yes, they do like to wait til the original sisters have graduated usually, but in the case of recolonizing after one year obviously they can't do that. in such a case they have the original sisters observe a silence period where they don't wear letters and don't affiliate with the sorority at all. sort of like being a rho chi.
i had to learn all of this when my chapter closed. sorry if i forgot to mention the one year thing and all. i'm looking more towards the future of trying to recolonize at a later date.
we didn't recolonize at miami b/c for now we aren't really working for miami's campus. regardless of our incredible sisterhood, we couldn't keep up with the 150 sister chapters such as AXD, pi phi, AXO, etc. etc.
when our chapter closed, we had over 30 girls go through order. at most schools that would be an entire chapter of good size. at miami however, unless you don't recognize majority of your sisters, it's not a very good chapter.
i'm happy to say that i'm going to be helping the kappa gamma chapter at U Dayton rush in jan. we'll have to do a numbers list again after this rush. see how many more sisters we have.
shelley j
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