Are you an active alumni member?
 

It's probably been asked before, but how many of you are actively involved with your GLO as an alum?

Are you involved in the local, regional or (inter)national level?

What do you do, specifically?

Why did you choose this area of involvement?

Are you also a dues paying alumni member of your GLO? If so, does that mean you pay dues only to your local alumni chapter or you pay separate local and international alumni dues to be considered an active alumna? If you are not a dues paying alumni member, why not?

I know that AOP, DDD, DC and SC have Life Loyal programs and I'm sure there are more. If your GLO has a "Life Loyal" type program, are you a member? If not, why not?

Yes, I am a life loyal although we call it Lifetime Links. I started out an active collegian and charter member, traveled as a consultant, became chair of a committee, Chaired two consecutive conventions, served on NPC delegation and our Executive Council and currently serve as Director of Expansion for the past 9 years.

Denise

I have been, but law school has sort of put that on hiatus.

I keep in touch with our alumni chapter and still receive information and updates from the actives. I also donate to both my chapter and the Sigma Nu Educational Foundation.

Upon finishing law school, I'm planning on increasing my involvement. I'm not sure in what capacity, but I'll make myself available if nothing else to mentor active brothers as part of the chapter's program for outgoing seniors.

Yep, it's been asked before.........

Yes, I'm involved.

Local and International

Current: AC President, Sorority Coord - Alum Extension

Prior: HCB Member, HCB Treasurer, Scholarship Advisor, International Nominating Committee, Task Force Chair

I enjoy working with alumnae members and growing our organization.

In order to be considered "in good standing" at an international level, you have to pay internaitonal dues and to be considered "in good standing" at a local lever, you have to pay local dues. I pay both.

Not sure what Life Loyal is.

I am active as I can be...I have some great ideas that I would love to work on, for both the local level and International level....

once I *do* become initiated, I will also look to become involved in the local Panhellenic chapter....

There are *some* things that I can do on the national level, I am just waiting to hear back from them, I submitted my volunteer application a few weeks back and I spoke with the Volunteer Coordinator before I did that to make sure that I would be able to participate

Phi Mu and Me
 

I am as active as I can be.

I am currently president of my local alumnae chapter and I run a VERY active email list for sisters in my GLO.

I support Phi Mu foundation and I am a member of the newly developed "Forever Faithful" program. (yes it is like paying double dues :() designed to sustaining operating expenses for the fraternity side of operations.

I currently serve as an Area Coordinator Collegians(24 chapters). I have also served as a Province Director (7 chapters) and on the Finance Committee as a Province Finance Specialist (7 chapters). Prior to that, I was Chapter Advisor, Finance Advisor and Membership Advisor for my chapter of initiation. I also served on their House Association.

I am also involved in an alumnae club as the Yahoo groups coordinator and usually hostess one meeting each year in addition to participating in all the philanthropies and attending as many meetings as I can.

I pay alumnae dues to the International Fraternity and social dues to my alumnae club. I contribute to the Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation.

I wear the Arc of epsilon pi with diamond, an honor given to alumnae for years of consecutive, faithful and outstanding service.

Yep, I'm active.

I figured it had been asked before, but thought it worth bringing up again!

To answer my own questions:

I'm currently involved at the local level as a dues paying alumnae chapter member. I serve as the President of our local collegiate chapter's (House) Corporation Board. The time and availability commitment for this position fit well for me, and I was asked to fill a need and said yes. I'm glad I did because I've learned a lot.

I'm also a charter member of our Life Loyal AOII program (#58). More info on our program at www.lifeloyal.org if you're not familiar with how these work. AOII does not have any separate international alumnae dues or fees.

Previously, I've been active as an alumnae chapter member in KY and MA, a member of the AOII Always and Rosevine alum programs (what we had before Life Loyal AOII), an Alumnae chapter officer (Education and Treasurer), and a member of the Alumnae Advisory Committee for my chapter of initiation (served as Chapter Adviser for a few years, and also served as Education, Chapter Relations and Rush/Recruitment adviser before and concurrently with CA).

I'm still involved because I like it. Really, it's just that simple.

We don't have "Life Loyal", we have "ReMember ADPi". Once you are initiated, you're a lifetime member; you can ReMember ADPi and help the sorority financially. I contribute to the ADPi Foundation, and the Abigail Davis Loan Fund (for collegiates having trouble paying tuition).

