Daily Alpha Gamma Delta Fact
 

Okay ladies, by popular demand, I'm instituting a new thread...each day I will try to post a new and unusual Alpha Gamma Delta fact, courtesy of my 1931 Quarterly.

So for July 23, 2001:
The 1927 Convention Motto was "Achievement, Generosity, Dignity"

...which I think is still a wonderful motto for us to live up to today.

Thanks so much Maria! Mottos like that are timeless...something we should all remember!

i agree maria....that is a great saying...this is going to be a really great thread!

Here's a fact for July 24, 2001:

Alpha Gamma Delta has actually had two badges. Our first badge--as it was worn on the day of our Founding--was a monogram with the Alpha chased on the bottom, the Gamma plain in the middle, and the Delta on top set in pearls. If you can envision it, it was basically backwards from what our badge is today.

Our Founders so disliked it that they commissioned jeweler J.F. Newman to come up with several new designs. The new badge was selected by Alpha on November 19, 1904. That badge was the one we all know, love, and wear proudly to this day.

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"To hold truth inviolable, sincerity essential, kindness invaluable."

that could also be Syracuse Triad spirit!

You're right Leslie! LOL

hearing things like that makes me happy! you're right that slogan fits this situation perfectly

Hi Ladies!

Our Fact for July 25th 2001:

How is this for Panhellenic Spirit? The group of women who became Epsilon Gamma Chapter in Colorado was brought to Alpha Gamma Delta's attention by Lindsey Barbee, who was a Grand President of Gamma Phi Beta sorority. She was the one who recommended Alpha Gamma Delta to the young women; she handled the correspondence back and forth; she sponsored the chapter all throughout the extension process; and she was their main Patroness through their colonization and even after they became a chapter!

This wonderful Gamma Phi Beta is a shining example of the slogan: "No matter the letter, we're all Greek together!"

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"To hold truth inviolable, sincerity essential, kindness invaluable."

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I know that this is not a 'fact,' but I liked it so much that I want to share it with all of you!

So for July 26, 2001:
"Beloved Pins"
by Constance Frazier, Nu

Beloved pins, dear letters three,
How very much you mean to me!
How much of dream and prayer and song
And spirit-things to you belong!

How much of vision clear and true,
How much of service speaks in you.
But not in gems nor fine-wrought gold
Can half your worth to us be told.

Maria, when you get a chance, I think we'd all really like a new Alpha Gam fact...I look forward to this every day now!

Girls, I'm so sorry. The fact is going to be a little late today. I've been unusually busy this morning (2 bankruptcies, 2 divorces). Yikes! It'll be up in about 2 hours.

thanks Maria, we luv ya and hope you get everything finished! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

Thanks, Leslie!

Since I am on a badge 'theme' the past day or two, here we go for July 27th 2001:

Alpha Gamma Delta has had:
not one...
not two...
but three, count 'em, THREE
pledge pins.

Our first pledge pin was a plain stickpin with our Greek letters across it (similar to AEPhi's Badge). Our Founders disliked it so much that only a few were purchased in the first few months.

Our second pledge pin was designed by J.F Newman in 1904. He also designed our present-day badge. The second pledge pin was almost triangle shaped. This is as best as I can describe it: It had a large Gamma standing straight up. The Alpha and Delta were smaller and sort of leaned diagonally against the Gamma.

At the 1913 Convention, Alpha Gamma Delta authorized the design of a third pledge pin. It is the one we all wore "on a shield, parti per pale, or and vert, a fess, gules." Our most brilliant Emily Butterfield designed it. Is there anything that woman couldn't do?

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Our Fact for July 28, 2001:

On July 19, 1919, Grand Council unanimously approved our first national philanthropy: a summer camp for children.

In the very early years of its operation, each Alpha Gamma Delta alumnae and undergraduate chapter was required to raise $25 and donate one outfit of clothing for a child per year.

Ladies, I didn't do one yesterday...I forgot. My bad! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/frown.gif

But here is a fact for August 1:
According to the 1931 Quarterly, AGD had a special pin for colonies. It was a gold feather with an "Alpha" and "Gamma" in gold, and the "Delta" was a black enamel triangle. While each chapter was going through its colonization, it was known to the public as "Alpha Gamma" instead of "so and so colony of Alpha Gamma Delta."

Does anyone know if we still have a special pin for colonies? I thought everyone got the pledge pin. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/confused.gif