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To the December Graduates Upon the Start of Alum Life

Many mid-year graduates are celebrating this weekend after donning caps and gowns and walking across a stage to culminate their undergraduate experience. The fraternity and sorority members among the graduates, who, when they first became members of their respective organizations, … Continue reading

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Congrats Grads! You’re Now GLO Alums

Congratulations graduates! This weekend’s twitter feed has been full of commencement pictures. To commence is to begin. That college days end with a commencement ceremony is important. In finishing a college degree, one begins a new adventure.  At the onset, four years seems … Continue reading

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Love Fraternity and Sorority Life? Here’s a Blog for You!

Sometimes writing a title for the post is difficult. Today’s title takes the cake for lame, but it will have to do. Thank you, Delta Gamma, for a wonderful visual on the difference between alumni and alumnae! *** Twenty-four years … Continue reading

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Congratulations Fraternity and Sorority Graduates and Welcome to Alum Life!!

On college campuses all across the country and Canada, young men and women are donning caps and gowns and walking across a stage. They are being presented with a diploma cover. Some of those diploma covers will have actual diplomas … Continue reading

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The Graduation Edition – Alumna / Alumnae /Alumnus / Alumni

I love the pomp and circumstance of graduation ceremonies. After all, I earned a degree based mainly on the color of the hood (two of my favorite colors wine and silver blue, which just happen to be Pi Beta Phi’s … Continue reading

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There Are No Alumni of Women’s Colleges or Women’s Fraternities/Sororities

“Once a Student, Always an Alumna” reads an ad on the back of the Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly, one of my favorite college magazines. Mount Holyoke College is a women’s college. It has only graduated women since its founding in … Continue reading

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