Highschool Sororities....
 

Okay I searched and didnt find anything so:

Did anyone's school have secret orgs for students, like sororities? I know that Ive read posts and people have mentioned that their grandmothers etc were part of them...

Any info?

Websites?

Help!

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Alison

SubRosa Legends
 

I have no knowledge of any sort of societies. The only time I have heard of such things are on TV, like the episode that ran this past season on "Gilmore Girls"...

There have been threads on this but I don't remember what they were called. Keep searching though, they're out there.

My sorority's housemother was in a high school sorority (she's probably about 70 yrs old) and apparently there was a lot of hazing involved.

My own personal experience was with a group called "Exchangettes." We did something that I guess was like Rush, had weekly meetings, activities, and did community service. It was a lot of fun :D

I've posted this under High School Hazing, http://greekchat.com/gcforums/showth...&postid=205498, but here goes:


My H.S. hazing story


In high school there was something you could be initiated into, a secret society or underground sorority, if you will. You had to be "chosen" to join. The sophomores aka "Sophomore Misses" extend invitations to the freshman, juniors aka "Junior Ladies" extend to sophomores, and seniors aka "Senior Women" extend to juniors. You cannot join as a senior. If you were initiated as a freshman, you were initiated into Freshman Girls. Your sophomore year you were automatically a part of Sophomore Misses, etc.

I was initiated as a sophomore into Sophomore Misses. What the Junior Ladies did that year is get a list of all sophomores who were extended an invite to join. They assign to each Junior Lady 1 or 2 sophomores to pick up from their home before initiation. They drove us to someone's house where we all met. (There were tons of cars, mind you. The boys of the junior class came along to watch) Before getting to our meeting spot, some of the juniors took the sophomores that they had to go "shopping" for embarrassing items. The juniors could also have done stuff to them, such as making them wear their bras on the outside, etc. Luckily the junior who picked me up was super nice and did nothing to me prior to arriving at the meeting house. When we got to the meeting house, we were put into the back of pick-up trucks. Since the junior who picked me up drove a Mustang, I had to leave her since I would be getting dirty. The good thing is that I was put in the pick-up truck of the Junior Lady who had invited me to join, one of my good friends. She didn't make us do anything stupid, other than give her chihuahua dog a kiss! Most other sophomores there had lipstick put all over their face, Crisco in their hair, tampons hanging from their ears and tons of other things.

All pick-up trucks go to the same location, out in the middle of nowhere. They lay out a tarp on the ground and make us all lay next to each other, like sardines. They pour tons of junk all over us - eggs, flour, sardines, pickles, hot dogs, ketchup, mustard, peanut butter and tons of other junk. Some of the girls even had to pretend to be giving the junior guys oral pleasure. Fortunately, I was not! After all this is done, they drive us all to a car wash and spray us down. Then, they go and drop us off back home and afterwards there is a party.

FUNNY THING ABOUT JOINING:
We do nothing together after that! There was talk about having a party per semester. Yeah right! They did do football boosters my junior year. There were about 3 girls to each member on the 1st string football team. Before school on the day of each game the girls met with the guy and gave him treats. I didn't do this because I was in band and had a little sis to get things for every game. We were supposed to have a graduation party, yeah right! It was all a bunch of bull.

The ONE thing we did do: make t-shirts every year so that we could "represent."

Basically, you were initiated just to say that you were in Freshman Girls, Sophomore Misses, Junior Ladies or Senior Women. If you were initiated then you were part of the "popular" crowd.

That sounds exactly like the movie"Dazed and Confused."

My post?

Yes, your post is just like the movie. Have you ever seen it? The senior girls round up the "chosen" freshman and have all the guys around watching, and they put stuff all over them like you said (mustard, ketchup, etc) and then they made them pretend to do sexual favors for the guys too. They also put them into pickup trucks and ran them through the car wash. I am guessing whoever started that tradition at your school probably got some of that stuff based off the movie!!

