What is Fraternity Education, and why is it important? In the
words of Leslie
Taylor, our National Vice President for Ritual and Fraternity
Education,
"It is knowing the WHO, WHAT,WHERE, AND WHY of our
Fraternity. It is a
broad term that includes learning and/or reviewing everything
about SAI's
founding, structure, growth, projects, and outreach to the
world ...It is
COMMUNICATION among members of your chapter and your campus
and/or community.
It is the MEANS by which you learn or re-learn your FRATERNITY
HISTORY and
develop your connection to your FRATERNITY ROOTS." In other
words, it is
one of the ways we keep in touch with what it means to be an
SAI, with those
ideals to which each of us pledged herself way back when.
Remember our Purpose?
You can see it again at http://www.sai-
national.org/nh/purpose.html.
It is also a means by which to keep informed about the projects
we run as a
National organization in service of those ideals. Check out the
Philanthropies
section of our National website: http://www.sai-
national.org/phil/phil.html.
At our May 1998 meeting, we remembered how although our founders
talked of
forming simply a musical club, ultimately they decided upon
founding a Sorority
because it better fit their plans for close bonds of friendship
among the best
and the brightest female music students of their time. We are
their
descendants. Although we may not face the same challenges faced
by those seven
brave and talented young women (It wasn't until almost two
decades later that
American women were given the right to vote!), in these days of
shrinking arts
budgets and the lack of recognition of the importance of music
in the average
person's life and development, it still makes sense to stand
together and help
one other, both individually and collectively, to keep Music an
active part of
the human experience.
See you at our next meeting....
The Washington D.C. Alumnae
Chapter
Iota A
Province
Sigma Alpha Iota
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