Hey, AOPirose (Roses to you),
Oh, dear, I think you must have misinterpretted of my post. So sorry. Let me try to be more clear. My typing fingers don't always write what my mind is thinking.
As I mentioned in my post, I just roughly divided the number of total AI's done in the
history of the
whole fraternity (about 900) by the number of years that the fraternity has been doing AI (In theory, less than 107 because the first AI was not done in the very first years of the fraternity).
8-10 AI per year is, therefore, just a ROUGH, UNOFFICIAL number for the
whole fraternity.
And, yes, I agree that figuring the average number of AI per year by doing that type of oversimplified calculation would probably be skewed by either
a) years that chapter colonizations occurred
or
b) several mothers/family members were inducted at once.
I also suspect, but do not know for sure, that there have been more AI's in this previous decade than others.
Make sense?
Sorry to have such a poopy calculation method, but I could not think of a better way to state what I thinking....So sorry to have caused confusion. My husband thinks that I am HIGHLY gifted at causing confusion...
I tee-totally agree that there are more than 10 women in the US and Canada that would make GREAT AOII's or members of ANY of the organizations. (Gotta love the term: "Sisters Without Badges")
So this raises a question....How do we find them? I feel that most women have NO idea that AI exists.
Roses,
Silver