Meet the Officers: Vice President Callie Adams

Callie Adams | Senior | Spring 2017

If you would have asked me 4 years ago where I thought I’d be my senior year of college, I definitely wouldn’t have told you I’d be finishing my senior year at Lipscomb University. I probably would have told you that I’d be graduating from Murray State University and starting a teaching job at the same middle school that I attended as an awkward pre-teen.

But HERE WE ARE PEOPLE!!!

Two years ago (almost to the DAY), I was packing my things from my dorm room at Murray State and getting ready to move to Nashville. I knew one person in town, and was about to embark on a new journey as a transfer student. I’ll be honest with you all: the first three weeks of school, I watched a lot of Game of Thrones in my tiny Elam dorm room. I was sad, lonely, and felt that I’d made the wrong decision in picking up my life and moving to Nashville. I went to my classes, never said a word, and went straight back to my room to call my family and the sorority sisters I missed oh so much from back home (we’ll get there in a lil’ bit). This cycle continued for a couple of weeks. However, after class one day, a mentor of mine from childhood and Lipscomb, Keela Smith (an ANGEL from above), said I could drop by her office. As I typically do whenever I talk with Keela, I end up in tears one way or another.

Keela asked me if I knew anything about social clubs.

As if it had happened yesterday, I quite vividly remember saying “if it’s anything like my sorority, I want nothing to do with it.” Before I transferred, I was a member of a national sorority and was very involved as an officer and served on several different committees and boards. I was a double legacy, and adored the group of women I was associated with. Keela kind of explained what social clubs were, and I IMMEDIATELY shut down the idea of joining one. I felt I would be betraying the sisterhood I’d already been a part of and held so dearly to my heart.

I decided to think and pray about it for a couple of days. And I did...probably a little too much. After asking all my peeps from back home about it, I ended up attending the Spring official prospective event for Delta Omega in the Fishbowl Room in Ezell.

Y’all, the rest is HISTORY.

Today, I am so proud to serve as Delta Omega’s Vice President, and I cannot imagine my time at Lipscomb without the kingdom-building work and sisterhood that is happenin’ in DO. With open arms, the ladies of Delta Omega have accepted me, loved me, pushed me, and never asked me to change who I am in order to fit into a certain mold. I have been shown the Lord’s love through the girls of DO, and I hope you are able to feel the Father’s love for YOU through my sweet friends in this club.

Buckle up!!

Deuces to the mooses,

Cal Pal

About the Author

Callie Adams

Favorite Food: a homemade pimento cheese sandwich on a croissant

Favorite Pen: pilot G-2 pens (.5 mm)

Favorite Book: Michelle Obama’s new book