[18549] in APO-L
EXEC MEETINGS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chi omega)
Wed Apr 8 13:04:14 1998
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 12:04:34 -0500
Reply-To: chi omega <comega@ATLAS.MCKENDREE.EDU>
From: chi omega <comega@ATLAS.MCKENDREE.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
I want to adress two topics:
First, I know the real meaning of Tea and Crumpets, We are from
Great Britian and my grandmother still has tea everyafternoon. What I
was saying some chapters use money to buy alcohol. Try not to be so niave,
I don't mean to be mean but to imply that I don't know what I was talking
about is very rude.
Second, and this is to Carlos's terrific email, Our chapter
has ran for the last 25 years without exec meetings. Each officer knows
their duties and responciblites, somethimes we do have problems with
nonperformers but other people in the chapter will come down pretty hard
on them. I would love to start exec meetings, just so I know what is going
on a little more. When I talk to an officer or they ask for advice, I really
feel put on the spot and I have got to really give good advice, whereas, if
I had exec meetings it would burdon some of that responsiblity around.
I feel like that I have this great respociblity to keep make sure everything
flows just right at the regular meeting, once in a while a person will cover
what someone else was going to say. But I keep the meetings very short, with
a written agenda given to every person when they walk in the door to the meeting. No one is allowed to talk or make comment during the meeting unless it is
about money. We have comment cards that are passed to officers during the meeting
if someone has something to say. Our meetings general last 30 mins sometimes
longer or shorter. This has really worked so far. In the end though I
really push that APO is about fun and Srevice and those are the two things
we must always keep in mind. I don't understand when someone has to make a
big issues about small things
As far as 2 V.P. Membership, we did this to keep competiton down between a
V.P. Membership and a Pledge Trainer.
I hope this wasn't too much to read, it's so great to hear from people
around the country.
John
