Laura Scherk Where Were You

This morning I had the best breakfast reunion with my Pi Phi big sister Marlene Bodene Ostrow. Marlene lives in Cincinnati, but her only sister lives in Raleigh. Thanks to that only sister having an only daughter I get to see Marlene when there are big milestones, like four years ago when her niece graduated from high school. Thank goodness that niece is wicked smart because she got the Park Scholarship to NC State and now Marlene is back for her niece’s college Graduation.
During our wonderful reunion I felt like we were missing an important family member of the sorority kind. Marlene had another Pi Phi little sister before she had me, Laura Scherk, who in sorority family trees is then my sister/sister. It is nothing like sister wives, it just means we have the same big sister.  
Laura is one of my favorite people on earth. I must be one of hers too, or was at one point, because I was a bridesmaid in her first wedding and even though she is married to some else now I think that being in someone’s wedding means you like each other. Well, now Laura lives in California so I have not seen her for a VERY long time because California is too far to walk to. The saddest thing is she used to live in Boston and I am about to have four or five years of regular trips to Boston, but she is not there.  
Now if only Laura had a sister who had a niece who lived in Raleigh, or Durham, or even Fayetteville I would get to see her when she came for graduations, or weddings or baby showers. But Laura only has two brothers and I have no idea where they are or if they have children.
So now I am going to have to work on planning a big Pi Phi family reunion. Wait, didn’t my fellow pledge class sister Jamie Karp Stone, who now lives in Seattle and just got a new knee task me with creating a Pi Phi reunion of multiple class years? Have I worked on that yet? No, I have been too busy planning graduation night parties and filling our college forms, but if I am ever going to see Laura Scherk again I better start planning a reunion. I need all my sisters.