This is a good topic! I have 2 cool alum stories.
#1 My friend was a the local bakery to get lunch. She happened to be wearing a Phi Beta sweatshirt & was just standing in line. This elderly-appearing lady turned around & said "Are you a Phi Beta?
I'm a Phi Beta!" So they got to talking, and the lady loved the sweathsirts. It turns out she lived in the same town as our university, and was an alum from our chapter. My friend got the lady's address & phone #, and we sent her one of those sweatshirts. Very cool
#2 Last summer (2000) was our last National Convention year. It was in Columbus, where my collegiate chapter is at. One of the alumna in attendance had graduated from the school & was from that chapter (class of 1942). Of course, we had an evening at the university, and went to visit our chapter's fraternity room (no frat/sorority houses on my campus

). Our GLO is a performing arts organization, and she had been a singer. The chapter had laid out all of their scrapbooks on some tables, along with awards, etc.
As people were browsing through them, she suddenly stopped & let out a little gasp. She had been looking through a scrapbook from the year she graduated, and looking at old friends. Then she came across her very own senior recital program, preserved in the pages of this old book.
It's hard to describe it, but you definately felt a connection to this person you had only known for 2 days. She was part of the history of what my chapter had grown into! It was really cool.
#2a That same alumna had been commenting on how different the campus was since she'd last been there. However, as we were heading back to our cars to return to our hotel, we walked through an entrance way. She stopped, very excited. It was the exact spot where her husband had proposed to her!