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Mayo presented to us on a Saturday afternoon. They made a presentation to us and the campus community at the same time, and then we all stayed afterwards to have a conversation more tailored to the chapter.

The presentation was general information about Mayo and its history. Nothing terribly exciting happened until the general community left. They had everyone move their chairs into a big circle so it would be less like a presentation and more like a conversation. They asked us questions about the campus, why we thought recruitment was difficult, and so on. We asked them our questions about alumnae initiation (and they said that they would take all of us, minus anyone already initiated into another NPC group, of course), the transition, the colonization process, and anything else that we wanted to know.

One unique thing about Mayo was that they brought two women with them. One woman was an alumna initiate from a long-standing local chapter that they had colonized some time ago, and the second woman was from that chapter now. They talked about how they preserved the history of the local and still displayed items with their letters on it. Our chapter advisor made them tear up when she asked if they would be okay with us having a "transition" ceremony to pass the baton.

We were impressed with Mayo, because they seemed to really care about the chapter and keeping our traditions and honoring what we had accomplished in 12 years. They did appeal a lot to our emotions, but we liked the women that we met. Mayo had been my favorite while we were doing our research in the previous semester.

We still had two more presentations to go, though. Mustard, our favorite, was up next...