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Originally Posted by AGDee
Valuing the concept of lifelong membership and alumnae experiences are certainly closely tied together.
We don't know statistically whether it has become more common for women to transfer and want to join a different NPC or whether we are just more aware of it now. In my day, there was no communication between members of various NPC groups around the country and there was no way to ask such a question in a forum open to everybody. We simply don't know if this was common before. In fact, before our membership databases were on computer, it was probably not very easy to look up whether an individual had been a member of a different NPC. Now, any member can look someone up.
I think the reason a young woman joins a sorority determines whether she remains active. If she sees it from the start as a college thing- a way to meet people in college, a way to meet BOYS in college, a way to get to go to the cool parties- then she'll probably be done with it after college.
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I agree! Even though it may seem that we are less connected on personal levels than we were in the past, the fact of the matter is that we can find out anything we'd like to about anyone.
Alumni/ae remaining connected to their organizations was a major topic of discussion this past weekend. My fiancé, who joined a fraternity in college, was very suprised by the number of AKA alumnae we saw on our vacation this weekend. He had no idea that so many women would be involved in their sorority as middle-aged women and senior citizens! He's close with a few of his chapter brothers, but he transferred to a school where his chapter wasn't active so he basically put it aside.