where she should have been gone weeks ago. And yeah.
And so here we go. All right. Wait, but. Yes. Why do you think that about Whitney?
I agree with you that she she's a great dancer, I couldn't tell you that I would
have put her above any of the four that are left.
Wait, is Jordan Chiles solo? Jordan Chiles is still on, yeah. She's who I would
have switched with. See, you know I'm always going to go hard for an Olympian. For
the Olympics. You love the Olympics. I do. Yeah. To alleviate a huge brawl here,
I'm going to step in with one more, like, Dancing with the Stars Hot Take, which
was one of the nights when I watched it. It was right after the World Series. And
they made four players from the Los Angeles Dodgers come and sit in the audience
and hold the World Series trophy very awkwardly in a couple of scenes. And I
thought, good, there you go, good for you, that you had to be awkwardly embarrassed
because I don't like the Dodgers at all. I live in San Diego. It's like a rule
you can't like the Dodgers. But it was such an awkward moment.
Yeah, it's true. Dancing with the Stars is back, though. I feel like it disappeared.
It is. It's having a Renaissance, and that's great. And you know who else was there
as a spectator? Speaking of the Dodgers players, Zach Efron, because his brother's on
the show. And so he finally made his audience appearance. Thank goodness. We've been
waiting. There you go. I'm loving it. Oh,
okay. Do you have any more hot takes to scare us with before? No, that's all that
I can think of right now. I'm really not a very divisive person, but I do have
some strong opinions, you know. It's okay. All right.
Meredith, how about you? Oh, my big opinion of every holiday season is it's time to
bring back 2000's early 2010's Black Friday.
and wait for my dad show up with my hand on the TV. No one never bothered me. I
was so good at Black Friday growing up, and I just think it's time to bring it
back.
I'm for it. Anyone else? Black Friday wasn't really my thing growing up.
I'm not really a fan of the crowds. I get it, and neither is my mom, so that's
why we never went as kids. But I do agree that it's definitely been, like,
oversaturated. And, like, the, I can't keep up with the Black Friday deals because
they're not even on Black Friday anymore. I just think that like it was obviously
very big for the TVs and now everybody's got a flat screen TV. So, what are they
giving away? I have no idea. But I mean, I'm all in support of it, but I will be
at home waiting for those Cyber Monday deals and let y 'all handle the crowds. I'm
still a very tactile in -person shopper. So, I'm with you, Meredith. Like I will get
up at 5 am here's the thing though my secret like sort of nasty secret here is
I use black Friday to buy stuff I need anyway I don't use it to buy some
Christmas gifts but I'm like those boots at dsw that I've been eyeing that are now
30 % off I'm gonna go get them now because I love a bar I'm a sucker for a
bargain so I will go like shop black Friday like for me and the house and whatever
I need. And I do miss, like, pouring through the ads,
like, this is going to really date me. And the newspaper, the big ad packet used
to come, we would pour through it and, like, map out our shopping for the morning
and go get donuts and then head out to the first place. And, yeah, you just, it's
not, it's not like that anymore. So. Okay. The beauty of it, though,
is that you can go shopping and there aren't as many.
Everything was still on sale and it was like one of the most relaxing but fun
little shopping experiences ever and she texted me this week she was like we're
still going black Friday shopping this year right I was like uh duh I will be up
we can go go get a little breakfast taco and go it was so nice I had a lovely
time
breakfast taco yeah just it's all about the ritual of it yeah yeah all right well
we'll do some shopping for you Lexi and then you can tell me you can tell me all
the online deals that I'm missing on Monday after so all right Lexi you have a
you have a hot take I don't know if it's a hot take or more of a petty grievance
but I am just I'm I'm done with every device that you purchased needing a
subscription to go along with it I might friends all have Oura rings I'm like great
I think that's the next step
thing I've already paid for it I don't know how do y 'all feel about that I agree
yes I feel like my money just disappears I check my credit card and I'm like what
happened and it's all the subscriptions that I have not and it's not just tv
anymore it's everything yes you guys do y 'all watch black mirror or have you seen
it yes yes okay so recently within the past year,
I think, they came out with a Black Mirror episode about subscriptions, but the
whole story was about this woman who had a health problem and this device or
medicine they were giving her was like a subscription service thing. And her husband
was like trying to keep her alive. This is a spoiler if you're going to watch
this. Husband was trying to keep her alive. And every time they would
to the subscription service and not get this, but I do really want it. So, and
It’s $6 a month. I will say for Netflix, I pay for the lowest service and watch
the one-minute ads. Like, I'm not going to pay third. I pay the $7.50 or whatever
it is for the lowest Netflix thing and watch the commercials because we can be
patient. I don't need to do it immediately. I also have gotten in the habit of,
so, I have serious XM because I'm now addicted to it could
Every year we go through this dance of them trying to raise it and then they just
put it back. It's like arbitrary. They don't even know who I am or they just give
me the random low price when I call to complain every year. And it just goes to
show like there's not even a science behind it for them other than they want as
many subscribers as possible. And so, yeah, I'm with you. It's just it'll,
it's like a death by a thousand cuts, which leads me into my petty grievance,
pet peeve, hot take, which does come straight out of the YouTube thing that you
mentioned, Avery. Like, I do not want to have to pay for 45 different streaming
services to get basic TV. Like, that whole thing with the game, like,
it was a whole weekend where you couldn't, like, I couldn't watch my college
football game on YouTube TV because they're in a battle with Disney overpricing.
