Congratulations to the Class of 2018! Graduation is the beginning of one’s life as an alumna or alumnus. Seize the opportunity to be a part of the alum life of your organization. If there is an alum club/chapter where you’ll be heading, join it. Give to your organization’s foundation. I know you’re probably strapped for cash and don’t have much. Give up ordering few coffees or other beverages and send what you would have spent to your organization’s foundation. Give at least $20 this year, $25 next year. Get in the habit of giving back to the organizations that helped shape you.
Work for your organization. It can be as simple as being on the lookout for potential new members. Speak of the good things your organization does. Keep current – read the magazine, visit the web-site, sign up for its social media accounts. Volunteer to work with a chapter, or put your name in the hat for committee work. Every national/international officer once was in the same place you find yourself today.
Best wishes for a happy and healthy life ahead. And remember when you speak of your membership in a fraternity or sorority, say “I am an XYZ” not “I was an XYZ.”
And on a personal note it’s graduation weekend here in the ‘dale and this year we are celebrating. It’s most likely the last graduation of one of our offspring that we will have to attend. The third Dr. Becque will be hooded. I am not sure of her colors as the hood does not appear until she walks the stage and then it goes back as quickly as it came. I reminded her that I talked my way into borrowing a hood a few days before graduation so that I could get some pictures with the wine and silver blue hood that paid homage to Pi Phi’s colors.
When I graduated, my daughter gave me the plaque on the right, which she made herself. I made her my own version of the plaque on the left.
Although it is hard to see, my hood was wine and silver blue, Pi Phi’s colors.
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I read this in Southwest’s magazine last month. It struck me as funny – 41% of respondents would give up coffee for a year if someone would give them $1,000. If one spends $5 a day on coffee house brew, the total is $1,825 a year. Without going all Dave Ramsey on it, I can think of creative ways to save money on coffee without giving up coffee. And speaking of Mr. Ramsey, it might do graduates good to read one or two of his books or listen to his philosophy.
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