Initiation only when colony is chartered?

[LexiKD]

We waited as well. Alumnae were asked to attend the initiation and were intitated as alumna members(the only time KD initiates alum).

We colonized and were new members as one whole class, then elections, then installation.

It worked well b/c we had a live-in national officer who basically ran the chapter. KD has a great colonization program and it all worked well.

KD's sounds like Sigma's too. I'm sure it has a lot to do with the time of expansion, we expanded right before formal recruitment.