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many alums. break their backs assisting during recruitment, as recruitment advisors, tallying votes, washing dishes, taking out the trash,replenishing food on trays, arranging flowers, running errands, helping decorate,etc. they often are up as late as the collegians during recruitment AND have jobs And have families. now you want them to send out the rec. acknowledgements?
i don't think the issue if that hand written notes thanking the alums. are expected. the issue is that the alum gets NO acknowledgement at all and therefore the alum. has no idea if the chapter got the rec. on some campuses it can greatly influence a girls rush, if she has a rec.
email acknowledgement would be an acceptable way to communicate, and even some of our oldest alums have email addresses. it costs but a moment of time.i guess my southerness is showing but, just as i expect a gift recipient to acknowledge receipt of a gift, i expect a chapter to acknowledge receipt of a rec.
large chapters often have one or two girls who are recommendation chairmen. their job is to keep a rec. file, acknowledge recs. that have been sent in, and to solicit recs. for girls for whom they have not received recs. seems that small chapters could do the same.
as stated before, for fall formal recruitment, recs. trickle in thru out the summer, and there really is no reason that one or two girls could not check the appropriate box on a preprinted postcard, slap on a stamp , address the psotcard and put it in the mail.
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