Families
 

I know that practically all sororities and fraternities have families and your put in them based on you big or in our case, *Diamond*. In our chapter, we have families based on jewels. So, it's kinda cool whatever family you're in you can have a corresponding pin. Our families include - Ruby, Amethyst (mine), and Aquamarine, that's all the families we have now because we are a small chapter. Some fraternity families I've heard of are the Irish, Absolut, Goldschlager, etc....sorority---Hannah, Bunny, Rose. What did you have at your school?

I don't know that we were "supposed" to have family trees... being that ALL members of ADPi are equals- new members (Alpha's), initiated members (Delta's) and alumnae members (Pi's) and also no one "family" is better than the other.....That's way ADPi has the Pride system, to mix up sisterhood cliques and get to know everybody.
Some of our Pride names were crazy! I can't remember what they all were- stuff like "Diamond Dolls" and the "Lion Queens". Somehow we always incorporated something of ADPi into the names.
Anyways- even though technically we probably were not supposed to, we did of course have family trees. Ours were represented by animals. There were brown bears, polar bears, giraffes, road runners. I don't remember what else. I was a brown bear and we always passed down a brown teddy bear to each newly initiated sister on the day of her initiation.

When I was in school, family trees were very important. The coolest thing I saw was at an alumnae weekend right after I graduated, the new members had made a huge "tree" out of construction paper on one of the walls in the inside of the house. On each "leaf" the sisters name and pledge name was written. Each "leaf" was connected to the sister's"family": grand bigs, big, littles, etc. through "branches". It was great because we got to see the history of our chapter back to the founders and how big we had grown. I still have pics of this somewhere.

Oh, snap! Here comes the spoiler!

As adpi*nurse said, the whole family bit is against EO policy. We've been asked to delete this thread, but we're going to close it for now, then delete it once y'all have a chance to digest why.

Thanks understanding!