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Sigma Star Sigma of Alpha Delta Pi Building Corporation | University of Illinois | Spring 2014 www.illiniadpi.com | Alumnae Relations Offce | P.O. Box 80828 | Atlanta, Georgia 30366 From the Alicia VanBebber ’92 Sigma Housing Alumnae Spotlight: Corporation Editor’s Note: For this issue of the newsletter we’re shining the Spotlight on Sister Alicia VanBebber ’92. Hello Sisters! Having recently returned from a mission trip to Peru, Alicia dedicates her medical skills as a Pediatric t’s a really exciting Perfusionist to the community and beyond. With a BA of Science in Kinesiology followed up by a degree with Itime to be a part of the the (CPS) Cardiovascular Perfusion School, she set out Housing Corporation! I am to fnd her dream job. From the hometown of Loami, IL, especially excited because our sister started out as a walk-on track and feld athlete this summer I will be as a freshman with a javelin specialty. She rushed as attending the Alpha Delta a sophomore and worked her way through school with Pi Leadership Summit in Atlanta on behalf two jobs – one as a lifeguard for Division of Campus of our corporation to learn from and network Recreation and the other as the Director of Swimming with other housing corporation members. for NYSP. Alicia even participated in the Walt Disney Since my time in the chapter I’ve served Summer Program as a life guard and instructor. Alicia’s as a Chapter Advisor and as a member of strong work ethic has taken her across the country and the District team, but being on the Housing back in order to fnd her current place at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Outside Corporation is still relatively new and I have of work, she has recently begun reconnecting with the much to learn so I’m very excited for the ADPi Nashville Alumnae Association. Read on to fnd opportunity! I’m looking forward to the time out more about our dedicated sister! I’ll spend there in the home of Alpha Delta Pi and I’m hoping to squeeze in seeing a few of my sisters who are in the area as well! Just Back in school, how did you get involved sand, and Hollywood. Fortunately for me, another reminder that the sisterhood we share with the Walt Disney Summer Program? my job as a perfusionist affords me many extends well beyond the college years! My part-time job in college was as U of I opportunities in many wonderful places You know that saying about the more lifeguard. My co-worker informed me of the around the world. I didn’t get my dream job things change the more they stay the same? Disney on campus interviews and invited me right out of perfusion school, but one year of Well, I think that especially applies to our to go. Of course I jumped at the opportunity hard work paid off and I was hitting the road house. It has changed and adapted over to work for “The Mouse.” My summer of to sunny California. the years (I still remember when we had ’94 was spent at Disney learning about a house phone and internet was only in their business model (for college credit), As a perfusionist, how does the competitive the basement!) but one of the things that lifeguarding, and instructing swim lessons. fexibility give you the ease to transfer? really hasn’t changed in a long time is the Perfusion is an incredible, highly specialized bathrooms. If you initiated sometime in the After graduation, what led you to profession of which there are only about 3800 past 30 years, it’s likely that the bathrooms California? in the United States. Due to the specialized look the exact same today as they did when California was a dream come true. All of my nature of perfusionists, when you have an life I had dreamed of making it to the West open mind about your geographical location, Housing (Continued on Page 4) Coast to partake in the CA way of life — sun, you will fnd opportunities abound both professionally and personally. Competition is strong and your fexibility and ability to network weighs heavily in your success. Has your work led to any new and exciting opportunities? Upon graduating U of I, I moved to New Jersey to pursue training as a perfusionist. Since completing Perfusion School, I have lived in Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, San Juan, P.R., Phoenix, and Nashville. Each of these moves was for my career and goals I set for myself. I have also worked as a traveling perfusionist going to Des Moines and Chattanooga and a medical company clinical specialist in the western 13 states. 2013 Bid Day VanBebber (Continued on Page 3)