[ASTalumna06]

Ok everyone. I’m sorry to have kept you waiting. But I’ve been keeping in touch with the sisters all week, and up until yesterday, they were still waiting on one more girl to accept her bid. But now I’m finally able to tell you that we got...
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9 new members! ... bringing the chapter to 24 sisters, which is the most I’ve ever seen it at!

The chapter had originally voted on many PNMs, and they distributed 13 bids. 4 of the girls joined other chapters, but all of them were back and forth between us and another one, and made that known to the sisters, so it wasn’t that surprising. Still disappointing, but at least they weren’t completely blindsided.

But the sisters are all really excited and the new girls are already very involved with the chapter. One of the new members (the nice one that I met at the fraternity house a couple weeks ago) is very artistically talented, and she drew a picture of our letters with yellow roses around it for one of the sisters that she’s become close with. Everyone seems to talk on Facebook, congratulating the girls on receiving bids, and they try hang out together whenever possible. I’m happy to see the sisters are so welcoming and making the new girls comfortable with the sometimes uncomfortable situation that is the first week of being a new member.

One of the new members is a senior, but she’s already been talking about getting involved after she graduates. Myself and another alumna are attempting to start an alumnae chapter here in Erie, and she has already expressed interest in helping us to get it off the ground. Anyway, in addition to her leaving, there are only 2 other seniors this year. Which means the chapter will start with 21 active sisters in the fall. I’ve only seen the chapter at 19 members once, and that was in spring after a new member class was initiated. With 6 seniors graduating, that left 13 sisters starting the next semester. So they're definitely in good shape!

The chapter has clearly worked very hard over the past few weeks. With about 10 sisters graduating in spring of 2010, they are trying very hard to build the chapter numbers up, and I’m very proud of everything they’ve done.

I’ll be sure to post pictures when I get some!

(p.s. From what I’ve heard, ASA has 9 new members also, and Theta Phi gave out 8 bids, but I’m not sure if all of them accepted. Either way, it was a very successful recruitment period for all of the chapters, and I hope that the trend continues here!)