I have an interesting twist on delayed rush at Ole Miss. When my daughter went thru rush in 2008 at Alabama, a high school friend of hers that went through was released from rush. This girl was in the Honors program at Alabama. Nevertheless, the day she was released she packed her bags and headed back home. She then enrolled at Ole Miss (for that same fall) and because of delayed rush she was able to go through and she did get a bid. She ended up back home the next year! She often said she never should have left Alabama but she was so caught up in rush at the time that she made a rash decision that she regrets to this day.

I heard that she pulled up in a horse-drawn carriage wearing a hoop skirt. And that she snatched that portrait with a moxie that would make Scarlett O’Hara blush.

Perhaps the new stories will develop some interest after 50 years of recollecting and retelling. And the new stories may even include pics – for better or for worse. Most likely worse.

Meanwhile, I didn’t trip across anything to indicate that Mary Ann Mobley’s daughter, Clancy (Collins was her last name), ever pledged any sorority. She attended the Sorbonne in Paris and Magdalen College in Oxford, England, before graduating from Stanford. Nice article regarding the southern influence of her California wedding:

Worthy of royalty: Southern tradition reigns as the daughter of Mississippi's first Miss America weds in California



Definitely – a bastion of the Old South.

Hmm. Perhaps I may have accidentally confabulated her with another ChiO legacy story.

LOL, there are plenty of us who wouldn't exactly consider that a good thing.

Don't know if this makes a difference but my understanding is that UK has a junior quota. Or maybe it is an upperclassman quota that includes sophomores.

No -- don't necessarily consider it the bastion of anything -- except it isn't dull. Ever read Faulkner? There's a reason his work isn't tired or stale. Lots and lots of layers.

Written couple of recs to OM for the first time in 25 years. Don't live in the region. Never have. OM rush gave me the best people and interviewing skills which I've used to great advantage throughout my career -- NOT in the south. No doubt other SEC schools are similar. But Ole Miss is one of a kind.

Best to all the OM rushees, sororities and those supporting them.

...acknowledged

Perhaps not the "South will rise again" part, but more the charm, romanticism, and tradition maybe.

This may have been answered before, but I'm curious about something...what is the reasoning for having a two week (approximately) lapse between the water parties and the start of recruitment at Ole Miss?

I would have thought that the water parties would have been moved back to be closer to the other recruitment events.

I've been told that it's meant to give the PNMs a chance to try recruitment out before the registration closes.

Speaking of Faulkner -- his niece, Dean Faulkner Wells, was Mary Ann Mobley's sorority sister at Ole Miss.

Dean Faulkner Wells wrote a memoir about Faulkner (her "Pappy") and her life in Mississippi -- Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/03/25...ing/index.html

She passed away several months after this article was published.

(haven't read the book, but it sounds like a good read)

Got it...makes since that is is right before the last day of registration. Thanks!

Some years there is a bigger gap between water parties & philanthropy parties .....just depends on football schedule.

PS presentations were awesome. Ole Miss would be lucky with any of the four (DZ, ADPi, Alpha Phi, & AGD)! I believe Panhellenic should announce something soon!

PSS I heard over 1200 are registered again!

Good to hear from you!

Keeping my fingers crossed for Delta Zeta, but gotta admit, any of the four would be great! :)

Will they wait until after recruitment to make the announcement?

I would so love to see Delta Zeta at Ole Miss!