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Our chapter put together a celebration for our 65th anniversary (12 years ago), and had a nice dinner dance at a hotel. We publicized the event WAY in advance, but we made the mistake of saying that the actives were planning on going black tie for the event (one of the brother's parents owned a bridal shop and we got tuxes for $30). This scared off a lot of our alumni who didn't want to go to a black tie event (but did anyone tell us this until afterwards? nooo). So we had two alumni show up and it wound up being a really nice brother-date function.
Since then we have operated under the KISS (keep it simple stupid) system. Casual events and spouse/family friendly works much better for us.
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