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Originally Posted by 33girl
Rather than cards and care packages (and spending the $$$ which the alums are quite aware you don't have), just keep the alums up to date w/ regular emails. I am guessing that if the oldest people are 20 years out they all have emails (as opposed to a chapter founded in 1950 or something).
Be sure to put something in Behrend's alumni bulletin or see if you can get it posted on the website and have a person to contact. Some alums may have fallen out of touch w/ AST & not have updated addresses.
ASK the alums what they want to see - if they want to make it a weekend event, if they want to see a slide show, or what.
And be sure to impress on the actives that even though they're going to have dates with them, they need to pay attention to the alums as well.
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Last fall, the Collegiate Alumnae Liaison made it a point to track down almost every single alumnae member. She completely revamped and edited the alumnae list, so the girls have most of their contact information.
The Social Chair did send out an email to all of the alumnae asking them their opinions about formal, and what they would like to see happen for it. But she only received a response back from one or two of them. I'm currently trying to see if I can communicate with some of the alumnae through Facebook (as I obviously know more of them than the active sisters do) to see if their contact info has changed.
As for paying attention to the alum... that's another problem. It's not even that they're more focused on their dates. Half the time the dates all hang out together while the sisters dance. lol. But I don't know if the actives understand the importance of talking to (or at least introducing themselves to) the alumae at formal. But that's kind of hard to gague with there always being so few of them there. But I think that with a much larger number of them, it might be different. I know that it was 5 years ago.
Here's another question to add on...
Are there any extra activities that your members do at your formals? Or something that they bring with them? I know the Delta Chi chapter at my school, during their new member period, paint a brick with their name, their big’s name, a symbol that reminds them of their big, and a symbol that is important to them. At formal, they ask for everyone to bring theirs and they make a small wall with them. It’s actually a pretty cool idea. Maybe the girls could start their own tradition?
Any ideas?
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