Alpha Phi Omega never ceases to amaze me. That is one thing I love about our fraternity. Each chapter is so different and we all have different chapter traditions, but we are all bound in Leadership, Friendship, and Service. I have never heard of keeping your number when someone drops, but to each his own. To me it just seems like you are still giving honor to a person who does not exist in our fraternity; therefore, deserves no honor. My pledge class started off with 20 perspective members, but over time some people realized that they were not Alpha Phi Omega Material. That is ok b/c it's not for everyone. I love the brothers of my pledge class...I learned many things from them and hopefully they learned from me. I would not trade those other 14 members for the world and will never forget those lost upon they way and remember that they were just that...lost.
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