[16324] in APO-L
Question about Post-chartering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard P. Wolf)
Mon Mar 3 09:25:18 1997
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 09:24:49 -0500
Reply-To: "Howard P. Wolf" <hpw@po.CWRU.Edu>
From: "Howard P. Wolf" <hpw@po.CWRU.Edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Brothers,
Dave Bujak's post about his decision to go inactive has struck a familiar chord
with me. If I remember correctly, Dave was President of his Petitioning Group,
yet now less than a year after activation, he is going inactive with his
chapter. This makes me wonder because I have been involved with two chapters
as they have gone through the Petitioning Group process, plus one chapter saved
from complete inactivity which was able to save the charter without going
through the Petitioning Group process, and in all three cases the
President of the group during its formation has ended up having had severe
problems with the group after Chartering/revival. One went inactive, one has
remained active (the chapter is just about a year old now) but is struggling
and is starting to drift away from the chapter (but is getting involved on a
staff level helping support/start other chapters), and the third just received
the charter in January but has been replaced as President and is quickly
drifting away (and I suspect will be inactive very soon).
My questions: Is this a common phenomenon???
If so, WHY??? (while I have my own thoughts, I'm curious about
what others think)
What can be done in an attempt to prevent this???
Disclaimer: This post has been from my singular perspective and includes some
speculation of future events, if any brothers from the chapters I have referred
to read this message, please do not take my observations/opinions as fact. If
any of the specific brothers who I have referred to read this message, please
realize that I am trying to figure out the why behind what I perceive as a
disturbing trend and that I make no value judgments upon your actions.
Hopefully, my speculations/interpretations are wrong! :-)
In LFS,
Howard Wolf
Region V Scouting Chair
Theta Upsilon/Theta Beta Advisor
