NPC Badge Day: March 3, 2008
 

http://npcwomen.org/events-meetings/badge-day.aspx

Badge Day
2008 Badge Day

"The 26 member organizations of the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) are celebrating International Badge Day March 3, 2008, an annual event during which sorority women everywhere honor their Greek affiliations by wearing their badge or letters. The theme this year is “Wear Your Badge With Pride.” International Badge Day is co-sponsored by Herff Jones Inc. Greek Division."

Lol how is there a theme? Of course you're supposed to wear your badge with pride! And double lol about being sponsored by HJGreek. I'll wear mine, though!

Agree with Lucy's observation that the "theme" concept is warped. I guess in previous years I was shamefully wearing my badge?

How could you!

I'm curious...what were the themes in previous years?

This is the first I've heard of themes.

I did a search for badge day 2007, and came up with this: http://www.npcwomen.org/resources/pd..._Day_Flier.pdf

I guess when they say "this year's theme" they don't mean to exclude previous years.

What?? That was a search for Mitt Romney!

Sorry Lucy. I fixed the link... http://www.npcwomen.org/resources/pd..._Day_Flier.pdf

For 2-3 tries I was having trouble copying and pasting the link and didn't realize that I'd accidently copied the link from my OTHER browser window when I finally got it to work.

The other link was actually a search for a really good interview I heard on NPR a couple weeks ago about mormonism because I wanted to see if I could find a transcript online to it. Because everything in the news about mormonism tends to have Mitt Romney in it, the google search specifically excluded pages that talked about Romney.

I wonder if it would be inappropriate to wear a green ribbon under your badge for the sisters of Kappa Delta...?

Look at your ZTAs rules regarding draping. AOII allows a black ribbon be draped if a sister dies and a red ribbon for a new chapter. A green ribbon for KD would not be allowed, but I may push the rules and wear a black ribbon for a group of "Panhellenic sisters."

Yeah, I thought of that too. I think I remember something about turquoise blue and steel grey ribbons for a new colony and black ribbon for the passing of a sister... but I like the idea of a Panhellenic Sister :) Any Zetas want to weigh in on this?

Oh, no! The international signal for NPC distress!

That's as bad as a woman I know from a GLO whose name I'll withhold wearing her pin upside down since she put it on so she could see her letters... scary that she had actually been accepted to college in the first place...

We're a little bit liberal about wearing ribbons under our pins. Since a lot of schools aren't in session for our Founders' Day, we can wear them on our chapter Founders' Day, also for the first week after taking New Alphas. I still have my ribbons from when I was a pledge!

Ribbons...
 

I know that when we colonize at a new campus-we are supposed to wear a pink ribbon underneath our badge (as collegians) to show support. Does anyone know how that works if you are an alumna? Also, I like the idea of wearing a ribbon (black) under my badge for the sisters of Kappa Delta. I've said it before and I'll say it again-I believe in Greek Love and Unity for all the NPC orgs. Any thoughts? :confused:

I would think you could always make a ribbon loop and wear it pinned below your badge -

Badge
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ribbon loop

https://www.npcwomen.org/resources/p..._UP_Update.pdf

Bumping, so you can plan for this Monday's wardrobe!

Got my badge ring ready!

Just a reminder.

A much-appreciated reminder! Wardrobe change!!

I wore my badge today! (And I'm still wearing it, because we have chapter in an hour and a half...)
I was kind of bummed that no one commented. Oh, and I didn't run into any Gamma Phis or Kappas. Dang! I did get compliments on the rest of my outfit, though. Lol

ETA: That sounded vain. I meant that I was bummed that no one noticed my Kappa pride. Haha ok, done now.

I wore mine! We had a all-panhellenic sisterhood to mark the occasion and everyone made Easter baskets for the Children's hospital. It was good to see everyone all dressed up in their badges!

I wore mine today... but I was the only NPC'er that did in the office

I wore mine, but I usually wear mine on Mondays anyways because we have Panhellenic on Mondays :)

I wore mine today, as did other girl in the clinic where I'm working. She had all her dangles on too! (I had mine taken off.)

I wore mine but no one noticed.

all the newly initiated members from fall quarter (myself included) have been waiting since november for our badges but we were encouraged to wear out stick pins instead. after chapter tonight our president asked for the fall class to stick around and presented us with our badges and certificates! it was a perfect time to receive our badges, especially on national badge day!

alot of the women at USF wore their badges today (myself included)!!! if they chose not to they at least wore letters. :)

I wore mine to school today. No one mentioned it, but I did see at least one other staff member with one on - I didn't have time to investigate and see what sorority she's a member of, but I'm putting it on my list of conversation topics for next time I run into her. :)

Damn, I missed my chance to wear my brand new shiny badge today, because 1) It was a vacation day; 2) since it was a vacation day, I was not appropriately dress and 3) I forgot it would be today!

I wore my KD badge and Panhellenic badge at work, but I was one of five total people in the office (out of 15) because it is Spring Break where I work. I also did not see any students! :( Oh, well, they see Greek items every time they walk in my office.

The alumnae Panhellenic in my area had a dinner with about 20 people. One of the local Greek advisors talked about engaging volunteers and maintaining relevance. We also had the attendees bring unique items/mementos from their organization. Awesome idea! We read about the proper ways to accept and decline "rush" invitations at Pitt in 1957, looked at great pictures from the '80s, and learned about about awesome traditions like the crazy shirts from ADPi at Hanover in the early 90s.

Definitely a fun Panhellenic evening!

I wore my badge. No one noticed :( And I didn't see any other badges yesterday.

I wore mine yesterday as well. I normally don't wear jewelry so I did get a lot of "What's that on your sweater?" questions from my students. Of course, I happily took the opportunity to explain to them the benefits of going Greek! :D

Even better, we are celebrating collegiate/Greek pride all this week. I (along with other teachers) contributed some items (pledge paddle, pictures, etc.) for a display in the main hallway at school. We also are encouraged to wear our Greek gear on Friday to show our spirit!

The NPC website notes that the 2009 Badge Day will be March 2, 2009. Is Badge Day always the first Monday in March? Is there a significance to this date/time of year or just happens to be a date/time of year that was selected?

The only other women I saw wearing them were Thetas. However it is still winter so many women possibly had them on and their coats were covering it to stay warm. Interestingly enough a fraternity member saw my badge (he knows I am an Alpha Gam alumna) and commented that he liked the fact I still wore my badge when appropriate, and he plans to wear his as an alumnus because so many people stop once the chapter isn't forcing them to.

I was not planning on wearing my badge today as I was on vacation, but I was visiting friends at my old school. Thankfully, I had brought my badge along for a chapter visit, so I wore it to some events on campus I had to attend. Most of the NPC women were wearing theirs.