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Contributor: Megan Colleen Hillier
Informant: Melissa Hudson
Title: Theta Mom’s Night
Semester/Year: Fall 2005
“I do believe we went on a scavenger hunt ‘cause it wasn’t like, oh let’s all sit down in the rec. room and talk about whose mom is whose. It was like, ‘um, I think all of us got little pieces of paper with our names on them and clues and just sent you all over the house, and of course, the very last one found you at your mom’s room door, or something like that. […] (The clues weren’t) stuff about your mom because we didn’t even know our moms. It was more like “where would you go to get a snack?” and you would go to the kitchen. So it just takes you to different rooms and the last one is some major clue as to what room in the house, um, has your mom in it, you know?” – Melissa Hudson
Context: The context of the interview was a conversation between friends over coffee. We were seated in the Copper Cup, on the corner of Third Street and Jordan Avenue. It was about 3 o’clock on a Saturday afternoon, December 3, 2005. At that point in time, Melissa had been a Theta for almost a year.