Who is a Founding Sister/Brother of their Chapter?

[WhiteDaisy128]

I don't know how other GLO's work, but this is my DG experience:

People who wanted to be officers or directors gave speeches at chapter and were voted upon. Being an officer in a colony is a ton of work with a lot of meetings, but it is also very fun being in the loop so to say.

Don't expect the sorority to jump right into the social scene, you will have mixers and stuff, but much of your first semester will be filled with meetings after meetings. You have combined new member (which everyone is) meetings with chapter meetings, which could last up to 2 hours. That doesn't include other comittee meetings held before hand. Some officers had meetings from 4-19 PM on Sunday nights (the last two hours being a chapter meeting).

The sorority has to learn all the national rules and regulations, which can be overwhelming.

To establish a good rep on campus, grades must be kept up, and we must participate in Greek Week and other Greek events with a big showing.

Some girls will drop, because it's not what they expected...but colonizing members lay the foundation for a great chapter...some people don't want to do the work.

Then you have move in to a new house. All the furnature has to be ordered and people have to volunteer to move in the house.

You have to have intensive recruitment workshops because most of the girls will have never even been through rush and you are expected to immediately be as competitive as the other chapters on campus.

All the fraternities want to do stuff with you, but don't always understand why you can't have alcohol there or why there isn't room in your schedule to fit in a mixer (DG requires 2 DG free weekends a month).

There is just a lot of work...but when you do all this work, you grow super close to your sisters. You laugh together, cry together, get frustrated together, and celebrate together. The pride that you get starting a group is amazing. It's neat to say that I am the 50th sister EVER to be initiated into the Eta Kappa Chapter of DG, AND a member of the very first pledge class...it's just cool.