While some keep mentioning Phi Beta Kappa, which started as the earliest known Greek named Society, they changed to an Honor Organization later.

If you now consider the current Social GLOs, I am sure a lot has to do with the region, ethnic background, and school one would be from or attend.

I became very familiar with the Male GLOs in starting a local Fraternity and which I would try to affiliate with. In the middle 60's, there was little expansion except by two. LXA and TKE were the majors and the Union Triad were the least for expansion as they are today.

Probably the best known Fraternity was SX because of the Song "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" and Chester Gould the penner of 'Dick Tracy" who would slip in something with SX in the cartoon that he did.

I am sure that African-Americans new little about Caucasion Fraternities as they were going to HBC and vice versa as the two ethnic groups rarely crossed paths untill now.

Actually is there a true answer, maybe not.

That is true.

Here is a link to a history of Phi Beta Kappa...

http://www.clubs.psu.edu/PhiBetaKappa/hist.html

I think what's interesting is how people probably think fake sororities and fraternities are actual national organizations (although a lot of them do have locals, but those are usually coincidental).

I'm sure lots of younger girls now know of Delta Nu from Legally Blonde. (The second one mentioned Kappa, but I'm not sure how memorable the quota was for non-Greeks.)

Delta Nu and Delta Tau Chi are Homecoming partners this year.

cause we African-Americans ALL go to HBC's...

-tld221
--(NYU is a far cry from HBC)

I honestly knew nothing about frats/sororities period...at least that I remember. My only experience was a sorority house (Alpha Phi) that I drove by on my way to highschool and I'd check the girls out that would be walking in/out/sunbathing, etc.

obviously

Sorry, Tom, right idea, but wrong cartoonist. Milt Caniff, the creator of "Steve Canyon" would slip in aspects of Sigma Chi into his cartoons.

I also remember an episode of "Facts of Life". Blair is angry at her boyfriend. He tells Mrs. Garrett that Blair caught him dancing with the Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.

"Until now" started when?

He said "until now" which means as of today. Get with the program, silly. :)

Nah, I think he was pointing to the obvious segregation of years past. There's still segregation but more social interaction than before.

I can picture their float now!

Where I came from the big names were KD, Kappa, SAE, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, and Tri-Delt. But I didn't know all that until about senior year in high school. I knew Kappa Delta because my mom, and two aunts (and now a cousin) were, SAE because that's what my dad and uncle were, Sigma Nu because of my grand dad, Phi Mu from a cousin, and Pi Kap from another uncle. That was about it. Oh and AOPi (KD's rival at my mom's school) and ATO (SAE's rival there also). Then of course Delta Tau Chi (only I never could remember the whole name, I just knew "Deltas") and Phi Beta Kappa.