Alum Chairs/Officership

[Tom Earp]

While LXA calls its Alum Chair High Rho, it is still an Alumni Officership.

I have been working with My Chapter for 40 + years and have been trying to keep as many email addresses as possible.

The Alum Officership is relegated to a minor Officer on the Pole of ranking.

I think most GLOs have done the same thing which I have come to the conclusion is totally wrong. The Alumni Chair should become a Major Office.

I have made it a point to try to get this changed.

So what You might ask?

While the majority of GLOs finances come from dues of Undergrads, all are in a money crunch and if membership drops, there is only one place to go for donations, Alums.

We have discussed this on LXA Thread and some feel it needs to be started on the Local level.

I feel it should be a two point attack, Local and a priority at The National level. This could be pointed out to give Active Chapters a better perspective.

We Alums are here because We Love Our Greek System and Each of Our GLOs or would not be here. So as We have seen, Actives Graduate and are never heard from again for what ever reason, true?

But, there are those who are out there and get lost and do not hear from the Chapter and interest wanes.

By getting a stronger person in the Alum Chair, it could and should benefit each of us.

Just thought I would throw this out and get some feed back from you.

I have contacted one of Our Board of Directors what My feeling are about this and He has agreed to bring it up and make it a point.

He stated that He also feels the same way.