[naraht]

The procedure is a little bit different if you are at a school that had an active chapter at one time, but not much. If you were at Santa Clara University for example, which was Eta Alpha chapter, the group would be expected to try to contact alumni (with the help of both APO National and SCU alumni office) and investigate what chapter history was like prior to it going inactive. (and any alumni you do find should be invited to rechartering of course) The rechartering chapter would get the letters Eta Alpha when it rechartered. A chartering chapter at a school with no chapter would get brand new chapter letters. (BTW, SCU went inactive in 1956, so that would make things a little more difficult)

While every extension is different, some characteristics do affect the interaction with the administration. Level of Social Greek involvement on campus generally falls into 4 possibilities
1) Strong social greek system
2) Weak social greek system
3) No social greek system, but with National Honorary Societies
4) No national greek letter organizations.

I presume your school is in category 3 or 4 since I can't find any schools with strong social greek systems other than SJSU in the San Jose area.

Religious affliation of lack thereof makes a difference. an administration at a Baptist school might want to know about the successful chapter at Houston Baptist. A Jesuit school might want to know about Georgetown University.

And we have people on this group (not me) who have been through the extension process themselves. (I"ve been on sectional staff through a half-dozen or so)



Randy