Officer Dangle Question
 

Hey all - quick question. How do you attach your officer dangles to your chapter guard? I thought that you just string the dangle onto the chain, but I have also heard of people "securing" them so that if the chain breaks, you don't lose the dangles.

Thanks!

I strung the dangles onto the chain (as you describe), but if the links of the chain were large enough, you could attach the dangle to one of the links in the middle.

The badge & guard are difficult enough to put on straight -- not sure if having the dangles in a set place would help or hurt!

Each one of my dangles are hooked through a link in my guard... if that makes sense!

hahaa. I thought this was a Reno 911 thread.

*sigh, why did i TOTALLY think this was a thread about Reno 911?? :rolleyes:

thanks for the insight!

um, i've never seen reno 911. sorry 'bout the confusion!

mine are just on the loose on the chain;i.e. they can slide up and down between the chapter guard and my badge.

theres something about a man in uniform...

or, uh, HALF a uniform...

way...too...disturbing!!!

I laughed, though! :D

Here's mine (minus a few dangles):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...Picture646.jpg

When did you all get your chapter guards? After you get dangles?

I wish us fraternity men got to have some kind of recognition medals for positions held.

What do you mean by fraternity men getting to have Position 'pieces'. I thought officer dangles were a sort of widely accepted thing amongst everybody. I have seen several different GLOS that had officer dangles attached to their badge and guard. I guess it just depends on the organization or the chapter. If you want a gavel denoting that you were a President then I dont see who would really stop you if you were so inclined. Or am I way off and you were going along the lines of actual military type medals denoting position or what have you.

I got my guard and 2 of my dangles at the same time

Everyone in our chapter ordered their guards along with their pins, but not anymore. I have mine dangles (the ones that are on, that is!) on the sliding chain, but at a Panhellenic Luncheon, saw someone who had hers on just like AUDeltaGam does. After checking with our EO, I've decided to do something similar with my pin. "Alumnae Privilege" is great!

I got my first guard after I ordered my pin and bought some dangles, but I recently purchased a new "upgraded" badge and purchased the guard at the same time. I'm planning on purchasing some (if not all) the dangles I plan on "repurchasing" at Convention in a few weeks.

But back to the original question - I put my dangles through the links of the guard, I guess to help them "stand out" individually. I've had a number of people (sisters and non-sisters) mention my dangles when they see me wearing my badge, and I guess I also feel that they're a little "safer" where I might only lose one if it fell off the chain, rather than all of them if my chain broke.

me too lol!

Question: For those of you who have each of your dangles on a separate link of your guard, how do you decide which goes in the middle, etc?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...3/P5311032.jpg
My badge with all the dangles

From left to right:
Honor Board
Colonizing Sister
Lamp of Knowledge (for a semester GPA of 4.0)
Director of Social Awareness
Big Sister

My dangles don't really have an order, though I was a colonizing sister before I was elected to honor board (though they happened in the same semester). The Lamp of Knowledge is in the middle, because it's the biggest one!

AOII doesn't have chapter guards or officer dangles, so I guess they're not that widely accepted.

Actually, AOII used to have officer charms. They were similar to the officer dangles other groups use but AOII does not allow anything attached to the badge so they would have to be on a charm bracelet. I am guessing they are no longer available because they were not selling or something along those lines.

FWIW, I purchased my officer dangles from our official jeweler. They had a chart of about 20-30 different ones. Our current official jeweler makes all the same available to us and anyone else, tho they do offer a couple of ones unique for my group (Section Chair and Regional Directors- gavel with an S and R respectively).

The change on my chapter guard is just too fine to attach the dangles in the links, they have to hangle loose on the chain. I'd live to somehow attach them to individual links, if only to give a little spacing to the 3 dangles I wear.

Well on our campus only the ladies use dangles. But that would be cool if Sigma Nu had specialized military style dangles...I haven't been president (Eminent Commander), I've just been Lieutenant Commander (VP) twice, Recorder (Secretary) once, Alumni Relations once, and Risk Reduction Chair once.

I haven't seen men's dangles on websites either...

:-(
 

I immediately went to grab my badge and see about securing my dangles, but I can't fit the rings they are on through the tiny links in the chain that attaches to the guard! Grrr...........

I took mine to a jeweler and they did it for free. So you might want to look into that :)

What's the name of your jeweler? Mine wants $9.95 for EACH dangle, and I'm fairly certain that I could fly to Atlanta for what that would cost me!

That's crazy! I just walked into one near my parents' house and they did it for me! It takes like 2 seconds...they hould not charge $10 a DANGLE!!

On second thought, are they charging you to sauder (or however you spell that) the dangles on? Mine are just on there, with the ring closed- if that makes sense...

at my daughters initiation, her chapter sisters were all facinated with my badge(turquiose and pearls), the chapter guard and the officer dangles. her chapters does not wear the chapter guard so consequently does not have officer dangles and the majority of the girls order our plain silver badge. many of them asked if they could get a guard and how they could get one. when i mentioned it to their general advisor, she was surprised, because she is from the same chapter and did not realize that at some point during the years since she was a collegiate, the tradition to not have a chapter guard devoloped.

in the zta chapter of a good friends daughter, the pledge class all ordered the plain silver badge. when my friend asked her daughter why she chose the plain badge, she said that they were told they needed to fork over X amount of dollars for their badge-they didn't realize and they did not know that they could order anything they wanted-they were not given the option! they also were not told they could get a chapter guard. noone in her chapter wears the guard.

i had offered to purchase a chapter guard for my daughter as an initiation gift, but she declined, saying that noone in her chapter wore them, so she did not want one. she hopes to be chosen as a big sister, which would qualify her for a dangle, and i am hoping that she will decide she would like to have one and start a new trend in her chapter.

The light was reflecting off the Lamp, so all I could read is the Delta...so before I read the explination, I was thinking "Why does that DG badge have a DZ badge attached????"

A man who would have loved the idea of officer dangles:
 

rofl!!

I received a mug with a picture of Idi Amin on it as a jokey Valentine's gift. He told me it was so I could have "Amin" cup of coffee every morning. I keep it at the office because I don't have to explain the joke to anyone there.

I'm still at the office and I laughed when I read this.

I'm getting strange looks now.

has anyone purchased dangles from someone other than the official jeweler for their organization? I'm not sure we have one anymore (at least for dangles but I'm looking into it) and have found a few places online but no idea if they are reputable or not

Dangles
 

The last ones that I purchased were from www.alphagold.com They have a huge selection, and they are pretty speedy on the shipping.

They better be soldered on, for what it will cost! I'm also getting a stronger chain.

My Badge disappeared a couple of years ago so when I ordered a replacement from National it came to me with the dangles attached through the individual links of the guard chain. I really don't like the way the dangles lay when they're attached like this and eventually I'd like to take off the dangles and put them back on so that the guard chain goes through the dangles' jump rings.

A word of caution about doing this yourself...when you're pulling apart the jump rings (the little hoops that connect the guard chain to the guard and Badge and the dangles to the guard chain), be careful how you position the ends when you close it again. You don't want it opening! Here is a helpful link for if anyone is interested...
http://www.fusionbeads.com/Opening-a...ng-a-Jump-Ring

Funny.

I recently ordered an additional chapter guard and officer dangle. When I did so, they offered to attach the dangle to the guard. I said fine, thinking they were going to attach it in the chain.

Then I received the items, and found they had attached the dangle to the jump ring that attaches the chain to the back of the badge. Great.

I had to remove the dangle, then string it on the chain. Basically extra work.