Pledge ideas

[EtaEpsilove]

I have a few different ideas that we've done before.

1. To encourage bonding between different pledge classes, we invite each pledge class to meet the newest pledge class once a week. So one week the seniors host a spaghetti dinner, the next week the juniors do an ice cream social, etc.
2. We also leave gifts for our Diamond Sisters (in ADPi this is the equivalent of a little) each week in our sorority suite (sorority house). For example, one week all the bigs leave blankets for the littles, th next week it's candles, the next pin boxes, etc.
3. We have all of our newest members make picture pages of themselves so we can get to know them. They leave this in the suite. Similarly, all of the older members make picture pages for the new girls, and our New Member Coordinator compiles them and distributes them to the new members.
4. We have a sleep over in our suite for all of the new members. That night we arrange for different fraternities to have their newest pledges serenade our members. We also have getting to know you games and watch movies and stuff.
5. We've done various stuff like gone ice skating, midnight movies (rent out the movie theater in our town for a midnight showing of a movie), ice cream social, etc.
6. Have a progressive dinner. Because we don't have sorority houses, most of our upperclassmen live off campus. We divide everyone into groups, and we have different sisters volunteer to host different courses at their houses. So, you go to one house for an appetizer, another for the main course, another for dessert. It's really fun to travel with all the new members, and you learn people that way. Make sure this is NON-ALCOHOLIC. We have never had a problem with that, but I've heard of it being an issue with other chapters in the past.

Hope that helps! PM if you have any other questions! Good luck!

[Zeta13Girl]

we just got new housing and one of the ideas i had were for our new members to develop an Idea of how they would like it to be decorated and bring each section to the chapter for the active sisters to vote on the idea if they like it or not.

You can do something like FREDapalooza or up all night FRED(fraternity education) where you have a bunch of games put together for new members to play and learn about the organization... on a side note as the former fred chair for my chapter we did the jeopardy idea but i seperated the new members onto seperate teams and they had to guess which active sisters they thought knew the most about the fraternity to be on their team(not who they liked). It's really funny when the game is in action to see which team wins.

Originally Posted by EtaEpsilove

I have a few different ideas that we've done before.

1. To encourage bonding between different pledge classes, we invite each pledge class to meet the newest pledge class once a week. So one week the seniors host a spaghetti dinner, the next week the juniors do an ice cream social, etc.
2. We also leave gifts for our Diamond Sisters (in ADPi this is the equivalent of a little) each week in our sorority suite (sorority house). For example, one week all the bigs leave blankets for the littles, th next week it's candles, the next pin boxes, etc.
3. We have all of our newest members make picture pages of themselves so we can get to know them. They leave this in the suite. Similarly, all of the older members make picture pages for the new girls, and our New Member Coordinator compiles them and distributes them to the new members.
4. We have a sleep over in our suite for all of the new members. That night we arrange for different fraternities to have their newest pledges serenade our members. We also have getting to know you games and watch movies and stuff.
5. We've done various stuff like gone ice skating, midnight movies (rent out the movie theater in our town for a midnight showing of a movie), ice cream social, etc.
6. Have a progressive dinner. Because we don't have sorority houses, most of our upperclassmen live off campus. We divide everyone into groups, and we have different sisters volunteer to host different courses at their houses. So, you go to one house for an appetizer, another for the main course, another for dessert. It's really fun to travel with all the new members, and you learn people that way. Make sure this is NON-ALCOHOLIC. We have never had a problem with that, but I've heard of it being an issue with other chapters in the past.

Hope that helps! PM if you have any other questions! Good luck!

You have amazing ideas, truly amazing. But I just want to warn you that there could be "bad" groups with not so nice intentions lurking on GC. What off campus groups like to do at my school is imitate the on campus recruitment process so they'll catch unsuspecting freshman off guard. We can't take first semester freshman so we get what is "left over". One of our off campus groups stole the ritual book from one of our most prominent sororities. (Don't ask me how.....)

[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by Kaorin_Kanoe

We can't take first semester freshman so we get what is "left over".

Heffa.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by preciousjeni

Heffa.

LOL.