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Originally Posted by filipinoAPO
Can you expound more on APO-USA's concept of extension membership?
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Extension Membership was defined in our National Bylaws thru most of the 1990s, until it was removed.
Basically, a chapter was allowed to pledge up to 5 people who were students at a nearby school that did not have a chapter. The idea was that once 5 students at the nearby school were now Brothers, they would then 'jump start' a chapter at their school, taking it thru the chartering process. As there would be a core group of APO Brothers leading this, it was expected that stronger chapters could be quickly established (vs most chartering efforts, which would be composed of no APO Brothers).
This apparently only worked in one area of the country. As it either didn't work or wasn't used elsewhere, many didn't see the need/value of this, and it was gotten rid of, despite the efforts of some in the area it did work.