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This happened to me recently when I was doing a recommendation.
The pnm listed her gmother as being an "Alpha Gamma". I looked on our member site but didn't see the gmother's name. I called her mom and while her mom was on the phone with me, she was also on the cell phone calling her mom to verify what sorority.
Says yes, it was Alpha Gamma Delta and she even remembered the songs!
So, I called IHQ to verify that the gmother was in Good Standing, thankfully she was.
I called back to mom and got gmother's email address and sent her some info and suggested she update her contact info on the Alpha Gam website.
I still sent in the RIF and the gmother was going to send in a legacy form.
On another note, I know of an Alpha Gam who's mother didn't tell her SHE was an Alpha Gam until after the collegiate pledged. Not sure why.
But often, pnm's don't realize that it is to their benefit to make sure they tripled check with mom, gmother, etc. to see if they were initiated into a sorority and in Good Standing (if not, the member might say no, I wasn't an XXX and not have to explain what happened)....of course this applies to the guys too!!
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