[GtownGirl98]

My "rush" was just as you are talking about. My chapter of AGD colonized in the fall (I think sometime in September). My class was chosen by area alumnea and the LC who was stationed at my school for the year. We were "new members" while we were acting as members... we had to be on Panhel (I was the delegate), we did the Panhell Tea, and we even had to host a skit night about going greek for the upcoming Spring Rush. We didn't have a house, we didn't have a chapter room... we met all over campus for about 2 years in various classrooms. We rushed out of frat houses, when they weren't rushing. We were initiated in December and started recruiting new members the following January.

We finally have a house and a chapter room to call our own. We won best new chapter at the convention last summer and are looking forward to our 5th birthday this year!

It would have been easier to have joined an established chapter, where traditions were set and reputations were known, but I wouldn't have changed a thing about going with the new chapter. I will be able to look back in 10 or 20 and hopefully 50 years and say I was apart of all those traditions. I helped set the stage for all the AGD's that followed me at Georgetown College.

Good luck and have fun.