You need to build a procedure into the chapter. Its not enough to have an alumnae chair, they have to have a specific job that is ongoing.
There are some ways to cheat. If the chapter has a web site make sure they have a secured part of it and put the minutes online.
Or create a listserv and put all the alums emails into it and put the minutes of chapter meetings on it. It also encourages alumn to talk amongst themselves.
If all events are on there, then alum are about upodates a s possible, and i assume that you are welcome to stop by normal chapter events?
This once a year or once a semester Alumni Day is stupid. You should have that and also invite alumni to your normal chapter functioning including formals and semi formals.
Formals and semi formals can also be a sense of revenue beucause you can over charge the alum that attend.
But you need to set upa chapter process, and honestly, there should be a National process or procedure to cover all this.
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Originally posted by 33girl
Unless the alums are coming in from the bar of course. 
Seriously - if you are having problems with the way the collegians are treating you or feel they are being disrespectful, SPEAK UP and criticize constructively. The lack of mail could be due to lack of funds, and the unpreparedness for an alum event could be due to a lack of chapter communication that needs to be addressed.
But the collegians won't know anything is wrong unless they're told that no, just because this is the way it's always been doesn't mean that's the way it will always be. We had crappy alum relations when I was a collegian - my senior class changed that by coming back not just to have fun but also offering help and criticism when needed. It's a two way street. It changed the way actives felt about alums, and I am as close with some sisters I met as an alum as I am sisters I actually was in school with.
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