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Grace Ramirez named new adviser

Grace Ramirez, student account assistant, brings experience from being a Girl Scout and Cub Scout leader to Sigma Kappa as its new adviser. Ramirez is filling the spot left vacant from the death of Carol Fetty, the former Sigma Kappa adviser. / photo by Jen Newman
Grace Ramirez, student account assistant, brings experience from being a Girl Scout and Cub Scout leader to Sigma Kappa as its new adviser. Ramirez is filling the spot left vacant from the death of Carol Fetty, the former Sigma Kappa adviser. / photo by Jen Newman

by Julia Carachure
Assistant Managing Editor

Sitting at the Students Accounts desk, she takes in the final paperwork needed to complete the registration process. She files tuition bills and greets students with a smile on her face. Her name is Grace Ramirez and she is the new adviser for Sigma Kappa sorority.

Grace, who has been working in Student Accounts for three years, is taking the place of former Sigma Kappa adviser Carol Fetty, who died this summer, which left the sorority without an adviser.

After being told the sorority would not be recognized as an organization if it did not find an on-campus adviser, the search for a new adviser began. Sophomore Sarah Negrete decided to nominate Grace.

Grace was then approached by senior Gloria Ramirez, scholarship chair for Sigma Kappa, to see if she would like to be their adviser. Ramirez said that she first met Grace when an email from a friend was accidentally sent to her instead of Ramirez.

“They called me at home,” said Grace. “Gloria’s brother and my son go to the same school together and they needed an adviser and I was the first one they came up with at such a short notice.”

“Earlier this year,” said Ramirez. “I was just like, ‘Grace, come on. Your son, my brother, they play football together, come on,’ kind of like getting her to do it and she was like, she wanted to know more about what her responsibilities would be as an adviser and I tried to explain them to her to the best that I could and she decided she’d do it. We’re really happy and excited that she went for it.”

The adviser serves as someone on campus who is a contact person for emergencies and provides guidance to the organizations members. The adviser also may attend events that are put on by Sigma Kappa throughout the course of the year.

Ramirez says that Grace has several qualities that make her a good adviser for their sorority.

“She is a really great listener and she’s really nice. She’s very friendly and easy to talk to, like you could just come up to her. And I guess you could say that she is a very amiable person and she’s very responsible,” said Ramirez.

Grace said that she hopes to bring “mostly respect, respecting each other, respecting the campus. I have always worked in youth groups.

“I have been a Girl Scout leader, a Cub Scout leader, done a lot of volunteer work for the youth and I’m hoping others can reflect and maybe when they hit my age, they can do that,” she said.

Other than working in Student Accounts and being Sigma Kappa adviser, Grace has three children, ranging from the ages of 14 to 18 years of age. She also takes classes at the University of La Verne. She is currently taking Culture and Gender Issues in Management.

Nevertheless, Grace is looking forward to working with Sigma Kappa.

“I am pleased and I am happy that they asked me. I felt honored, I do. I felt honored because I love the students here at ULV. I like this campus and the students, I think we have a good class of students.”

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