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Originally Posted by DGTess
... GC has helped me to write recs (though I've probably done fewer than half a dozen in 40 years) and has definitely helped me to understand my alumnae sisters better - many of them had the big-chapter experience that is completely foreign to me.
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As a regional official, I learned how all sizes of chapters operated, from one that had about 17 to one that had around 150. They operate about the same. They all have the same types of members, they all do the same types of things, just in different proportions.
A big chapter will have an officer for every aspect. For instance, a big chapter might have a chairman of swap T shirts and another chairman for other kinds of T shirts. A very small chapter would have a vice president: finance whose duties included ordering T shirts.
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Originally Posted by DGTess
I can't imagine a chapter of 50 or more, much less 200.
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Alabama has chapters with about 280 members each - a couple have 300. Even the new houses can't seat all those members at dinner at one time. Heck, there are restaurants out there that don't have that many customers all day, but the sorority house kitchen is expected to feed that many 3 squares a day? I can't wrap my mind around it.
But with that many members, not all of them are going to be there at any one time, just like all church members are not all at church at any one time. A certain percentage is going to be out for an excused absence. The proportion is roughly the same as when we were a chapter of 50.