On November 9, a fire caused serious damage at the Alpha Xi Delta - Beta Xi sorority house on Fifth Street. All 15 students and the house mother who were living in the house escaped unharmed, but the emotional impact of the tragedy and the sudden disruption of these students’ lives comes at a critical point in the semester.
The Pioneer community has come together to offer compassion and other expressions of support to help those who were displaced. Gifts to the Pioneer Support Fund - a student emergency fund that provides direct grants to students in crisis - will ensure these young women can replace their belongings and have their needs met as the community begins to recover. For those interested in supporting the restoration and rebuild of the house itself, information from alumnae sisters and the housing corporation board will be forthcoming.
If you would like to share words of support please send an email to alumni@marietta.edu and we will share your message with the community. If you would like to record a video sharing your memories of 322 Fifth Street and the friendships built in that home, click here to share your story.

When you make a gift in honor of a specific individual, we'll send them a special card to notify them of your tribute.
Thank you for honoring the following Pioneers!
- Mary Beth Blondin (from Kathryn Gloor, from Tia Rose, and from Vicki Stoke Tullius)
- Marilyn Dowdney Bradshaw '63 (from Les Harris '63)
- Cierra Bloom '17 (from Kay Bloom)
- Anne Bules (from Joseph Lukens '66)
- Christine Cole and Maria Currier '85 (from Spencer Biles '83)
- M Conte (from Heidi Malone '06)
- Anya Crum '97 (from Anonymous, and from Colette '96)
- Pat Griffin Curtin '69 (from Raymond Anderson '69)
- Jillian Dosky '24 (from the Dosky Family)
- Mackenzie Dyott '23 (from Bill & Jane Young)
- Heather Emery '94 (from Tara & James Meagle '96)
- Evelyn's Sisters (from Anonymous)
- Melba Flatbush (from Anonymous)
- Kendal Giltz '21 (from Paul Simmons)
- Les Harris '65 (from Alexander Williams '65)
- Austin Henschen '25 (from the Henschen Family)
- Diane Herbst '76 (from Patricia Quinn-Munson '83)
- Talitha Hochstetler '21 (from Cathleen)
- Ellery Hollister '24 (from Olivia Alberto '24, and from Chad & Angie Yoho '00)
- Madison Howard '24 (from Olivia Alberto '24)
- Robert Hune-Kalter '11 (from Betsy Hune Kalter)
- Madelyn Keener (from Chris)
- Bethany McFarland Leslie '12 (from Rhonda Stutler, and from Peter Thayer)
- Chelsea Luciano '21 (from Todd Luciano)
- Shelby Millheim (from Jill Millheim, and from Malory Nadrah)
- Oswalt (from Mike B)
- Mackenzie Moran '25 (from Jeff & Julia Moran)
- Katen Petty '22 (from Tyler Walker)
- Marley Phillippe (from Malory Nadrah)
- Cappy Poole '71 (from John McCullough '69)
- Joan Pyne '69 (from Rich Galen '68)
- Aaron Rohr'24 /Delta Tau Delta (from Jennifer Parker)
- Mike Salvino '87 (from Jennifer Feeney)
- Emily Ciocca Shackle (from Joanne Duggan)
- Ellen Snediker '52 (from Kathy Sutphin '83)
- Lizzie Stern '23 (from Annalese, from Ava, and from Keith Morgan)
- Jenna Stewart '25 (from Zack Riffle)
- Sophia Verona (from Malory Nadrah)
- Lauryn Ward '22 (from Ryan & Jennifer Ward)
- Caitlin Yager, Sigma Kappa (from Richard Yager)
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- All Alpha Xi Delta Sisters (from Becky Howell '84)
- All AZ members and alumni (from Curtis & Lynn Newstrom '86)
- All my fellow Alpha Xi Delta sisters (from Maria Santoferraro '85)
- All my sisters (from Leslie Gilmore '91)
- All my sisters, past, present and future (from Barbara Holms Swasey Wirsching)
- All of my Alpha Xi Delta Sisters (from Nancey Kaplan McCann '76)
