Alumnae at Formal

[ASTalumna06]

This year, my chapter is celebrating it's 20th anniversary since it's founding. The active sisters would like for formal to be a large success, and they would like to have as many alumnae members attend as possible.

For the most part, the only alumnae that come to formal are locals who have graduated in the past few years. Usually, we don't see any more than 5 alumnae attend. We're a small chapter of less than 20, but the active sisters would really love to have a lot of alumnae come out this year. And so would I.

I attended the 15th anniversary formal, and there were a few more alumnae who attended, including some founding sisters who traveled quite a ways to be there. So it is possible to get some of them to spend a little more money in order to be there.

My question is... what can the sisters do throughout the school year to make it so the alumnae members will definitely want to attend? Alumnae communications have been difficult to maintain to begin with, so a few things they've thought of: Send Christmas cards, send "finals baskets" to the few girls who are in graduate school, email updates of how the formal plans are progressing, etc.

Any more ideas would be helpful!

(And keep in mind that we're always working with a small budget)