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Originally posted by AGDee
While I'm not in Hawaii with OTW, I do know that all of us on the Volunteer Services Team keep offering to go to Hawaii to do leadership training with those women!!!
Our Hawaiian sisters don't get chapter visitors like the chapters in the contiguous 48 do because of the expense.. not because of lack of interested volunteers! They also have to pay a whole lot more cash to get to Convention and The Leadership Conference (regional training held during non-convention years).
Dee
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What my sister said!
When I was a collegian we were fortunate enough to have our own Leadership Advisor in Ronda, so chapter visitors weren't really necessary as we had a wonderful Fraternity resource. Since Ronda graduated, however, we've been lucky to host two LCs and even a IVP! Our counterparts in the 48 don't know how lucky they are to be able to get visitors at a moment's notice.
Don't even get me started on the expenses just getting to Convention/TLCs.
But it's all worth it when it's time for Chapter Roll and your initiating chapter's the largest in attendance!
As far as Hawaii fraternities go, Erik was right on it when he mentioned TKE, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Phi Epsilon. They were all started in the late 80s/early 90s and enjoyed their heyday for the next decade or so. I can't remember who closed first or last, but they all folded eventually. Actually I think it was the TKEs who closed last because I remember Ray and some of the other TKE alums had a significant amount of pledges one year, and we had a number of mixers with them. Great bunch of guys. I miss them.
I pledged AGD when the fraternities were slowly dying out. hawaiiagd, who's also on this board, is a better resource for this info. She married a SigEp!
Erik, I think the school you're talking about is Hawaii Pacific University? HPU's always had a strong men's basketball team, so it might be that campus. AFAIK, HPU, Chaminade, and BYU-H are our 4 year colleges, but none have a social Greek system.
My campus has never been strong with Greek Life. Fraternities and sororities (they all pretty much started as ethnic interest groups) have been on campus since the 1920s, and many of these locals are still around, despite their dwindling numbers. Our numbers have always been steady, and generally we tend to have a bigger membership than that of the locals.
It would be great to have another NPC group to come on campus, but sadly I'm being realistic when I say I doubt it'll happen anytime soon. I would love to see the inter/national fraternities come back.
So now, at UH-M there's AGD, 3 (or 4) local sororities, and 2 local fraternities.