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Originally posted by aephi alum
Active members of any GLO have to show respect to the alums. Otherwise, why should alums volunteer their time and/or money?
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I think this very important point bears repeating.
At our TLC this past February, our International VP of Alumnae made a very good observation: When you have an alumnae event, you have to, in essence,
recruit your alums. By this, she meant that the chapter has to see it in the same way as they view a recruitment event. Collegiate members have to make sure they interact with the alumnae in the same way they would interact with a PNM. At a recruitment event, you would not leave all of the PNMs standing around talking amongst themselves, and you should not do that to your alums. Although alumnae do, for the most part, see alumnae events as a chance to see sisters they haven't seen for awhile and to catch up with one another, believe me, they will notice if the collegians don't bother talking to them and they may take offense to that. If the collegians take an interest in the alums, the alums will then, in turn, take more of an interest in the chapter, and not think "I don't even know these people anymore. Why should I help them?"
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