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Originally posted by FirstAndFinest
I went with one of my sister-advisors to her little (biological) sister's initiation at MY chapter of initiation. What a TRIP - I had not been back to my alma mater since graduating!! Unfortunately, the house had not been redecorated since the year before I was a pledge. In fact, my senior-year composite was still hanging on a wall!
In helping the chapter prepare for the ceremony, they were 'missing' some item and claimed "we've never had X!" (They had trouble getting the fact that I had been initiated in that very house!!) I begged to differ and headed up the search party to the storage area. Not only did we find those items they "never had", but I found the scrapbook from the pledge class before me! Talk about Memory Lane!!
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One of my favorite "strange recruitment events while an alumna" moments found me in the kitchen, polishing silver at the very last minute, when someone charged in, saying we
couldn't serve punch after all, because the punch ladle was missing! At the time, I was holding a 70-year-old, newly polished sterling silver punch ladle, and I said, "Why not use this?" The sister was beside herself, saying, "It doesn't match!" (We're talking about a fairly new but certainly not pricy punch bowl here, which came with a plastic ladle!!)
I held my breath a moment (a very popular sport among alumnae!), then said, "Ladies, you will NEVER have access to this much sterling silver unless you plan to marry a Rockefeller or buy out Donald Trump!" I finished making the punch, put the clean sterling ladle in it, and gave it to the sister to place on the appropriate table.
So, F&F, when you talk about knowing what was there when you were there, I'm with you! It makes me crazy when nice things are misused or "walk off"!!
PS - Where do they keep the china? On the top shelf, which is accessed by one tall sister standing on top of the counter, and reaching up another foot or so!! She then hands it to a shorter sister standing on the counter, who stoops to hand it to a third sister standing on the floor. Madness!!!!
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