Size of Pledge Class

[Senusret I]

Why don't you ask them?

[Senusret I]

Delta Gamma (Ohio), Chi (UCLA), Rho Rho (one of the UC Schools, I forgot) also have large pledge classes. If you log into the apo website and look under statistics, the perpetual inventory can tell you numbers and retention data (i think) but my puny little mind is unable to analyze it on my own lol

[AndrewPiChi]

Will do, I'll take a look and report back. I fail horribly with statistics however.

Just curious, how many times have they been rechartered? I know all the chapters around us either were 1. dead for 20+ years untill rechartered (Beta/Kappa) 2. Died consistantly 2,3 even 4 times. (Rho sigma for example)

[Quala67]

NP originally chartered in 1961, rechartered in 1978.

Active continuously for the past 30 years.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by AndrewPiChi

Will do, I'll take a look and report back. I fail horribly with statistics however.

Just curious, how many times have they been rechartered? I know all the chapters around us either were 1. dead for 20+ years untill rechartered (Beta/Kappa) 2. Died consistantly 2,3 even 4 times. (Rho sigma for example)

Huh? Where did you get the idea that Kappa has *ever* been inactive? I agree with you on Beta, it was reactivated twice (once in the 1950s and once in the early 1990s).

I don't know if there have been any chapters that have officially been rechartered 3 times (plus the original charter), but I know that both Beta and Theta Chi (George Washington University) have been reactivated twice.

Note, for these purposes, I am *not* counting any lack of activity during World War II, where many chapters had all of their brothers go off to war and some number of these brothers returned to the school and restarted activity in 1945-46 or 1946-47. In this case no official rechartering was ever done. But this isn't even necessary for Kappa.

See http://www.tomstrong.org/kappa/b_date.html for a list of Kappa Alumni and the date that they pledged. Largest gap I see is a little under 2 years back in the 1930s.

[RhoRhoBro]

As a brother from a chapter with a average of 75+ pledges a term over the last 2 years, I can say membership retention is pretty bad with large pledge classes and it is pretty difficult to get to know everyone in your class.

However, of those brothers who decide not to be active, at least they did some service and were taught the the principles that the fraternity was founded upon in their brief time in the fraternity. Whether they carry on that on to the future is entirely up to them but at least they have the tools now.

For those who remain active, the opportunity to bond and to get to know each other is always there, you just have to take advantage of it. If you do the bare minimum number of hours and fellowships, obviously the experience will be different than if do 50+ hours of service, 20 fellowships, become involved in committees and run for office. What you put into it, is what you get out of it.