Originally Posted by gamma_girl52 (Post 1915221)

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

Originally Posted by naraht (Post 1915286)

Congrats!

Hopefully they also will be given the explanation of why Gamma Sigma Sigma is in the ECSU yearbook, but ECSU is a new charter. (Not sure if you want to send the Colony Historian a link to this thread on greekchat:)

Hopefully those sisters at ECSU from the 1970s who initiated at St. Augustine can be invited for Chartering and be made honorary sisters of the new chapter as well.

elliottoge, do you have contact with any of the others who were at ECSU with you?

Originally Posted by gamma_girl52 (Post 810038)

From what I was told, Gamma Sigma Sigma's was called "The Omicron Pledge Club".

Originally Posted by gamma_girl52 (Post 1890095)

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.

Originally Posted by oesdivav (Post 1917650)

depends on the school different schools used different names

Originally Posted by naraht (Post 1917869)

I haven't seen a pledge club name for GSS other than the Omicron Club and for Alpha Phi Omega other than the Trefoil Club. Please enlighten us....

Originally Posted by Senusret I (Post 1917932)

This is only anecdotal, but I've heard of some chapters calling their pledges Torches. Or maybe that's a Viking thing. Whatever the case may be, I go by what I've seen documented at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. :)

naraht, if you haven't been yet, I promise you will be in hog heaven looking through the old yearbooks.

Originally Posted by naraht (Post 1917990)

I went to the stacks of the library looking for yearbooks, but anything that is more ordered than that would be good.

Senusret,

BTW, I was *asked* by the Zeta Phi brothers who won the next sectional conference to do a "History of Alpha Phi Omega in Maryland, DC and (northern) Virginia". I told them I didn't think I was qualified. :)