Remembering Founders
 

I have a problem! I can never remember the names of my sorority's founders. I remember bits and pieces of their names, but I've been in the sorority for 2 yrs I should know by now from pledgeship and the national tests etc!!!! I feel like a horrible Greek!!!! Yet I can remember what someone wore last week and what accessories they wore etc

Delta Phi Epsilon has the acronym D.I.M.E.S. for our 5 national founders which takes some of the pressure off:
Dorothy Cohen Schwartzman
Ida Bienstock Landau
Minna Goldsmith Mahler
Eva Effron Robin
Sylvia Steireman Cohn
I can't say the same about our local founders though =o\

WE use many little cows jump vertically, but it's the last names bc they each have two last names!!!! UGH! oh well

Lana, I hope you've never forgotten "a rootin, a tootin, a Calva Watson Wootton"!! ;)

We have 11 founders, and I can only ever remember about 5 of them. One of my sisters made up a poem once to remember them all...I should ask her if she still knows it so that I can remember them, but I won't post it here because it was really dirty. ;) :p

Ok, here are the ones I definitely remember:

Georgia Dickover
Marguerite Shepard
Estelle Shepard
Jennie Titus Smith Morris
Emily Butterfield

I think there was one named Flora Knight Mayer, too...I know it was something similar to Florence Nightingale, so that's how I remember it.

Any Alpha Gams have any hints for remembering them?

Don't feel bad. I am about to be a senior and I still can't always remember the names of all our founders (we have 9). I know - I am the worst Zeta ever!!! Themis is going to come down and strike me with lightning!! If I really try, I can maybe do it....:confused:

I have a very good memory and can name them right off the top of my head at any given moment.

Christina Gausas (Founding Advisor)
Jennifer Bobb
Jennifer Davis
Kathryn "Kitty" DiNicola
Anastasia "Tessie" Giannouris
Jill James
Michelle Jun
Angie Klock
Nancy Kwon
Holly Manssur
Anna Stergiopoulos
Deana Vietti

Yes! I'll have to write it up in the Alpha Gam forum sometime!

I think the easist way to remember the founders is to make up a short story. Find a way to string all the founders together and then you'll never forget (especially if it's comical). I initiated in '99 and I still remember the story I made up and always teach it to some of the new members so they will remember.

Zeta Zeta...
 

I got this tip @ Convention...from of course a fellow Pa Zeta :)


Founders:
HAMMER FAD

Helen M. Crafford
Alice Bland Coleman
Maud Jones Horner
Mary Jones Batte,
Ethel Coleman Van Name
Ruby Leigh Orgain (what a great name!)

Frances Yancey Smith
Alice Grey Welsh
Della Lewis Hundley (another name I loooove)


Our first NM's are GEO but I don't know thier names hmmm maybe Barb or my ZIF CD can help!

SAI has 7 founders...let's see if I can name them all!!!

Leila Farlin Laughlin
Nora Crane Hunt
Georgina Potts
Mary Storrs Anderson
Elizabeth Campbell
Minnie Davis Sherrill
Frances Caspari

WOO HOO!!! I remembered them all. :D

33girl-- I have never heard the rootin, tootin, Calva Watson Wooton! Oh my!!! That must be from way back--hehe
ASA

Three seconds of web surfing:

http://www.uwrf.edu/alpha-sigma-alpha/history.htm

I didn't know ASA was another Longwood College sorority (we had KD and ZTA at my school).

*yawn* I guess I need to go do something productive now...

Ours are

Hellen St Clair Mullen
Stella George Stern Perry
Jessie Wallice Hughan
Elizabeth "Bes" Heywood Wyman

Hopefully they are all spelled correctly! :)
:)
Sarah

one of the AGDs is gonna hafta PM me this founder song everybody is talking about! i can never remember all 11 either!

I remember SAI's founders by the acronym "FLENGM2" (FLENGM Squared):

Francis Caspari
Leila Farlin Laughlin
Elizabeth A. Campbell
Nora Crane Hunt
Georgina Potts
Mary Storrs Andersen
Minnie Davis Sherrill

-Jessica

Let's see ... as a former fraternity heritage chair, this could be embarrassing:

Frances Lowery Cheney
Almira Cheney
Cora Bollinger Block
Harriet Luella McCollum
Lucy Gilmer
Lewie Strong Taylor
Bertha Cook Evans

shoot!
Alice Bartlett Bruner
Eliza Drake Curtis Everton
Julia Maude Foster

I had to look those last three up. :(

It's easy when there are only 3...

James Frank Hopkins
James McIlvane Riley
Greenfield Quarles

we did ours as E-FILM

Elizabeth Goraham Hoag
Frances Mann Hall
Ida Fuller Pearce
Louise Helen Coburn
Mary Low Carver (my personal fave. . .she haunts our shower in our dorm at psu and supposedly she haunts the dorm named after her at colby college)

For some strange reason I'm glad that my sorority had only 7 founders, and that we only had to memorize their maiden names... (whew) :)

Helen Phillips
Ida Beck
Rose Gerstein
Augustina "Tina" Hess
Lee Reiss
Rose Salmowitz
Stella Strauss

Lets see how many I remember. There are 10 and each one except one has three names (first name, maiden name, married name)

-Fay Chertkoff (shes easy)
-Shirly Cohen Laufer
-Josephine Ellison Breakstone
-Estelle Melnick Cole
-Ethel Gordon Kraus
-Lillian Gordon Alpern

Thats all I can remember for now. 6 out of 10 isn't bad considering it is august and I have been away from all sorority things since early may. Theres always the website: www.phisigmasigma.org

Any Alpha Gam out there please Pm me the founder song
as well!! I can never remember them all! I can recognize them when I see them I can never list them when asked though!

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who can't remember all 11! Leslie, please post your founders story as soon as you get the chance. :)

We did sort of the same thing, but we used FLIME instead. Even with that I still had all sorts of trouble remembering the founders on the test!