Fraternity and Sorority Arms, Seals, Flags and other Insignia

[SthrnZeta]

Originally Posted by Gusteau

Love those flags! I know ZTA, Chi Omega, and Tri Delta still use those flags - does anyone know if those are still current for the other organizations?

That's actually ZTA's Official Banner but we also have a flag now with just the crest on it:


And here is me with my chapter's flag - as you can see the chapter letters are designated:

[crusse10]

Originally Posted by Scattered504

Originally Posted by steelerbear

Think we're starting to find the origin of the latter...

Also, whoever drew the PM one clearly knew French (to a certain extent) as they combined the o and e in soeurs, as is correct.

[LucyKKG]

I saw this at the Kappa HQ and wasn't really sure where to put it.

[NCSUThetaChi]

Theta Chi coat of arms:

The pieces of our badge are included in the coat of arms in a deconstructed form, but not in the form of the badge.

Theta Chi flag:


Alpha Chi Sigma coat of arms:

[AchiOkristina]

alpha chi omega

[StarryNightASA]

Alpha Sigma Alpha's Crest



Alpha Sigma Alpha's Shield

[jennyj87]

Didn't know where to post this, but I thought it was awesome. We used it for Panhellenic recruitment last year. Its the four panhellenic sororities symbols. I finally got mine today!


http://twitpic.com/39i0ut

[OleMissGlitter]

I think we have put "convention" pins here in past posts...check out these Theta beauties on "that site."





By the way I'm guessing these are convention pins....I could be wrong.

[pearlbubbles]

This crest was carved for my chapter at some point before I joined, but I always thought it was very beautiful. It used to hang above our fireplace, but was moved to another wall in the formal living room after the fireplace mantle was redone.

[Lafayette79]

Originally Posted by SthrnZeta

That's actually ZTA's Official Banner but we also have a flag now with just the crest on it:

I think that just about all of our Coats of Arms and badges are very appealing, but I have never seen a flag, including my own, which is anything but ugly. Except for this Zeta banner, which is beautiful. Since I knew Zetas while an active, and my cousin/brother's daughter is a Zeta, this makes me happy.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Since people are posting about Convention insignia and things:



These are our shields. Each chapter (collegiate and alumnae chapters) has a shield with their designation and founding year.

During the opening ceremonies of Covention, each chapter's delegate is escorted (one by one) into the room carrying their chapter's shield. They then are escorted to the podium, where they introduce themselves and say what chapter they represent. Then they walk over to the wall, hang the shield up for display, and take their seat.

Fun fact: Each person who carries the shield, signs the back of it with their name and the year. So you can look on the back of them and see who carried the shield of your chapter before you (they go WAY back).

These are a big deal. It's tradition for everyone who is at Convention from a chapter to take a group pic with their shield (ex: all the Alpha Betas in attendance take a pic with the AB shield).

AST does something very similar to this.. except we don't sign the back of the shields. I love the idea

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Lafayette79

I think that just about all of our Coats of Arms and badges are very appealing, but I have never seen a flag, including my own, which is anything but ugly.

Is the ADPi flag the one shown in this post above? If it isn't, do you have a picture? (And if it is, what are the colors?)

I'll admit I'm not a huge fan of flags that are just coats-of-arms on a single- or multi-colored field. And I say that even though I love the flag of my own fraternity:

(As I said above, this isn't a great picture. The "yellow" should be gold.)

But there are some fraternity flags that I think are very striking and beautiful. In no particular order:

Beta Theta Pi:



Sigma Chi:



Alpha Tau Omega:



Kappa Alpha Order:



Sigma Nu:



Alpha Chi Rho:



Tau Kappa Epsilon:



Sigma Phi Epsilon:



Delta Upsilon:

[Lafayette79]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Is the ADPi flag the one shown in this post above? If it isn't, do you have a picture? (And if it is, what are the colors?)

But there are some fraternity flags that I think are very striking and beautiful. In no particular order:

I'm sorry, but I just don't like any of these flags. They all seem kind of garish to me, which is why I commented on the Zeta flag, it is much more subtle in my opinion. The badge thread and the Coat of Arms thread has so much beautiful work that I just think that our flags are not in the same class.

For the ADPi question, I would not pass the gender requirements for that, although I had a dear friend in ADPi. My sig is a quote from an ADPhi, namely Otter who was the real Otter from Animal House. Chris Miller, who was one of the writers of the movie, wrote a book about his experiences at Dartmouth as an ADPhi which was the basis of the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KgP4SHUy6Q

Arthur O'Shaughnessy:
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Lafayette79

I'm sorry, but I just don't like any of these flags. They all seem kind of garish to me, which is why I commented on the Zeta flag, it is much more subtle in my opinion.

To each his own, and I certainly won't criticize someone who quotes Arthur O'Shaughnessy back to me.

I will point out that the pictures I found don't do the colors justice. For example, the blue in the ATO and Sigma Chi flags should be much lighter. But I'll also explain my thought on these flags a little though. One reason I started this thread is because I'm an amateur vexillologist (someone who studies flags). From the standpoint of vexillographry (flag design), the examples I gave would be considered better designs than a design that has a coat of arms on a field. The reason would be that the designs above are simple, involve no more than two or three colors and include no words or other emblems (like a coat of arms) that would be backwards on the reverse (backside) of the flag. In other words, they "read" better, especially from a distance. Even with a coat of arms that is immediately recognizable (like Zeta's) the elements in the design can be hard to make out unless one is close to the flag. (This is why many state flags with seals on a blue field are concerned poor designs by vexillographers and vexillologists.)

Admittedly, the concern about "reading" may not matter as much to some GLOs. Some flags/banners (Zeta's?) may be intended primarily to hang on a wall rather than fly outdoors. All of the examples I posted above, I have seen flying -- at houses, tailgates, HQs, etc.

I particularly like how ATO and Teke use their coats of arms in their flags, which are essentially the shield of their arms in flag form:

Alpha Tau Omega:





Tau Kappa Epsilon:

For the ADPi question, I would not pass the gender requirements for that, although I had a dear friend in ADPi. My sig is a quote from an ADPhi, namely Otter who was the real Otter from Animal House. Chris Miller, who was one of the writers of the movie, wrote a book about his experiences at Dartmouth as an ADPhi which was the basis of the movie.

LOL, I should have picked that up about Otter's quote. Sorry for my confusion/mistake. Not where I got ADPi, unless I just read too fast at some point.

So what does ADPhi's flag look like?

[SWTXBelle]

One reason I like our crest is its simplicity. I think it would look good as a flag, but I would love to see something along the lines of the ATO and TKE flags - a deconstruction of the crest elements. In our case, something with the crescent, book and carnations. Hmmm . . . convention is in 2 years . . .