[nauadpi]

I just want to post an example of women staying involved in a NPC sorority. Those comments are something I feel I can comment on, while some other facts in here I dont think I really have a place to comment on them. But as I was saying.

I am a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. As a secret society for women we have been around for almost 152 years now. Every other year we have grand convention. This year it is expected for aproximatly 500 members to attend grand convention. Each of the 132 collegiate chapters will send their chapter presidents. In addition to that maybe 1 more representitive from the chapter will be able to attend. That adds up to 264 collegiate members. To be generous let us round that to 300 collegiate members. That entails that in the middle of a week when convention is heald some 200 alumna members will be attending convention. In addition to that I would like to add that one of the time honored traditions at Convention is "Old Timers Night." One specific tradition that night is to have people stand up for how many conventions they have attended. They start at one and see how long women are standing. It was found to be a tie between two women, one initiated in 1933 and the other in 1927. Both received a standing ovation from those in attendence. A hard note, was the the third women normally standing with these two to the end had recently been admited to the hospital.

In addition to everyting at convention there are also over 150 alumnae adpi chapters around the world. And an amazing recent story I have presonally seen, was when my chapter's new advisor was able to see one of her collegiate sisters that she had not seen in over 30 years. It was one of the more emotional moments in my life.

I hope my examples will give some perspective out there.