And really, at the end of the day, how much, how much money are they arguing over?
Anyway, I just was, I was like, I'm done with it. I really want to watch Landman,
but it's on Paramount. I don't have Paramount. Like, what am I going to cancel to
get that? Because at some point, you do have to, you have to be judicial about how
you spend your money and think through these, like we're just talking about all
these subscriptions start to add up. And I'm just not going to do it. I'm not
going to have a subscription to every single one of these things. And it just
irritates me. It's so funny this weekend. My boyfriend said, I just, I miss
broadcast TV, like basic cable broadcast TV from back in the day because it was
just easy. Everything was there. And it was easy. And we probably complained about
it then. But,
yeah. I missed on demand TV. Like I felt like that was like the happy medium where
like you have the broadcast or they've got the whole schedule out for you. So, if
you were decision fatigued, you could just play your regular shows and go on about
your day. But then if you had something you wanted to watch or something that you
just needed to get caught up on, it was on demand. Like I feel like that's where
streaming services got. And now they've just gotten to the point where to your
point. There's just too many different platforms. My favorite TV show is over here.
My favorite movies over there. Now I'm paying $50 a month for various subscriptions.
And I just, they need to practice some we are one Tri Delta and get some
partnerships. That's what we need. Combine. Yes. I've got a limit limits on the,
well, okay, there's a part of this that I do think is good, but you can't share
your password with a hundred people and like the household accounts. so, people you
know you could split whatever like we'll all split Netflix but now even I think
with YouTube TV you have to be within a certain radius of your home oh yeah every
time I travel and I turn it on on my computer it says are you there temporarily
okay if you're traveling, we'll let you watch it but if I click the wrong thing
it'll like cut it off it won't let if I’m in Dallas or Ohio or Mississippi or
wherever it'll it knows that I’m not in my home wow crazy yeah I have two hacks
one screencast your parents Hulu tv from your phone to your tv that's what we do
we use Matt's mom's uh Hulu live and that's how we watch football every weekend um
and it's also how I record things like if Chris like you know, there are some
Christmas movies that you can’t like, watch for included on any streaming service,
like Elf, what? So, we record it when it's live, and then we keep it in the Hulu
app, and then we can watch it whenever we want. That's also so I can rewatch all
the Texas A&M Football Games. I have them all saved so I can go back and rewatch
them to prepare for college football playoffs. And the other hack is really my
parents hack. They just use all of my streaming services. I get an email from
A question, Meredith. How is how is you rewatching those games preparing you
personally, for the playoffs? Mostly emotionally. I've got to be prepared for anything.
Got to be prepared for, you know, a close game, a near upset, come from behind
win, domination. It could be any of those things. I don't know how to feel about
the SEC championship. That is still, when we're filming this still very up in the
air but college football playoff is within reach for my Aggies and I’m really
excited about it I did not realize you had an Aggie connection um which I’ll
refrain from trash talk around that that I grew up with my whole life um but as
we sit here also like SMU was not having a great season and now all of a sudden
There's like a four -way tie for the ACC and nobody knows who's going to end up in
the playoffs. And I'm paranoid that we're going to end up having one of those dumb,
like we're going to be just good enough to be in it and have one of those dumb,
like pre-Christmas away for us, home for some great team game where we get trounced
like last year. I just want to be bad enough to be in a really good bowl game,
but not good enough to be in the playoffs. Is that terrible? terrible. That's my,
my holiday wish this year. It's not. I totally understand. So anyway,
that was not part of our planned discussion today. We could probably spend it. We
could do a whole hour. Maybe we should after in January, we should like a whole
session on, um, on the playoffs. But anyway, we could bring one of our wonderful
smart Tri Delta sports broadcasters in to help us with that maybe. Yeah. All
right, Lexi, take us to another topic. Yes. Speaking of the holiday season,
we on staff have a nice two-week break, or if you're like me, you save some days.
