Are you an active alumni member?

[DubaiSis]

I have been actively involved, off and on with alumnae chapters in 3 cities over the last 20 years. I started an alumnae group a year and a half ago and then moved out of the country so I had to leave it in other very capable hands.

I am constantly amazed how we make a decision at 18 based on a whole bunch of superficial crap that works out to be a lifetime of friendship, fun, philanthropy, etc. It's too bad selling my sorority as such a great group as an alum would fall on utterly deaf ears to this year's group of PNM's. I'm laughing here thinking of how recruitment would be different if all done by 20 year alums.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

I have been actively involved, off and on with alumnae chapters in 3 cities over the last 20 years. I started an alumnae group a year and a half ago and then moved out of the country so I had to leave it in other very capable hands.

I am constantly amazed how we make a decision at 18 based on a whole bunch of superficial crap that works out to be a lifetime of friendship, fun, philanthropy, etc. It's too bad selling my sorority as such a great group as an alum would fall on utterly deaf ears to this year's group of PNM's. I'm laughing here thinking of how recruitment would be different if all done by 20 year alums.

Am I the only one who thinks this post is contradicting itself?

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Am I the only one who thinks this post is contradicting itself?

I don't think so. I had to read it 3 times.

I think she's saying that when she was young she had some reasons for joining that were superficial and silly. She did not think about the lifetime commitments, bonds, and other things that really make a sorority. If alum were running recruitment it would fall on deaf ears because the things that she learned upon graduating aren't what many PNMs are looking for/responding to.