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Admittedly, I am not involved in our alum chapter nor do I frequently visit my collegiate chapter. It's not even a matter of not having time. It goes back to the whole 2-way street thing. Our alums don't put in that much of effort to keep in touch with each other and they don't do that many events with the collegiate chapter. The collegiate chapter hardly ever has alum events and, when they do, there's a very poor showing of collegiate members at these events. It's not uncommon for my chapter's alums to "disappear".
There needs to be more effort on both parts. Perhaps the collegiate members sending the chapter alums newsletters, birthday cards, holiday cards, etc. The alums need to arrange more fun events with the collegiate members. The socials the collegiates and alums have had at my chapter are where the alums come to the old chapter house, having some lunch, and sit around. Not too much fun. With all the theme parks being 30 minutes away from the UCF campus, I often wonder why we haven't had an event where the collegiates and alums all go together to Disney, Pleasure Island, Planet Hollywood, or Universal Studios.
I think part of the reason why our young alum don't get as involved is because they're like me in that they're trying to get their careers started on the right path....trying to get their foot in the door at their company. I'll pull 50+ hours a week of busting my butt so that I can make a name for myself. I know many of my pledge class sisters and the pledge classes that are only a year or two ahead are the same way. With trying to better ourselves within our career, we don't have the time to put into the alum organization. Sad. And, the older alum tend to have families to take care of. That usually leaves the much older alum to take care of the organization. Since our chapter is so new (1971), we don't have older alum. Our older alum are from other chapters.
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