MooseGirl, I can totally relate! My Chapter sat on their hands and so did the Alums!
I had an incident at our Founders Day Dinner 3 years ago and got really incensend!
Got back in with 100 % of my self and was designated as the official locator! I guessed my voice would carry weight!
I contacted International and asked for the disc of my chapter and started there.
I already knew local Brothers and contacted them or their parents if that was all I had. I started out with 10 E-M and have built to @ 190. Because of the phone cards I sell in my store,I was able to contact Brothers all over the country and got updates from them. I used search engines looking for names. i found names and called them. A lot were wrong but I hit a Gem of one. Found the parents of # 8 and called him. It is a long hard struggle but at the last Founders Day which we used a hook as the 35 th Anniversay of the Founding of the local, we had 80 +.
I am now pointing to the Homecoming and then next Founders Day again to get even more back!
The Alums are the life blood of any chapter as they are the ones who will work with and go the extra mile! Not all of course!! We are looking to build a new house and we do not want to put the chapter in over their heads so we started a Building Drive!
It would behoove the chapters to stay in contact as there are some hard driving Alums such as my self who get others and who get others ETC. ETC> ETC!
I keep pushing the actives to keep the Alums informed of what is happening!
I dont know how many times I got E-M from Alums who say keep the info coming as like to see what is happening even though they cannot be there!
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Tom Earp LX Z#1
Pittsburg State U. (Kansas)
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