High School Sororities
 

My Aunt told me that she was in a High School Sorority that was school sanctioned and very carefully monitored by the chapter advisors and the administration and served as a sort of feeder organization to the NPC houses at Newcomb College. Lots of fun but tightly controlled. Apparently there were a dozen or so of these sororities, but that the system was dieing out in the late 50s and was gone by the mid 60s. I asked some cousins down in New Orleans who told me that there used to be an extensive network of High School Fraternities and Sororities which were independent of college Greek organizations but did tend to feed into certain houses in the deep South at least. The Fraternities died out in the fifties and the sororities in the sixties and were replaced in New Orleans by a club called "Valencia" which had tennis courts, a swimming pool, a huge party room and club house facilities like a Country Club but limited to kids in high school! Valencia was a social club that might have been seen as basic training for college and Greek life but I think it was more than that.
One of my friends in Law School said that his mother belonged to a national highschool sorority called Chi Kappa Chi (XKX) when she was growing up in Hammond, Indiana. According to him, this was also tightly controlled by the administration at his Mom's school but that some other chapters or other houses were very much into hazing and serious drinking and this led to a law baning HS greek orgs in Indiana. We asked one of our Law profs who we knew to be Greek and he told us that he was aware of similar HS systems in Richmond and in Baltimore and that his father had been in a HS fraternity in St Louis before he went SAE at Missouri. He said that he was pretty sure they all died out about the same time as well. Sounds like in Louisiana they came up with an alternative social organization and in Indiana they shut them down by law. I don't know what happened elsewhere . This is all second hand info but I think its interesting that there was a whole HS level of National Greek Orgs that seem to have died out or gone into deep cover. Anybody know any info about this they can share?

Never seen the movie. Maybe I should.

Cultured Pearls Sorority
 

My high school in Washington, DC, which was predominately black, has a local sorority called Cultured Pearls, which was established by an AKA on the administration. It seems to perform as a charm club. There is also mentoring. It wasn't founded until after I left, so the details are sketchy. Contact Christine Easterling at Calvin Coolidge High School in DC for more information.

There was a sorority at my mom's high school in So Cal. They were called the Denotians and you could only join if you were invited to... my mom was invited, but declined because she didn't want to be limited to one group of friends (they didnt talk to anyone outside of the Denotians)... She said they did silly things for the girls getting initiated (wearing pins, wearing clothes inside-out to school, getting them drunk), but that was about it. I'm not sure if it was designed to filter into the NPC system, but the majority of my mom's friends that were in it did end up going greek (I think a lot were USC Pi Phis)... that's about all I know:D

Hmmm... oh yes, they had them at my high school. There were four groups, each at its own level of eliteness, and you had to be asked in your 8th grade year.

They printed t-shirts for different events, did some community service, held formals and balls, an annual sisterhood retreat, a "greek week" of sorts, etc. The pledging process lasted an entire school year (rather than 6-8 weeks), and the girls would come to school and to football games in ridiculous costumes the week before initiation.

These groups have been in our town for generations and generations, and a lot of the girls end up going greek once they get to college. The high school sororities are sponsored by matronly "study clubs," which is probably my town's equivalent to a junior league.

My highschool didn't have hs sororities, but since it was an all-girls hs, I guess you could call us one big sorority :D We did have Big Sisters when we were freshman, and then when we were juniors we got Little Sisters. That was the closest thing we had. Anyhoo, I had never heard of sororities in high school until I moved down here to Galveston and they have 3 or 4 at the hs here. I think it's kind of silly, personally, to have a sorority in hs.

Funny story-I was taking a dress to get altered because I was coming back for one of Mr.ChiOJenn's formals and the lady doing the alterations was asking me what it was for, and I told her a fraternity formal. She was like, oh, what sorority are you in? Is it blah blah blah(started naming off the hs sorority names)-I was like, um NO. Do I still look like I'm in hs?? :rolleyes: Anyhoo....

We had Gamma Delta (band), Delta Tau Love (Band) and Gentry Phi Perfection, or G Phi P(Social) at my high school in Detroit.

My friends and I had something like this in HS. We called it Hotel California (we were big into the eagles back then). We did not really think of ourselves as a fraternity, we just wanted to have a group of friends that agreed that there was a better way of being friends than just womenizing and being dicks to each other. We had a few rules and even had a few meeting and what not over the course of HS but it was mostly to agree on how we were going to have a party or something. WHat was really cool was that we had a whole big garage that wsa our clubhouse pretty much that we could have all kinds of functions at, Now that it has been a few years since leaving HS, almost all of my friends are part of a fraternity, usually in a leadership position, and very successful chapters at that.

MASS
 

My High School and surronding high schools used to have sororities and fraternities but, MA educational board deleted them from all public schools, saying they harm the effect of education. That was back in the late 70's they did that. Now some schools still have them but they are known as something else...such as the Girls philantropic club

~Kristen

My mother was a part of a high school sorority in her upstate New York School. They were called that "Epsilon Zetas" or the "Ezees" (HAa!) My mother moved to her school rather late so she "pledged" the sorority as a Senior, which normally wasnt allowed, but all of her friends were Ezees, so they made an exception. Although the rest of the younger girls had to do much more, the only thing that my mom had to do was write "E" on one cheek and "Z" on the other and walk around school"

When I found this out, I rolled around the floor crying with laughter, because I never thought that my mom was the type.. But now I know a lot more about my mom, so I know better :)

There were three "secret societies" at my High school for girls and three for boys. There were always 12 girls in mine, and my mother was also in the society that I was in. We were not allowed to tell anyone that we were in the society, and we were allowed to hang out with anyone that we wished, but our loyalty fell in with those other 11 girls. It was a great experience, and I wouldn't have changed it for the world. I guess I should have known that I would go from one HS secret society into the First and Finest in the world! :) Love to all my ADPi sisters and everyone else!

