Originally Posted by Munchkin03 (Post 778368)

Why is the information in the second post virtually repeated in the second.You GC-ers, always wanting the last word...:p

Originally Posted by ...Looking at this list, though, it seems like there was a bigger problem in the greek system at some of these schools, since several had multiple chapters close in 1970-72, and a few more later in the 70's.../QUOTE

DaffyKD said it well...
There were huge problems in the 1970s with Greek systems across the country. This was an era of social upheavel. Campuses were beginning to be integrated. Students were staging revolts. It was the time of "do your own thing" and non-conformism. Students made fun of the greeks. Membership in sororities and fraternities dropped, many chapters closed (including mine:( ), and some schools closed their Greek systems.

Originally Posted by Diamond Delta (Post 778204)

Pi Delta Theta-the brain child of Sarah Ida Shaw-remember her?-formed in 1925, later merged with Delta Sigma Epsilon then with DZ

Originally Posted by ErinKathleenNJ (Post 1402916)

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000 (Post 1402921)

Ida Shaw Martin is kinda like Professor Coddington who had a hand in Alpha Phi, GPhiB and AGD. :)

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000 (Post 1402921)

Ida Shaw Martin is kinda like Professor Coddington who had a hand in Alpha Phi, GPhiB and AGD. :)

Originally Posted by LaneSig (Post 1404502)

Didn't she also help Alpha Sigma Alpha to reorganize?

Originally Posted by bichonl (Post 1404665)

I own an IAPi badge and agree with Dream*a*Dream's "merger" description. My version is the older one, sans the roses. I'd love to see a later one.

Dream, do the roses replace the diamonds on the horizontal points?

Originally Posted by radioZTA (Post 779363)

When Beta Sigma Omicron was absorbed by (not merged with) ZTA in 1964, BSO had only 14 collegiate chapters that were still open and none of them were doing well. 7 were on campuses that already had ZTA chapters but the other 7 became ZTA chapters at their schools.

Originally Posted by OrigamiTulip (Post 1404708)

Originally Posted by DSTRen13 (Post 1404933)

That's really pretty ...

Originally Posted by OrigamiTulip (Post 1404708)

Originally Posted by dream*a*dream (Post 1404875)

i am hesitant to speak for delta phi epsilon, not being a member of dphie. it is my understanding that the npc required them to change their original "triangle" shaped badge by adding the "ribbon" with their motto "esse quam videri" on the bottom of their badge before they were allowed entrance into the npc. supposedly, the npc felt that their original badge was too similar to that of sigma kappa and sigma sigma sigma in shape and appearance. i would imagine that the early members would have had very mixed feelings about having to change something so dear to their founders and their heritage. i cannot imagine having to change my beloved badge by npc directive. once again, i have seen and held an original dphie badge, it was beautiful and had a wonderful simplicity to it. their original badge is extremely rare and very meaningful for the sisterhood of delta phi epsilon. it has been posited that there were less than 1500 of the original dphie badges made. a member of this board whom i shall not name, who is a dphie, could better and more fully explain this required change and how unique and treasured their original badge is. she has personally rescued and preserved several of the very rare, original dphie badges. imagine the badge without the bottom "ribbon" and that is basically what it looked like. again, a member of dphie would be able to tell you the specifics. i know from the wonderful dphie members i know that they love their "new" badge as that is all most of them have ever known. however, many of the older dphie members cherish their older, original badge and rightfully try to preserve such a limited number of something so important to their heritage for their archives and personal collections.

i personally thank the pin collectors who have alerted us to situations such as this. how tragic it would be if one of these rare badges were just melted for scrap. imagine melting that wonderful iota alpha pi badge that origamitulip posted because they are no longer in existence, how sad.

*sweet*dreams*

Originally Posted by bichonl (Post 1405247)

Correction: The Delta Sigma badge dated 1925 is not the same Delta Sigma that was absorbed by AOPi. Baird's 1912 (it's online now) already lists *that* Delta Sigma as absorbed.