So it's three weeks for me. And I'm just looking forward to all of the things that
I'm going to do over break. And one of the big things that I always do
Traditionally, is going back home to Chicago. So I am from Chicago, obviously live in
Dallas, but we road trip home because we've got dogs and they're too big to fly.
So, it turns into a two-day trek back home, but it's always good to see my family.
And I've been seeing all the videos of Chicago decorated for Christmas, and it is
making me very nostalgic for, like, my childhood. So, I'm very excited to go home
and honestly just eat. It's going to be food and naps and dog cuddles. But curious
to know what everybody else is looking forward to for their break.
Yeah, I am, I've been traveling all year for Tri Delta. And so, I'm a little like,
can we just stay home? My family in Texas is not happy about this. But I just
want a Christmas like and a Thanksgiving at home with my kids. And so, we're doing
a trip to Dallas in the middle of December to celebrate Christmas with our family.
And I'm taking, I'm finally going to have my kids in Dallas at the same time as
the Dallas New Chapter does cookies and castles. And for those of you listeners who
don't know what that is, they do a big, like, extravaganza weekend around gingerbread
houses. And so, you pay to go. And when you go, what you do is you decorate a
gingerbread house. And they have this, like, completely insane bar of candy options
that you can pick from to decorate your gingerbread house. And so, I'm excited to
take the kid. They're way too old for this now. 14 and 17 year old boys at a
Tri Delta gingerbread extravaganza will probably go the wrong direction. But they know
how to be good Delta dudes when I need them to. So, we're going to go do that,
which will be very fun. We're taking a family friend with us and they're excited to
come with us. It'll be fun. But I'm really just looking forward to some quiet time
at home around the actual holidays.
I don't know if I told you all. Oh, Meredith, you go. I was just going to say,
speaking of cookies and castles, my soon-to-be niece and nephew, we asked them if
they had any request this holiday season. And for the last few years, I've been
getting them to go gingerbread houses because they're not actually in Dallas for
cookies and castles and the one thing they asked to do was to get gingerbread
houses and decorate them. So even though they're not there, it's it's becoming a
tradition. I like to bring traditions. I love it. Well, my sister is a nurse at
Cook Children's and I think that's one of the hospitals that they partner with.
And she was sending me, I don't know if I told you all this last year, but she
was sending me pictures of the she saw them the little gingerbread house yeah so
the Fort Worth chapter actually gives to Tri Delta’s foundation and cook children's and
then the Dallas chapter gives to uh Tri Delta's foundation and Scottish right so
yeah part of their uh their philanthropy that they do each year and both Dallas
chapters the north Dallas chapter and the Dallas chapter both of them have cookies
and castles events and I'm sure you could probably still get tickets if you're
hearing this maybe ahead of time we'll see check it out if you're interested yeah
trips and divvy up even more but doing half the time with his family half time
with my family and it's just going to be nice and relaxing new year that he's home
for Christmas I know because yes he's got he went underway today so he's gone for
thanksgiving and he's home for Christmas yeah so it it's a win it is always nice
to have him home for the holidays good I’m excited besides coming to see me my you
know Christmas is my favorite time of year I and your birthday yes it's it's just
it's just a generally big month day is your birthday my birthday is the 18th of
December my brother's birthday is the 20th so I’m actually going to Disney world
with my mom and my aunt next week to see the Christmas decorations for the first
time I’ve never done that I’ve been to New World a zillion times, as I've probably
mentioned here before. But we've never gone to Christmas times. We're doing three
days there. Then come back, work a little. I'm going home on the 16th,
working from home. I have a lot of wedding planning to do. So, I'm having an
extended time at home. I have not spent more than four days at home, five days at
home, since I moved to Dallas in 2022. So, I'll be home for two weeks with my
little Avery vacation in the middle, never been.
