Legacy
 

I know this is more of a "Greek Life" Sort of post, but considering I have been unsuccessful getting into that forum, i thought I might post it here intsead.

What sort of Legacy do you all have??

I have...
Alpha Delta Pi (sister)
Alpha Phi (Aunt)
Zeta Tau Alpha (Aunt)
Kappa Alpha Theta (Cousin)

Im just curious!! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

That's true. With the exception of Dartmouth and Cornell (both of which are in very small, isolated areas), the Greek scene is low-key--for various reasons Princeton and Harvard don't even publicly recognize their fraternities and sororities--Princeton has "eating clubs" and Harvard is on the "house system", which are supposedly Greek alternatives. Columbia and Penn are both in bigger cities where there might not be that big of a demand to go Greek. Brown is just weird. Monetarily and administratively, the school is very supportive of the Greek system--most of our prominent alumni are/were Greek, but the student body as a whole isn't very supportive.

Anyway, I'm not a legacy to any NPC groups. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/frown.gif Well, my daughter (if I have one) will be!


[This message has been edited by AlphaChiGirl (edited August 21, 2001).]

I used to work at Penn and they only have Spring Rush there. They have a decent sized greek system, with some houses. I would say they aren't out and about like Cornell, but they still have a respectable system with good organizations.

Although I'm not considered a legacy, my cousin is an Alpha Gamma Delta alumna. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

My dad was a Kappa Sig at Cornell and they had a very active greek system while was there. I know there was a slight decline and a lot of houses went under because of numbers, but today Cornell is again a strong greek system. My dad had a ball being greek at Cornell and has the crazy stories to prove it. I was an Alpha Phi legacy, though there was no Alpha Phi at my school. But my lucky little brother, who does not want to rush, is a legacy of Kappa Sig(dad), SAE(grandfather) and Sigma Chi(other grandfather)of which all three are where he is at!!

My uncle is a Theta Xi, and my cousin pledged Sigma Nu, but dropped out. Both were/are at Rose-Hulman.

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

I'm the first greek in my family too! My sorority is a local one in Boston, MA http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

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"Once a Kappa, Always a Kappa" ...Kappa Gamma Chi
Emerson College Boston, MA

www.geocities.com/krxalumni

My mother pledged Sigma Delta Tau but left school before she initiated. My aunt initiated into SDT. Other than that, I was the only Greek in the family until my cousin pledged Alpha Chi Omega this last winter (at Cornell).

Barbara
ZTA

Barbara, you mentioned that your cousin is an Alpha Chi Omega at Cornell. Have you noticed that greeks there are unusually visible compared to the other Ivies? My sister graduated from Cornell (hardcore GDI) and when I would go up to visit her I saw many people in letters which wasn't the case when I would visit friends at other Ivies.

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@~Tracy~@

"...For it's just the flame of a sister's love, that makes the world go round."

GOOD LUCK TO ALL THE DZ COLLEGIANS DURING RUSH!!!

First Greek in my family http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif
My real big sister was a Sigma Nu little sister back in the day, but never in a sorority. And my brother pretty much lived at the Fiji house at U of Chicago, but didn't actually pledge. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif
So I'm just starting the Greek legacy for us!!!!

Tracy,
I've never been on the Cornell campus, so I can't offer an opnion. I've also just recently met a woman that became at Chi Omega at Cornell.

Barbara

I'm also the first Greek in my family! :) As far as I know, no one in my family has ever gone to a school with a Greek system. Well, my hypothetical future daughter gets to be a legacy :)

No true female legacies. just cousins in DZ (U. of Houston) and Kappa (U. of Texas). But....my oldest is an AOPi and the next 2 will rush in a year. Our 4th daughter doesn't want them to pledge Pi Phi or AOPi but rather 2 more sororities so that she, the queen, can possibly go to a bunch of prefs someday and truly choose the one she likes best since sororities are required to put legacies at their pref parties on the first bid list! :rolleyes:

We think it'll be hysterical if our ninth daughter ends up a legacy to 9 different sororities!

Hey
One of my cousin's is the president of her chapter of Alpha Xi Delta, and my other cousin is a Phi Kappa Tau
They are both my first cousins

My sister - Kappa Delta
My cousin (girl) - president of her Asian sorority a few years back...cannot remember what the letters were, though.

My other cousin (boy) - Phi Tau

Mom - Alpha Phi
Sister - Alpha Phi
Auntie - Alpha Phi

I guess I was born to be an Alpha Phi! :)

Jen

Carnation, who is your DZ cousin at U of H? I am a DZ at U of H!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe I know her. Even if she is alum I might know her. What a small world!

Since I'm the first one in my family to go to college I am definitely not a legacy. =) My cousin, however, is a member of Triangle and any girls that my brothers and I might have (the hypothetical children again!) will be a legacy of AOII.

Sarah

DZSAI, she was president of DZ in the mid-fifties so I bet you don't know her! But her maiden name was Jenilyn Foxworth. I can still remember her bringing her sisters over to my grandparents' house to practice for the Frontier Fiesta. Now she lives on some fantastic ranch in central Texas!

My brother was a Phi Tau, so I am the second person in my family to be Greek (I'm a DU).

