I found all of them except for Elizabeth on Google:

http://www.adpi-at-slu.com/turner.gif
http://www.adpi-at-slu.com/eugenia.gif
http://www.adpi-at-slu.com/rush.gif http://www.adpi-at-slu.com/glass.gif http://www.adpi-at-slu.com/dews.gif


at this link:
http://www.adpi-at-slu.com/National_History.html


Where is she hiding???

Alpha Sigma Phi was originally founded as a sophomore class fraternity at Yale University in 1845. Back in those days, it was not unusual for Yale men to belong to four different fraternities, some of whom have survived as national GLOs today. (Psi Upsilon and Delta Kappa Epsilon were the junior class societies at Yale.)

The badge of Alpha Sigma Phi has remained pretty much the same since its founding, except from 1864-1874, when the Greek letters A S F were replaced with D B X and the distinctive hieroglyphics on the open book were replaced with dots to resemble text. Delta Beta Xi continues today as the highest award for service to Alpha Sigma Phi.

All members wear the same size badge except for the chapter president, who wears a replica of the original 1845 badge during his term of office. No badge may be jeweled, and in keeping with the non-jeweled badge, the chapter guard and any officer dangles/guards should be plain.

ADPi's diamond is also a symbol associated with our sorority :)

yep, we really don't :( according to the Sisters book, the long exhaustive search failed to locate a photo or portrait :( We did however find a portrait of her father who was a prominent physician and supporter of the church

Isn't Alpha Epsilon Phi the same way with only having one style of badge?

I'm pretty sure AEPhi only has one style of badge, as does Tri Delta.

That is true! I forgot about that. :)

Which woman is that and is it state or US senator? These are a few that I found claiming to be the first female senator.

Elected State Senator
Martha Hughes Cannon, Utah, 1896 http://historytogo.utah.gov/mhcannon.html
Gladys Pyle, South Dakota, 1938, as first republican woman http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/iwt/pcik...uthdakota.html

Elected US Senator
Hattie Wyatt Caraway, Arkansas, 1932 http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/nsla...yth/myth47.htm

Appointed US Senator (just thought that it was interesting because of the date)
Rebecca Latimer Felton, Georgia, 1922 (www.gawomen.org/honorees/feltonr.htm)

My Sorority was the first Seventh-Day Adventist Sorority and was the first at my college. Our colors are Turquoise and Black which I believe is very unique.

Not true - AZD uses gold as one of our colors!

As for an interesting fact, the Panhellenic Creed was written by an AZD - Lena Grandin Baldwin in 1904.

ETA: Regarding the badge thing, AZD has a separate colony pin used when establishing a colony on campus. What other groups have separate colony pins? We also have mother & father pins. What groups have these as well? Just curious. I guess we need to start a new thread devoted to what types of jewelry we all have! :D

When was your housing corporation established?

AOII is does not use a crest because our founders felt that it represented midevil ideals and we were based on Greek ideals. In the place of a crest on letter heads and things you will find that AOII uses a rose. (The Jacqueminot rose that is :)

So cool to read such unique tidbits from each group!

Sarah

Phi Sigma Sigma also uses gold! Our colors are king blue and gold - very similar to AZD's and DDD's. Also, I dont think the other sororities colors are "common" at all. Silver and bordeaux? Wine? Mode? Cafe au lait?? Just a few examples. Sorority color names are so interesting to me.

We also have a colony pin, in the shape of a very small sphinxhead. I like the design of AZD's a little better, but I like that we have them nonetheless :)

We also have mother pins. Not sure about fathers.

ETA: When trying to think of something unique about Phi Sig, I came up with the fact that we have a conclave every year, instead of every 2-3 years. Now I am sure that's not unique only to Phi Sig, I'm more curious as to which groups have them every year as well!

BEta Sigma Phi
 

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-Beta Sigma Phi Also use Black and Gold as their colors.

My sorority is unique to me on a local level. I could really care less how we are unique nationally because I really haven't met many girls from other chapters. I just have my campus. So on my campus-we are unique because we almost always are number one in grades, most of our girls are dating guys that are not in fraternities and we usually end up a lot of sophmores and juniors during rush. We are usually the biggest on campus despite the fact that we do not automatically cut anyone not a freshman. We are also unique because we are friends with all the greeks-guys and girls and not known for being "the girls who hang wth so and so's" or whatever. But we still have tons of socials and participate in all the campus activities. We also have a big variety of girls-fat, skinny, smart, not so smart but really really nice, pretty, black, Indian, white, Asian. We have it all and it hasn't seemed to be a weekness-but a strength! That's why I think we are unique!

