Chapter Presidents' Badges
 

Are there any organizations where the chapter President's badge is distinct from the badges of the other members? Like maybe bigger or, well, blingier? Also, I think I remember hearing that one of the NPC sororities gives its chapter presidents a ring as a sign of her office? If that's true, does anyone have a picture to post? I'm curious to see what it would look like. Thanks!

For Tri Delta, at least in my chapter, the president's pin is owned by the chapter and is lent for the current president to wear during her term. Our chapter's president's pin was a gift from executive office (or maybe the foundation?) when we were chartered so I'd assume each chapter's president's badge is a bit different as the years have gone by.

It is a bit larger, flatter and with blue stones compared to the standard badge.

Standard badge:
http://browardtrideltas.tripod.com/s...adge_small.jpg

Couldn't find a picture of my chapter's president's badge, but it is similar to the Field Consultant badge:
http://www.tridelta.org/aspnet_clien...s/FCbadge1.png

I know Alpha Phi Presidents have a special badge. As far as KD goes, like many sororities, there is a presidents ring, but either you buy it (and get to keep it forever, which is what i did) or some kd chapters have one that belongs to the chapter and it is passed on to the president each year.

http://www.hjgreek.com/index.cfm?eve...roduct_ID=9012 i have the white gold, and I LOVE IT. :)

ETA: The ring was my gift from my mother for my 21st birthday, which was just two weeks after I was elected

http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/5277/dscf3006s.jpg

Don't know if you are an Alpha Phi, if so, can she choose to buy her own and wear it/have the privilege to wear it as a past chapter president?

This is Theta Phi Alpha's member badge:
http://www.hjgreek.com/assets/images...large/8577.jpg

And here is the Chapter President Badge:
http://www.hjgreek.com/assets/images...mall/51983.jpg

My chapter had a president's badge that was donated to the chapter by an alumna. It was the standard SK badge but the gems were all opals. Unfortunately, badge has gone missing. Several of us have a good idea what happened to it...

...president that didn't want to part ways with it?

ETA: My chapter also had a president pass-down badge, yellow gold with all emeralds. I personally never liked it and never used it (preferred my own). A KD Chapter nearby passes down a beautiful all diamond white gold badge (saw it myself, stunning).

A Sigma Kappa badge with opals? Tell me you have a picture! I'd love to see it, and so would all of the other opal addicts on the badge trends thread!

Unfortunately, I am not sure any good photos of it exist. We had one president who would not wear it because she was a superstitious about opals. It was beautiful.

A sister whom I am close to was the president and never got the badge. She and I could put bits and pieces back together and it disappeared a few presidents prior to her term. A sister was elected president who was not slated nor even turned in a letter of intent. I am not ever sure she wanted it, but she ended up being elected. She had stress breakdown during finals week in May, didn't return to school the following fall. The badge was never seen after that.

The SAE Chapter President's badge is actually the original design of the badge. The current members badge can be viewed here, and the president's badge can be viewed here. The website doesn't really give any perspective as to the difference in size, but the members badge is consistent with the size of most GLO member badges and the president's badge is substantially larger, on the order of an inch and a half along the long axis, if memory serves.

What a shame about that Sigma Kappa opal badge. :(

AEPhi doesn't have a special chapter president's badge, although of course the president can go buy a president dangle for her badge.

The only AEPhi who gets to wear a different badge is the national president - she wears the Hannah G. Solomon Badge, which is passed down from president to president. Hannah G. Solomon was the founder of the National Council of Jewish Women. Other national officers have a pin (a gold circle with the Greek letters embossed on it) that they wear in addition to their own badge. (I'm starting to smell a new thread idea... ;) )

The president, Risk Management, Member Development and New Member Educators from every chapter were present at RLC this past February, and I met several presidents from single letter chapters. It seemed to me that the older the chapter, the older the president's badge, because the president of what I think was our Epsilon chapter had a badge that looked similar to the badge on the right.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75...DSCN1001-1.jpg

It was massive, had opals up the crescent, and had opals in the stars, if I'm correct. I was stunned by how unique it was, and when I asked her about the badge, she said that it was a founding sister of their chapter's badge!

Delta Gamma has a president's badge that is larger than standard and flat instead of rounded. It has all pearls recessed into it. The guard is a gavel.

To my knowledge, ADPi doesn't have a standard Chapter President pin. My chapter president wears a Founder's Pin, regular pears, and a fancy guard.

The Delta Chi "A"'s badge (chapter president) is the standard black enamel badge, but it's twice the size (one inch compared to half an inch). Some chapters may pass them down, but mine did not. I chose not to buy one when I was "A" because I thought it was too large and gaudy looking.

I'm in the same boat as you! I probably wouldn't have known about the really old president's badges had I not gone to RLC, actually!

Interesting piece of Theta history/trivia: in the 1950s and into the early 1960s, for chapters founded in that time frame, the Fraternity had President's badges created using the original die(s) from the founders' badges. Seriously. I have no idea what clasps were used, but assume they were modern ones. I have not seen any of those President's badges; my own chapter was founded in 1950, but I do not recall a specific President's badge.

It would be interesting to track down those chapters and see if those badges were still in the chapters' possessions. (grammar nerd runs off to check use of apostrophes and plurals, feel free to step in and correct me, GC grammar police!)

http://i54.tinypic.com/10d63ib.jpg

This is the SAI chapter president's ring. Our chapter doesn't have this, but I wish we did. It's a pretty ring.

