Cool Stories
 

This is a fun one .... Anyone have any cool stories from the Alumni who have visited your house?

Our housing corp is filled with Alumni from our chapter and they always have something fun to say about the house. In the 50's apparently it was lights out at 10pm but a few rebellious girls would stay up until 2am gossiping and still get to class on time at 7. One alumni mentioned that she would have never wanted boys upstairs anyways because everyone was always running around in rollers and just their robe.

The funniest thing an alumni told us was a bit of advice : to have pasta before you go out drinking because it's a good base. Ha!

surprises
 

This is a good topic! I have 2 cool alum stories.

#1 My friend was a the local bakery to get lunch. She happened to be wearing a Phi Beta sweatshirt & was just standing in line. This elderly-appearing lady turned around & said "Are you a Phi Beta? I'm a Phi Beta!" So they got to talking, and the lady loved the sweathsirts. It turns out she lived in the same town as our university, and was an alum from our chapter. My friend got the lady's address & phone #, and we sent her one of those sweatshirts. Very cool


#2 Last summer (2000) was our last National Convention year. It was in Columbus, where my collegiate chapter is at. One of the alumna in attendance had graduated from the school & was from that chapter (class of 1942). Of course, we had an evening at the university, and went to visit our chapter's fraternity room (no frat/sorority houses on my campus :(). Our GLO is a performing arts organization, and she had been a singer. The chapter had laid out all of their scrapbooks on some tables, along with awards, etc.

As people were browsing through them, she suddenly stopped & let out a little gasp. She had been looking through a scrapbook from the year she graduated, and looking at old friends. Then she came across her very own senior recital program, preserved in the pages of this old book.

It's hard to describe it, but you definately felt a connection to this person you had only known for 2 days. She was part of the history of what my chapter had grown into! It was really cool. :D

#2a That same alumna had been commenting on how different the campus was since she'd last been there. However, as we were heading back to our cars to return to our hotel, we walked through an entrance way. She stopped, very excited. It was the exact spot where her husband had proposed to her!

God, what a beautiful story!!!!!:)

Yep Alums still a have a deep thought for the Chapter!:)

I had brunch with a fellow Delta Gamma here in Melbourne!
 

Hey Gang,
Just wanted you to know that while I have been here in Melbourne, Australia I met up with and had brunch with Christy, a Delta Gamma alumna from Cal State-Long Beach! It was really great! I emailed her while still in North America and basically said, "Hi, I am a DG too, can we meet when I come to Melbourne?" And she wrote me back and said, "yes". So we emailed back and forth a bit and at long last, we met for brunch and it was really great!

CutiePie, how sweet! I'm glad you got a chance to meet a new sister. :D

I posted this in the ZTA forum, but I'll share it here. Even though I'm an active, I went to a ZTA Alumnae Christmas party last week here in SC, and I found out that one of the alumnae there has a little sister (in ZTA) who lives in Paris. Why does that make me so happy? I'll be studying there next summer (as will two other sisters) and we can hook up with her for dinner! She's from Columbia (my hometown) too so I really look forward to meeting her. Thanks for sharing your story - hope mine made sense! (I'm on a li'l cold medicine so I'm a bit fuzzy in the head, y'know?)

partyin' alums
 

When I crossed a bunch of alumni came down for ritual and the ensuing party. It's always interesting to see what the house had been before you joined. So then they schooled us in some drinking games from back in the day.
This was my first real alumni experience and I was impressed at the immediate bond that springs up between alums and newbees. College must've been a magical time for these guys, and they're always invited to relive them. Fraternities (and sororities for that matter) really are for life.