High Rho vs. Alumni Association

[john1082]

The rewrite of the C & SC may address some of the ambiguity regarding who does what to / for whom Rho vs. ALumni Ass'n vs. House Corp, etc.

If I were to go looking for the lost guys I might start with a snail mail mailing; send a card, and on the back ask parents top pass along to their son. Send it first class with a return address and you'll get some returns - these will be confirmed lost guys.

Ask you alumni to drop the Rho an e-mail - have a simple e-mail address, like BerkeleyAlumni@???.com Be sure to collect their class and / or zeta #. Make sure that this e-mail address stays active FOREVER!!!

Don't use some silly e-mail address like O_U_8_1_2_Dude@sk8tr.com as that will be an instant turn-off. It is time to grow up.

As you build an e-mail list use the zeta numbers that you collect to put together a list of 'natural friends' that is, folks who were in the chapter at the same time. Few alumni will cut themselves off from ALL contact with their friends; use these folks in close zeta number proximity to track down the lost guys with similar numbers.

That is how this treasure hunter would do it.

Originally Posted by DeltaPhizeta332

Our chapter is only from 1989 and we had a few problems so basically all of our Alumni come from 2000. With that being said they are all too young and recently removed and far away for us to form an Alumni Association or any type of board for alumni. Our city is small so once people graduate they move away.

Our High Rho does Founder's Day, our Newsletter, the website and everything. What we have been starting on is a Alumni Golf Tournament that they Alumni have basically been in charge of and all we do is fork over some money and get Actives to get involved as much as they can.

Some chapters are forunate enouhg to have extreme alumni support financially and in accordance with attendance. However other chapters are young or small or cut ties with Alumni due to the changes in technology over the years. Headquarters has names and numbers of every single person ever initiated at our chapter. However, any names from before 2003 are parents names or from locations where alumni no longer live and due to lack of progress with past High Rho's some of those names are essantially lost forever.