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Originally posted by DGHopeful
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I graduated from Vanderbilt, so I have the college requirement.
Perfect!
I am assuming that I was approved by the Executive Council for initiation because I was two weeks away from initiation and had to withdraw because of financial reasons. Do you think that is right?
I would say that since you were once a DG pledge (and quite recently), I would say that things look favorable. However, since you are no longer in college, my understanding of alumnae initiation is that you would have to meet the members of the local alumnae chapter and they would have to agree to having you as a new sister. I think this is so that Nationals can be assured that you would be a good fit with the local alumnae chapter and that the fit would be harmonious, thus they would want the local alumnae chapter to meet you and be in support of your petition to become an inititiated member via alumnae initiation. You would have to be very clear in a letter to nationals as to why you dropped and why you want to come back to Delta Gamma. It is also possible that with your situation being so recent, I would think that Nationals and/or the alum group would want to check with the Vanderbilt chapter.
Are you still in touch with any of your Vanderbilt DG pledge sisters? If so, perhaps some of them could provide recommendations/sponsorship for you?
Because I am in Honolulu, would I have to be initiated into DG at Vanderbilt?
No, you would likely be initiated at your nearest collegiate chapter and would be an initiate of that chapter (which I guess would be California somewheres). However, since you are in Honolulu, maybe the alumnae chapter would initiate you there (if they had the appropriate...err..."equipment", which they may not have). Your situation, being a bit far away in Hawaii is unique, so this is new for me, too!
However, if you were initiated in Hawaii, then the question would be, "what chapter would be belong to?" which I honestly don't know the answer to.
I feel so overwhelmed because there is so much that I don't know about the AI process. I read the information about the AI process, I am just not 100% sure what I should do and how I should go about doing this, especially in Hawaii where it's limited. Please respond back. Thank you so much!
I'll PM you with a bit more information!
Also, be sure to check out this:
http://www.deltagamma.org/alumnae_initiates.html
and this: (it's a super long link...be sure that you copy and paste the whole thing in bold, you might have to do it in 3 parts...it kept getting cut off because it's super long!)
http://www.deltagamma.org/
alumnae_dg_101_alumnae_init_handout_for_the_love_
of_dg_formatted.doc
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A few minutes later...
I also had another thought, that if you were approved for initiation, perhaps you could come to DG convention in June 2004 in Arlington, VA & Washinton, DC and potentially be initiated at Convention?? DG has initiated women at convention - I have definitely heard of it happening!
Hypothetically, if you were initiated at convention, I would imagine that you would become a member of Vanderbilt (I guess they would "tag you on" to Vanderbilt), but I'm not sure. It's all so preliminary, but we are excited that you are here!
How awesome would *THAT* be?