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Chapter Reunions
Here are some ideas that you can incorporate into your methodologies for stronger chapter reunions and alumni involvement.
1. Work with your national headquarters and get as many addresses and contact info. from brothers/sisters from your chapter. This may need to be channeled through an official alumni coordinator who can provide the resources.
2. Work with an Area Alumni Association or chapter if one is available to help coordinate and plan.
3. Establish a Forward Momentum contingency plan by working with actives and getting them in on the event. If the event is successful and becomes a standard order of business then you have created the genesis of a tradition. As soon as traditions get rolling they tend to be hard to break up.
4. Encourage actives and continually offer advice, networking, assistance, and support. The actives should be taken care of and nurtured just as pledges are when they first join the brother/sisterhood. The actives will be more prone to becoming active alumni if they have the confidence to keep the fire burning. Remember that actives are the future of a healthy alumni organization.
5. As an active getting ready to go alumni start a turnover tradition to keep a link back into the doorstep. This could be as simple as handing down your old beer keg that you used to use as the base of a poker table or your old Playboy collection that gave you the reputation and earned you your fraternity nickname. This will allow you to return back to events, with a common thread, to visit the chapter.
6. Don't procrastinate. Contact your chapter today and ask when their events are scheduled.
Regards,
Boodleboy322
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