Mittens, I love these! What chapters?

LOL what were they doing with that poor person dressed up as a bear!!!

The hoodies and the hair in the second AOII pic look like from my era! We only had fraternity sportswear in navy and white...or something like that. It was a big deal when I was a junior and bought a light blue hoodie with two tone layered letters! The hair looks familiar as well....LOL. Great AOII pics!

I don't know it didn't say on FB, but I fell in love with these pictures when I saw them.:D

I don't know what chapter this is, but loving the hair.:D

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^^ Amazing hair indeed!! I definitely just laughed out loud.

Looks like a circus side show theme! Maybe a monkey?

Uh oh, poodle hair. Not something I miss from the 80's.

Alpha Sigma Alpha, 1982 Western Illinois -- heard they don't have a chapter there anymore.

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Alpha Sigma Alpha, 1981 Adrian College

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~~ I found these on a blog that includes pictures from the University of Kentucky Archives and the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History.

Monday, August 25, 2008

There were never such devoted sisters ...

If you’ve been anywhere near campus over the last week, it’s been hard to miss the rows of college women lined up outside of sorority houses, walking across campus in summer dresses, or gathered around Memorial Hall in white dresses. Last week marked the annual open house and recruitment week for UK sororities, a long-standing tradition which includes the 1,900+ sorority members and recruits.

A look at UK sorority life:

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Alpha Gamma Delta sisters with a sheep in front of their sorority house, 1969

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A band plays at a sorority function, 1969

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A Raggedy Ann skit at a sorority house, 1968

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Sorority members run from “Sorority Row” toward Rose Street, 1972

I'm thinking the Raggedy Ann skit could actually be Delta Gamma performing something about Hannah Dolls, given the anchor on the dress, the other dolls on the back wall, and the partial crest on the left side of the picture.

No idea on why my sisters have a sheep.

Sheep? Not goats? :)

I believe the chapter is closed. I think this is AlphaFrog's (longtime ASA poster) chapter.

Our Gamma Phi chapter at FSU is being recolonized in Fall 2010, and the Alpha Phi blog had some old pictures on it!

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Fall 1959 Officers


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Gamma Phi's first pledge class, not sure what year though!

Since they came on campus in 1959, I am guessing 1959 or 1960

Wilburforce! that's not a college many outside of ohio are familiar with. I love it! what's with the ducks though? what if the duck pooped on them?

Theta Twister is a big CASA fundraiser at ONU every year. :)

"Twinkle Starr"
 

No lie, there is a woman named "Twinkle Starr" on my chapter's composites in the 1970's section (we have them hung in chronological order throughout the halls of the house). I definitely had to do a double take and wonder why her parents did this to her (I'm guessing they were hippies)...no offense if you ever reads this, Twinkle :)

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^^ Hopefully it wasn't her real name. Probably a nickname. If she went to school in the 70's she was either born in the 50's or early 60's. Too soon for the parents to be hippies.

hahhaa love it!!! ;)

That is AWESOME! We had a Sandy Beach on campus when I was in school! I also knew a Honey Graham and Sugar Graham in middle school. Gotta love parents!

My middle school teacher's last name was beach and she said she wanted to name her children sandy and orange. Also she bought in her year book from highschool (they printed first, middle and last names) and no lie one girl's name was Ginger Bread House...I mean really who does that to their child?

Here are a two pictures from Nu Beta chapter of AOII at Ole Miss, circa 1958.
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Installation Banquet of the chapter

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Another pic

Wasn't everyone just so prim and proper in the 50's! Cute!

Although that was only a few years before me, everyone looked and sounded so OLD! Thanks for sharing!!

And very uncomfortable too ... all those women were probably wearing garter stockings, a girdle of some sort and a heavy wired or padded bra. Not to mention that many of them slept in rollers overnight so that their hair would be ready to style in the morning. But damn ... the looked good!

Yeah, I do NOT pine for the olden days!

Candi Mintz was our babysitter for about one year.

I did a sister search on the Gamma Alpha chapter. The only alumnae in good standing initiated at the UGA chapter with the maiden name of Starr was initiated in 1937. That means that Twinkle is either not in good standing or she looks good for her age.

Check the lost sister search, she may have changed her name. A woman with that maiden name initiated in 1971, and another in 1948 at Gamma Alpha. I won't put anything else out there to first or married names, but I think we figured it out, kind of.

IHeartUGA maybe you can check with the UGA Alumni Office, find her current information, and get her OFF the Lost Sister List.

I forgot about the Lost Sister Search. Glad I looked because a couple of my sisters for which I have addresses are "lost".

I know a Sandy Beach (married name). People call her sisters Cocoa and Pebbles. The dates don't match, though, darn! I would so love to tease her about that!

I knew a Honi Almond and a Pepper Salter.

I found an older Pledge Class picture on Facebook. It's from 1999, Bid Night.


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Bless her heart!

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Shirley Carpenter, Miss Modern Venus, Sigma Chi Derby Day, 1956 [North Carolina]

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Clarence H. Mowry (wearing hat - not a cap, left of man with bicycle). Clarence was president of Sigma Chi at Northwestern (seen here with other members of fraternity) [circa 1898]

I'm LOVING the extremely defined parts. Such a lovely look that thankfully has not come back into style!

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Alpha Chapter (Howard University) Delta Sigma Theta - Circa 1930

BUMP - all of our talking about what we wore during rush back in the day made me think of this!