Ketchup was our last hope. We knew that if we weren't happy with any of the groups who presented to us, we could go back to the drawing board and pick even more groups. We did like them on paper, though, so we'd have to see what happened during their presentation. The presentation was the day right after Mustard's, at 9:30 PM.
They gave us a lot of good information during the presentation, and a lot of the things they told us set them apart from other groups. We would keep our officer positions and move into comparable positions in the Ketchup model executive board. They also wouldn't actually start the colonization until about a month after we would contact them, so that they could get organized and get the Zeta alumnae on board, too. They said that it would be disrespectful to appoint an advisory board with only Ketchup members, and wanted to include some of our alumnae initiates as well. They also didn't have a resident consultant with them, because they wanted to meet us before they decided who to hire.
They did bring the executive director, a regional consultant, a regional manager, several alumnae from the Pittsburgh area, collegians from one of their oldest chapters that's very close to Pittsburgh, and the national president. The national president was a cute Texan woman, complete with accent... and she even knew the mother of one of our collegiate sisters! They went to the same school and were both presidents of their respective chapters. Talk about a small world!
One of the amazing things about Ketchup was the sense of sisterhood that I felt from them. They were all happy and enthusiastic, and I'm pretty sure they all smiled the entire time they were in our house. And not a fake smile... a genuine smile. They were extremely articulate and intelligent, too. After I went upstairs to finish up some homework, people were still milling about in our living room. My big came upstairs at
1:30 AM and told me that she had spent a long while talking to the regional people about a lot of different things, including her study of art history. I could tell that she was completely in love with Ketchup.
Hybrid Mode
