photos of national president badges
 

I've heard from a couple organizations that their National President's badge is different from the typical badges.

Anyone have a pic to share? I'd love to see a few.....

Unfortunately, Burr, Patterson, and Auld doesn't have a picture of the International President's Badge because only she can wear it.

http://www.burrpatt.com/alphagammade...es/AGDBad5.jpg

This is the Crown Badge w/Tiffany Pearl and Diamond Pts., the most expensive Badge that members are allowed to purchase. The International President's Badge is decorated with ALL DIAMONDS. I've never seen it up close, but I'm assuming that it's very beautiful and it'll blind you!!!

Ours is not different, but the same one has been handed down since the 20s is my understanding.

Maybe one of my more technically-inclined sisters has a picture of our Badge to post, but I can't get it to appear!

Our National President's Badge is exactly the same as everyone else's except for the addition of diamonds in the three wings on either side of the lamp.

The Badge is handed down from president to president at the time of her installation, but Past National Presidents can order a Badge to keep after they leave office.

Re: photos of national president badges
 

Good lord have you ever seen Kathy's badge? OMG it's huge! It's the same as our badge, except thicker and the size of, say, a dollar coin (those gold ones). It's so heavy that she can't pin it on her blouse... she had to wear it as a necklace! We told her that we were oh so jealous!:eek:

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I have seen it and that thing IS huge, and oh so beuatiful with all the diamonds around it!!! I was sooooo jealous after I saw that!!!! :D It's absolutely gorgeous!

The Delt Presidents badge is the same except with diamonds. When former US Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark was International President, he was so paranoid about keeping it safe that he literally kept in in a safe in the Supreme Court building.

Alpha Phi President's Pin and it's History
 

Originally there was no standard badge. Until 1906 when the current badge was adopted, each member went to the jeweler of her choice to have her pin designed. Most chose similar designs using the “lazy Phi,” a Phi symbol turned on its side.

Today, special honor badges, replicas of the lazy Phi pin, are worn by international officers, and Educational Leadership Consultants. They are also worn by presidents of collegiate chapters while they serve as president.


http://www.creighton.edu/AlphaPhi/im...bollazyphi.jpg

Our chapter's pin had turqouise stones inlaid in the "A".

I saw the "Lazy Phi" that Sandy McCall Grant (the current NPC Chair) wears at the PacNW regional conference. I have never seen so many diamonds in my ENTIRE life. I was stunned then, and I'm stunned just thinking about it! I was so stunned that I can't remember if it was the Alpha or the Lazy Phi that was encrusted in diamonds! :D

Come to think of it, she wears hers as a pendant around her neck too.. I guess with all that ice, it's too heavy.

"i guess with all that ice, it's too heavy."

wow wow wow. rough life, no?

Wearing that special pin was definitely an added perk when I was President! I was so proud when it was passed on to me! I just wish I got to keep a replica! :D

The large badge Sally was wearing as a pendant is a special honor badge for her as Chairwoman of NPC. It is gorgeous!

I love our honor badges and the pre-1906 badges. My honor badge is the turquoise, but my next "big" a phi purchase will be a white gold honor badge with pearls inlaid.

LD

Check out mastersofdesign.com. They have a lazy Phi one on there that is like the Chapter President one, only without the turquoise. Would IHQ let an alumni order that? :confused:

Lazy Phi badges are honor badges. They can be ordered by international officers. Consultants wear the badges with the turquoise. Collegiate chapter presidents and alumnae chapter presidents also have honor badges that vary based on chapter.

When you become an international officer you can order your own lazy phi badge and choose what it looks like within the confines of the stones we can choose from set in white or yellow gold.

There are only 2 versions of Phi Beta's badge- plain gold or gold w/pearls. Nothing special for the National Prez. (Although all diamonds would be awesome!).

I got to tour the Alpha Phi HQ last fall. There is a prominent painting of an alum-(I can't remember if she was a past pres, or founder, or why she was so important) and her badge was sort of just in the middle of her shirt. They said that for years the badge had been 'over the heart', but then a few years back they got it cleaned & discovered the badge had been moved to that position so they had it removed & the original one shows now.

