Minimum age for membership in your GLO?

[DGTess]

I, too, pledged a few weeks after my 17th birthday because I graduated high school a year early. I know my parents did not sign anything, and I wonder if the contract I signed was binding on a 17-year-old in 1973. One of those things one ponders in the shower from time to time, I guess. It's only in my wildest flights of imagination I think "but it wasn't a legal contract, so ..."

If I recall correctly, it wasn't until the early 1890s that the US proposed a nationwide system of grades, including "high school" and I think it was much later than that that mandatory attendance to a certain point was directed.

[aephi alum]

AFAIK, AEPhi does not have a minimum age for membership.

If you're under 18 (which can easily happen - I was among the youngest in my high school cohort, so I was only 17 when I got to college) you have to have a parent or guardian sign a financial obligation note stating that they'll cover your dues if you can't. But that's it.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

AFAIK, AEPhi does not have a minimum age for membership.

If you're under 18 (which can easily happen - I was among the youngest in my high school cohort, so I was only 17 when I got to college) you have to have a parent or guardian sign a financial obligation note stating that they'll cover your dues if you can't. But that's it.

I'd actually be surprised if a member of the NPC *didn't* have a requirement of a countersign/parent/guardian of the financial obligation note for a 17 year old. (Not sure what they'd do with an emancipated minor)

[alum]

My niece pledged and initiated into an NPC org in 2021 as a 17 year old. She turned 18 about a month after her initiation. Her parents didn’t have to sign anything regarding the GLO.