[Erik P Conard]

The Brown-Mackie outfit is a private business school with several
locations, like now in Denver. They are a glorified shopping mall
type school, no real campus, and certainly not a "juco" like the
twenty six community colleges we have in Kansas. I do not know
much about them other than they have been around a long, long
time and have little stature. There have been a great number of
business colleges over the years in Kansas; most have closed and
the community colleges, cheaper, have filled that void.
Salina had a normal school about 1900. It was, at one time, the
largest 'college' in Kansas. About 1910 or so it burned down. The
Marymount College was a vain attempt by the catholics to put in
a school with a basketball team. They were better at basketball
than they were with education and they folded several years ago
with an unimpressive history.
Now, please do not be too tough on Hays. The sororities may be
well-established in your mind, but they certainly have not gained
a lot of following. Alpha Gam, Tri Sigma, Sigma Kappa and maybe
DZ. Alpha Sig inactive. Of the men's, TKE died and now back, SAE
is new, Sigma Chi...make up active men's, and Sig Ep, Delta Sig,
AKL, Phi Sig, Sig Tau, all dead. In the past 40 years TKE and Sig
Ep were largest but up and down, size-wise. Ratty housing.
Hardly a stable campus, as you intimate and likely none of the sororities firm compared to Emporia's Chi O, A Sig & Tri Sigma.
Finally, I am not trying to coerce Alpha Phi to go anywhere they
do not want. I was simply trying to impart information and your
extension plans are your business. I do wish you well!