about that. He's been he's been underway since June, and he just got home to his
home in Japan and then he'll get to come home and should be going back to the
U.S. next year for a little bit more time than he was able to get home in the last
year, which was none. So, we're excited. I love it. Well, and Hanukkah Falls,
I think, like right around the 14th this year. So, we get all the holidays kind of,
you know, sometimes it's earlier and separated from the other holidays. And so, I
love it when it all comes together at one time. And everybody's in holiday mode, no
matter what you celebrate. And Lexi, we're going to definitely need some report out
on the food, the Chicago food. Don't worry. I got you. I'm going to the Walnut
Room for the first time. And my boyfriend's dad explicitly asked me to make a
video. So, there will be a recap. We'll see. Okay. And then, Avery and Meredith are
making me think about something that I think would be a great idea, which is a
Tri Delta Boston excursion. Oh. Think about going to Boston to stand at the foot of
the steeple at Park Street Church, to go see Sarah Ida Shaw's old house.
Like, I think we got to get this going. We've talked about this. I think it's time
for me to quit talking and make this happen. We need a Tri Delta trip to Boston for
anyone who wants to go, any members who want to go on the Tri Delta history.
Sarah is buried. Absolutely stunning.
Like spooky and stunning all at the same time. I go to Park Street Church. I think
I'd mention that. So, I was there filmed where I did see some news spots, like some
meeting houses and that are all in Beacon Hill. It's like the cutest thing ever now
and got to see where the first initiation was and all of that. So, stay tuned for
some videos. I was, I just did the whole thing. I'm already done the groundwork.
I'm in. And it's fun to think about. So Tri Delta, Thanksgiving Eve,
we'll be 137 years old. I think we look pretty good for 137.
How about y 'all? Yes, definitely.
Which feels like a good time to ask each year, I know we do this, but I think
it's really important to take stock. Like, what were the wins What was, we've all
worked on so many things for Tri Delta this year. So many great things have
happened. And I want to think about what our like big wins were this year at
Tri Delta. I have so many. And I talked about a bunch of them at the top of this
episode, you know, Dave giving and what we do for St. Jude and recruitment. I think
another big one for me was coming in. This is my first full year as the permanent
CEO at Tri Delta. So, it was a big year for me.
promise of Tri Delta because the staff is so well aligned to where we need to go
and what we need to be doing. So, for me, that was one of, like, something I
really poured a lot of heart and soul into, and I think it's such a big one for
Tri Delta that's going to pay dividends going down the road for many years, I hope.
But what's the top of Y 'L's list in terms of wins for the year? I think coming
off of that one, I just want to echo how impactful the staff Realignment has already
been. I mean, I think about my first experiences on staff back in 2018 when I was
just the CDC and just thinking about how it was reimagined. I would have never been
able to have thought of the structure outside of what I had already been brought
into, but already starting to see people playing to their strengths and being in
positions that they're really passionate about the new ideas coming to the table.
Like the staff realignment brings a lot of excitement and has already started to be
really impactful for our work. So just want to echo that one. I thought that was
great. My own personal one, I would say, is definitely, I know we keep talking
about the establishment of Yukon, but due to the realignment, my support of Yukon
has shifted. First, I was on the presentation team when we were going to the campus
back in April asking if Tri Delta could have a presence on campus. And then I
thought that was the end of my role with Yukon because my previous position didn't
really have anything to do with establishment, and then being on, being a part of
the restructure and now being the supervisor for our chapter development consultants
and knowing that we had Ford Station there and supporting them throughout all facets,
whether it was the recruitment aspect and then moving into operations and actually
selecting the chapter's first team of officers and being back there a couple weeks
ago to support their installation and just kind of seeing the entire project from
start to finish. There were some little mishaps along the way, virtual equipment will
be discussed after.
and other projects to come. That's awesome.
I'm impressed with the Yukon, the whole reestablishment at Yukon. I got to go in
January. It was freezing for like the first meeting and see the campus and the
Huskies, the basketball, all of that. It was crazy.
This has been my first full year. Mindy you saying that made me think this is my
first full year finishing up in my new role because I started on the foundation
team working on housing campaigns in August-ish. I would say people were being
really nice respecting that I was moving and getting married in September and were
easing me into everything last year. And so, this is my first full year doing that.
