Here are a few things you may want to discuss with your membership at your first meeting:

1. Fall Leadership Workshop in Louisville, KY - October 19-21, 2007 - Chapters can send two officers and one adviser, but sign up soon!  Space is very limited.
2. Alpha Lambda Delta Items for Sale
   • T-shirts
   • Caps
   • Honor Cords - Check with your campus to see if there is a policy regarding wearing honor cords at commencement.  The chapter may want to use selling honor cords to graduating ALD members as a fund raiser.  Honor cords cost $8.50, but can be ordered in quantities of 10 or more for $6.50 each.
   • Initiation Candles and insignia cloths
3. Service & Awareness Month - November 2005
   The National Council of Alpha Lambda Delta has designated November to be a Service & Awareness month for chapters.  Chapters are encouraged to plan a service project for their campus, first year students, or the community and to promote awareness of Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society to the campus community.
4. Goal Setting for the Upcoming Year
   • Do we want to win the Order of the Torch award?  If so, what goals should we set for our chapter?
   • Do we want to submit an article for The Flame?  Deadline is October 31, 2005.
   • Student Council Member-at-Large - Does anyone from our chapter want to run for a national office?  Deadline is December 1, 2005.
   • Outstanding Adviser Award - If your chapter adviser has been doing a great job, consider nominating her or him for the Outstanding Adviser of the Year award.  The deadline is February 15, 2006.
   • There are 35 $1000 Trow Undergraduate Scholarships available!  Discuss eligibility, the selection process, deadlines.  Chapter nominees are due to the National Office by May 1, 2005.
   • Fellowship Advertisements - ALD awards 23 graduate fellowships, ranging from $7500 to $3000.  How do we get the word out to the graduating ALD members?
   • Web site - National Alpha Lambda Delta has a web site - www.nationalald.org.  Does our chapter want to develop a web site for chapter news and link it to the National site?
   • Lampadia Web Site Competition - All chapters linked to the National site will be reviewed in April.  Awards will be presented to the most outstanding sites.

Have a great year!

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