I've been a Chapter Advisor, and served on the Housing Corporation several years. I regularly donate both time and money to the local chapter.

I've been Treasurer of the now-defunct Alumnae Association, and a Charter Member of the new Alumnae Association.

I consider myself active!

I try and pay my ReMember dues every year (I think I forgot one year :eek: )

I started serving as an advisor to one collegiate chapter last year, and when they closed, was asked to advise for another chapter. (I've held Finance and now am Membership Education Advisor).

I've been a dues paying member of our local alumnae association for three years now - this year I've served as treasurer of the association.

Someday, I'd love to be involved at a regional and perhaps the international level, but for now, local is perfect as I finish up with grad school!

Right now I'm a full time Alpha Phi. I don't know how women can work and volunteer at the same time, my hat is off to all of them. I guess I'm just not that organized! Currently, I am the VP Programming for my AC (although elections are tonight, I usually take whatever position no one else wants-was even president one year!), Chapter Advisor at Bentley College, and Recruitment Advisor at Tufts University. I also just volunteered to help with our Dartmouth colony just yesterday! Eek, I don't know how I'll fit it all in with a baby coming in 5 weeks!

I also pay my local and international dues every year and try to give a decent amount to the Foundation every year as well.

I was involved immediately following graduation, as an assistant alumnus advisor (AAA). I mainly helped out with paperwork issues, although I advised the chapter on all sorts of things, from procedural and disciplinary matters to questions about ritual. Because of increased job responsibilities and my law school search, that has been put on hold, and probably will continue to be through school.

Afterwards, I'd like to be involved in some way, although the extent remains to be seen.

While previously a thread was started somewhere, it is hard to find them sometimes!

Acvtive for the most part for 40 Years. Slipped when I got divorced (Yea), to poor and no time running a small Biz!

Regardless, I am a Mentor for International HQ., Keeper of Email for Local Chapter, On the House Corporation, Mentor on the Alum Advisory Board, and May be the new Pres. of Alum Assoc.

For those of You that are posting, I admire You.

The Friendships (That We Paid For)(:rolleyes: ) are well worth the time and effort or We wouldnt be posting here now would We!:cool:

Bless each one of You and the rest who post! kuddos!:)

Laura, I agree with you! I see ladies who wear so many hats in sorority, I don't know how they do it - unless a heavy dose of speed comes with the jobs!

My hat's off to you and everyone who really live their sorority or fraternity's ideals!

Speed no, but an inability to say no sometimes. When it's something you enoy, often you don't notice how much you're doing.

What happens is usually one of two things:

1) They do nothing else but live, and breath their GLO (been there, did that for a few years).

2) They don't necessarily do as good a job as someone else with more time would have done and something suffers.

And before anyone jumps down my throat and tells me I'm insulting someone, I have direct experience with both.......

I have found that it's common for higher ups to not pay attention to what a woman is already doing before they offer her something else. And when a higher up asks, it's hard to say no.

Wow, I thought I did a lot but after reading some of the replies to this thread I feel like a slacker!

I've been a Province Director of Alumnae for five years now. I was President of my Alumnae Association when the treasurer relocated out of state in 2000, and I've been stuck with being treasurer ever since.

Kappa doesn't have a life-loyal program. We pay dues to our Alumnae Associations, then our associations pay $15 per capita fees to the Fraternity. There was recently a big promotion to have alumnae without associations pay percapita fees directly to the Fraternity, which was relatively successful.

I am extremely active within my chapter at a local level. I am the current President of the Housing Corporation. And a lifetime member of the Georgia Alumni Club. As any alum knows, you can be as active or inactive as you wish out of college. It is also important to walk that line between being an interested and supportive alumunus, or "that guy" that still sits on the porch and hits on 19 year old women, hoping you will find one that likes slightly overweight, balding, divorcees.

