Personal Narrative: Alumnae Network

Joining Theta as a freshman was exciting because it brought with it the promise of growth within a group of women who always worked extraordinarily hard to become the best within our chapter. Two months ago I was charged with the awesome responsibility of Alumnae Engagement Director. As a new chapter Belmont has a smaller Alumnae network, and it has been difficult to get a strong foothold with this position. We’ve had three wonderful examples of how to grow this position, but I have made a personal and large amount of care into further growing and strengthening this role. Nashville has a huge alumnae network and Belmont is in the unique position of having two chapters within our city to pull alumnae support from. Rarely in our past though
Coordinating joint chapter dinners, attending lunch bunch meetings, and now planning a larger scale community service project I am in a fortunate position to truly enact change within my chapter and our alumnae chapters. This position however is not stagenet within Nashville. As a resident of Connecticut I have a large community of Alumnae home as well, and take advantage of these multiple opportunities to grow strong alumnae and active relationships. Over my winter vacation I participate in a service opportunity with the Fairfield County Alumnae chapter, and look forward to growing that relationship over the summer as well as continuing to grow the relations between Eta Phi and the Nashville Alumnae. We are only active members for four years of life, and the duration of being an alumnae can stretch as long as 75+ years, as Theta is for a lifetime. It is our great honor to learn from and engage with our alumnae as active members and being within this position has helped to restructure this in my life. Theta helps to influence many of life’s journeys in unexpected ways and this new era of my Theta journey has helped me to revalue and rethink the weight we should place on relationships in our