33girl, et. al.
No offense to anyone on this thread, but I keep thinking on one tangent and everyone else is thinking about something else! (D'ya ever feel like your 2 steps behind the everyone else in the world? That's me today...not functioning in the brain department.
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Anyway, 33girl, you're right. You don't have to be directly working with your chapter in order to be an advocate for them. I don't think it's fair or right to totally abandon your chapter. Even if you're ticked at them when you graduate, in a couple of years the membership changes and they are different people. And I've seen where several people from similar chapters get an idea and think it will work for all. It's very easy for those blinders to go on sometimes. When I first got involved with National Staff I was a little afraid of speaking up...until I got to know some of the other staff/officers and learned
how to appropriately speak up (make sure you know the situation....). Now I know that if I speak up for my chapter, there are other women who will speak up for their chapters that are similar.
In my earlier posts I was getting the impression that Rudey was wanting to move up and do more on the National level. Rudey, how long has it been since you graduated? Is your chapter needing specific help (like they are on probation and need someone to clean up their bylaws, etc.) or just general help with "stuff"? Why do you think the time isn't right to help your chapter (without getting to personal...)?
PsychTau
(who this past year bled so much green and gold she needed a blood transfusion.....
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