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Alumnae support and traditions are not a make or break situation for a chapter to survive. My chapter has a VERY STRONG group less than 30 mins away with TONS of alumnae in the area... but we weren't inudated by alumnae when we started my chapter. The alumnae didn't want to leave their chapter. Our advisors were alumnae who had home chapters far away from home. There was a handful but not an over abundance.
Also one of the great things about starting a chapter is that you get to be apart of the new traditions. I worried sometimes what it would have been like to have joined an established chapter with established traditions but to be honest I enjoyed the beginning.
So I think that a new colony can survive without alot of alumnae support and without estabished traditions. Adding a chapter also makes a campus change some of its old traditions... I know that at Georgetown, my colonizing group started the tradition of taking chapter pictures on the college sign and now chapters that have been estabished for 30 plus years are doing this... so....
CONGRATS TO AOP and all the NEW COLONIZING MEMBERS!!!!
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Each day has enough trouble of its own!" ~Matthew 6:34
Last edited by GtownGirl98; 09-07-2006 at 10:58 AM.
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