[19572] in APO-L
Re: expansion efforts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (EC92@AOL.COM)
Wed Nov 4 16:21:39 1998
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 16:21:30 EST
Reply-To: EC92@AOL.COM
From: EC92@AOL.COM
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Since you all are spending time on this one...
My old chapter tracked me down through yearbooks and gleaning names. Then they
hit up the same office that sends mail to alumni for donations for last known
addresses. Trust me, they know an address where mail is accepted for a person,
whether they make donations or not, in most cases.
That got them 50% or so. Asking those people to identify anyone they couldn't
find to forward info on their brothers increased that number. Finally, the
school had one of those companies do a book listing alums and addresses and
employers and stuff, by having that list from the yearbooks they had names
they could search for in that book and tracked down more.
But without having made records with home addresses and such and keeping a
continuing history year to year it becomes just that labor intensive. You have
to decide if you want to spend the time at it or if other things are more
important. In that chapter's case, two individuals took it on as a summer side
project so it didn't eat into school (or I would assume party, or anything
else) time. They only needed to make arrangements with the school for the
potential addresses before they left and save receipts for the chapter to
reimburse their first mailing to try to find us.
Tom Petrik