I definitely don't think you are insulting me if that is what you are referring to. I think there are definitely women out there who fall into the second category, and it bothers me. I think I do a very good job with my advising positions, at our regional conference last month I won the award for best Chapter Adviser and Bentley won for best formal recruitment, which I definitely take some credit for since I was their Recruitment Adviser for two years before becoming their CA last year, and I was very very involved with their rush this year (of course, I also had a very motivated chapter and a wonderful VP Recruitment to work with). As for Tufts, I don't think I did as good of a job because I was focusing on Bentley so much (I hate how rush falls near the same time for every chapter around here!), but it was my first year at the school and I had a lot of learning to do about all the weird things they do like guaranteed bidding. I relied on their CA a lot, but we had a good system going. I feel I made some positive changes, and hopefully things will continue to go well in the future.

As for my alum position, I really took it because no one else will. I definitely don't think I do a very good job, but I figure it's better to have me doing something than no one doing anything at all. This is one area that I definitely can't say no. I was the president for one year because no one else was interested, and last night I was elected VP Programming again because no one else wanted it. All our leadership right now is in the collegiate chapters, it's where everyone would rather be at the moment. We are getting better in my AC, but it's a much slower process changing that than changing our collegiate chapters.

I guess I do fall into the first category, I do live and breath Alpha Phi. I have since I graduated college 5 years ago, and I hope to continue. I know some people may think it's weird or don't understand, but I don't really mind. It's truly what I love to do. I haven't found a profession that interests me (outside of maybe being a mother-due in 5 weeks!), and I'm lucky that my husband makes enough so that I can stay home and that he'd prefer me to. But one thing I've noticed is that no one is ever asking me to do more. It's more me offering to do more. Sometimes I regret it (I was rather upset at myself for volunteering to help Tufts last December), but usually by the end I'm very happy that I did. This semester especially has probably been the most rewarding ever. Bentley seems so happy to have me working with them (and they cried over both awards), and Tufts made me this huge thank you basket full of stuff for helping them with rush. So that makes it even more worth while.

I also feel that since I now have all these skills with rush and in other areas, I should be giving back and using them as much as I can. I joined Alpha Phi at a very hard point in my life, and it was the one thing besides my husband that kept me sane and helped me survive and actually slightly enjoy college. I will never forget that, and I want to do my part to make sure we can be there for other sisters in the same way in the future. I'm hardly perfect at what I do, but I try very hard and enjoy it all.

I think this is my biggest post ever on GC!

Re: Are you an active alumni member?
 

a resounding yes!
 

yes, i am active AND FINANCIAL in my organization and hope to remain that way for the rest of my life...
while everyone does not stay active, upon initiation, it certainly is an NPHC expectation that sorors/frat remain active for a lifetime...
kudos to everyone who continues to support their brotherhood/sisterhood faithfully post-undergrad--when teh REAL work begins!

Re: Re: Are you an active alumni member?
 

And a wonderful Founder Day Chair too.....:D

Oh no, I threw that in at no one in particular on this thread. Some people just seem to offend easily and I was certain someone would take it all wrong. I think I should just put it in my signature........

I think you and I are made from the "same cloth" as the saying goes. I have a habit of taking things when no one else wants to. But yes, some people do great at doing ONE thing at a time and if you give them more, they fail miserably. And in the case of a GLO, it affects so many other people.

Are you involved in the local, regional or (inter)national level?
I am involved locally and internationally.

What do you do, specifically?
I am a founding member of the Pittsburgh Alumnae Chapter. I am the Chapter Key Advisor for the ZN chapter at Slippery Rock U of PA. I also am an ACHIEVE program facilitator - which rocks!

Why did you choose this area of involvement?
I love the collegians. I want everyone to have the great expierence I had!

Are you also a dues paying alumni member of your GLO? If so, does that mean you pay dues only to your local alumni chapter or you pay separate local and international alumni dues to be considered an active alumna? If you are not a dues paying alumni member, why not?

I give to the Phi Sigma Sigma Foundation as often as I can. I pay Alumnae chapter dues. We do not have an International alumnae dues program yet.

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I've been involved locally for about 5-6 years now. I've been the academic adviser and I'm currently the ritual adviser for a local chapter. I've not joined an alum group yet, but plan to soon. I chose to become involved when the chapter needed help, and I just haven't left.

I'm also a charter member of the Life Loyal program through AOII.

Number One, I dont think anyone is throwing barbs at anyone.

Number Two, anyone who donates Time or Money to Either Their Time or Money should be commended.

We who do are a very small % of the Total Organization or Chapter who do not.

