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dukedg 06-19-2013 04:25 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yes - vp:finance
Are you an advisor? Yes - Advisory Team Chairman for a local chapter. I was an ATC for another local chapter for 5+ years... my husband isn't always the biggest DG fan :)
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? Yes - by default as ATC
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No
Are you a national officer of some sort? No
Something else? Not currently, though I have served on working groups for specific DG topics in the past

Sciencewoman 06-19-2013 05:01 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yes
Are you an advisor? Yes
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? Yes
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No
Are you a national officer of some sort? No
Something else? I can't handle anything else!
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gatordeltapgh 06-19-2013 06:33 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yes, past president
Are you an advisor? No, past chapter advisor
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? No
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No, past PCC
Are you a national officer of some sort? Yes
Something else? I've got all I can handle!

TheGreenHeart 06-19-2013 07:57 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? As active as I can be from 140 miles away! :rolleyes:
Are you an advisor? Not currently, but I would love to be one day!
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? No.
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No.
Are you a national officer of some sort? No.
Something else? Yes, I recently became president of my city's Alumnae Panhellenic Association. I am so excited and hope we have a great year ahead of us! :D

AGDCanada11 07-10-2013 09:55 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? YES!
Are you an advisor? No, not yet - I can't wait to be though!
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? No
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No
Are you a national officer of some sort? No
Something else? I am a member of both my sorority's alumnae chapter and the local Panhellenic Alumnae chapter!

pbear19 07-10-2013 10:20 PM

Gamma Phi is keeping me very busy these days and I am LOVING it!!

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yes, very!
Are you an advisor? Yes, chapter advisor
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? Yes
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No
Are you a national officer of some sort? Sort of - - I don't have a title, so I don't suppose I'm really an "officer." But I do have a job and report to an international officer.
Something else? nope

norcal aephi 07-15-2013 05:05 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Panhellenic-no. We are in the process of making alumnae groups into alumnae chapters.
Are you an advisor? Yes-for local chapter at Stanford University
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? No
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? I'm the Regional Coordinator for Alumnae Groups for the West Coast.
Are you a national officer of some sort? No

azureblue 07-16-2013 05:16 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yes...currently just an active member, but have held past Exec Board positions

Are you an advisor? Yes! I have been serving for 10 years and have been served as Standards, Recruitment and am currently a Chapter Advisor

Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? No

Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No

Are you a national officer of some sort? I really hope to be involved on the International level doing something with recruitment, panhellenic or extension someday!

Something else? I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to serve on the planning committee for my home chapter's 100th anniversary celebration in 2012! What an incredible experience!

ADqtPiMel 07-16-2013 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by azureblue (Post 2225858)

Are you a national officer of some sort? I really hope to be involved on the International level doing something with recruitment, panhellenic or extension someday!

Did you fill out your alumnae survey? :)

I'm an international officer -- a Recruitment and Marketing Director for one of our districts.

Benzgirl 07-16-2013 08:41 PM

I can't believe I hadn't answered this yet.

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yes - Vice President. Last year I was acting President.
Are you an advisor? Currently no, due to my other volunteer position, but have been Member Development Advisor.
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? Not currently, but have been HA Treasurer
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? Yes. I am in my second year as a Province Director. We have recently reorganized our chapters and, while I loved my chapters last year, I am excited about my new chapters which are all on very large campuses.
Are you a national officer of some sort? No.
Something else? Many years ago, I was the Panhellenic Representative and helped organize a Panhellenic info session for recent High School grads.

azureblue 07-17-2013 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ADqtPiMel (Post 2225904)
Did you fill out your alumnae survey? :)

I'm an international officer -- a Recruitment and Marketing Director for one of our districts.

Absolutely! I would love to pick your brain sometime and learn more about your experience as a RMD!

AlwaysSAI 07-18-2013 04:35 PM

Time for an Update.

Sigma Alpha Iota
Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yes!! We were officially chartered on May 5, 2012 and are the only alumnae chapter in the state!
Are you an advisor? No, but I have reached out to a collegiate chapter in the area to let them know I am available if they need an advisor.
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? N/A
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No, but I have my eyes set on Convention 2015!
Are you a national officer of some sort?
Kind of. I work on the committee that reviews yearbook directories submitted by chapters. I report to a member of the National Officers Conference (different from the NEB).
Something else? I am also Editor of the Alumnae Chapter.

Alpha Gamma Delta
Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yeppers.
Are you an advisor? No. The closest chapter is 2 hours away.
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? No.
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No.
Are you a national officer of some sort? No.
Something else? I am the incoming President of the AGD Junior Circle. It allows me to stay involved with AGD while balancing grad school and work.

