[eagreen]

I know this is a long time coming but I just found the blog (leave it to beaver to only think to trace her big sisters footsteps a year after she was initiated...she is an amazing lady).

The who fiasco was a huge blow to me. I did catch a ton of flack from my entire family (including aunts and uncles) who could not understand why I was willing to put so much time into an organization that was not of the same "league" as theirs. While I respect their opinion, I do not regret my decision one bit.

For the record...200 was spent (technically more that than but I worked it out to "donate" many of the supplies to the chapter to keep the cost down and provide tools for future pledge classes) After the 200 had been deducted we would have made 177. The treasurer, after finally calling me back (post 2 months of phone calls and emails since she had left the city for the summer) arranged to take the total profit (377) from me. Once she had the money she refused to reimburse the original costs, saying that it was not chapter policy and since i was initiated at the end of the semester, i was part of the chapter and had to abide by said policy, even if i was not aware of it. The whole situation blew. There is a golden liner though, keep reading....

As soon as I started having problems my biological sister's sister drive (no matter what sorority she was in) kicked in and she was able to give me strength. to bolster the aid I found in my biological family my big sis was there for me. It was silly of me to assume that my pledge mom was filling in the bigs about what was going on with the pledge class when she didn't even know herself.

I am happy to say that even though this experience gave me doubt I was able to learn from it and push on. I have just been inducted as m chapters VPM for the upcoming school year and can not wait to right some wrongs that have been done. I have taken your suggestions to my big sister and hope to be implementing some of them this year. I will be there for my pledges, no matter what. I see that they are my responsibility, no matter how big or little the task they will be completely informed. I am currently working on a pledging handbook that includes ALL of the procedures for the tasks that they will be faced with. Biggest of all I want them to know that m dedication lies with them, i am there to mold them as sisters. My pledge mom has been horrible to me since "the incident." To the point of uniting an entire graduating pledge class against my nomination for office, luckily for, my chapter saw through it and have put their faith in me.

Tragedy avoided