- All of my AXD Sisters (from Christina Ballard '03)
- All those supporting Beta Xi Chapter of Alpha Xi Delta (from Kathy McVeigh Orlandi '77)
- Alpha Delta Chapter Corvallis, OR OSU (from Margaret Arnett '91)
- Alpha Xi Delta (from Anonymous x2, from Margie Rothenberg Arnold '94, from Bailey '24, from Heather Baker '93, from Vera & Fred Baran '62) from Bonnie Berzonski, from Thomas Bowers '75, from Hannah Baysden Buchholz '00, from Paula Ca, from Heidi Carrion, from Kennedy Clyde '16, from Sonja Davis '70, from Joanne Glover, from Amy Sowerby Girouard '93, from Nikki Hannaway '16, from Jacalyn Osborne Heath '73, from Larry Hiser, from John W. Hurd, from Jean Jory '68, from Marry Studders Korn '82, from Catherine Maimon, from Nancy Meyer '79, from David & Amy Mitchem '92, from Andrea Perry '82, from Cappy Mohlman Poole '71, from Elinor Jane Ralston, from Douglas Pfeifer, from Betsy Schob Robinson '91, from Theresa Salvino Breech & Mike Salvino '87, from Marilyn Marr SanClemente '82, from Christin Seher '01 & Keith Seher '02, from Rick Smith, from Nellie Spencer '88, from Paul Von Hoene '77, from Hannah Warren '77, and from Thomas Zotti '85)
- Alpha Xi Deltas past, present, and future (from Brenda Corbett '89)
- ATOs (from Donald Crane '63)
- AXDs of the 1980s (from Kevin Ward)
- AXDs from the class of 1969 (from Patricia Griffin Curtin '69)
- AXDs from the class of 1984 (from Renee Gallagher '84)
- AXDs from the class of 1991 (from Melissa Bennett '91)
- AXDs from the class of 2003 (from Dan May '03)
- AXDs from the class of 2009 (from Marcie Rockwell '09)
- AXDs from the class of 2013 (from Lori Reimer)
- Beta Xi '67 (from Judith Conk Buehler '67)
- Beta Xi Sisters (from Jean Debuchananne Hurst '63 & Alfred Hurst '61)
- Class of 1970 and AXD Friends, and how all Marietta College and town stepped forward to help (from Jan Clement '70)
- Class of 1977 (from Henry Stevenson '77)
- Class of 1979 (from Linda Burnsted)
- Class of 1984 (by Heidi Herz Berry '84 & Kevin Berry '83)
- Class of 1987 (from Annalisa '87)
- Class of 1997 (from Erin Sicard '97)
- Class of 1999 (from Heidi Carrion)
- Class of 2007 (from Ashley Hall Rector '07)
- Class of 2010 (from Kimberly Sheasley '10)
- Class of 2013 (from Gretchen Reimer '13)
- DU Alums (from David Owens '87)
- Gamma Beta '77 (from Toni Donahue)
- Gamma Tau Fall 2013 Class (from Emma Schutt)
- Greek Life at MC (from Lindsey Flach '00)
- Iowa State '97 (from Kelley O'Callaghan)
- My Sisters (from Emma Burger '14)
- My sisters of Phi Mu Fraternity (from Randi Gray)
- My Xisters (from Anonymous)
- Our many Alpha Xi Delta Friends (from Patricia McGuinness Foster '81 & John Foster '74)
- Our Proud Greek Community (from Chelsey Walls '13)
- Our Xisters (from Alpha Xi Delta Coastal Carolina University)
- Past and Present Members of Alpha Xi Delta - Beta Xi (from Cody Clemens '13)
- Sigma Chapter, 1985 (from Leslie Nelson)
- TFJ (from Elizabeth Cardarelli '12, and from Lindsey Kudaroski Ranayhossaini '14)
- The Long Blue Line (from Karen Lewis Egan '71 & Tom Egan '71, and from Curtis Howell '73)
- With love from a Zeta Theta alumna in Ohio (from Shay Downs '19)
- Women's Lacrosse (from Tammy Nadrah)
- Xi Love (from Jamie '93)
- Xi love and mine (from Jana Dynkiewicz '06)
last updated November 17, 2021, at 8:00 a.m. Eastern

The stately house at 322 Fifth Street has served as home for generations of Alpha Xi Delta - Beta Xi women. If you would like to share your own memories of this Marietta landmark and the friendships built under its roof, you can click here to record a special video that will be shared with the community.
