Mid-Cities Alumnae Panhellenic will hold its annual sorority recruitment forum from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Compass Christian Church’s Compass Center, 4201 Pool Road, Grapevine.

All area senior girls and their mothers are invited to attend “It’s All Greek,” a free informational session. Co-chairs Kathy Dorris and Stephanie House have designed the event to provide answers to those graduates considering joining a national sorority, one of the 26 belonging to the National Panhellenic Conference (npcwomen.org).

Highlights of the afternoon will include a recruitment style show with models from area universities and a question-and-answer session. Refreshments will be served.

For additional information, contact House at sshouse@verizon.net or kathy@dorrislaw.com.

Nail-biting time definitely is underway.

Sorority rush is already moving along at Oklahoma State University, always the first one in this area to finish rush. Now known as “recruitment,” rush will include the final round of parties Friday with bid day Saturday.

Mostly freshman girls attend rounds of parties in what is billed as a “mutual selection process,” which it is. And the game is played with sororities inviting back some girls, the girls indicating which ones they favor, and back and forth and back and forth. Then on the last day, bid day, girls are invited to pledge, which is what will happen Saturday in Stillwater.

The other big state schools will follow–boom, boom, boom. Next bid days on the list:

• University of Oklahoma–Aug. 18
• Louisiana State University–Aug. 22
• Texas Christian University–Aug. 22
• University of Arkansas–Aug. 22
• University of Texas–Aug. 25
• Texas Tech University–Aug. 27
• Texas A&M University–Aug. 28
• University of Tulsa–Aug. 30
• Texas State University–Sept. 9

From the time Baby Princess is dropped off at the dorm to the preceding dates can become somewhat stressful (understatement) for the mothers involved. By the end of the weak, the mother might have pulled her carefully highlighted hair out by the roots or have become just a little bit agitated or both.

What this means is a spike in area liquor sales. Nothing like this kind of ulcer-inducing exercise to inspire a mom to lunge for her corkscrew…sometimes even before 5 o’clock.

Wait, ladies, before you walk out the door today!

One last accessory…that is if you are a member of one of the 26 National Panhellenic Conference sororities. Today, March 2, is International Badge Day. That means wear your sorority pin. In public.

Don’t worry about looking like a total dork. Last year on badge day, I wore mine to work just to see what kind of reaction I got. Now I do have mine attached to a chain and wear it as a pendant, but no one even asked what it was.

And in case you want to celebrate in a huge way, check out www.npcwomen.org. The Web site has a list of things to do today such as take sorority friends to lunch or join a Facebook group.

You can channel your inner Elle Woods.