Alpha Sigma Tau
 

Alpha Sigma Tau's colors are Emerald Green and Gold. Our flower is the yellow rose.

We all make such a lovely bouquet!

Sigma Alpha Iota colors: Crimson & White
Sigma Alpha Iota Flower: Red Rose

Phi Sigma Pi Colors: Royal Purple and Gold
Phi Sigma Pi Flower: White Rose

Pi Phi's colors are wine and silver blue and our flower is the wine carnation

Kappa Lambda Psi's colors are navy blue and gray, and our flower is the morning glory =)

Delta Upsilon's colors are Old Gold and Sapphire Blue (A classic combo many times copied.) We don't have an official flower or mascot or symbol, or much of anything, helps keep things simple for the non-secrecy thing!!!

As an addition to Alpha Phi Soroity, "Alpha Phi’s original colors were blue and gold. In 1879, noting that a fraternity had colors too similar to hers, Alpha Phi adopted the more distinctive colors of silver and bordeaux. Members wear their colors in the form of a ribbon of silver/gray and bordeaux, under their badge to acknowledge special occasions, the installation of a new chapter, the anniversary of their chapter’s installation or the celebration of Alpha Phi Founders’ Day, October 10." -Alpha Phi Official Website

Kind of a neat coincidence since they are our sister organization.

Do you by any chance go to Marist?

Yeah she posted an introduction thread in Greek Life I think.

And everywhere else too... *whistles casually*

Here we go again.

Well purple is a royal color.

Sigma Phi Epsilon's colors are Purple and Red. I think gold is unofficially a color because we use it when we show our letters.
Our flowers are the violet and dark red rose.

I am not in a NPHC, but a good friend of mine is the president of her chapter, and she has echoed this that it is forbidden to wear NPHC letters with different colors.

Kappa Alpha Psi's colors are crimson and cream.

Our flower is the red carnation.

Hey, I wanna hear the ZTA strawberry story without having to go and search for it forever. :D Someone tell me please :D

hell yeah but you forgot to be more specific bro...the official flower of Sigma Nu is The Classic Five-Petaled, wild, white English Florabunda :D

ZTA strawberry story
 

Your wish is my command. :)

http://www.uwosh.edu/zetataualpha/ho...s/aboutzta.htm

that is the sweetest thing I have ever heard!!!

Kappa Beta Gamma:
Our colors are blue and gold for actives, blue and white for new members, and our flower is the Forget-me-not.

Zeta strawberries > Gamma Phi peanuts and olives. :(

Completely understandable and we do the same:

"The official colors of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity are red and purple. Gold is utilized essentially as trim, but is not an official color. While gold is used on SigEp chapter flags for Greek letter chapter designations and as striping, it is NOT an official color of the Fraternity. While gold is used in the banners that have flown overhead at Conclave it is in the same regard, as a trim, but not as an official color of the Fraternity.

The official flowers of the Fraternity are red roses and deep purple violets. The Fraternity has two official flowers that match the same colors as the Fratenity's two official colors. There is not a gold colored flower that officially represents the Fraternity.

The same could be said of the flag of the United States of America whose colors are red, white, and blue. While gold fringe may be used in interior flags, gold is not an official color of the flag, but merely as trim --- identical in concept to the Fraternity's official colors --- and does not include gold as an official color."

Gold is just a really nice trim color haha.

peanuts & olives? huh?

and btw....gold is a nice PRIMARY color also, not just for trim (hence AST's Emerald & Gold...)

Gamma Phis colors used to be some sort of blue or blues. They were changed in memory of Prof. Brown to brown and mode because our founders held meeting in his library/study. That may explain the wearing of navy and light blue.

Agreed....That that I am biased or anything because Theta's colors are Black and Gold! Oh and our flower is the black and gold pansy!

To even be more specific...

Old Rose and Vieux Green: The selection (supposedly) was made when the 6 original founders were sitting in Alpha Lloyd's (I think) living room where there was a rug with the colors in it and they liked them so much, that's what they chose.

I know, the story isn't a great legend, but it's a legend nonetheless.

While growing up I remember hearing stories that the Killarney rose was a popular hybrid at the time that didn't have any thorns. It was believed that the flower was extinct, but within the past 10 years or so they have become available and did, in fact, have thorns.

our colors
 

Delta Xi Phi Multicultural Sorority, Inc.

Colors: Navy Blue and Maroon
Flower: Yellow Rose of Texas

ZBT Colors are....

Medium Blue & White (1898 to 1970)

Medium Blue, White & Gold (1971 to Present)
(Gold was added as the third color after the mergers symbolizing the bridging of all 5 fraternities into one...Phi Alpha, Kappa Nu, Phi Epsilon Pi, Phi Sigma Delta, Zeta Beta Tau)

Fraternity Flower is the Gold Carnation.