My brother is a Theta Chi, and my soon to be sister in law is an ADPi also. Other than that, no one else in my family is Greek. Gotta start some where!:)

Legacy
 

As you can see, I'm an AGD! (Sorry..I didn't intend for it to rhyme, lol). One brother is a Pike and the other is a Sigma Nu. One sis-in-law is a Delta Gamma and the ex-sis-in-law is in a sorority, but not sure which one...maybe Alpha Xi Delta or something other.

My cousin's son is also a Sigma Nu, but at different colleges.

I have 4 nieces so I hope one or all are AGD's, but if not, I just hope they will be as happy with their choice as I've been with mind. :)

My Mom - Alpha Phi
My Mother-in-law - Sigma Kappa
My sister-in-law - Alpha Phi (i rushed her in while I was dating her brother)

Even though it's not concidered for me as a legacy, my aunt was a Gamma Phi Beta up in Minnesota.

Kristen
Delta Phi Epsilon

Aunt- AEPhi
Cousin- AEPhi
Cousin- DphiE

I'm the 1st ZTA. :)

As far as I know I'm the first greek female in my family..but we do have a few guy greeks..

Dad-SAM
Uncle-AEPi(i think?)
Cousin-Sig Ep

I have greeks in my fam, but I'm not a legacy to any of them:

Cousin: Kappa Kappa Gamma
Cousin: SAE
Future Mother -in-law: Alpha Xi Delta
Fiance: Sigma Nu
Future bro-in-law: Pike
Fuuture sis-in-law: ADPi

I'm the first Chi O in the family...but hopefully not the last!!

I am the first Alpha Xi Delta in the family....
My grandmother...KKG
My aunt...KKG
my cousin...(rushing this year at lafayette univ., don't know what they have there)
my dad...TKE
my cousin (guy)..Sigma Chi

Technically I'm not a legacy, but I have a cousin in Phi Kappa Tau and Tri-Delt and an uncle who was a Pike. I'm proud to be the first Pi Phi of the family! :)

No "official" legacies in my family but I do have a few Greek connections ...

Aunt - Sigma Sigma Sigma at Florida State
Grandfather - Sigma Phi Epsilon at Temple (he actually was part of a local that became Sig Ep, so he was a colonizing brother of Sig Ep at Temple)
Cousin - Sig Ep at Johns Hopkins
Uncle - Kappa Alpha at U. of Florida

Me - Alpha Xi Delta! Woo! :D


G8Ralphaxi

My Grandmother was a Delta Gamma at UC Berkeley (grad. in 1918, no chapter at A&M when I rushed :( )
cousin-theta
aunt-theta

Well, I'm technically not a legacy, but my Aunt is a Tri Delta. And they cut me on their first opportunity when I went through! But I love where I am. All that cheese you get from your PX really is true-you end up where you belong!

Crazyleggedsigma-I just love your name!!!!!:)

Not a whole lot of people in my family went to college so the number of Greeks is pretty small. I think that my mom's cousin was a Tri-Delt at Eastern Michigan. My stepdad has a couple of nieces but I'm not sure of their affiliations, I think one is also a Tri-Delt. My husband is a Lambda Chi Alpha. That's my story.

Have a nice day :)

Thanks! Did you read the story about it in ....whatever thread asked for the sources of our names? :D

To all of you-I forgot...My sons will be Lambda Chi Alpha legacies-that's what my Dad is! (at Kansas State, for anyone who goes there-write to me and I'll tell you a fun story about someone who lived in your house when it was still the PiPhi house...;) )

Like many other posters, I'm not a true legacy to any NPC organization. I am(was?) a leg to Delta Delta Pi, a local at Eureka College in Ill. My grandma says that Tri Delt invited them to affiliate, but they(DDPi) declined. Sometimes I think my grandma's a little whack, so who really knows. :confused:
I do have random panhel & local connections.
My Dad's cousin- Phi Omega (local)
The first three cousins are sisters:
cousin- Kappa Alpha Theta at Northwestern
cousin- Kappa Delta at Susquehanna Univ.
cousin- Delta Zeta or Delta Gamma, at Ohio Wesleyan. I found out all of their sororities during rush last year & I just said "Oh, we don't have that here" & blew it off. :o
other cousin who has rushed since I did- Zeta Tau Alpha at Univ of Evansville
of course, me- Chi Omega at the Univ of Cincinnati

crazylegged sigma
 

No I did not read the post thread of the origin of your name crazyleggedsigma-just curious as to how you got the name


I did not name the fraternity connections in my family:
grandfather delta Tau delta at Wooster in Ohio
uncle also DTD at UT Austin

K

My sister is a PI BETA PHI (UC Riverside)
and my cousin is also a PI BETA PHI (UC Davis)

I am a legacy through my sister! (UC Irvine)

It is wonderful to share the bonds of Pi Phi sisterhood with my sister and cousin!

I am the first one in my family to go Greek, so I don't have any legacies in my family! http://www.plaudersmilies.de/cry.gifhttp://www.plaudersmilies.de/sad/azcrying.gifhttp://www.plaudersmilies.de/bawling.gifhttp://www.plaudersmilies.de/crying.gif

I don't have any daughters (yet) but I do have 3 nieces...and yes, Auntie CutiePie2000 will start "working on them" when they are in high school to think about going Greek in university!

It might be a tough sell though, since their mothers (my sisters) are a bit like this towards the idea of sororities: http://www.plaudersmilies.de/sad/schmoll2.gif