Angela Colliver
Angela Colliver is proud of her Greek-American heritage.
To avoid the Greek draft, her father, who didn’t speak English at the time, decided to attend college in the United States. He threw a dart at a proverbial map and landed at Harding College in Searcy, Ark. It was there that he met her mother, a blond, blue-eyed Arkansas girl. After college, they married and had three children. Angela, the youngest, was born in Nashville, Tenn.
During her school years, Angela’s dad, a minister, moved his family back and forth between America and Greece. She was graduated from the American Community School in Athens. Then she followed in her parents’ footsteps, graduating from Harding with an elementary-education degree. Ironically, she joined a local sorority — Kappa Kappa Kappa — while at Harding.
Angela pursued a master’s degree in counseling from Indiana University and became a counselor at Linton-Stockton Elementary School in 1989. She still drives an hour over and back into Greene County every day.
She and her husband, Mike, met online through “Yahoo Personals.” They have two children: a son, Taylor; and a daughter, Thessaly.
Angela was ready for something new when Stephanie Oyler asked her if she would like to join Tri Kappa back in 2015.
“We had been having lunch one day, and we were talking about stuff,” Angela says. “Because I work in Linton, I didn’t have a lot of connections in Bloomington.”
Stephanie told her she knew she would love the Tri Kappa sisterhood.
“I like our pitch-ins, I like cheeseball day,” Angela says. “We’re all there side by side working and visiting.
“I have met lovely, lovely, people in Tri Kappa -- kind-hearted, warm, so accepting.”
For Angela, service is another reason she chose to be involved in the Alpha chapter.
“I like the good things that we do,” Angela says. “I think that if we ever just became a sisterhood that didn’t do good things in the community, I don’t think I would be a part of Tri Kappa because I’m too busy for that!
“I love that we serve.”
More About Angela:
Taught AWANA at Sherwood Oaks Christian Church
Is a talented artist across several mediums
Her dream is to write children’s stories
Has traveled to over 20 countries
God is the center of her life