As I said...no confusion -- Chi Omega never "merged" with any group.

The latest one was printed in I think 1991. They still have some left over and won't print another one until they are gone. The IFC bought the rights to it and took out a lot of stuff...the 1977 one is really the last decent one. Although in their defense, there seem to be so many new groups that putting it together now would require an insane amount of research.

Something else I'm curious about - did any of these sororities use nicknames or shortened versions of their names? Like AEPhi for Alpha Epsilon Phi, Kappa for Kappa Kappa Gamma, etc. Beta Sigma Omicron, for instance, is quite a mouthful...

What kind of information did they take out?

Over the summer I found a local libary that had the 1991 edition and spent a good two hours just pouring over everything. I was able to find my grandmother's ASA chapter that how now closed. It was pretty cool.

There was stuff about longtime local groups and fraternities/sororities that no longer exist.

Where did your grandmother go to school?

I think that Beta Sigma Omicron referred to themselves as Betas. I remember that old movie "Fraternity Row"and in the prologue, the narrator said that certain fraternities and sororites paired together for life. He listed them by full name but sometimes nickname. It struck me as odd that a fraternity would pair with Beta (Theta Pi). I realized much later that it was probably BSO.

Phi Omega Pi referred to themselves as POPs like sodas. I have one of their song books and it's pretty neat.

Phi Omega Pi were also the Phi O Pi's -- we used to have a chapter of them here at Wisconsin and that's how they were referred to in the yearbook.

I have two copies of the BSO new member manual. I would love to see a copy of their ritual, if only to find out if any of it is now part of ZTA ritual. We absorbed BSO back in the 60's I believe. The national was in financial trouble. The only chapters that closed were those that existed on campuses where ZTA already had a chapter.

I also have a 1920's edition of The Sorority Handbook by Ida Shaw Martin and a 1930's Bairds that I love to look through and learn.

My Dad's fraternity pin is beautiful. I wear it on my charm bracelet. I looked it up in "Baird's Manual" once & if I recall, it was from Alpha Lambda Tau? I wish I could remember which group they merged with -- Pi Kappa Alpha maybe?

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anyone know who this is? Phi Epsilon Delta?

If you want to see the Theta Kappa Nu membership pin just look at the Lambda Chi Alpha associate member pin. That is bc when LCA merged with TKN we incorperated many of their things into Lambda chi.

Is there a site somewhere with info about the ASA reorg?

Alpha Lambda Tau
 

Alpha Lambda Tau chapters mostly joined TKE. A good article
on this southern outfit is in several Baird's editions.

My husband has his great-great-grandfather's fraternity badge from the Peucinian Society at Bowdoin College. The society was instituted Nov. 22, 1805 and G-G-GF was initiated in 1839.

The badge is cut from a piece of silver, about 1"square. I believe it originally hung from a ribbon that would have been pinned to a lapel or hung around the neck.

I have it on a silver chain and wear it as a necklace.


AGDAlum

sorry for the delay...she was an ASA at suny oswego. i think she was one of the founding sisters, but the chapter closed shortly after getting its charter.