What Would Our Founders Think?
 

This was posted in Greek Life. I thought it would be nice to post it here as well.
Greek Love...


What would our founders of all Greek Organizations think if they saw us
today?
Would they be proud or would they shake their head in dismay
Would they see the principles they believed in our daily walk
Or would they be disappointed in the trash we talk
Would they look from above with a smile on their face
Or would they be looking down in shame and disgrace

Would they see that sisterhood & brotherhood was still within us
Or would they see backstabbing, fighting, and all kinds of fuss
Would they see us willingly accepting all correction
Or would they see us always mounting an objection
Would they see us loving our Greek lettered sisters and brothers
Saying no matter what color they wear we must stand for each other

Would they see that service was still number one
Or would they see it was replaced by the need to have fun
Would they see you stepping with pride on Friday night
And then up early on Saturday to help the homeless plight
Or would Saturday morning meet you snuggled in bed
While the need is ignored and our community
unfed

Would they see that scholarship was still our priority
Or are we more concerned with pledging the
cool sorority or fraternity
Would they look at you pledge and be filled with memories
Or would they gasp in horror as you twist their history
Would they see us graduating at the top of our class
Or are we barely scraping by with just enough to pass

So I ask you, my generation, what will our legacy be
Will we be the ones to bring our organization to its knees
Will we sit idly by and watch our legacy ripped from our hearts
Or will we stand up and say that its time we do our parts
Will I see you on the front row at our next business meeting
Are you financial, active, and ready to have delegate seating

Imagine what could happen if collegiates took their rightful place
Would the founders then look down on us with a smile on their face
Imagine if we remember our founding principles and
the oath we said
And keep it ever close to us in our hearts and in our heads
I think that then the founders would look down,
their hearts about to bust
As they said to each other,
"Hey, don't they remind you of Us?"
So the next time you put on your letters, before you move or blink
With every action, look up, and wonder,

"What would the FOUNDERS think?"

Thank you for posting this. It's so funny, because I'm Ritual Chair this year and I've been thinking a lot about these kind of things.

No problem. We need to thank sgrho_22. She posted it in Greek Life.

I thought it was pretty profound.:)

It always amazes me to think about our founders and how insightful they were at such a young age to come up with our beautiful ritual and the ideals that Sigma Kappa was founded upon.
I love our initiation ceremony - parts of it pop into my head all the time (especially since I had to memorize it). I feel sad for the people that don't pay attention during the ceremony and never really understand what SK is all about.
I also feel sad for those that think ritual is silly and they don't want to learn it. It's our ritual and those ideals central to our organization that bind us together.

Thanks for posting this in our forum, shopgirl. :)

I completely understand what you mean. We do have a beautiful ritual and the ideals we were founded upon are timeless.