I can't imagine holding chapter with 200 girls! It's hard enough with our 25 (25 is GOOD for a Greek org at my school). Same goes for new member education.
The thing about smaller chapters (less than 15) is that they CAN NOT operate in the traditional presidential-hierarchical structure. In a period of less than 6 months, we lost about 20 girls to graduation, transfers, and study abroad. At that point, we had about 8 people. Our national headquarters realized that those 8 did SO much for the chapter (and all had at least one office), it was killing us. So, before the next Recruitment (we rush in the Spring), National came in and completely reorganized us and placed an Oversight Committee in charge of us. We no longer had officers, but we were divided into teams of Internal Affairs and External Affairs. Our chapter advisor, who was an accountant, did our books. Our traveling consultant was basically stationed at our chapter that entire year. Members of the committee (consisting of alumnae in the area and various national council members) required us to update them weekly about events, chapter relations, etc. It actually cut down on all the work we had to do, as they wanted us to focus on getting our numbers to a healthy size (but keep in mind, a woman from Alabama's idea of what a "good chapter size" is didn't go too well with a New England liberal arts college's realities). We've kept the structure, but the committee has decided that because we've grown to a healthy size for us and chapter relations are better, we can go ahead and reform into a traditional chapter structure.
White_Chocolate, I'd suggest your friend's chapter contact National. I've heard that Phi Sig is really good about getting consultants and others to help with chapters. It may be that the chapter size is great at 15, but they seriously have to do way too much work. I've been there.
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