Alumni/Alumnae who don't know their place

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by NotSoOldAlumna

Advice please on how to address this with her? Should I wait until I'm officially an advisor? Should I have a heart to heart with her before then, sister-to-sister?

This is a little bit of a lane swerve, but here are a few observations:

1) Is there some sort of adviser hierarchy? Is there someone who sort of oversees all of the other alumnae advisers? I'd go to her first with this issue.

2) After 1) and assuming they dealt with it, you ought to wait until it's official and you're an adviser. You want to be able to come from a position of legitimacy and not appear to simply be meddling in affairs which the recent alumna might think are none of your business.

3) Make sure you're the most appropriate person to deal with this. If not, bring it to the attention of whoever is the most appropriate.

4) Finally, I'm not sure how your meetings are run, but it might be appropriate (again, if you're the appropriate person to be advising these folks) to instruct your parliamentarian and President to enforce strict parliamentary procedure (if applicable) in that you don't get to speak unless you are recognized by the chair and that it is a privilege, not a right for an alumna to be recognized at a chapter meeting.