Though becoming a sister is an emotional and never forgotten time in ones life, so is leaving. When people graduate from college they have the whole world ahead over them and most of the time don’t ever look behind them at the past. So it is our job as active sisters in the bond to make sure that those alumni are always informed and can choose to be active if they so chose in sorority happenings.
How do you stay in contact with your Alumni? The first thing you do is either create a Alumni Chair or an Alumni Secretary position within your chapter. Once this has been created the next step is to create an alumni email roster. This way the the chapter can send either weekly and or monthly updates on chapter happens. Such as degrees, service projects, and other fun events the chapter may need help with.
Second thing your chapter should do is host alumni events. Such as alumni dinners and or luncheons. This is an easy and fun way to get alumni to come back, meet the current active sisters and really get a feel of whats going on in the chapter currently.
A cool project you could work on with alumni is to make a scrapbook with them. Ask them to send you photos, papers, and or stories of the past that you can make into a scrapbook. Ideally make this scrapbook digital so that you can always add to it and make this a tradition within your chapter.
Keeping Alumni informed and active can be an easy and fun thing! All you have to do is remember, without them you would not be where you are today.
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Billy Ray Poli
NED Alumni Secretary and Historian
Life Member #3045
