Designation for Deceased Members?
 

This was touched upon in the "Naming Chapters" thread but I thought it was interesting enough to warrent its own thread.

Does your GLO have a special designation for deceased brothers/sisters? At Delta Zeta, we say our sister joined The Flame Eternal.

The "Silent Chapter" of Alpha Phi
 

When an Alpha Phi sister passes away, she is said to have joined "The Silent Chapter."

Jen

PS I agree, KillarneyRose, this is a fascinating thread. :)

chapter eternal, for us.

Sigmas join Omega Chapter.

AGD Chapter Grand
 

How timely! I just found out that a Alpha Gamma Delta from Gamma Tau Chapter passed away Saturday into Chapter Grand.:(

TKE is chapter eternal also.

Chapter eternal for APO as well.

TKE
 

I don't mean to sound insensitive, but I sort of chuckled when I saw that TKEs enter Chapter Eternal and then zntke711's signature is TKE's raise hell!

Sounds like the TKE's I know.;)

AZD is Chapter Eternal too.

Delta Tau Delta also says, "Chapter Eternal."

Chi Omegas join Omega Chapter...

Delta Phi Epsilon - Chapter Eternal

Ok, this may sound completely stupid, but.... i've noticed a lot of fraternities/sororities having deceased members joing the "omega chapter" - does that mean that you don't have a collegiate chapter named omega ~ my glo's deceased join the flame eternal, so that's why i'm asking...

Besides the obvious that Omega is the last letter in the Greek alphabet, in the Bible, it talks about The Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, so Omega makes sense to me.

Your question got me wondering, though. I went to our website and we don't seem to have an Omega Chapter. That doesn't mean we've never had one, but we don't at the moment.

NOYB
 

Yes we do.

THE END

:D;)

KD is "chapter eternal" as well...

However, this does not sound heavenly. I picture the chapter meeting that has people repeating the same stuff they have for the past 3 weeks or asking questions that they could just ask the secretary....and it just doesn't last an hour...but forever......*shudder*

ROFL
 

I know exactly what you mean; I've attended a few "chapter eternals" in my day! ;)

I can't speak for all of the other chapters, but Chi Omega does not have any active, living Omega chapter. Our Omega chapter is reserved as a special designation for deceased members only.

KillarneyRose, I hear ya! I've been to a few chapter meetings that never end... :)

AFAIK, AEPhi has no special designation for deceased members. There used to be a "real" collegiate Omega Chapter, which I believe is defunct...

Theta Chi uses the term The Chapter Eternal for desced memebers as well.

Re: NOYB
 

Exactly, I was thinking the same thing.

;) ;)

Re: NOYB
 

Girlfriend, I have missed you :D

In response to the question -- hmmm...never thought to ask. We do have an Omega chapter, so I guess that that's not it (one would hope not anyway).

As for "Chapter Eternal" - AMEN to that - I've been to WAY too many of those (and no - I wasn't the cause :D)

Omega Chapter
 

For Alpha Sigma Phi our deceased brothers go to the OMEGA chapter in which we had a brother from our chapter pass away this summer in a car accident so all of you out there please be careful.....