THERE IS SOMETHING ON THE BACK OF THE PIN! I never noticed before or just brushed it off as a manufacturers name! I never knew there would be anything! There is her last name, a number (member number?) and two Greek letters one is alpha and I'm working on the other (its a little faded, but it looks like theta). I'm so glad her last name was on it! My mom was beginning to wonder if someone had given her the pin, which I knew was doubtful! Who would give away letters, let alone your pin?

Okay the second letter was a theta! The alpha theta chapter was at University of Washington! I don't know how she was affiliated with that chapter though... In her activities in her senior yearbook was UW, but she was in College of Idaho's yearbook for all four years... Strange. Thank you everyone for your help! I'm so excited to know this as I never knew much of my grandmother but we have always had a lot in common! We are the only people in my family with blue eyes and I supposedly look very much like her!

I would still contact ADPi headquarters as they may be able to shed light on the situation such as when she was initiated. Did she start at UW, then transfer to College of Idaho? That could explain the ADPi membership and four years in the yearbook at CofI.

Definitely check it out! This is really interesting!

ValpoKD

I just sent an email off to headquarters. :D
This may vary from sorority to sorority but is the number on the back the initiation date or her number?

I can't speak for ADPi, obviously, but I do know that many sororities (way back when) had their roll # and initiation date engraved on the back. It's a shame they don't really do that anymore.

Mine has my initials, chapter of initiation, and initiation date. Do the numbers line up to a date when she might have been initiated?

I was about to post that... my member number isn't on the back, I just have the initials, the greek letters of the chapter of initiation and the date in xx/xx/xx format.

I have an older ADPi pin that has 2 greek letters, what appears to be a first and a last name, and the year (xxxx) so the 4 numbers you see are probably the year of initation

The back has her full last name and since she was dutch, the name is pretty long. Her chapter letters and 7 digits. The numbers could line up with the date she was initiated. The year would be around the time of her sophomore/junior year. The reason that is a little hazy is because she was ill in college and my mother cannot remember when that was exactly, if she ever knew.

The 7 digits are probably the number assigned to her chapter and her scroll number/initiation number. A date would either be 6 digits or 8 digits.

This is an amazing story....

WCsweet<3, do you have any Greek affiliation?

Not as of yet, my recruitment starts in a few weeks. Hopefully after that I will have an affiliation!

Hi everyone... I've been a bit inconsistent with my GC logins lately. I am pretty well connected with what is going on with College of Idaho, to say the least. What is it that you're wanting to know about? Sigma Epsilon in general?