[Happydaysf91]

I think its our responsibility to bring back our inactive sorors....I too think sometimes, we forget about those inactive sorors which is ashame. We are all one....we must encourage them and bring them back to the fold. Encourage your chapters to have mixers and etc. and invite inactive sorors in your area. If we win back one precious pearl, we've done a good job.

As far as new lines on the graduate chapter level, I simply believe we should be more selective -- that goes for who we select as well as the individuals bringing them to us. I too become rather upset after I find out that soror so-in-so who was just made last year/the year before didn't reactivate this year. I don't mind large lines (even though it takes away)....I just want everyone on the line to stay active. This is a lifelong committment....

As far as educating sorors...I understand what you are saying Soror, but really...we are talking about grown people. And I too know of people who don't know how to transfer/afraid to go to a meeting by themselves/nobody asked them to be active. I truly believe if you want to be active, you will be. That's just my opinion. I learned a long time ago, people do what they want to do.


Lastly, I do agree with Ape to a certain degree. However, there are still A LOT that slip through the crack!!!(maybe not as many as today, but still too, too many did). I know that a lot of the ladies who made us from the mid/late 80's who aren't active. I know older people who are not active for one reason or another who pledged, as we would say, 'back 'n the day'. Basically, anyone can put on a 'front' to get what they want! So if you want me to sing, dance, do a little community service, or put together a little shing-ding for you....I would do it to get those letters. Then 'poof'...I'm gone. Just like that. The truth of the matter is that you are going to lose some either way, pledging or straight intaking, because people don't wear their motives/desires on their shirts and it is not until the 'real' work begins we unveil this 'wolf in sheep clothing'.


Have a wonderful day!