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Minimum Age for Membership?
Delta Gamma recently updated their website and in it, they had some "Fun Facts".
One fun fact which caught my eye was this:
The minutes of September 1879 from the mother chapter proposed a house fee of 35¢, and an initiation fee of 50¢, and a rule that no one under thirteen years of age should be admitted to the club. (Note: In the early days, Delta Gamma was first called Delta Gamma Club, not Fraternity. That changed later.)
I should also clarify that Delta Gamma was not founded at a university...rather, it founded at what was then, a prepatory school for girls (my 3 Founders were teenagers).
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And now my question...does your org have a minimum age on record for membership?
I know that the reality is that there are some smart cookies out there who skipped a grade or two, and could feasibly be a freshman at age 16?
If you had a someone who was much younger than the "typical collegian"....how young do you think is too young?
15? 14? 13?
Does your National have any hard and fast rules on this?
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