The National Panhellenic Conference exists to promote the values of and to serve as an advocate for its member groups in collaboration with those members, campuses and communities.

It is represented locally by the San Fernando Valley Alumnae Panhellenic.

Current members of the SFV Alumnae Panhellenic are: Glenda Shaw (Alpha Chi Omega), Jennifer Lopez (Alpha Phi), Susan Leeds-Horwitz (Alpha Xi Delta), Colleen Frenck (Gamma Phi Beta), Leslie Dinius (Kappa Delta), Karen Fink (Phi Mu), Louise Goudchaux (Delta Zeta), Linda Yarbrough (Delta Delta Delta), Michelle Yows (Delta Gamma), Cheryl Minor (Sigma Kappa) and Felicia Conlan (Zeta Tau Alpha).

The San Fernando Valley Alumnae Panhellenic holds a number of fundraisers throughout the year to sponsor these awards. A Bunco Night is held at the beginning of the each year with great success.

National Panhellenic Conference, founded in 1902, is an umbrella organization for 26 inter/national women's fraternities and sororities. Each member group is autonomous as a social, Greek-letter society of college women and alumnae.

Members are represented on more than 620 college and university campuses in the United States and Canada and in over 4,600 alumnae associations, making up over 3.6 million sorority women in the world.

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.

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.

Notable sorority alumnae: Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow (both Gamma Phi Beta), Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Christine Lahti and Joan Lunden (all Delta Gamma), Pearl S. Buck and Georgia O'Keefe (both Kappa Delta), Joyce Carol Oates (Phi Mu), Gail Sheehy and Condoleeza Rice (both Alpha Chi Omega), first woman senator, Margaret Chase Smith (Sigma Kappa), Edith Head and Joy Behar (both Delta Zeta).

Members of the San Fernando Valley Alumnae Panhellenic stand for service through the development of character inspired by the close contact and deep friendship of individual fraternity and Panhellenic life.

The opportunity for wide and wise human service, through mutual respect and helpfulness, is the tenet by which members strive to live.

The members of the San Fernando Valley Alumnae Panhellenic offer congratulations to this years' recipients - Prashanthi Kandavel and Justina Attavanich.