AGDLynn 07-18-2013 09:28 PM

Alpha Gamma Delta
Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yes - make that 2.
Are you an advisor? No. I used to be various advisors, including Chapter Advisor but we were selling our house and it would have been too far..little did I know it would take 6 years --off and on.
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? No. Used to be.
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No.
Are you a national officer of some sort? No.
Something else? Editor for the local alumnae chapter which supports the chapter (not my initiating chapter)...and a member of the Junior Circle FB group just to keep abreast of their news.

chiojes 07-29-2013 02:39 PM

Chi Omega

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yes- I'm not a member but I probably attend 3-4 events a year
Are you an advisor? No. I don't really have the time at the moment as I am working full time, have a child and my spouse is in school full time. I'd like to become one in a few years possibly.

Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? Yes, I just joined this year and hope to assist!
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No.
Are you a national officer of some sort? No.
Something else? I like attending events and have helped with recruitment on several occasions. I am go.ing to volunteer to assist with the Convention in 2014 as it is in Orlando

KSUViolet06 06-27-2016 01:59 PM

Bumping this!

austingammaphi 06-27-2016 02:34 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? As much as I can be--our group is pretty loosey-goosey and we mainly have socials/happy hours just to connect and make friends.
Are you an advisor? No. Our closest collegiate chapter is about 40 miles away and I am close to their advisors, but I have not yet gotten involved in their activities.

Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? No.
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No.
Are you a national officer of some sort? No.
Something else? I am the central Texas alumnae recruitment chair for our group, and I am responsible for 150-200 rec forms for our Austin-area girls every year. I recently handed over the office of Gamma Phi representative for our local alumnae Panhellenic association, where I served as recruitment chair for several years, in addition to various rotational offices. I also enjoy keeping up with chapter sisters and local alumnae via our Facebook pages for our collegiate chapter and our Austin group, respectively.

Tom Earp 06-27-2016 02:35 PM

Graduated in 1967 but still held a deep seated love of my Fraternity and Chapter.

Member of The Core group to revitilize the Chapter.
On the House Corp. for many years.
On the mentoring program for the Alumni Sec.
President of Alumni Association for again many years.
Charged with sending Alumni information to IHQ.
Co Admin, for closed Alumni Face Book Cite.
Trying to find lost Alumni. So far have found 68. Yes the old timers do get lost from IHQ!


Guess that is about all, LOL!

AlphaXi_Husky 06-27-2016 02:55 PM

Alpha Xi Delta


Are you active in your alumnae chapter?
Not very much - I'm trying to be more involved
Are you an advisor?

Sort of - I'm on the local chapter's recruitment team in kind of an assistant advisor/specialist role
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp?

No
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer?

Yes
Are you a national officer of some sort?

No
Something else?

No

ColdInCanada11 06-27-2016 06:42 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter?
President of our young alum group! We don't have a regular alum chapter or club, so we plan all alumnae activities here.

Are you an advisor?
Yes, an executive council advisor to my initiating chapter, and a distance advisor to another! Advising is my favourite part of alum life :)

Are you part of a chapter's housing corp?
No houses!

Are you a regional/province/whatever officer?
Nope, but I would love to!

Are you a national officer of some sort?
Same as above- hopefully!

Something else?
I also serve as a Panhellenic advisor!

flirt5721 06-27-2016 10:27 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter?
I am currently working to start up the alum association in my town again with some other alumnae.

Are you an advisor?
Yes. I am currently the Programs advisor for my chapter.

Are you part of a chapter's housing corp?
No we do not have a local housing corp. I am currently on a Greek Housing Task Force and reporting back to National Housing Corp.

Are you a regional/province/whatever officer?
Nope. One day would be nice.

Are you a national officer of some sort?
No.

Something else? I help out with recruitment every year and attend as many events as possible.

AlwaysSAI 06-28-2016 09:04 PM

Update 2016

Sigma Alpha Iota
Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yeppers.
Are you an advisor? No, but I have reached out to a collegiate chapter in the area to let them know I am available if they need an advisor.
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? N/A
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No, but I have my eyes set on Convention 2024!
Are you a national officer of some sort? Yes. I am the Director of Chapter Yearbook Directories. I oversee a committee of 8 sisters who review submissions from each chapter in each of the 8 regions.
Something else? I don't currently hold a chapter office but I have been Recording Secretary and Editor of my alumnae chapter. I was nominated for Treasurer this year, but I declined the nomination.

