Letters of Rec - Chapter Perspective

[Mevara]

Originally Posted by Titchou

In Delta Gamma we have City and State Sponsorship chairmen. If youu have something similar, I'd send an email to those where most of your students come from letting them know when recruitment is and that you are interested in recs on the women from there. We actually send the list from ICS to the individual city chairs and ask for sponsor forms on those women. So, we give them the list and all the info we have from ICS so they have home address, HS, etc. Each state chairman has a list of members in areas where there isn't a city chair and she can try to get one. It's a huge undertaking - but, hey, we're in the south so it's what we do.

This is interesting. What do the Sponsorship Chairmen do if they don't know the PNM?

[dgdramadawg]

Originally Posted by Mevara

This is interesting. What do the Sponsorship Chairmen do if they don't know the PNM?

They call people. For instance, the city that I live in has several high schools in it, so it would be impossible for a sponsorship chairman to know every girl at every school... but she could call me about girls who attend the school where I teach, and I might be able to help out there. It's all about getting in touch with people to find people who know the PNMs so that we can have a rec on file for every possible PNM.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by Mevara

This is interesting. What do the Sponsorship Chairmen do if they don't know the PNM?

NETWORK!!!!!!!!!!!! Frankly, here where we've been doing this since the dawn of time, we have a chair for each high school in large towns. So, say you need one on a girl from my suburb (we have 1 high school). I don't know her. But I know lots of folks here so I call a buddy whose judgment I respect and who has kids in HS, ask if she knows Susie Snowflake and ther you go. I call my friend the HS English teacher, the football coach,etc, etc.
We get the info the same way we tell PNMs to network for a rec. Ask everyone we know who is likely to know the person.