High Percentage of Inactive chapters...

[Brother Joseph]

Does anyone think that APO's rather weak (though it is improving) Alumni system has any affect on the number of inactive chapters?

Though my chapter never talked to our alumni and made no attempt to while I was there I could see how a strong alumni base either from a given chapter specifically or from a geographical area could possibly help keep a chapter going during difficult times. Of course there are schools where chapters will never work or have to overcome tremendous difficulties to survive (like two year schools) but those are and should be few and far between.

On another note I didn't know the Mount (Mount St. Mary's) formerly had a chapter. I was down there this weekend and was wishing there would have been some brothers around to visit with.