Karen, Diane, Ellen and Laurie form a sisterhood of the Beta Pi girls at ULA that would be characterized as solid and lasting friendships. A friend is described in the dictionary as a person attached to another by feelings of affection and personal regard. Deep friendships are based on trust, loyalty and common interests. Friends share in life’s disappointments, joys and mundane days. The relationships of Karen, Ellen, Laurie and Diane is documented in Sorority Sisters by Claudia Welch as the girls chronicle their experiences in their sorority, from their first impression at Rush through each year of college. The book is written in a first person narrative giving a feeling as if the reader has just opened a diary written by each girl. In one of Karen’s recollections in the Fall of 1975 after a road trip from LA ending in San Francisco where they stay at Laurie’s house for a ULA and Stanford football game. Karen recalls,” Laurie grins for the first time since Fresno, looking at each of us in turn. It’s a moment that passes in an instant, a quiet, sunny moment of thanks. It’s gone before I can even smile my response to her. Maybe we do know how to fix Laurie. Maybe we’re the only ones who know how. Or maybe we are the only ones who care enough to even try”(91). Being able to understand a quick smile or an unspoken gesture that touches the heart, is a characteristic of close friends. The girls detail parties, dates, dreams, disappointments in the adjoining chapters that solidify their true bond as deep friends.
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