[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

There's a lot of focus on the past here but I think in this instance it's important to focus on the future as well.

Where's your local going? Are you considering becoming part of a National org.? Because if that's the case, consider what you'll want to pass down -- your traditions as a local will take on a different face if you merge with a national GLO.

My chapter started as a local. We introduce new sisters to the name they went by and where they got THEIR start (they were Kappa Sig's little sisters) and that's about it. Our focus now, about 20 years later, is MUCH more heavily on Phi Mu as a national. Which is great; we chose to be a part of Phi Mu for what it could offer us as a national org.

What I'm trying to say is, if you're spending years and years perfecting rituals that won't be used in another three, take that into consideration. Now we use our old local's ritual for big sis/lil sis -- and that's it.

Other orgs. do it differently. The chapter of Tri Sigma on my campus thought there was NOTHING so important as their local roots (which, granted, didn't stretch back quite as far.)