[bellwisdom]

I was chapter historian 2 semesters ago and needed to provide a chapter history for our new website. Well I wanted to do more than just a few paragraphs, I wanted to put together something big. I did everything in a timeline format but there was lots of stuff missing because information was hard to come by. I actually got more info from the University Archives, the University Yearbooks, and Greek Affairs. The chapter only had a one page paper about the chapter history so it wasnt as much help and the IHQ only had info that I already knew. I was also able to get even more info from the surrounding undergrad and alumni chapters too. It wasnt as successful as I wanted but I learned a lot more and added more to that one page history that we originally had. I also convinced the Chapter to add to the duties of the Chapter Historian, Alumni chair, and pledge class vice president's so that they are keeping something similar to a monthly log of what is going on so that 50 years from now no more info is lost if another historian has to write a Chapter History. If you have a National Historian I'm sure that could have great advise too.