They went on to talk about how for a long time the important thing was that members WORE their badge, not WHERE they wore it. Just some interesting badge history for Alpha Phi. :)

For real. It must suck to be them. ;)

Ah, thanks LD! I knew there was one detail I was leaving out. I'm just like a raven -- I get distracted when I see shiny things. :D

Sorry I can't post actual images; links is the best I could do.

Kappa's Grand President badge is the all-diamond special award key (eighth one down on this page) with a golden circle dangle, attatched directly to the badge to distinguish her office. She wears a gold version of our new member pin (seventh one down on this page) as a guard.

I got to see the current guard presented to Grand President Ann Stafford Truesdell at our National Convention in June, 2002. I very much like the symbolism of the new member pin as guard to the president's badge. It shows the link between every new member, at the beginning of her journey, and the Grand President, serving in Kappa's highest office.

our national president came down to our initiation to present us with our charter last year, and i didn't notice anything different about her pin.. the only thing is that after 10 years of service, you get a white gold pin, as opposed to the standard gold, pearl , and diamond that every member has::)

The painting in the living room area of the EO is of Martha Foote Crow, our first National President (before we were International) and one of Alpha Phi's founders. Our constitution provides that our badge is to be worn over the heart and apparantly at some points someone had Martha's badge repositioned over her heart so that it complied with how we wear badges today. The several years ago when the picture was cleaned, like SilverTurtle says, the badge was moved back. I love going into Heritage Hall and seeing all of the old Alpha Phi badges prior to the standardized badge.

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I saw Mary Jane's earlier this year and it was huge!

I love them too! I can't wait to get my Fifty Year pin! ;)

http://www.creighton.edu/AlphaPhi/im...bol50yrpin.jpg

The first fifty-year pins, silver circles with red stones, were presented at the 42nd Convention in 1958 to several alumnae who had given significant service to the Fraternity for fifty years or more. These pins are replicas of the pins presented to the six living founders at the Fraternity’s Fiftieth Anniversary Convention in 1922.

The National President's badge for Sigma Kappa is a triangle, like a regular active's badge, but there are two or three rows of diamonds on the outside of it. It's gorgeous and huge! They get to keep the badge when they complete their term, too. I think the other National Officers get similar badges, but maybe not with so many diamonds.

There are only 3 Chi Omega Badges. Silver with pearls, Gold with pearls, and gold with diamonds. The national officers I have seen have bought the diamond pins (and the alumna tend to wear them as rings), but that is it.
I wish we could get white gold with diamonds! That would make a spectacular pin.

All right, I'm going to try and post this picture I scanned...this was in our national magazine (the Adelphean) for the Winter 2003 issue. There's an entire article about the evolution of our badge and also Badge ettiquette (some of which you'll see on the scanned page). I love our president's badge!!!

My Photo Album
Click on either ADPi President's Badge for the full page or ADPi 2 for a cropped look at the badge.

Edited to add: Go to the Scanned Images album...that's the only way anyone can see the images

If I am to understand this correctly, someone painted over the old position and then painted her badge in a new spot? When you say moved back it sounds as though her badge was literally pinned to the canvas.

WOW!! I'd never seen a picture of that before, but it's GORGEOUS!!! That inspires me even more to want that position some day :)

You go for it...then I can say I knew you when you first saw the president's badge! ;)

Yes, someone painted over the old position and then painted her badge in a new spot. Then, during the renovation of the office they discovered that the badge used to be in the center of her blouse and painted over the badge over her heart and repainted a badge in the center of her blouse to have it reflect how she wore her badge.

Traditionally in Alpha Sigma Phi, the Grand Senior President wears the actual badge worn by founder Louis Manigault. It was considered lost until 1970, when descendants of the Manigault family gave the founder's badge to the Fraternity. Since then, it has been worn by succeeding GSP's.