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Keeping Interest
My wife & I just returned from the Lambda Chi Alpha General Assembly, and she came up w/an interesting observation while we were in Indianapolis. This may have more pertinence for male organizations (in my opinion).
It's her contention that the reason it's so hard for fraternities to keep their alumni involved after graduation is that many of the members joined solely for the social aspects. In other words, our rituals (and all the meaning they hold) take a back seat to the kegs we quaffed from as undergrads.
Since I'm an alumni board member for the LCA chapters @ my alma mater (Illinois State) & Northwestern, I can attest to the fact that many of the alums who stay involved probably took the fraternity's tenets/creed to heart and weren't just "in it for the beer". This is just a general observation--there's always room for variance.
With that said, do other GLO alumni/ae have any thoughts on this issue? If this is a problem for your chapter, how do you "bring 'em back"? I'll be interested in seeing the views of other GCers (BTW, we had 12 GC members attending the LCA convention!).
Interfraternally,
Bill F.
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Bill Foltz, B-O 130
Illinois State '77
"People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power."
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