What is Panhellenic?
The Centenary College Panhellenic Association is the governing body of sororities. Every sorority woman belongs to Panhellenic immediately upon becoming a new member of one of the five sororities. This group of women is comprised of two representatives and to executive members from each Panhellenic member sorority on campus. The council joins the chapters on campus together to strive for excellence in academics, campus and community involvement, and friendship. Panhellenic shows that sorority women are not only sisters to their sorority, but also sisters to every Greek woman regardless of the pin she wears over her heart.
The Panhellenic Creed
We, as Undergraduate Members of women's fraternities, stand for good scholarship, for guarding of good health, for maintenance of fine standards, and for serving, to the best of our ability, our college community. Cooperation for furthering fraternity life, in harmony with its best possibilities, is the ideal that shall guide our fraternity activities.
We, as Fraternity Women, stand for service through the development of character inspired by the close contact and deep friendship of t individual fraternity and Panhellenic life. The opportunity for wide and wise human service, through mutual respect and helpfulness, is the tenet by which we strive to live.
This We Believe
Fraternity
Fraternity is a social experience based on the fundamental right of a free people to form voluntary associations. It is one of the enrichments of college life.
Mutual Choice
The young woman who wants fraternity experience will find it possible to belong on most campuses today. Fraternity membership is a social experience arrived at by mutual choice and selection. Fraternity membership is by invitation.
Fraternities exist because they:
- Provide a good democratic social experience
- Give value beyond college years
- Create, through their ideals, an ever-widening circle of service beyond the membership.
- Develop the individual's potential through leadership opportunities and group effort.
- Fill the need of belonging.
Fraternities continue because:
- Young women feel a continuing need to belong.
- Parents appreciate fraternity values and standards and cooperate to make membership possible.
- College administrations, recognizing the values of fraternities, continue to welcome them on their campuses and to invite them to establish new chapters.
Visit the National Panhellenic site at http://www.npcwomen.org.
