[LouisaMay]

I see things a little more like 33girl stated. (Maybe it is because we are from the same neck of the woods!) My college didn't have a wide age range, but it was not unheard of to have older pledges--especially among the fraternity men.

When I first became a volunteer for ASA, I worked with a chapter that had a woman in her mid-forties. She was serving as chapter president when I met her. She was absolutely loved by her chapter, but there was no doubt that she was in more of an advisor role than anything else. I'm sure she did not have the "typical" sorority experience--whatever that means. She was able to come into a sorority, experience the rituals and traditions and friendships, but she didn't seem to want or expect all of the stuff that usually comes with collegiate membership. She had children, a husband, a job, and a home nearby, but she devoted her free time to ASA like other people might be devoted to the YMCA or their church or the PTA. She made it work, and I was so impressed by the way the younger sisters accepted her. It was a period of real growth for the chapter!

So like 33 basically said, something like that was fine at that school but would be DEATH to a sorority somewhere else.