[CountryRoads]

The first step was for our fearless leaders to contact Roar's Expansion Chair. I have no idea about the details said to the Expansion Chair, but it must have been a positive experience, because not too long after we all signed up for the interest group, the following news came through to us:

We are shooting to give Nationals a head count of girls that are committed to becoming Founding Mothers by such and such date so that Nationals can vote to make us an official colony!

Can we say that was faster than a crazy guitar riff?


We needed to fill out some forms and we had a meeting, and then we began to wait......




















The following week, we received the happy news that our request for Expansion was granted! Our next step was for getting University recognition and for Nationals to come visit us for a colony education weekend! That was scheduled for not long afterward, but due to circumstances, Colony Education was rescheduled for the Spring.


Several months pass.......I remained involved in my normal activities, and knew that if I stayed patient, the Colony would happen.

The week before Colony Education, the next step that was necessary was to obtain University and Student Association recognition as a club, which is required for all social Greek Letter Organizations before they are voted in and recognized by their respective Greek councils. Since I was not on the newly elected Exec Board for our soon to be completely official colony I didn't have anything to do with the planning for this, I did know that there would be a public meeting where the Student Association Clubs Board would approve or deny our request. I'd gone to many of these as a founder and exec board member for other clubs, and wanted to go and lend moral support to our President and Treasurer. I asked our President if I could attend, and she was happy to say yes.

The meeting started. All present had to introduce themselves. Since I'm known on campus for being very passionate about a specific organization, my presence was an extreme surprise. As members of the Interest group and then Colony....we were not allowed to post about the colony on Facebook or in any other social media, or to really mention it, except to women who might be interested in joining in with us. For me, I kept silent about Roar for the entire five months that had led from the beginning of things until this point.

This was highly unusual for me: I so wanted to TELL people because I was really proud of what had been accomplished, but respected the need for silence until it was all finalized...or not.


To be continued.