Originally Posted by Denise_DPhiE (Post 1405291)

You rang??? Yes, indeed, you have hit the nail on the head on all points. When NPC "mandated" we change our badge, it might have been a suggestion , no one knows for sure - I wasn't there in 1950! Attached are some photos. From left to right they gain age - the one with the Eta is from Pitt from 1928 only 11 years after founding - pearls were smooshed in and not prong set. I don't think our organization has any resentment for having to change the badge - again we only had 1500 members at the time and we ADDED something important, our motto - so we really didn't "lose" anything.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g4...hiEvarious.jpg

Originally Posted by Denise_DPhiE (Post 1405292)

The Delta Sigma which was absorbed by AOII is below...the black and white is from a yearbook and provided by an alumna and the color photo is from a fraternity pin collectors website. Incidentally, the badge photographed is from one of the the three Delta Sigma chapters and this one did not go with AOII, it was at Brown. This badge is about an inch across, so larger than most badges made today.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g4...DeltaSigma.jpg

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g4...ma1905AOTT.jpg

Originally Posted by bichonl (Post 1405300)

Thanks, Denise! Would you happen to have a picture of the Alpha Sigma Delta badge?

Originally Posted by bichonl (Post 1405405)

Wow, what was ASD's deal, anyway? I never heard of them before.

Originally Posted by FSUZeta (Post 1402781)

it is my understanding that the alumnae are offered the opportunity to be initiated into the absorbing group at the time that the collegiate members of the absorbed group are initiated.

Originally Posted by Denise_DPhiE (Post 1405454)

Alpha Sigma Delta (there were other groups by this same name including the group at UC Santa Cruz that just affiliated with KKG - their reason for the letters was symbols of what they stood for and not anything to do with this ASD).

Originally Posted by groovypq (Post 1607957)

Has anyone ever heard of Gamma Omicron? I read a brief history of cheerleading once that mentioned a "cheerleading fraternity" in maybe the 1920s or 30s by that name.

Originally Posted by exlurker (Post 1607947)

Alpha Delta Theta Chapter Roll

Alpha Delta Theta merged into Phi Mu in 1939. That was the first merger between two members of the NPC.

1918 Alpha, Transylvania
1922 Beta, Kentucky
1923 Gamma, Cincinnati
1923 Delta, Illinois
1923 Epsilon, Butler (1934)
1923 Zeta, Nebraska (1933)
1924 Eta, Ohio State
1924 Theta, Washington
1924 Iota, California, Berkeley (1934)
1925 Kappa, Ohio Wesleyan (1934)
1926 Lambda, George Washington
1926 Mu, UCLA
1927 Nu, Nebraska Wesleyan
1927 Xi, Adelphi
1928 Omicron, Brenau
1929 Pi, Samford (formerly Howard College)
1929 Rho, Ohio
1930 Sigma, Tulsa
1931 Tau, Minnesota
1931 Upsilon, Missouri (1933)
1931 Phi, USC (Southern Calif)
1932 Chi, Nevada
1932 Psi, Queens – Chicora
1932 Omega, Bethany
1934 Alpha Alpha, Charleston

In the 1939 merger, four entirely “new” Phi Mu chapters resulted. The chapters and their Phi Mu chapter names++ are:

Delta Theta, Transylvania
Alpha Kappa, College of Charleston
Beta Nu, Bethany
Zeta Kappa, Nebraska Wesleyan
Epsilon Gamma, U. of Tulsa

Other chapters merged with existing Phi Mu chapters on their campuses:

Brenau
Adelphi
UCLA
USC (Calif.)
George Washington
Queens College
Cincinnati
Samford (formerly Howard College)


++ The chapter names may not appear to be "in sequence." As I understand it, that's because, at least at that time (1939), Phi Mu was naming new chapters according to province or district. So Transylvania was in the Delta district, Tulsa in the Epsilon district, and so on.

Main sources of information: Baird's manual 18th edition and "The History of Phi Mu: The First 130 Years" (1982)

Originally Posted by TSteven (Post 1607971)

I may be incorrect, but it was my understanding that Phi Mu gave the Delta Theta chapter designation to the "new" Transylvania Phi Mu chapter in honor of the chapter having been the Alpha chapter of Alpha Delta Theta.

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair (Post 1607967)

Sorry, that just amuses me...a cheerleading group "Gamma Omicron"

GO, GO, GO Gamma Omicron!

::::louder:::::

GO, GO, GO Gamma Omicron!!!