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I was chatting last month with one of the neatest Alpha Gams, she's in her 90s and is still in the center of the social whirl. We got on the subject of what it was like when she went through AGD in her college years. She was saying that International Reunion Day lasted all day and was quite the event of the semester, a far cry from our usual 2 hour lunch.
She said that her only regret was that they hadn't pledged two sisters who had the audacity at the time to wear cotton after Labor Day (you only wore silk or wool at this college). But appearances and how you represented the sorority were very stict then, quite a difference from the freedom of fashion we have today.
I think appearances are important. I started at the Univ. of N. Colorado and SAE was the top fraternity on campus, the men dressed very well (all the guys wanted to be one and all the girls wanted to date one). When I came back from exchange 3 years later (long story), the "grunge" look was in and they were pretty indistinguishable from all the other fraternities. My point is, appearances do matter when people have to pay fees to join a club. They want to see that their money was spent wisely (and for some people that money is hard to come by) on something that will set them apart from everyone else.
LIEP,
Amy
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