[AKA_Monet]

Here's my direct answer to the original question posed:

I was a senior in high school, but, my first event I attended that opened this world to me was for both Spelman and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. The members of the I.C.Y. 64 line picked me up from the ATL airport for the Spelman-High School weekend. I spent the night at one of the member's house. They put me to work to making campaign signs for the Spelman Student Government Association President for one the most prolific members I HAD EVER encountered. She was running for president. It was her speech that impressed me so much so that it made me, this small Southern Californian girl attend Spelman--because I wanted to be just like her!!! That was my true first impression of an event!

It was NOT stepping! NOT a party! And NOT how cute they looked... But their confidence displayed by a speech.

We all have reasons we choose to join, I wish that the superficiality of stepping could be one of them. At least we would have a definition we would be fighting. But seriously, as many chapter meetings members attend, stepping is the least event I would attend that gives me a first impression... But that would be me.