Why are you NOT involved in an Alumni/ae Association?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by EE-BO

PS- LOVE the Mikado reference in your signature! I have seen it many times. The best was when Eric Idle came to do it in Houston when Sarah Ferguson was in attendance back when she was Duchess of York. Idle pulled no punches with the "List" song, and lo and behold- the story of Sarah and Steven Wyatt (the toe sucker) broke soon after. Oh how prophetic Idle was that night!

That must have been awesome. I would have loved to have seen/heard that.

[EE-BO]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

That must have been awesome. I would have loved to have seen/heard that.

It was my favorite Mikado ever- but I have to say there was one other that got even more audience reaction. Alistair Donkin performed in Houston a few years later right after the Enron debacle. They added extra stanzas to The List song to cover all of that mess and all of the companies involved. It was an absolutely brilliant and painful thrashing. There was not a one of us in the audience who had not felt the pain of the scandal, but it was somehow theraputic to hear it satirized in the spirit of Gilbert and Sullivan.

[PhoenixAzul]

From a different perspective...

I'm an alumna of a local sorority, who lives really. really. far from her chapter. It was difficult for me to make alum meetings when I lived in Pittsburgh, and impossible when I lived in Scotland, but now that I live in Oklahoma, it is still really challenging for me to be involved in more than a cheerleader kind of way. I'd love to be able to make it to alum/pledge events, to certain rituals, to meetings and football games and formals...but alas, I can't.

And now that I'm beginning my career, I'm going to make provisions for the sisterhood in my annual budgeting. While a warm body is good, cash helps too! The sisterhood is also remembered in my will (which is how I found out my lawyer was a Sigma Nu. Small world!)

If there was an alumni chapter of my school in my area, I'd join (I don't know what the status of our Arizona chapter is?) because that would be a way to meet sisters, but without being in the area of Columbus, it can be hard to impact the chapter.