Good morning, Angels!

Good morning, Gamma!

I had the honor of being the choreography director for the Women of Gamma Phi’s 2021 Tiger Tunes show Gamma’s Angels! The magnitude of this honor was amplified because of the fact that Tiger Tunes 201 was Gamma Phi’s first Tiger Tunes show to participate in as a club in over 20 years.

The Women of Gamma Phi faded from Ouachita’s campus during the 1999-2000 school year, and it was not until May of 2019 that we officially made our debut.

Because the club’s re-founding occurred in May it was too late for them to enter Tiger Tunes 2019 as a club. Members who still wished to participate in Tiger Tunes that fall were in the Campus Ministries Time Travelers show.

I was also a member of the Time Travelers show! It was this experience that made me fall in love with Tiger Tunes and solidified my hopes of becoming a Tiger Tunes Director.

Late Spring semester 2021 when Gamma Phi held officer elections for the fall, we also elected our Fall 2021 Tiger Tunes directors. Piper Fain (music director), Hannah Herrington (creative director), and I (dance director) ran and received the votes necessary to get the positions!

We knew we had our work cut out for us, but we didn’t know just how sweet the job would be.

It was so rewarding to get to set a standard for future Gamma Phi Tunes shows by being the first directors since our re-founding. It was an experience filled with challenges, but I would not trade them for the world.

Being a director brought me closer to my sisters and also gave me an opportunity to exercise my creativity to serve them. It was like my two worlds collided, Gamma Phi and dance, I loved it!

Listen to the following audio to hear what my fellow director, Piper Fain had to say about her experience as the music director for Gamma’s Angels!

The weeks of practice leading up to Tiger Tunes performances were filled with days of adjusting to school schedules again and nights of adjusting to Tiger Tunes Practice schedules. But all of this adjustment paid off the first time Gamma took the stage to perform our first Tiger Tunes show in over 20 years.

You can see our journey from practice to performances in the video below!

Being one of the first Gamma Tiger Tunes Directors since the re-founding of the club has been one of the biggest blessings of my college career. Through it I gained closer relationships with my sisters, the opportunity to serve my campus community in a new way and memories that I will always hold dear (see image below).

Gamma’s Angels, mission accomplished, but never forgotten.