1264 days ago by Kathryn GloorDonors
View All DonorsAffiliation | Donors | $ Raised |
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Alpha Xi Delta | 130 | $21,836 |
1962 | 7 | $5,300 |
1971 | 13 | $4,550 |
Chi Omega | 38 | $2,740 |
1967 | 11 | $2,575 |
1968 | 8 | $2,450 |
1982 | 10 | $2,350 |
Alpha Tau Omega | 13 | $2,060 |
1969 | 10 | $1,835 |
1975 | 9 | $1,770 |
2015 | 11 | $1,580 |
Delta Tau Delta | 18 | $1,548 |
Lambda Chi Alpha | 13 | $1,520 |
Sigma Kappa | 23 | $1,415 |
1966 | 7 | $1,400 |
2024 | 22 | $1,352 |
1998 | 11 | $1,320 |
2000 | 5 | $1,250 |
1985 | 10 | $1,195 |
1970 | 13 | $1,175 |
1986 | 9 | $1,170 |
2003 | 7 | $1,150 |
1972 | 7 | $1,100 |
2025 | 15 | $1,085 |
Sigma Sigma Sigma | 8 | $1,075 |
1993 | 11 | $1,055 |
1977 | 13 | $1,050 |
1984 | 7 | $1,050 |
2012 | 13 | $1,030 |
1960 | 2 | $1,025 |
Tau Kappa Epsilon | 8 | $1,000 |
2006 | 10 | $950 |
1987 | 7 | $925 |
1983 | 11 | $910 |
1963 | 5 | $900 |
1973 | 7 | $850 |
2011 | 7 | $820 |
1979 | 11 | $775 |
1991 | 9 | $775 |
1981 | 8 | $750 |
1992 | 10 | $735 |
2021 | 5 | $710 |
2008 | 12 | $710 |
2023 | 17 | $705 |
Alpha Gamma Delta | 3 | $700 |
2009 | 9 | $700 |
2002 | 9 | $685 |
1989 | 6 | $625 |
Tau Epsilon Phi | 2 | $600 |
2001 | 8 | $575 |
1964 | 5 | $575 |
2013 | 11 | $570 |
2016 | 10 | $545 |
1995 | 2 | $525 |
1988 | 7 | $520 |
2007 | 9 | $520 |
1996 | 7 | $520 |
2005 | 4 | $500 |
2022 | 6 | $500 |
1976 | 5 | $450 |
1999 | 4 | $450 |
1997 | 6 | $425 |
1994 | 4 | $420 |
2010 | 7 | $420 |
2004 | 4 | $350 |
Delta Upsilon | 4 | $300 |
1965 | 5 | $300 |
1978 | 3 | $300 |
2017 | 7 | $280 |
Alpha Sigma Tau | 3 | $250 |
1990 | 3 | $250 |
1974 | 4 | $250 |
1961 | 4 | $225 |
2020 | 5 | $200 |
2014 | 4 | $177 |
2019 | 2 | $150 |
1980 | 2 | $150 |
Alpha Sigma Phi | 3 | $125 |
1956 | 1 | $100 |
1959 | 1 | $100 |
1952 | 1 | $50 |
OXO/Theta Phi Alpha | 1 | $50 |
1942 | 1 | $50 |
2018 | 2 | $45 |









