BFulton:
The alumni chapter as a whole gets together probably 2-3 times a year. Our annual meeting (when members will actually listen to us talk about business)happens during Homecoming in the fall. We usually have a basketball outing during the winter (Ball State is a big basketball school!), and in the summer we usually have a day at a baseball game or a canoe trip or something like that. Now a big chunk of our chapter lives in Indianapolis (about 30+ brothers or so). Usually the Indy group gets together about once a month. Most of the time at least spouses are invited too, and a lot of times the rugrats as well. Usually people take turns hosting these gatherings. One thing that has become a tradition for us is to have a Thanksgiving pot-luck the weekend before the actual holiday. I don't get to make as many of these gatherings as I used to , since I moved to St. Louis last summer, but I still make them pretty often. Other brothers sometimes come from Ft. Wayne, Michigan, Ohio, etc. For the most part, these are guys that graduated in the 80s and 90s, but we make it a point to invite everyone, and we always try to get the recent graduates involved right away. Another big key for us is that most of the time we involve the families. It's funny seeing how some of the party animal types in college evolve into paranoid papas! As far as the business aspect of the group, we have an executive board of 8 and we meet monthly, either at our chapter house or at the national hq in Indy. In fact, I am going to a meeting to meet with the renovation contractors on Saturday, and then have to get back here on Sunday to start summer orientation!!!
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