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Originally posted by doubleblue&gold
No matter how hard or inconvienient it may to be for them to get there, they should still be invited----that's up to them. As said before, when you want something else from them, they'll remember whether you welcomed them for other occassions.
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I think you misunderstood what I said.
They were never told that they were NOT allowed to come - which is the topic of this thread - it's just that they were not about to drive 200 miles for a half hour ceremony when they would have to turn around and drive right back home for work the next day. We never had alums at initiation (or most events) for this reason, it wasn't a tradition. If someone would have showed up, I'm sure we'd have been ecstatic, but it was no more **expected** than you expect alums to show up at study hours or whatever. Sometimes people made a special trip if it was someone in their family, but that was it.
I know that no one was ever offended that they weren't specifically invited to initiation. It's a lot easier now to notify alums with listservs and yahoogroups and such. We certainly didn't have the money to send all 500 alumnae invitations for initiation.