MY HiGH SCHOOL SORORiTiE
 

i AM NOW iN A HiGH SCHOOL SORORiTY [ALPHA THETA NU CHRiSTiAN COMMUNiTY SERViCE SORORiTY. i AM THE PRESiDENT!..

LiKe, OmG? FoR sUre? rElLy??

Why all the lowercase I's is what I want to know. It's not like she just left the capslock on and "oopsed" but she lowercased the I's in Christian too.

My high school has several sororities. A lot of the schools in my area have them. That is all.

BECAUSE i AM NOT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD? :rolleyes:

You need to get in the corner.
Nose to the wall.:p

There's NO SUCH THING
 

I've never heard of a high school sorrority! That's fake!

Sadly it is not.

My mom was actually in one in high school. There were three or four public high schools and one Catholic school in the area. There were three HS sororities that were loosely tied to specific schools. It was... special... from the sound of it

When are you getting your account back?

I've never heard of a sorrority either.;)

Your guess is as good as mine.

Well, if you haven't heard of them, then they must be fake.

I'm glad someone on here recognizes my omniscience.;) :p

Definitely had them. One white sorority (Delta Beta Sigma), it seemed like they had alot of fun. And a black fraternity, all I know is they went by the Beta's. From my limited knowledge, it seemed like Arkansas had alot of chapters of DBS.

LOL LiKE, THAT WOULDVE BEEN MY ANSWER CAUSE THE SORORiTiE COMES BEFORE i DO! THERES NO i iN SORORiTie...

(oh damn, there's 2... shyte... now what?)

In my HS we had service organizations like Anchor Club and Key Club, which are (I assume) off-shoots of GLOs. I know in Anchor we had a ritual initiation and were very selective about whom we invited to join. GPA and extra-curricular were taken into consideration also. We had interviews with alums and had to write an essay.

I went to a college with no GLOs but transferred to a larger U and then for post-grad and was always interested in college sororities. A colleague of mine in grad school told me to ask about post-grad recruitment (she said 'rush' was verboten)? I never heard of that. Is it a real thing? I won't reveal the org. in case it's wrong info. But I love the histories behind your orgs. and think it's a really interesting concept.

I especially love the symbolism behind the flowers and colors. I love the book by Geri Laufer "Tussie Mussies" which reveals the medieval and rennaissance meanings behind many different flowers and how the combinations of these flowers contained hidden meanings.

We didn't have greek organizations at my HS, and I'm sure it's rather unheard of in Ky period. Although, I do know a girl who said there was one sorority in her HS. I don't think I like the idea of it. There being one organization, which was apparently elitist, negatively skewed her opinion of greek life.

I can't think that high school GLO's are a good idea. Kids in high school are too judgemental and elitist as it is; do we REALLY need to give them a reason to behave poorly to others? No; no is the answer to that question.

Key Club and many of those high school service clubs are sponsored by civic clubs like the Kiwanis Int or Rotary Clubs. They also have college level equivalents so students can continue their involvement. At the college and university level, Key Club is known as Circle K.

There are also opportunities to be involved in sororities outside of college. NPC sororities are not the only type. Community sororities also offer sisterhood, ritual, and symbolism and have social and philanthropic activities. They just don't happen to be affiliated with a college. Examples are Beta Sigma Phi or Epsilon Sigma Alpha. Google the term "community sororities" and you should get several results.

I belonged to a high school "sorority" in Southern California. We called them "off campus" clubs. My mother belonged to a similar group at North Hollywood HS in the 50's. aside from the social aspect, they were not really sororities. I believe these clubs were off shoots from when the YMCA sponsored activities like dances and pep rallies at high schools in the 50s. I don't know if they exist anymore as I don't live in the area now...the schools generally frowned upon the whole thing as they viewed it the same thing as a gang, and there was no control by the school.

interestingly enough, these clubs were not elitist at all. Friendly rivalry would be a better description. It was the Key Club that was elitist, because it had to sponsored by a teacher, and therefore the membership was limited to 30...at a school with over 3000 students! There was a lot of sucking up involved in getting in the Key Club!

That is really interesting! Thanks. I am out of school now, but it is still a fact I will bet many people don't know. :)