Going to have to agree here. :p

Walt Disney didn't even write the song - the Sherman brothers did!

I've also heard that there are pansies all over Disney world because of the Theta connection

I've never heard that one!

There are probably pansies all over Disney World because they are easy to grow and ubiquitous in the South.

Pshh, but that's not FUN. :)

Of course, not! We always said the rose in Beauty and the Beast had no thorns was because the artist was an AOII. Completely unsupported by evidence. It made a good story, though!

They put them there in the cool weather because they can survive Florida's infrequent but real freezes. They take them out when the weather gets hot because pansies don't do well with that.

For years, I thought Marlo Thomas was Phi Mu. My own Phi Mu chapter was told this every year by whoever our Rush Chairman was at the time. This was 1977 -- 1981 when everyone knew who Marlo Thomas was. We proudly told PNM's that "That Girl" was our sister...too bad she wasn't! I later found out she was Theta (I think). We were also told that Barbra Streisand was Phi Mu and that Marie Osmond was an honorary Phi Mu at Bringham Young. I don't think either is true, but I sure believed it back in the day.

Marlo Thomas is a Theta

Her daughter is a Chi Omega from UNC Chapel Hill

Jill, you are on it!

I gotta toot a little bit...

There are so many stinkin "notable" Theta's!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._Theta_sisters

I always heard that's why she was flying a kite at the beginning of That Girl. Is that part urban legend?


I had such a crush on her in That Girl.

It is NOT an urban legend that Kenny Chesney joined and initiated into Lambda Chi Alpha.

However, every Lambda Chi I knew in college told me that he deactivated/cancelled his membership/whatever it's called in LXA. Yet, he is claimed on their national website.

Any LXAs confirm/deny?

Kenny Chesney went to East Tennessee State University, which is where I went, though Kenny was about 10 years after me. He did pledge Lambda Chi and get this -- my nephew was Sig Ep president the year Kenny rushed and they did not give him a bid! See, it can happen to anyone. :)

Kenny is listed on Lambda Chi's National website under Prominent Members. He also mentions Lambda Chi in the song "Keg in the Closet." It doesn't sound like he has left the organization, but hopefully a Lambda Chi can confirm.

Thats funny, there was a Sig Ep at my school who is Kenny Chesney cousin. I had always heard he left school and that he still owed some dues so he was on financial suspension. But he was on the cover of the cross and crescent about 5 years ago with a full interview so i guess everything is copacetic

I guess he can afford to pay up now.:D

But Carrie Underwood is, even wore her letters in the All-American Girl video, and IMHO is much cooler than SJP (blech)

If I remember correctly, Carrie Underwood was the Keynote Speaker at one of Sigma's conventions.

I like SJP.

Huh, I always heard Carrie was a Tri-Delta, but apparently she is actually a Sigma. Cool!

While we have many an African President, Nelson Mandela is not one of us.

That was a big rumor before the internet.

Oh and Morris Chestnut isn't either.

I never heard that about Megyn Kelly. She did attend Syracuse though.

He better be one by centennial! I can't deal with him not being a Sigma.

Country singer Luke Bryan was Sigma Chi at Georgia Southern, according to a couple of bio's I've read. One also said his wife was ADPi. I wonder if that's what inspired his song "Sorority Girls"???!!

/random thought
Sometimes I wonder if GLOs claim members that become famous even if they don't pay/weren't fabulous/don't donate as alumnae/whatever just so they can say that Suzy MovieStar is an EFG. Like, name dropping normal people do--but on the GLO scale.

I mean, is it really that easy? I'm delinquent on my collegiate dues and haven't paid the 4 semesters prior to my graduation. Do I really just pay up who knows how much later and POOF I'm in good standing and get to be on the cover of the magazine?
/end random thought

Anyway, I heard somewhere--I think it was a radio show--that Oprah was an AKA aspirant in college, but the chapter rejected her. After she became a super famous gazillionaire, AKA offered her membership and she declined. (I've never checked to see if the school Oprah went to had an AKA chapter, so it could be bogus.)

I would wager if a GLO ran around saying "Barry Gibb* is an alumnus!!" but Barry Gibb was a real cheese dick in college and still owes his pledge brothers tons of money, those guys would have NO problem saying "yeah Barry Gibb was a brother, but he's a cheese dick and not welcome at the house at homecoming." I'm sure if a situation like that comes up, the GLO downplays the famous person's membership quickly and doesn't put them on the website.

The majority of NPC and NIC members don't donate as alums. That's not really a reason to not claim someone.

*listening to the Bee Gees and he was the first name that came to mind.

Not an urban legend
 

Luke Bryan is a Sigma Chi.

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._3259956_n.jpg

Well, I know that we have a procedure for paying up and being restored to good standing -- it's not just a "we'll make an exception for famous alum" situation.

One person who availed himself of it -- Bro. Ruben Studdard was initiated by our Omicron Delta chapter (Alabama A&M). From what I heard and read, it was indeed a case of him paying up when he was able.

I love the way you say things. I wonder if we'd be BFF IRL.

Very neat. What ever happened to him. He put out....what, one single after winning idol. I heard he's been spending some time on Broadway.

/back to original topic

New one to me! Robin McGraw, wife of Dr. Phil (not OUR GC DrPhil!) is an alumna initiate from the Omicron chapter at USC!

The author of The Help is now being claimed by Phi Mu.

The main character and her friends were Chi O's in the book.

Phi Mu
 

She's been claimed a while ago. She's from our Alpha Zeta chapter at the University of Alabama. Skeeter, however, was a Chi Omega from Ole Miss. In fact, our Phi Mu page on Facebook has been updated continuously about Kathryn Stockett. I'm pretty sure it was her (or Dana Ivey-another Phi Mu who happened to be in the movie) that sent HQ tickets to the premiere.

I could name drop a movie star who I'm sure everyone here has seen, but there's some sort of question about her membership (not paid up, disaffiliated, lots of stories). I still see her name in a lot of chapter websites, though. And if it's a dues thing, then she should be ashamed of herself!

Unless she really doesn't care one way or the other.

Exactly. As I said, I don't know the real story about it, so what's to say what's in her mind.

OK, I know that everyone knows that Susan Harling (the woman who Shelby in Steel Magnolias is based on) is a Phi Mu. But wasn't there a rumor going around that the composite you see in one scene was a Chi O composite? I just watched SM again the other day and unless someone had a theater size screen and was able to freeze it I don't know how they could tell.

I met the Chi Omega whose family home in Natchitoches, LA was used in the movie. I met her quite a few years ago -- I think she went to Vanderbilt, but maybe the composite was from L.S.U.?