I assumed that if she was actually a Tri Delt, they'd list her on the national website. Earlier in this thread, though, we discussed the possibility that she was a pledge (of either Tri Delt or Chi O) but never initiated. You do hear her linked with Tri Delta and Chi Omega a lot, but there's no real proof anywhere that she was actually initiated into either one.

So I just heard an urban legend today....

I don't know if Key Foods (the grocery store) is a national chain or whatever, but today someone at work today said they think the founder's wife was a Kappa Kappa Gamma. Though they couldn't name the guy, they were sure it was in honor of his wife. Since this just seems very strange, I doubt it can be true.

The things people come up with is bizzare sometimes...

Here's a TOTALLY unsubstantiated urban legend. Rumor had it on the Ohio University campus when I was there that there was a former Tri-Delt chapter sometime during the 40's or 50's that threw a nude party and was banished from campus until every member of that chapter is dead.

Talk about the death penalty! Remember, this was in a far more conservative time, sexually speaking, so I suppose it could be true.

Speaking of the "they're thrown off campus until all their chapter alums die", we have that here at W&L about the Delts!

In 1995, the Delts took sledgehammers to their house and destroyed it (it was due for a renovation anyway, and that made them mad... or something). Supposedly they collapsed the whole third floor. I don't know about that, but it is substantiated that they at least knocked holes in the floor.:eek: Since the University owns GLO housing, they were kicked off campus pretty quick. And thus we have all sorts of crazy rumors about it.

Swell.

Just the kind of thing I like to hear. I'm going to see if I can find anything out about that since I didn't hear about it then!

Plus this one had something on the back, didn't it say "KGB" or something like that?

I've heard people say say that Kristin Davis (Charlotte on Sex and the City) is a Kappa, but there isn't even a chapter at Rutgers where she went.

Wasn't there an episode of Sex and the City where she met up with her old KKG sorority sisters? I bet that's where this rumor got started.

Sandra Day O'Connor was only in an honorary legal fraternity/sorority but her mom was a Gamma Phi Beta.

Delta Burke pledged Zeta but was never initiated.

Candice Bergen was a Kappa but voluntarily deactivated partly due to too many demands for appearances etc from other Kappas (and that was told to me in mid-1908s by Kappa HQ!)

One source I use to check bios of some stars etc is the Internet Movie Data Base -- go to: www.imdb.com
(I can't seem to insert the site!)

Urban Greek legends I have seen on some Gamma Phi websites are that Kirstie Alley and Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched) were Gamma Phis -- neither were.

One actual fact that I used to think was myth til I called DZ HQtrs myself to ask was that Crown Princess Margaret of Norway was a DZ!

Puck being a Fiji
 

Either Puck or his brother [I think both] are Fiji's b/c he came to University of Memphis for something this past Spring and they almost got in a fight with the ATO's [FIJI & ATO are neighbors].

And after World War II, one of DZ's philanthropic activities at that time -- baby supplies and infant clothing for European war orphans -- was conducted under the sponsorship of the Crown Princess.

That would explain the connection -- I just wonder excatly how her "pledge" training and initiation actually came about though -- any DZ's out there who can enlighten us???

DeltAlum that rumor is still rampant! We heard it from some of our alum (i think 80's era) just last year! Kinda funny since the only other rumor i've ever heard about a sorority not on our campus was that Tri-Delt was recolonizing....but i've been told there wasn't ever a Tri-Delt chapter on our campus.

Nope- never a Tri Delta chapter at Ohio University. There were a couple at Miama-Ohio and Ohio State a few other, but nothing about just plain ol' Ohio Univ. I'm guessing these are different. Our webpage has a list of everyschool that was ever chartered.

Just out of curoisity, has anyone else noticed that some GLO's have more 'urban legend' members? Any thoughts?

Hey GPhiBLtColonel, I'm not a DZ, but their 1982 history says the Crown Princess was initiated in 1939 when she and the Crown Prince were guests at the U. of North Dakota on their tour of the western USA -- and stayed at the DZ house there (Upsilon chapter). The national president of DZ conducted the initiation. So apparently it was an AI of sorts. They do have a small black and white pic of the Prince and Princess on the chapter house steps; she is wearing an elaborate "traditional"-looking Norwegian-style highly ornamented outfit -- not really what the GC rush threads would be likely to recommend, even for Preference. The Prince is in black tie. No other details, sorry.