[19557] in APO-L
Re: Honorary Membership
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Cashman)
Sat Oct 31 22:29:34 1998
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 19:33:22 -0800
Reply-To: Derek Cashman <cashman@YAHOO.COM>
From: Derek Cashman <cashman@YAHOO.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
> My chapter has a person in mind for Honorary > Membership
into our chapter. However, we want to > educate this person about
our chapter and the > National Fraternity before we decide to
initiate > them as an Honorary Member. Do you think that would > be
okay to have this potential honorary member go > through the pledge
period with the rest of our > pledges and have a Big Brother, or
would it be > better to not even bother?
I think the whole point of Honorary Membership is to initiate someone
into the brotherhood that has already exemplified a high standard of
service, and seeing as how they have already shown the right ideas of
service should, "pre-qualify," them for initiation (in a sense). The
pledging program is not only meant to educate the pledges about the
fraternity, but also to train them in areas of service as well, so it
would probably not be necessary for most Honorary Candidates/Brothers.
I think it would be a good idea for them to know something about the
organization, so I think it would be a good idea to give them a copy
of the pledge manual so that they know what we are all about.
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Derek Cashman (cashman@yahoo.com)
President; Richmond VA Alumni Association
Alpha Phi Omega
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