Zeta Beta Tau
"Leadership, Diversity, & Brotherhood since 1898."

haha...i was thinking the same thing

Ok, SWTXBelle or joliebelle...you explain the peanuts and olives. yuck olives are gross!

I prefer the Gamma Phi Beta tradition of holding a "chocolataire" ....a party dedicated to everything delicious and chocolate.

Let's have one today, and invite a nice ZTA to bring the strawberries!

:)

Personally I actually like brown and mode. Brown is such a good color for me...I would have loved it! Haha...you can make a nice chocolate brown and true mode look good together. But pink and brown is very cute. I like pink/brown and pink/blue color combinations.

I agree - as a redhead, I could pull off brown and mode really well. Actually, with the exception of the green, brown and mode would probably look much better on me than our colors. :p;)

My kids (ages 3 and 2) loooove olives. I have to be careful where the cans of black olives are positioned in our pantry - if I open the door to get something else and a can of black olives catches their eye, they beg me to open it so they can have some.

(I've always had a thing for green olives, but I like the black ones too.)

Personally, I like the pink/green combo....

I wish that turquoise was an easy color to match, but it really only works with shades of grey, black, or white.

Wait...nvm -- it works with purple* (thats good for me!)

Peanuts and Olives - mmm, mmm, good!
 

From The Legacy of Gamma Phi Beta (pg.318)
"The Tradition dearest to the hearts of members, and the one most distinictive to Gamma Phi Beta, has been that of Peanuts and Olives - which has even inspired a Sorority song! The tradition has dictated that chapters serve these two foods at events. . . As has been common for all traditions, much folklore has evolved surrounding the start of this practice. . . all these explanations have centered around an alleged social event scheduled at Alpha Chapter.
FOLKLORE #1 - has a meal - sometimes considered a rush meal, sometimes considered a meal in celebration of some occasion - that consists of a colorful spread, with the best china and silver used. The members set out the spread, then move outside to run some errands (or, based on the version, to visit some friends). I n their absence, some members of one of the local fraternities break in to the house, then eat the spread, with the exception of the peanuts and olives. The members find these sole remnants of the food theft on their return to the house.
FOLKLORE #2 - has a calm afternoon at the house. Some local friends (male or female, depending on the version) call on the members,who, of course, want to offer them refreshments. When one memberr checks the cupboards, however, she finds them bare but for the peanuts and olives. Her intuitive hostess sense tells her to make the most of the situation, so she serves these two items with the silver and in a most gracious manner.
FOLKLORE #3 - has an informal rush event scheduled, in which some members have invited friends to attend. One of the newer members is to oversee the refreshments for the event, which she intends to do - until she becomes so occupied with school work . . . that she does not remember to shop. A few minutes before the arrival of the rushees,she realizes her omission and rushes to the cupboards, where she finds the peanuts and olives. As she serves, she acts as if those were the intended treats all the time. "
As an aside, my chapter told the story that the Alpha Phis broke into the house while the Gamma Phis were conducting initiation, and stole everything but the peanuts and olives. (!)
Alas for the creative folklore - our founder Adeline Curtis and first initiate Clara Worden Wilcox told the real story in the June 1908 edition of The Crescent -"The banquets of the early days were very differrent from the twentieth century function. . . Eva Seymour '85 invited Alpha to what she termed a 'chocolatetaire'. It is easy to imagine that chocolate in many forms was served. A few weeks later another member entertained the chapter informally. It so happened that one of the features of the refreshments was peanuts and olives. This function the guests dubbed a 'peanutetaire'. The combination so captivated the fancy or the appetitite of these college women that they straightway adopted the peanut and olive spread as one of the features of their informal gatherings."

Now my question is, why not adopt the 'chocolatetaire'????

So there you go- more than you ever wanted to know about Gamma Phi and our peanuts and olives.

oooo I love it SWTXBelle! Thanks for the story! I'm all about adopting the chocolataire. shall we start a campaign????

My chapter told a slight twist on the peanut and olive story....it was a rush party and the refreshments were lifted by pranking frat boys...the sisters were horrified to find their goodies gone,and their party potentially ruined... but in the spirit of Gamma Phi pride pulled themselves together and served the only things they had, peanuts and olives, as if they had planned it that way along. The party was so gracious and classy that all the invited guests accepted their invitations to pledge Gamma Phi Beta.

I love sorority folklore...even if there are embellishments along the way. it's all in the best tradition of American tall tales!

truly amazing! i love little lore stories like this one! thanks SWTXBelle for a lovely interlude!

If I can ever answer an NPC trivia question first, I have another fun food fact . . . :rolleyes: