Originally Posted by violetpretty (Post 1920647)

An excellent choice in chapter name, I must say.

Originally Posted by AOII Angel (Post 1920908)

The sisters of Beta Zeta chose their chapter designation to honor our International President Barb Zipperian. Isn't that sweet?! I'm sure Barb is very honored. I think this is her first chapter installation.

Originally Posted by GuitarAOII (Post 1920922)

How did you find that out? That's so sweet though. I'm curious to know if that's the first time a chapter has chosen its name to reflect an International President (or Past International President).

Originally Posted by AOII Angel (Post 1920928)

I asked on FB. I wanted to know why they picked those letters since unlike most chapters, their letters don't match their sub-motto. No to your second question. Phi Chi at Univ of Chicago was named for Peg Crawford (one of my favorite PIPs) because she was instrumental in getting AOII chosen as the first NPC to colonize that campus. There are many other chapters who were named after influential alumnae, not just International Presidents (Auburn is another example), or even other collegiate chapters that assisted in colonization (ex. Kappa at Randolph-Macon helped colonize the chapter at Southern Methodist so the women at Southern Methodist named their chapter Nu Kappa in honor of Kappa. Both are now inactive.)

Originally Posted by GuitarAOII (Post 1920939)

Ah, Peg. I have heard about her from our girls that met her at Convention last year. Maybe I'll meet her one day haha.

Thanks for answering my question! You're just full of knowledge lol.

Best of luck to Beta Zeta!

Originally Posted by Beryana (Post 1920983)

Chapters in Tennessee are also chapters that sort of follow a pattern - most have Omicron in their chapter name at UT-Knoxville's chapter is Omicron.

That's part of the fun of a chapter being able to choose their chapter name and submotto, it helps solidify the individuality of the chapter. I believe there are even a few chapters who honor someone and have the sub-motto match those letters. I think there was even a recently chartered chapter whose sub-motto is in Greek like early the early chapters - can't remember which one or I could even be imagining that one. . . .

Originally Posted by AOII Angel (Post 1920985)

The Tennessee Omicron tradition began with Vanderbilt who named their chapter Nu Omicron to honor Omicron chapter at UT-Knoxville for their help with extension, like Southern Methodist did with Kappa chapter.

Originally Posted by Beryana (Post 1920991)

It's actually Washington University which chose Delta Kappa with the submotto of Kalokagathia meaning Excellent/Beautiful and Good (taken from My AOII). Not exactly the same as the early chapters whose entire motto is the chapter letters, but Kappa by itself is not available.

I only mentioned the Tennessee state and Omicron tradition because its one of the interesting/fun traditions chapters adopted when choosing a chapter name. There is also those chapters who choose their chapter name honoring their school (Nu Iota, Epsilon Chi, Lambda Upsilon, Iota Sigma, etc). You also have a bunch of Kentucky chapters that have Omega in their names - to give a number of examples AOII has. Other groups have somewhat similar traditions as well. Alpha Gamma Delta, I believe that's the group which does this, names chapters alphabetically but regionally as well (so Epsilon Alpha could be older than Gamma Alpha due to different regions). Or Delta Phi Epsilon which named their chapters alphabetically starting with single letters, the doubles starting with Delta, Phi and Epsilon before starting the double letter Alphas (so Delta Alpha is older than Alpha Alpha).

Originally Posted by violetpretty (Post 1921377)

Sigma Kappa doesn't get to choose our chapter designations---we go in order---but my chapter's installation was timed so that they could be Beta Zeta to honor the nearby Zeta chapter at George Washington University!

Originally Posted by BetaZetaPanda (Post 1921371)

Hey Ladies :)

Thank you all on behalf of Beta Zeta :)

And just so you know our sub motto is "Live Simply, Love Always".

Originally Posted by BetaZetaPanda (Post 1921371)

And just so you know our sub motto is "Live Simply, Love Always".

Originally Posted by BZAOII (Post 1923386)

I'm an initiate of the Beta Zeta chapter of AOII. AOII Angel was right, our motto is "Live Simply, Love Always." We named our chapter after Barb Zipperian, who actually installed the chapter. VERY exciting for us, especially since initiation was a new experience. She gave a speech during our Rose Banquet that night and told us she is very honored that we named our chapter after her and she expects us to hold the highest standards possible. I certainly don't want to let her down!!

Originally Posted by BZAOII (Post 1923392)

Barb is amazing! So sweet and loving. I am so glad we decided to name the chapter after her. Our resident consultant tried to stress to us what a big deal it was that the International President was installing our chapter - and it was her first time as well. I don't think I realized just how monumental an event it was until after our Rose Banquet was over. I had a wonderful time.

Originally Posted by StellarSister (Post 1994631)

Tomorrow night, Beta Zeta will initiate their first pledge class since their installation in April. Glad I get to be there to watch these ladies share our beautiful Ritual for the first time!