Historian ideas
 

Hey guys,

I'm the current Historian for my sorority and I'm trying to think of new original ideas on ways to educate girls on the sorority's history. I already ask questions for every week on both the sorority and our current chapter, have been taking pictures at multiple events, am putting together a time capsule, working on family trees and plan a trivia game in the future. I have even started a fb group to give girls opportunities to ask and answer questions for fun.

All in all, I'm wondering if you had any suggestions or recommendations for more ideas and ways to educate sisters on our history?

Thank you guys!

ProudGreek

In APO, we used to play "Pledge Jeopardy" - but to make it more risk management sound, you may want to play with new members and initiates.

If your chapter has a long, storied history, you may want to organize a campus tour for sisters that discusses the various events which occurred on campus, such as "And in this room was the first initiation" or "and along this hallway, the chapter founders walked while discussing creating a local sorority which would become XYZ."

History Ideas
 

A couple things I did with my chapter to help learn the history was organized a trip to the school where we were founded, and to the headquarters. It was a very impressive trip and the pledges learned a great deal about the fraternity as a whole, and saw that it was bigger than just the school they attended.

Another thing we did was to have several older members reenact the founding of the chapter, or the fraternity as a whole....makes for a fun night if your chapter likes skits.

Also, you can try giving each pledge a project to discover something new that they did not know before....this would require trips to libraries or internet searches......also, if the chapter is old enough, have each pledge try to contact an alumnus to learn something new also, maybe from the time the alums were in school.

Lastly, a fun event we had also was to invite the national historian to our chapter to talk about the history of the organization, and to go over the various rumors that were floating around.

Any of these all depends on how interested the members and pledges are in wanting to learn new things.

Hope this helps
CS1869

^^^ How far away is your chapter located from the first chapter?

Every semester, the Historian from my chapter makes a scrapbook. We have scrapbooks going back to the 40's when we were founded our campus. It is really cool to have those to look back at.

We also have a copy of one of our founder's diary from the year that our sorority was founded, and during chapter, our Historian will read a passage.

It also might be cute to tell a fun fact about your sorority's history in your chapter meetings each week.

My chapter does a points system. Whoever answers the most questions right gets a prize at the end of the semester (usually a set of letters and candy).