Oldest chapter in continual operation

[ZZ-kai-]

Good questions, but I think it's more cut/dry than that. If you have a charter, you're a chapter. No charter, no chapter. To answer your question: I posted this question before, and sense no one replied to it, I'll ask again. Would a chapter that either reorganized or is recolonize - yet never closed per say (i.e. the charter is never pulled) - be considered as continuous? I think that if the charter is not pulled, then they're still a chapter. If the charter is pulled, then they can't be an 'active' chapter.

Originally Posted by TSteven

If the GLO's HQ recognizes the chapter (not the chapter stating such, only HQ) then the chapter may claim to be in continuous operation.

Continuous operation:
GLO HQ continuous recognition of chapter / University continuous recognition of chapter
GLO HQ continuous recognition of chapter / University does not recognition chapter at any point in time

Non-continuous operation:
GLO HQ does not recognition chapter at any point in time / University continuous recognition of chapter
GLO HQ does not recognition chapter at any point in time / University does not recognition chapter at any point in time

I posted this question before, and sense no one replied to it, I'll ask again. Would a chapter that either reorganized or is recolonize - yet never closed per say (i.e. the charter is never pulled) - be considered as continuous?

If there are any hold over members, then of course the chapter is still active. What I wounder about is something along this line.

A chapter has all their current active members (i.e. still attending the college) go alum at the end of say the spring 2007 semester. Then in the fall of 2007, there is a new pledge class and members. Would this be considered continuous?

[NutBrnHair]

Chi Omega's oldest chapter in continual operation is:

Rho Chapter, Sophie Newcomb College, Tulane Univ., 1900

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by ZZ-kai-

To answer your question: I posted this question before, and sense no one replied to it, I'll ask again. Would a chapter that either reorganized or is recolonize - yet never closed per say (i.e. the charter is never pulled) - be considered as continuous? I think that if the charter is not pulled, then they're still a chapter. If the charter is pulled, then they can't be an 'active' chapter.

It may vary from GLO to GLO. In many GLOs, the charter may not be "pulled" or the chapter "closed," so to speak, but the chapter is declared "inactive" or "dormant." If that chapter is later "reactivated" (it might be referred to as "recolonized" or "rechartered"), then the previously issued charter is still in place.

I would say a chapter can only claim to be "continuous" if it is continuously active as far as the GLO is concerned; an inactive or dormant chapter is continuous in name only, but not continuous in operation.