If Any Do One Thing, it is a Plus and commendable.

Thank each of You from Me as I know what it is like.

Re: Are you an active alumni member?
 

I am an involved alumna. I am the Alumnae Association Liaison for my chapter. Our Alumnae Associations are online groups that are chapter specific that are set up by headquarters and then have an alumna volunteer from the chapter maintain the group.

I am one of the Founders and the current President of the Southern L.A. County Alumnae Chapter.

I am involved with the South Bay Alumnae Panhellenic Association and serve as Scholarshop Co-chair there.

I did serve on the national Academic Excellence committee but our job is done so that committee is not active anymore.

I pay dues to my alumnae chapter. Phi Sigma Sigma doesn't have national alumnae dues.

I've tried to be as active as possible over the past 2 years since I graduated, but it's difficult. There's no alumnae chapter near me, and the collegiate chapter in town doesn't seem to want help. I've attended conferences at Headquarters about keeping young alumnae active and participated in IMPACT (a leadership program) at the local chapter with women from all over the country. Two weeks ago my collegiate chapter (which is two hours away) held initiation, which I attended. I was asked to be the social advisor when I was there, so I'll be doing that long-distance. I wish there was more I could do. I keep up-to-date via the website and donate whenever possible (we don't have national alumnae dues or a life loyal program... yet). I wish I had an alumnae chapter nearby. There aren't enough in town to create one, but I have met a few in the area with whom I communicate. I just wish I could become more active and give back to the organization that has given me so much.

Xylochick,

I tried to PM you about your local chapter, but your mailbox is full!!

PsychTau

All cleaned out now :)

Are you involved in the local, regional or (inter)national level?
I've been involved with the local chapter as an advisor since I graduated in 2001. I've been a member of my local Alumnae Association since 2002. I'm also a member of our online Alumnae Association.

What do you do, specifically?
I've served as Education Advisor, Marshal Advisor and currently serve as Advisory Board Chair, Chapter Council Advisor and interim House Board President. I'm also the President of our local Alumnae Association. I also serve as Webmaster for our online Alumnae Association.

Why did you choose this area of involvement?
I wanted to stay involved with my Fraternity and this was the easiest way. I would like to be more involved in the Provincial and Regional aspects in future years, but really enjoy working with the local chapter for now.

Are you also a dues paying alumni member of your GLO? If so, does that mean you pay dues only to your local alumni chapter or you pay separate local and international alumni dues to be considered an active alumna? If you are not a dues paying alumni member, why not?
Yes, I pay dues to both my local and online Alumnae Associations (though only one of those pays my per capita fee to our Headquarters). Our Fraternity requires that all Advisors be members in good standing. They can join a local Alum Association or pay their dues directly to Headquarters (which some advisors have done).

I know that AOP, DDD, DC and SC have Life Loyal programs and I'm sure there are more. If your GLO has a "Life Loyal" type program, are you a member? If not, why not?
Kappa does not have a "Life Loyal" program.

Are you involved in the local, regional or (inter)national level? What do you do specifically?

I'm a dues-paying Alumna Member ($ sent to Internationals as well as my local Alumnae Chapter).
I attend House Corp Board meetings for the local collegiate chapter at UW Madison.
I am the new President of the Madison Area Alumnae Chapter. We send out biannual newsletters and are starting to have more informal, social events for alumnae as well. Our first one last week was quite a success!
I'm visiting my initiating chapter this weekend for their benefit 5K run/walk, and am attending Convention this summer, so I kind of consider that work on the international level

Why did you choose this area of involvement?

There was a need for an active Alumnae Chapter President, and I wanted to get involved (I went alum this time last year).
I am starting out to be one of those super-involved alumnae. I like it, and I think it's appreciated so far. I'm hoping if people get too much of me, they'll tell me to tone the gamma phi-ness down a notch, haha.

Are you also a dues paying alumni member of your GLO?

Yes, there are annual dues to Gamma Phi Beta International, and each Alumnae Chapter has the option of collecting dues from participating members as well. I contribute to both, as well as a bit annually to the Gamma Phi Beta Foundation.

I know that AOP, DDD, DC and SC have Life Loyal programs and I'm sure there are more. If your GLO has a "Life Loyal" type program, are you a member? If not, why not?

