Maybe, but four years is a long time for a group to be a probationary group/colony.

1972: 16 Women in the picture. http://www.archive.org/stream/ecsu00...p/search/gamma

1973: 5 Women in the picture.
http://www.archive.org/stream/ecsu00...p/search/gamma

1974: 4 Women in the picture and 11 more in the Omicron Club.
http://www.archive.org/stream/ecsu00...p/search/gamma

1975: 3 Women in the picture and 2 more in the Omicron Club
http://www.archive.org/stream/ecsu00...p/search/gamma

For more info... It appears that http://www.blackplanet.com/elliottoge/ is the blackplanet page of an ECSU alumnus who graduated in 1973 who considers herself to be in Gamma Sigma Sigma.

It would be interesting to cross check the names of the "members" in the photos to our database to see if any match (I know we have had a lot of "missing" alumnae; kudos to all the efforts to get that updated).

Not sure how you would get names for the people in the picture, though maybe you could cross check the rest of the yearbook. I'm horrible with comparing faces though.

You may want to try the alumni office at ECSU (http://www.ecsu.edu/alumni/staff.cfm)

I will have to actually consult with our National Archivist about this group. I'm really curious now as to how they operated on campus for that long and didn't charter at all.

1972 16 women
 

I am pictured in the 1972 Picture at ECSU
If you are interested in authenicating the existence of this group, you might want to look first at the Chapter at Saint Augustine in Raleigh, North Carolina . We crossed over there.

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I would very much like to know more information regarding Gamma Sigma Sigma @ ECSU

OK...
 

If you are also the one on blackplanet, then I think that we wanted you as a source of information...

I can give you more specific information on archive.org, is there anything specific?

I am the person. I can remember some specifics regarding the group and a lot of the names. That was 38 years ago.We came under the establishment Gamma Sigma Sigma at St Augustine College in Raleigh, North Carolina. I specificially want to know about the Charter. This group did numerous fund raising events to pay for membership dues, etc. We were cleared finiancially and actually had to travel to Raleigh, NC for the final cermony.

Also there was more like 27 women who were a part of this initial group.

complete lane swerve
 

I've posted to the Gamma Sigma Sigma area indicating that this topic exists. I'm not quite sure if there is anything more appropriate to do indicating that this topic exists.

As for existing for 4 years without chartering, wow....

Randy, thanks for the heads up.

Soror, check your inbox.

NP. On the one hand I'm curious as an *outsider* what happened.

OTOH, gamma_girl52, you are either the best person in existence to investigate this, or you are close and you run into that best person at Board meetings. :)

*Maybe* there are APO alumni from either ECSU or St. Augustine who might be able to contribute, but I'm not one of them

Well, yes...I'm the Membership Director :D

I'd already started researching this beforehand, as we currently have an IG at ECSU now and I have been working with them since last Fall semster. Every time we get a new group I try to get as much background information as possible especially if it's an reactivation effort (this group is not, but the pictures spurred it). The National Archivist couldn't find anything on them when I sent her these exact pictures a while back, which left me confused.

Why this happened was because these ladies were traveling to Raleigh and were pledging at Epsilon Alpha chapter, which was at St. Augustine's College (which is inactive now); so technically all of these ladies are EA initiates.

Ah...

This explains the "We have sisters at ECSU, but no chapter." :)

This is almost as much fun as the Alpha Phi Omega extension at Ferrum.

In about 2000 we had an extension at Ferrum, which was a rechartering of Phi Omicron chapter. About 6 months later after research by both the chapter and by staff it was determined that back in the 1970s, due to changes at the school and vietnam that the group had not in fact gone through chartering although letters had been assigned. So the rechartering group became a chartering group. :)

Just to update all--we now have an official colony at Elizabeth City State, which I formally approved last week. There are 20 members. :)