An Idea

[aephi alum]

Originally posted by navane
Hi Everyone,

About the dues - I have a suggestion. A community service group I belong to has a "pay as you play" type of system. There are no dues to be a member. Though, if you want a t-shirt, you pay for it. Want to go to the annual trip to Disneyland? You pay for it. Want an embroidered club jacket? You pay for it. Club dinners? You guessed it! You pay or you don't eat!

I like this idea. We're scattered all over the world, so it's not like we can get together for a formal or anything very easily. We have the force of numbers to get bulk discounts on things like T-shirts... you want a T-shirt, you pay your share to whoever is coordinating T-shirt orders. Same with badges. Rush, that lovely huge expenditure that all GLO's have to face, is not really relevant - how can you put on a skit in cyberspace? In short... we don't really "need" the dues.

(Actually that brings up another point... how do we "rush" ?)

[Tom Earp]

I like the idea of a t-shirt! I also suggest that if you are a member of a Greek Organization and you do something that you also have a way to alos wear your colors or name!

This will give people an idea what we do and if they ask about the GX then tell them it is a group of Greeks who are doing for the betterment of Greeks and the World as well by working together as one!

[Eirene_DGP]

Originally posted by navane
Hi Everyone,

About the dues - I have a suggestion. A community service group I belong to has a "pay as you play" type of system. There are no dues to be a member. Though, if you want a t-shirt, you pay for it. Want to go to the annual trip to Disneyland? You pay for it. Want an embroidered club jacket? You pay for it. Club dinners? You guessed it! You pay or you don't eat!

Get the picture?

This works out really well for us and I think it may work for Gamma Chi as well. For example, the person in charge of GC t-shirts will take orders and accept the money for it. She or he will not order one for you if you don't send the money. This also helps for people who are on tight budgets and don't want to have mandatory dues. Of course, we do have to trust the person taking the money...then again, people send their money to strangers on eBay all the time.


......Kelly

Navane,

I think this is a great idea! We do something like this in our org. For example, I order a lot of stuff for myself and I'll let everyone else know what I'm ordering and how much it costs. If they would like for me to order for them I will after they send the money.

[dzsaigirl]

Okay, I just now read this thread about Gamma Chi. (I finished school last week, so today I actually had the time). So how does membership work. Is it invitation only? What steps should people take to get involved? Please PM if necessary.

[chscrew144]

Originally posted by Leslie Anne
dzsaigirl~ I just sent you a PM.

i sent the form thing in, do i have to do anything else

[chscrew144]

Originally posted by aephi alum

(Actually that brings up another point... how do we "rush" ?)

even if we figue that out.. how would one be initiated?

[maggieaxid]

ok folks, today is the last day to sign up for the first round of big-lils. Tommorow I will be positing the first sets of families. If there is anyone else that wants to be invloved, please copy and email the form at the end of this post and email it to maggiek242@yahoo.com.
So here is the final list of people that i have as of 4/30 at 2:30PM Eastern Standard Time:
(*just added)
*Theta sig AGD
*Optimist Prime
*Lianne
*CHSCrew144
*AOX81
*Maggieaxid
LadyPiPhi
cutetiger
qtbecks
LeslieAGD
Brooklineu
APhiBee
AEPhiAlum
AOTTAlum
DGPhoney
EireneDGP
Josh80
PhiMuLady150
SigKapAlumWsu
Pandarose18
Heavenslil'angel
AXOAlum
Antsturge
PyschTau
UMGirl
Roxydiva4
LeslieAnne
Navane
KittyUK
TCSparky
FuzzieAlum
SATX*APhi
greeklawgirl
Fuzzie
Beryana

THE FORM FOR BIG/LIL FAMILIES:

USER ID:
FIRST NAME:
PREFERANCE:
LOCATION:
GLO:
CONFRENECE:
UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE ATTENDING/ATTENDED:
YEAR OF GRADUATION:

[Lady Pi Phi]

Hi,

I have a question. I have been approving people for membership that are on a committee or have signed up to be a big/little. There are some that are interested in joining Gamma Chi, but haven't signed up or anything. Should i approve them to join the community (where we will be having our ceremony) or should I wait and we can initiate them as new members after those that have signed up have been initiated?

Thanks,

Emily

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
Hi,

I have a question. I have been approving people for membership that are on a committee or have signed up to be a big/little. There are some that are interested in joining Gamma Chi, but haven't signed up or anything. Should i approve them to join the community (where we will be having our ceremony) or should I wait and we can initiate them as new members after those that have signed up have been initiated?