We don't have any specific program called "Life Loyal," but we do try to emphasize that Gamma Phi Beta is a lifelong commitment, and there are so many oppurtunities for involvement at the alumnae level, and there are alumnae dues and chapters... hopefully sisters choose to continue to participate.

Yes I am an active alumni member of my local chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, I tend to move around a lot so it is a great way for me to become locally involved with my community in rendering service and meeting new Sorors in the process. :) We also have recognition for members who have affiliated with the sorority for a number of years and life membership. I am working toward an anniversary goal- and maybe then I will consider life membership.

i am the president of my Alumni Chpater of my fraternity, and very much active...

Are you involved in the local, regional or (inter)national level?

Local and international with the hope of helping out at the regional level in a year or so.

What do you do, specifically?

I am finishing my fourth year as chapter adviser (ATC) for the local collegiate chapter. I also coordinate the monthly young alumnae activities for our local alumnae chapter and I'm starting a new program for our philanthropy on the international level.

Why did you choose this area of involvement?

When I moved here after graduating from college, I didn't know anyone. I needed to meet people and DG needed advisers for the local collegiate chapter. It was a win-win proposition. Now I can't imagine not volunteering with DG in one way or another.

Are you also a dues paying alumni member of your GLO? If so, does that mean you pay dues only to your local alumni chapter or you pay separate local and international alumni dues to be considered an active alumna? If you are not a dues paying alumni member, why not?

I pay dues to our local chapter as well as our Executive Offices.

I know that AOP, DDD, DC and SC have Life Loyal programs and I'm sure there are more. If your GLO has a "Life Loyal" type program, are you a member? If not, why not?

DG doesn't have a "Life Loyal" program that I'm aware of. I try to support the Delta Gamma Foundation with monetary donations when I can and I always support Foundation efforts with my time.

Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, Inc.
 

Are you involved in the local, regional or (inter)national level?

I'm helping my region establish a chapter locally.

What do you do, specifically?

I am the assistant coordinator & recruiter for my prospective chapter. Meaning, I am in charging of planning events, meetings and fullfilling all the needed requirements to become a chapter. I'm also in charge of locally recruiting new and inactive members.
And I am the webmistress for my undergraduate chapter's website.

Why did you choose this area of involvement?

Well, I was inactive in my sorority for awhile, because I no longer lived where my chapter I was. And me and my regional directors agreed that the only way for me to become active again was to join a chapter that was closer to my home. So I decided to locally help them with this mission that they've been struggling with since '04.

And I started my UG's website back in '03 and our website has won national acclaim within our sorority. They like what I do so much that they asked me to continue on for another year.

Are you also a dues paying alumni member of your GLO? If so, does that mean you pay dues only to your local alumni chapter or you pay separate local and international alumni dues to be considered an active alumna? If you are not a dues paying alumni member, why not?

I still pay my dues. It's kind of pricey, but I pay chapter, local and regional dues.

I have been an alumane association president since graduation in 2000.

I was house corp president 2000-2003.

I was a going to be a Sigma Sigma Sigma advisor but the colonization in town didn't work out b/c the small school ended up voting against a greek system at the last minute...sad

I will always be active b/c KD gave so much to be that I feel a duty to earn my letters and send a good message out to all the KD ladies out there that question getting back into the swing of things.

As for dues, after graduation I pay when we have national foundation drives and alumnae dues.

My local Phi Mu alumnae chapter has just met together to reorganize. I'm not sure what my role will be, but I plan to be as active as my schedule will allow. I'm in leadership with the Junior League in my city on top of family and work. One of my priorities will be helping with our collegiate efforts. I think that should be a major thrust of alum groups.

You know what? I'm not. But I really would like to be.

I "graduated" from Theta before I graduated from school. I got into a very bad car accident and applied for medical leave, but since I had 120 credit hours my national office sent me a letter congratulating me on becomming an alum....anyway....I plan to become active as soon as I graduate.

Reading this thread has gotten me really excited about being an active alum :)

fifi225: Glad to hear it. Don't worry about when you become active there are many times that we all have many other things on our plate....I know I have lots of members in my alumnae association that just now became active. It is hard when you work full time and have a family or anything else that take priority...I am sure your org will love to have you! Good luck