That sounds perfectly lovely! I do hope y'all take pictures for the Adelphean - it's such a cute idea!!

As for the Cherry Blossom Festival, I already have SO much scheduled that week. :( I was getting some fun ideas, too!

Honey, we'll have to schedule a Macon meeting sometime. Wouldn't that be fun?

Something I find interesting that no one has mentioned yet is that ADPi/the Adelphean Society was originally a secret society. The members who founded PhiMu/the Philmothean (sp) society theoretically did not know about the Adelphean Society b/c it was secret... (this still ties over to today's rituals). So both groups supposedly were founded without direct knowledge of the membership of either group.

Hmm -- I'm pretty sure that two of the original founders of ADPi and Phi Mu roomed together, and it was following the refusal of an invitation to the Phi Mu to join that jumpstarted the Philomathian society....

Honeychile -- I loved reading your story. :) Just wanted to point out that Macon County and the city of Macon, Georgia, are two different places. (The city of Macon is in Bibb County, and Macon County is a bit further south, past Crawford, Peach and Houston counties.)

Yeah, in Georgia, for most counties, there is also a city that shares the same name. Hardly ever will you find the city in the county with the same name! I have been here for a year and a half and still can't figure out where I am going!

I had heard that our primary founders roomed together, too, but I never heard that the Phi Mu primary founder wasn't issued an invitation to the Adelphean Society!

I wonder if we'll ever know the whole story! :)

Then, I have to assume that the photos we took at the "Now entering Macon Cty" meant city, not county. How odd!!

Glad you liked the story - I've dined out on that for a while now!

I'd love for all you Macon Magnolias to stop HERE on the way to Macon! And you could visit Fuzicrayon and the new Nu chapter of Phi Mu!

GA is strange, they have no imagination when it comes to names. I live in the city that has almost the same name as the county right off of the same name for the street.

But my county does have a city with the exact same name, but on the other side of the state.

Plus West Ga U. is in Carrol county Carrolton city.


Crazy Georgians.


ETA: Isn't Phi Mu moving their HQ to Peach Tree City? I remeber hearing about that in Local news.

YES WE ARE!!! And it is going to be the most beautiful building.....

http://www.phimu.org/foundation/newhq.asp

Everyone check it out!

Do you know when it will be up and running?

Ground breaking was in May 2003. I am not sure the move in date, but I am betting it is late 2004 or early 2005.

It is so beautiful and definitely something for Phi Mu's to be very excited about building!

WOW!!! That is just gorgeous!!!

The architect's drawings look wonderful! I'm so happy for you all to have such a wonderful headquarters, and to get the two Macon Magnolia organizations' headquarters within about a 2 hours drive of one another! :)