The DG presidents' badge is shown here: http://www.jbrandt.com/products-list...cognition-pins

I seem to remember when I was chapter president, the president's badge had a different stone, but I may be wrong. I lost it, and felt guilty for a couple of years until I could reimburse the chapter and allow them to replace it. Anyone remember a badge with a different stone? I was thinking emeralds, but I'm not sure that makes sense, since jeweled DG pins are always only pearls or diamonds.

^^^I did not realize/know that DG used a different jeweler. WOW those are some amazing choices in jewelry you guys have. Have you seen the quality on these badges from jbrandt?

Man am I ever on the "jealous of everyone else path" today. Need to adjust my attitude.

My chapter was founded in 1955 and while I remember that the president's badge was different from the rest, I can't recall what exactly was different about it. I'll email the current president and see if she will be gracious enough to take a picture. (provided, of course, that it is still the same badge...)

No President's badge in my Chi Omega chapter, but, we did have a beautiful yellow gold gavel (about an inch in length) with the crest affixed. It was passed down year after year, but is no longer a part of the chapter tradition. Someone must have lost it along the way.

A funny story when I was chapter president and wearing the necklace, a guy noticed the charm and thought it ws a lawnmower!! I said, "Why yes, I'm lavaliered to a yard man."

Wow, I'm really enjoying looking at these gorgeous badges and rings! All those different TriDelt badges (especially the chased one with blue stones) are beautiful!

Cool. Thanks for sharing, although I would have thought that most chapters would see to it that the pears were a little more special, maybe at least from Harry and David.

Just gently kidding, of course.

Well, a pair of pears is always nice. ;)

It may be more exciting, I just don't remember it. Our Founder only died in the past 10-15 years (she was about 100 years old, seriously!), so we didn't even have that when I was around.

There's a President's ring available, but it used to be a normal ADPi ring. I haven't figured out how to cut & paste with this laptop yet, so I'll have to post it from another computer.

I think it would be really cool if our Archons (presidents) had a special badge. Hmm maybe an Alumni key? Or even a jeweled badge with garnets on it?

When I was president, I wore a badge that was a mixture of the two below. It was larger and flatter than the regular badge. It was chased like the first one with a chased chapter letters guard and a gavel dangle. It had opals like the second one below, but they were smaller going up the sides of the crescent. The three stars had larger opals. I think mine had white enameled letters, but I'm not 100% certain of that. I was told it was a copy of an early badge, but I don't remember the details now.

I had a lovely yellow cable knit sweater that it looked especially beautiful on. The opals just glowed against the yellow sweater.

I wore that badge all the time for almost two years, but don't have a single close up shot of it. :(

I'm not a terribly materialistic person, but man. I loved that badge. :)

:D

OPAL BADGE!!!!!!!!!!! want

No special chapter president's badge for us. As I've noted in the Badge Trends thread, the jewels on our badge are standardized and the only option we have is in the quality of the gold, so design-wise, we all wear the same badge.

This is true. I come from an older chapter (just turned 100 this past June!) and we have a beautiful older president's badge. It is larger than the member's badge, flat, has emeralds instead of pearls and 3 small pearls on each side of the moon tips. It also has a chapter guard with emeralds and the president's gavel dangle. On the reverse side it says PRESIDENT ALPHA ALPHA. I wish I had a picture of it. There was also a President's ring but it went missing when we moved offices.

WhiteDaisy posting this beauty in the "Badge Trends" thread made me wonder if there are other sororities out there with a special Badge for the National President (or equivalent) to wear?
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...ps4bb960f2.jpg

I've heard that the DZ National President's Badge is a little bigger than the standard badge and the six wings on either side of the lamp have diamonds in them. I've never seen it, but would love to if any of my sisters have a picture or a link!

The Alpha Gamma Delta International President is given a 14 diamond badge [as opposed to a 14 pearl badge] upon installation. Only the International President can have an all diamond badge.

Our International President wears the above badge and the Council Members (VPs) wear this badge (sorry it's not a great photo):
http://media-cache-ec3.pinterest.com...9ad8fcee0a.jpg

^^I've seen that DG council member badge in person - it's stunning!

Sigma Nu posted this on facebook yesterday. I'm assuming it's their International President's badge because of the size and the gavel guard, but the post wasn't specific.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...63059961_n.jpg

In our chapter, the present and former commanders can wear this:

https://www.hjgreek.com/assets/image...small/9802.jpg

This is the ordinary, standard issue badge:

http://thumbs3.ebaystatic.com/m/mWNJ...xGhB7w/140.jpg

Here's what I wear:

https://www.hjgreek.com/assets/image...large/9770.jpg

You can't really tell from my pictures, but the Commander's badge is about 2x as large as the ordinary one. It is sometimes referred to as the frisbee.

I don't believe there is an official president's badge at the Chapter or National level for Alpha Xi Delta.

Like other orgs. have mentioned here, a chapter can own a badge that is given to each president to wear during her term. My chapter had an antique one that was given to us during our installation.

The national president wears this:
http://i50.tinypic.com/2vmebmc.jpg

It's hard to see but it's a gold medallion featuring our CoA with a president's gavel above it. Each link in the chain represents an established chapter of Alpha Xi Delta.

I saw it in person (at my Installation and DePaul's installation). It's pretty huge!

I heard or read somewhere that AOPi chapter presidents get a ring to signify their position. I really wish we had something like that; it's a wonderful idea.

Here is our Collegiate Chapter President's ring https://hjgreek.com/assets/images/pr...arge/58346.jpg

We also have an Alumnae Chapter President's ring now, thanks to some very dedicated APs!
https://hjgreek.com/assets/images/pr...arge/58350.jpg

Makes me want to become an Alumnae Chapter President just so I can get that ring! :p