Retaining your members after College

Hello DST Greek Chatters

My name is Tracy, and I am a Delta Zeta Alumnae from Frostburg. Hello to any of my DST friends from our campus!

I read a post from Virtual Violet on Greek Life (within the "what is the biggest sorority" that your organization has over 500 active alumnae-type chapters. It's fascinates me to see that your organization was able to instill this kind of post-college type dedication to your sorority that many panhellenic orgs are unable to obtain. My experience in my area (Washington DC) is that DSTs are very proud of their letters, and will regularly wear them or post them on their car, where Panhell sorority sisters seem to feel sheepish when wearing letters after college. It's that "get over it, college is over" type of attitude that I would love to see changed within our Panhell groups.

Without revealing anything that you can't, could you provide me with some of the ideals (or concepts) that your sisterhood has put forth that helps maintain the sorority for life attitude that your group so wonderfully exemplifies?

I have a wonderful alumnae chapter in Northern VA with DZ, but with over 3,000 area DZs here, only 60 belong to the alumnae chapter, and only about 20 of those are very active, although our sorority has always maintained that membership is for life. It's kind of sad and frustrating!

Thank you, and I enjoy all your posts on GC
Tracy