We are zebras and you are.....?
 

At Gamma Iota, we use the zebra as our mascot for ZTA. I know a lot of other chapters use the bunny. What's your mascot?

And part two of this question.... does your chapter have a "dessert" (other than strawberries?) Our tradition is the peppermint/oreo dessert. We would make an oreo crust and use pink peppermint icecream inside. Yum!

Teddy Bear!

Just strawberries for us!

My chapter started out using a clown, but changed it to a bunny (not sure when).

As for a special dessert, I usually make dirt cake for Preference and retreat. Using strawberries of course for the "plant." My chapter sisters LOVE it!

That was probably a smart move. Did you know that there are people with "clown phobias?!!"

My chapter used the white tiger as our symbol.

My chapter used the Turtle as our mascot.

It's fun in our alumnae group to talk about what our different mascots our chapters used.

We used the Zeta "cuddle bunny" as our mascot. No special deserts at my chapter. I feel so deprived!:(

We used teddy bears my pledge semester. The next year our province president came in and got rid of any animal mascot. That was the late 1980's. Now I've seen the girls use bunnies.

I didn't know that bunnies were considered a Zeta thing until after I graduated from college. I have always collected bunny stuff and now have a little bunny as a pet. He is gray, of course!
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We had chocolate covered strawberries at pref and as our special treats.

My chapter used angels as our mascot.

back in my day, we had butterflies as our mascot at fsu. now they have the bunny.

and blueangel-that was our dessert!! we always served it at prefs. and it was even published in the zta cookbook that came out in the 90's(or was it the '80's?)

ladies, if you've never tried this, ya just gotta!!

use the largest pkg of oreos you can find and a gallon of peppermint ice cream.finely crush oreo cookies, sprinkle a layer of cookie crumbs into a 13 x 9 pan(reserving half of crumbs ) spread softened peppermint ice cream on top of crumbs and sprinkle the remaining crumbs on top of ice cream. cover and place in freezer until frozen. cut into squares and serve on chilled plates. yum yum!!

we called this "ant hill pie" at our house.

Delta Lambda's mascot (Ga State) is the gator. Kappa Sigma helped the chapter a great deal when it was colonized in 1961 and as a thank-you the chapter adopted their mascot the gator. We're the only gators we know of in Zeta Land.

There are some other unusual mascots out there, keep the posts coming! Christopher Newport in VA, our newest chapter, adopted the Flamingo!

I had no idea bout CNU. That is too cool. If you want letters with flamingoes, let me know. I know who has them! :D

radiozta - I think the fear of clowns was one reason our mascot was changed to a bunny.

kappa tau chapter at fl. gulf coast university has flamingoes as their mascot too!!

Just out of curiousity, is there any reason we've never adopted a national mascot?

And... FSU Zeta.... question for you. I don't remember ever hearing any mention of strawberries in connection with ZTA when I was in school. Were strawberries adopted as a symbol fairly recently?

Strawberries have always been a part of Zeta....

They've been a symbol since ZTA was founded. Mary Jones received them as a gift and that's how they became our symbol.

My chapter (Theta Omega) uses the teddy bear.

The chapter I advise (Kappa Theta) uses the bunny.

Yes, I've heard that story... however, there was no mention of strawberries at all in my old pledge manual of 1978. The only symbols mentioned were the crown and the "zeta lady." Nobody ever mentioned strawberries the whole time I was a pledge.

My chapter used ladybugs. USC uses bunnies, too.

I was so relieved to see your post, blueangel. I didn't know about strawberries either until sometime in the last few years. I pledged in 1985, and I don't remember learning about this during my pledge period at all.

I pledged in 1987 and I vaguely remember hearing about the strawberries but it wasn't until the PP came to town to "clean house" that they were really pushed as a symbol.


Got the bunny picture fixed, too.


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What an cute bunny? Is he a baby?

I had a rabbit when I was a kid. I'm a big animal nut! OOOoh... gives me an idea for another thread......

He is two years old but he is very small. He is a Siamese Dwarf and weighs about 5 pounds.

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My husband is allergic to cats and dogs but not rabbits. Go figure.

How cute!!! We had litter box trained my bunny, but then she started pulling out the wall to wall carpet strand by strand-- and when we caught her chewing on electrical wires and the console TV-- it was outside in the hutch! But I still brought her in a lot to play and get exercise.

The first week, Lucky chewed a wire on our brand new stereo system. He has also destroyed part of a wall and nibbled on furniture. My husband called him "stew" for about 3 months.

That is why you see toilet paper rolls surrounding him in one pic. He also has his own cardboard box and phone book to tear up plus he gets to nibble on the newspaper everyday after we're finished with it.

larue, i love your bunny!! and you are so right about the strawberries-i think that we are showing our age. i do not remember anything about the strawberries during my time at fsu and blueangel and i were pledges at about the same time. i thought it was just me having forgotten. by the way, that would be a great FRED topic-when did we start using the strawberry as a symbol?

i have met many national officers who always stressed that zta does not have a national mascot. i wonder if the strawbery story was dusted off and put into action because the chapters wanted a national mascot?

good grief!! now i have images of zetas in giant strawberry suits, singing and dancing in unison.

radioZTA, your bunny is too precious!

Larue-

I have heard about the bunny, but I have never seen pics of him. He is SOOOOO cute!!!

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Thanks, Meredith! He is SO high maintenance but such a cutie! (sounds like a boyfriend I had in college!) ;)

I had a white rabbit while growing up. He liked to lift the small metal bars between the two rooms of his outdoor house by using his teeth. Must be a rabbit thing...drove my grandpa crazy at first trying to figure out who took the bars out then we saw the little bite marks....

As much as I liked my chapter's Tutle mascot, I liked the bunny the best as a second choice!!