Alpha Gamma Delta
Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yeppers.
Are you an advisor? No. The closest chapter is 2 hours away.
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? No.
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No.
Are you a national officer of some sort? No.
Something else? I don't currently hold a chapter office but I have been Vice President, Vice President - Ritual, Junior Circle President, and Adopt-a-Chapter Liaison.

rockwallgreek 06-29-2016 12:28 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter?
No, not one close to where I live

Are you an advisor?
No

Are you part of a chapter's housing corp
Nope

Are you a regional/province/whatever officer?
I'm a Province Director

Are you a national officer of some sort?
No

Something else?

DreamfulSpirit 06-29-2016 04:21 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? No, as there isn't one in my area

Are you an advisor? No

Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? N/A...O-Phi-A doesn't have one

Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No

Are you a national officer of some sort? Yes, I'm the National VP of Expansions for O-Phi-A!

Something else? Nothing else currently

navane 06-30-2016 12:08 AM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter?
Not really. They only hold happy hours on days I can't attend. :(

Are you an advisor?
No

Are you part of a chapter's housing corp?
Yes - 10 years and counting!

Are you a regional/province/whatever officer?
No

Are you a national officer of some sort?
Yes! :cool:

Something else?
No

AOIILisa 06-30-2016 08:41 AM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter?
Sort of, I moved to MD last year but still work in Philly, so I'm still part of Philly alum and participate when I can. Weeknights are out because of my commute. The Baltimore area alums only meet on weeknights at 6 so I can never make that either.

Are you an advisor?
Yes, Finance Advisor to two chapters

Are you part of a chapter's housing corp?
No

Are you a regional/province/whatever officer?
Not yet but working to get there

Are you a national officer of some sort?
No

Something else?
No

KSUViolet06 06-30-2016 07:30 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter?

Working on this. I am in the middle of a move and would like to be more locally active once life settles.

Are you an advisor?
No

Are you part of a chapter's housing corp?

No

Are you a regional/province/whatever officer?

No

Are you a national officer of some sort?

Yes. I work to help engage our alumnae volunteers and help determine where they can best serve chapters. In short, you talk to me if you're interested in advising and such.

Something else?
No

ThetaPrincess24 07-05-2016 08:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThetaPrincess24 (Post 1984162)
Are you active in your alumnae chapter? I am the founder of one, and now a member of another holding offices of Alumnae Panhellenic Delegate and College Chapter Liaison
Are you an advisor? Yes--Advisory Board Chairman, Ritual Advisor, and Facility Advisors. I have held others roles in the past.
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? No. I was for two years and served as secretary and president and served for a year on aother chapter's Facility Coporation Board.
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No, but hopefully one day in the next 5-10 years I will accomplish that goal
Are you a national officer of some sort? No.
Something else?I am a Life Loyal charter member and yearly Foundation donor. I will be attending my second advisor conference this summer and attending my first Grand Convention last summer. I am helping to co-found the Alumnae Panhellenic Chapter here. I have a large Theta Bucket List to accomplish :)


Ha! I have a few changes:
Active in Alumnae Chapter--Sorta. There is no longer one present. I pay local dues to one in Louisville, an hour away and ave limited availability on what events I can attend.
Advisor: I'm currently filling in for a chapter as a Risk Advisor until a more local one can be appointed.
Housing Corp: Not anymore, but am a big supporter of the Fraternity Housing Corporation and promote it to advisor friends.
Regional/Province/Whatever Officer: Sort of. I'm a member of the Fraternity Risk Prevention Committee. I stepped down from my previous advisor roles in order to step up to this role. I love it!
National Officer: No
Something Else: I made a leadership level recognition as a donor for 2015 in giving and am set for the next level up for 2016. I just attended my 3rd Grand Convention. I've been to Theta HQ, NPC HQ, Alpha Chapter, and all four founders' graves--and blogged about them for the Fraternity. I serve on a special committee for Theta Foundation. Sadly we were not able to get an Alumnae Panhellenic off the ground. :(

misscherrypie 07-07-2016 05:22 PM

Active in Alumnae Chapter--Sorta. We have alumna groups that are regionally based that meet up a few times a year. Mine is based about two hours away, but I try to stay connected.
Advisor: Not at this time. I hope that I can sometime in the next few years.
Housing Corp: Nope.
Regional/Province/Whatever Officer: See below!
National Officer: I will be holding a National Board office for the 2016-17 year!
Something Else: I'm going to my first convention this summer! Tried to go last year, but a last minute move that was unavoidable scuttled that.