LOL - I got into an interesting conversation about the lack of a likeness of Elizabeth Williams Mitchell. It ended up that, someone whose field is in forensic sciences should take the portrait of her father, and a few of her descendants (of which there are many, to my understanding), and come up with a "possible likeness"!!

Things you consider doing for your sorority!! :)

Phi Psi Badges & Pins
 

Phi Kappa Psi has a seperate colony badge, and a seperate colony pledge pin.

Also, only members may wear the badge, so if a Phi Psi wants to pin his sweetheart, he does so with a special sweetheart pin.

Theta Phi Alpha's colors are gold, silver and blue. ;)

While the names of most fraternities and sororities are made up of Greek letters (not considering words like "Fraternity," "Order," "International," or the like, of course), there are those with non-Greek letter names -- Triangle, FarmHouse, Acacia and Ceres being a few examples. So far as I know, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is the only fraternity/sorority to have a name made up of both Greek letters and a non-Greek letter word.

Again so far as I know, we're the only group with red, black and gold as our colors.

We're the only national, social fraternity with a special interest in music.

Gold is a popular color for sororities. DPhiE's colors are royal purple and pure gold. :)

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Regarding the badge thing, AZD has a separate colony pin used when establishing a colony on campus. What other groups have separate colony pins?
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Sigma Pi has a seperate colony pin. It is known as the Founding Father's Pin

Oooh!! Why doesn't Tri Delta have on of them!!! I want a colony pin!! Do you get to keep it, or does it get returned to EO??

Colony Badges & Pins
 

I still have my colony pledge pin, and my colony brother badge. You need to contact Poseiden and ask him. I'd hate to think that you got overlooked. ;)

The pearl is an important symbol for AEPhi and that is why we only have one pin. It wouldn't have the same meaning if wasn't only in pearls.

I think its unique that our Beta Chapter was founded less than two months after our Alpha. I also don't think anyone else uses the giraffe as a mascot.

Giraffe. Yumm.
 

We use the giraffe as the main course at our Founders Day banquets. Tastes just like chicken. ;)

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Oooh!! Why doesn't Tri Delta have on of them!!! I want a colony pin!! Do you get to keep it, or does it get returned to EO??



You Get to keep the pin

Re: Giraffe. Yumm.
 

there is something so wrong about eating your mascot!! Imagine a glo's mascot was a chicken or a turkey (remember Benjamin Franklin did want to make the turkey our national bird), wouldn't it be kind of wierd. "Yum, our mascot is delicious"

ok, that was my random thought of the day.

The shape of our badge isnt a secret either it represents our open motto "The quill is mighter then the sword"

Re: Phi Psi Badges & Pins
 

that is sooooooooooooooooooo pretty.......

I don't know much about other GLO's history but Sigma Kappa may be the only sorority where our first three chapters, the Alpha, Beta, and Gamma chapters, were all at the same school, Colby College, and active at the same time.
Did any other GLO's have this?

We don't eat squirrels, but food at our International Reunion Day and throughout Convention is red, buff, and green! We were saying at the last banquet that we're glad our colors work well with food because if we were Tri Sigma's or AZD's we'd be eating some strange stuff!

Dee

So who gets the job of separating the M&Ms by color?

That is EXACTLY the reason why I took pictures of every meal at lunch and dinner (including dessert!). The chapter sisters didn't want to believe me!

Ok I know we're not the *only* sorority to do this...but instead of adopting an existing philanthropy, we have our own. Like I said, I know there's other GLOs that have their own, but I still think it's cool. :)

And instead of only having one philanthropy, we have SAI Philanthropies, Inc which has numerous philanthropic projects. (All music related of course)

Actually Lambda Chi has the German Shepard.......


I don't know if anyone mentioned this by any AGDs but they have two different coat-of-arms, one for the US and one for Canada. The one for Canada was altered to conform with the then British rules of heraldry.....

Yes, dahlink, I discussed this in July 2001, and they are called Armorial Bearings. Question about AGD's armorial bearings?

i've actually done this many times. it's not fun!

Very hard job, and the recepient really appreciated the final product!! :D

I'm not sure if any other group does this or not. Only initiated Phi Sigma Sigma's can wear our crest. However there is one exception, mothers who are pinned with our mother's pin also can wear the crest since it is on the pin.

As for the colony pins - Phi Sigma Sigma's is a tiny little sphinxhead that we get to keep. It's kind of fun going to our annual conclave and people ask me where they can get the pin. I tell them I received because I was a founding sister of my chapter.

Also, I think Phi Sigma Sigma is one of the few who initiates graduate students as active collegiate sisters.

You can get them already separated by color, either at bulk candy stores or from M & M directly;)

I know AZD initiates graduate students as well.

I wish DG had a colony pin, because I would have loved to have kept that! We were pinned with the regular pledge pin!