"Delta Letters"

[guardedbystars]

Originally Posted by honeychile

LOL! I'm from the dinosaur days - we pledged for 16 weeks! That's a LOT of "Alpha letters"!

That IS a lot of Alpha letters!! haha... So did the girls have to write one per week like a rotation basis/picked at random/etc or did all the girls just have to write one period?

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by guardedbystars

That IS a lot of Alpha letters!! haha... So did the girls have to write one per week like a rotation basis/picked at random/etc or did all the girls just have to write one period?

Since our pledge class was the largest on campus with a whopping thirteen, we were pretty much guaranteed to write one every other week. I'm trying to remember who all we wrote to, but I do remember our (retired) housemother, the Alumnae Association President, our Chapter Advisor (who only came to one meeting a month max), the PD, Miss Blake, and whomever was in charge of Pledge Education at EO, for starters. It was as much an exercise of writing "the bread & butter note" as anything else.

And BBelle, I certainly remember Pledge Books, both the "official" one from EO and the Chapter one! We had to have 3/4 of the Chapter sign each of our Chapter one prior to initiation! The sisters would write their home/school addresses/phone numbers, their likes & dislikes, birthdays, and an "assignment" - usually to get the signature of someone on campus that the sister thought we should know. It may sound romantic & sentimental, but it was really hard on the grades!

[FirstAndFinest]

When I was a pledge, the pledge letters and sister letters were snail mailed. As a chapter advisor, i used to get snail-mail Alpha & Delta letters. Around 2001, we started having the EVP forward them via email to the entire advisory board (and CPD). That practice continues. I found it very helpful to get to know something about the women in the chapter I didn't work with closely (esp. after I rotated to new roles). This helps with Slating and for sorting out the various episodes of drama!