flic514 08-01-2016 08:55 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yes
Are you an advisor? Yes, I'm the Alumnae Relations Advisor-Eta Theta Chapter at Gustavus Adolphus College
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? They do not have a house
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No
Are you a national officer of some sort? No
Something else? I'm an Alumnae Initiate from 2005. I was intiated by the Twin Cities Alumnae Chapter. This is one on the reasons I wanted to join Tri Sigma, to serve.

sigmagirl2000 08-03-2016 11:00 AM

Sigma Kappa
Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yes - I try to be active in two of them, though neither is especially close to me and they enjoy having events on weekdays :(
Are you an advisor? Not anymore!
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? yes, president
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? kind of? my national office has me overseeing a specific region
Are you a national officer of some sort? Yes, I'm on the national recruitment team!

txAOII_15 08-03-2016 11:08 AM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yes, I am a founding member, and recently gave up my position as treasurer
Are you an advisor? Yes, but to a collegiate chaper that belongs to a different organization than mine
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? No
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No, but I've thought about it when life settles down a bit
Are you a national officer of some sort? No

KatieKate1244 08-03-2016 10:20 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Sadly, no. There really isn't one active near me at the moment, otherwise I'd join.

Are you an advisor? Sorta? I'm a house mom :)

Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? Please see previous answer.

Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No, not really interested in that right now.

Are you a national officer of some sort? No.

Something else? I am SO excited for recruitment! My chapter was super small, so seeing how a chapter of 170+ does recruitment has been utterly fascinating.

kateliza 08-31-2016 10:18 AM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? I am starting to. On the mailing list for things, I need to pay my dues for this year but am waiting to see what they are for the local chapter before paying directly to national.
Are you an advisor? Yes!! I am Membership and Programs advisor for Gamma Zeta, and this fall is my first recruitment doing so.
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? no
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? no
Are you a national officer of some sort?
not yet, would like to help in the future.
Something else?

kitekat 09-12-2017 10:16 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? I sure am!
Are you an advisor? No, but I'd like to give it a try perhaps in the near future.
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? No.
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No.
Are you a national officer of some sort? No.
Something else? I recently took over as president of my local alumnae chapter when our former president moved away. With that, hopefully I can make it to the next Grand Convention. I also became a Life Loyal member this year!

ASTalumna06 09-12-2017 10:49 PM

No to all of the questions except 'Something Else?'

I volunteer as the Lead Editor for the sorority's national magazine, The Anchor. And although my title is Editor, I manage, along with the Director of Communications, the entire publication (with three issues per year) from start to finish.

After moving back to NJ this year, I joined the region's alumnae chapter through Facebook. I'm hoping to get to an event soon!

jolene 09-12-2017 10:51 PM

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Was until last year. All the meetings are across town and in Atlanta that can be an hour drive. Miss the NW Atlanta group, but we were younger. Members were getting married, having children or their careers were moving them out of the area or careers were taking off.
Are you an advisor? No, but I'd be open to it.
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? Several years ago I was.
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? No.
Are you a national officer of some sort? No.
Something else?

leiaamiedala 09-13-2017 11:45 AM

1. Yes, I'm president of my alumnae association.
2. Not anymore, I was advising for five years, then stepped back when I was elected to the alumnae association board.
3. No.
4. Not yet.
5. No.

Weaver D 09-13-2017 12:40 PM

Are you active in your alumni chapter? yes
Are you an advisor? yes - chapter advisor for 6 years - served on campus FSL Strategic Planning committee and search committees for campus FSL staff.
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? not anymore - just stepped off board after 10 years after conclusion of a major capital campaign and construction of a new house.
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? no
Are you a national officer of some sort? no
Something else? Former FSL advisor on 4 campuses - volunteer with our HQ CAMAC committee - assists with chapter membership reviews and chapter assessments.

PhoenixAttain 01-21-2018 12:15 PM

I would LOVE to see this thread active again with ideas and experiences!!!

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yes
Are you an advisor? Previously
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? No
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? Yes. I am a Region Alumnae Engagement Liaison
Are you a national officer? No but if I had the time it might be something I’d be interested.
Something else? I’m an Alumnae Initiate

ColdInCanada11 01-21-2018 07:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PhoenixAttain (Post 2452360)
I would LOVE to see this thread active again with ideas and experiences!!!

Are you active in your alumnae chapter? Yes
Are you an advisor? Previously
Are you part of a chapter's housing corp? No
Are you a regional/province/whatever officer? Yes. I am a Region Alumnae Engagement Liaison
Are you a national officer? No but if I had the time it might be something I’d be interested.
Something else? I’m an Alumnae Initiate

I would love to hear about your role as an Alumnae Engagement Liason- what does your role consist of?? (I wish that orgs would take alumnae involvement more seriously!!)


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