Thanks,

Emily

Only current committee members at the moment please. Membership has set us some guidelines for becoming a member of GC. Anyone else interest will be given contact information and details in another post.

For the PR committee list can you please add the following people....

aphijess2002
epsilonelp

This should give us about 6 and if you are already on and havent signed up on the yahoo board please do. Thanks!

[Lady Pi Phi]

There are more than 6. There are about 17, including me, because I was under the impression that those who had signed up to be littles we going to be part of the new member ceremony. I'm sorry about that. It was my misunderstanding

Emily

[GammaPhiBabe]

I've gotten a couple of PM's about the design for the T-shirt, so what I'm going to do now is have our art department work on a couple of designs. When they come up with something that works, I'll post a sign-up thread and a deadline. When I know how many shirts to order, I'll be able to tell you the price, but right now I think they will be around $10. When I know the price, I will post it on the board along with the information about the design and the pricing. (The more shirts ordered, the less expensive they will be. That's why I hesitate to name a price until I know how many to order.)

Also, these will be regular T-shirts, not jersies with sewn-on letters. Just wanted to clarify that.... the sewn-on shirts are a lot more expensive and take a long time to get finished. If anyone is interested in that, I'll find out a price for you, but they'd most likely be $20-$25.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please PM me....I am open to anything!

[Lady Pi Phi]

Is this in US dollars? Since I'm in Canada can I pay with a US money order, or can we figure a way to convert the prices into different dollars?

Emily

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
There are more than 6. There are about 17, including me, because I was under the impression that those who had signed up to be littles we going to be part of the new member ceremony. I'm sorry about that. It was my misunderstanding

Emily

When I said there should be about 6, I was referring the number of people on the PR (Public Relations) team. The two who I just asked to be added to the list since they signed up on the listserv and the other 4 (3?) who signed up on here when Tresa first started this.

As far as Big/Lils go, dont worry guys you should be part of the first (alpha) new member ceremony also since we (Im on the list too) are a committee in our own way also.

I have to clarify with my other committee members on membership of whether or not there will be a cut off date to join a committee or just for committee members to hand in their apps whenits posted. As I said for those who want to and are not on one, a thread will give more info on when they can join.

[maggieaxid]

Ok, i am totally confused about who is in, not in, gamma chi. but whatever, we'll figure it out at some point.

oh, and my new question is, do we give bids, or is it anyone who wants to join, can?

Anywhoo, here are the "Families". Here's a little explanation on how i did it. I tried to match people up who were in relatively in the same geographic local...however, those of you in the UK and Canada prob. have someone in the US. Then I tried to pair people in NPC, IFC, and MC with those who were non-greek, in locals, or professional GLO's. And I really tried not to have anyone in the same GLO in the same family....(which is really hard to do bc the Alpha Phi's rock! and have joined the most!). Some of you only have one other person you are paired with, some have two. Hopefully as membership grows, the families will grow.
For right now I assigned all the families a greek letter name, more for organizational benefits than anything else.

Ok, enough rambling: Here they are:

ALPHA – BROOKLINEU, LADYPIPHI
BETA-LESLIEAGD, AOTTALUM
GAMMA- UMGIRL, KITTYUK
DELTA- KAREN, APHIBEE,
EPSILON- SIGKAPALUMWSU, FUZZIEALUM
ZETA- GREEKLAWGIRL, JOSH80
ETA- FUZZIE, SATX*APHI, CHSCREW144
THETA- PANDAROSE18, ANTSTURGE
IOTA- TCSPARKY, THETASIGAGD,
KAPPA- CUTETIGER, HEAVINSLILANGEL, SIGKAPSWEETIE
LAMBDA-QTBECKS, PSYCHTAU
MU- PHIMULADY150, EIRENEDGP
NU- LESLIEANN, NAVANE
XI- AEPHIALUM, ROXYDIVA4
OMICRON- BERYANA, DGPHONEY
PI- OPTIMIST PRIME, LIANNE
RHO- LADYJ39, EM1843
SIGMA- REDROSE SAI, KRXALUM, BEARYCUTEAPHI
TAU- MAGGIEAXID, AOX81


If anyone has any questions, or if i forgot someone, email me at maggiek242@yahoo.com

[SATX*APhi]

Originally posted by maggieaxid

ETA- FUZZIE, SATX*APHI, CHSCREW144

So does this mean that I have a big and a little?