GWI
 

My high school had what was called GWI for Junior and senior girls. I don't know what GWI stands for- I wasn't in it. You couldn't have paid me to be in it:

Its basically this. The seniors(The "Ma'ams") that are in it pick the junior girls who are to be initiated. Girls really, really wanted to be in this(I was not one of them, however!). The seniors would "kidnap" the juniors in the middle of the night and take them to a field for The Dumping. Here the Juniors were blindfolded and had stuff poured on them. YOu name it, it was there- food, human waste, anything you can imagine. And the whole school would know where The Dumping was taking place and people would go and watch. The senior guys were also involved in this- each Junior girl was assigned a senior guy. They had to yell "I love you ____!" when they were out in the field.

So that is the first part. Now, people in GWI say it is a service organization. as far as I know, I think they participated in one walk/run and maybe put flags up at the courthouse. Basically, the Juniors were the Senior's slaves for the year.

After the dumping, the Juniors basically sucked up to their "Ma'ams"(Kinda like Big/Lils) for the rest of the year. They had assigned days to bring their Ma'ams lunch, candy, flowers, a gift. Same for the Senior guys they were assigned. Also, at anytimg a senior member or guy could shout: "Air Raid!"(hit the floor), "Fry Like Bacon"(lay on the floor and wiggle) or "Barnyard"(make sound/act like assigned animal). This could happen ANYWHERE. I saw it happen at Chick-Fil-A in the mornings before school.

Then there was Hell Week. There was another dumping. THen for the whole week, the Jrs. had to wear sweatshirts they made that said "I love my Ma'am" on one side and Their Ma'ams name and GWI on the other. They weren't allowed to fix their hair or where make-up the entire week.

GWI had a halloween dance which anyone could attend(meaning, freshmen,sophomores,non-members) which was a Sadie Hawkins dance and they had a winter semi-formal and spring formal for members only. Once the school year ended, the Juniors take over and pick girls for the next year and the cycle started again.

I mean, who in their right mind would want this?? All the "popular" girls were in it. A lot of them thought it would help them get in a sorority in college! I swear! I was looking at a girl's resume from my hometown who came thru rush at UGA and she listed it. When I explained what it was to my sisters, they couldn't believe someone would want to be a part of it.

Back in the olden days in South Florida, there were fraternities and sororities in the high schools. It was not until 1970 that the Dade County Schools outlawed them, making it an expellable offense for students to belong to one.

One of the more famous high school fraternities in South Florida was Ching Tang, started in the 1920s at Coral Gables High School. Members called each other 'Chinks'. (Obviously this was well before political correctness and racial sensitivity was the norm.) Over 500 members were initiated over the fraternity's history, and about 150 are living today.

In 2001, the surviving members of the fraternity donated their records to the Historical Museum of South Florida.

Re: Clarification
 

Thanks for the clarification. When I was in high school, people used to call them high school sororities. I guess people were using a very loose definition of the term sorority.

**tounge in cheek**

We had one fraternity at my high school, it was called the "Boys' Football Team."

We had one sorority as well. It was called the "Girls' Tennis Team".

My high school (all girls) had sthg like a sorority called Beta Kappa, anyone could be in it, basically all they did was help organize social functions for the school with the boys schools.