My TBS chater does this every year at the first official band meeting where all the freshmen come in! We take girls and individually pass out suckers or lifesavors and ask them to drop by our table. We have all kinds of cutesy decor stuff and scrapbooks.
Having a Guestbook is awesome!! We did that, and then that night we sent out a "welcome to the Wildcat Marching Band and the University of Kentucky. My name is ..... and if you have any quetions during practice week or after here is my number. Take care...and have fun!" That is kinda welcoming... and they get excited that some upperclassmen are emailing them.
We also printed out invitese to our next event. THey had a cute lil zebra *our mascot* background.
the key is to look happy though! And no drama. I know this sounds stupid to even say. But I have been to COR/COB events where individual sororities are sitting at tables and the girls are having "omg at the bar last night michael kissed another girl...." "WHAT? a**hole"... Seriously, I walked up on that convo... not a good join our sorority type of deal.