And it has been great. We are under construction at Texas A&M and really,
I think, doing great work, fundraising for that campaign. And then also Oklahoma
State, our members are moving in early, which is so wonderful because it helps them
make sure they only have to recruit out of their house one year. And so they're
also, their house is going to be absolutely stunning. I got to pick some of the
finishes for that and mess with the floor plans.
Mindy, I remember, I was thinking about this when you were talking, I remember when
you were in Dallas and you had this, you were like, hey, every, they're thinking
about doing this new thing and I knew I was moving and all this stuff. And I was
like, okay, I don't know what that's going to look like, but it sounds like fun.
And I never expected that I'd be picking out wallpaper for Tri Delta homes.
Among other things. Among other things, but that was one that was definitely not. I
did not have that in my job description. But I love it. It's been so fun, but
super, super successful in the housing campaign world and so many things on the
horizon that I think 2026 is going to be busy for the housing team and the
foundation team. We have a lot of announcements, I think, that will come in the
next calendar year. But it is, It's really exciting and really great, and I'm glad
that we get to support our chapters and their homes where they get to watch Dancing
with the Stars or The Bachelor or whatever all together in the TV room. So, I love
taking this new role was important for me because you guys know I have the best
time living at the Tri Delta House at Ole Miss. And so, I love getting to be a part
of providing that for members across the country. I'm so excited for Texas A&M to
open next year. It's going to be beautiful. But everything's, yeah, it's going good.
Going good. Love it. Lots of good sight. Meredith, what you got? My win,
my biggest win is still from my previous role, but I just always feel like I have
to mention it because I am still just so grateful that our young alumni giving has
increased from $7,000 annually in 2022 to over $25 ,000 at the end of our last
fiscal year, which ended in July. I still just can't believe that our young alumni
had been so giving and so supportive and have loved spending time with them,
meeting them all over the country. I feel like I've made great friends traveling
around and working with our young donors.
you know, keep my heart really happy in the work. I love to to see our members
and support them in any way I can. So, I love it. I just love it. Well,
let's give some gratitude. Where do we want to do that? Meredith, you want to kick
us off? Yes. As the past development manager, I'm just going to say that forever.
And the current brand support manager partnerships have to wrap up our year with
huge gratitude to our amazing donors to Strait Altus Foundation. We could not do.
and sharing those stories out with our organization. And we have exciting partnerships
lined up for 2026 that will elevate leadership, philanthropy, and the Tri Delta
experience. Big things coming, so please stay tuned. Anyone else have any thanks or
gratitude that they'd like to share as we wrap up the year? I have one. If they're
listening, I would love to give it just a huge thanks and gratitude to our
volunteers. We like to say that we are a volunteer-led organization and talking
about structures, right? There's such a massive structure in so many different ways
for Tri Delta alumni to give back to the collegiate experience or the alumni
experience. And I know how passionate I am about Tri Delta, and I know that the
work means a lot to me, but I also work for Tri Delta. So to have that same
passion and not be paid for it genuinely, just a huge thank you to our volunteers.
We could not do this work without you all. Yeah, I can't emphasize that enough.
Thank you to all of them.
Avery, what you got? I am also my two campaign shares. Shout out, Julia and
Suzanne. If you are listening to this, I'm going to send this to you guys to make
sure that you listen because they're wonderful and leading the charge that we have
going at Texas. I'm in Oklahoma State. I'm thankful for the leadership here at
Tri Delta. I'm thankful for Carol. I'll just do all my shoutouts. Carol, my
supervisor, Mindy for the restructure.
it just makes everything so much better. So, I am thankful, thankful for all of
that. Yeah, my list would be way too long here. There's so many people that we
just had people do matching gifts for thing for gave giving. Like those people
really stepped up. Milly Miller and the people who, um, administer her now
posthumous gifts to us. Like I just, there's so many people who make a difference
in Tri Delta. I think about all three of our boards who like you said, Lexi,
volunteers who give a
It's really fun to get to serve alongside of you in this particular effort to
connect with our members through this podcast. Well, everyone, as we say goodbye to
2025 and step into a new year full of purpose and joy. We just want to say you
belong here and you matter in the sisterhood. And as we close out the year, I want
to wish each of you joy, purpose, and connection in 2026. Thank you for making
Tri Delta brighter and bolder every day. Thanks for cozying up with us today. We
can't wait for season 20 of this podcast to kick off in January. Until then,
happy holidays, happy new year, and Delta love.
Thank you.