Look Mommy$ It’s the Moon!! by Sylvia Halbardier ΤΒΣ National President
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y son and I were walking around our neighborhood one night. “Look!” he yelled. “It’s the Moon.” I told him that he was very right (I have learned from the best of them how to continue to encourage my children). Now keep in mind that he is three years old, and the amount of times that he has seen the moon, even in his young life, numbers near a thousand. Each time we see the moon, we have this conversation, and I try to be as enthusiastic as he is. I could tell my son to stop looking at the moon; it comes out most nights; get past it! Instead, I try to remember what it was like to be that excited about the same thing, day in and day out. As we continued to walk, I thought that this is a challenge for each of us. How do you find enthusiasm each and every day for something that has become so commonplace? After awhile, I decided that the answer lies in the eyes of the younger spirit. When looking to guide your membership candidates each session, do you take the approach that they should want to be a member of your chapter because of all the reasons we have come to accept as active members? Or do you try to remember what it was like to see the group for the first time – every time?
Never take for granted that the new college student understands the diverse opportunities that membership in our organization offers. It is when you take on this outlook, you can begin to see yourself and your chapter the way that they do. If you can see that whenever you are serving the band, someone, maybe even just one person, is thinking that you and your chapter will meet a need in her or his personal life. Your candidates are learning for the first time the excitement (and frustrations) of the sorority. Make it better for them than you had it by recalling the “newness” that you felt as a candidate (and that they are now feeling), and by trying to understand their view of the “big picture.” Get your job done. But in the process, don’t forget the excitement you felt when you saw the moon, like an old friend, every night. }
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The PODIUM, Spring 2002 – 15
