Yup, there are an awful lot of us who will never have our Alpha chapters back.
It's awful to lose any chapter, but having a dormant Alpha chapter is especially hard.
Kappa and Pi Phi were lucky; it took decades, but both chapters were welcomed back in the late 1920s and early 1930s. I suspect this was due in part to the wife of the president, Minnie McDill McMichael, being a Pi Phi.
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