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Sorry your alum group is demographically challenged - I think you're right about it being a self perpetuating problem.
You might try emailing the association president to ask if she can help you can start an evening group. Each association gets a list from Kappa headquarters every year of all the Kappas that live in their area (that KKG HQ knows about anyway). Its just a big excel spreadsheet, but you can sort the list by intitiation date to figure out who the other "young kappas" in the area are. Then you can start making calls or send emails those ladies.
The night owls group in my association is just a happy hour group that consists of primarily the younger crowd. There was a group of 3-4 folks who organize it - they just picked a night and a place to meet and sent an evite out. I did learn a trick though, that if you call ahead to a bar and say you have a happy hour crowd coming, sometimes they'll give you special deals like free appetizers or something.
The Washington/Maryland alum group had a similar situation to what you describe - they had many older members and not many younger members, and it became self-perpetuating. Some of the younger alums in the area the started a night owls group, and from that they were able to grow a pretty good the group and now they have other evening/career/etc groups as well. If you can't find the washington/maryland president's email on the kappa website, PM me and I can send it to you.
Cheers,
Paula
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