Crests you love
 

What are your favorite fraternity/sorority crests?

Fraternities:

Lambda Chi
Beta Theta Pi
SAE


Sororities:

Chi Omega
KD
Tri-Delt

Having studied heraldry at school in my program I have a deep apreciation/understanding of the basic meaning behind a lot of the crests at the school... of those crests the following I like alot:

Lambda Chi... of course
Zeta Psi

and

Alpha Gamma Delta

Picture of Chi Omega's first "crest" before the current one was adopted in 1902:

http://www.chiomega.com/chiomega/abo...-badge-ill.gif

Chi Omega crest:

http://www.valdosta.edu/ChiOmega/colorcrest.jpg

I also like Chi Omega's crest.

I remember when I learned the meaning of our crest I was amazed at how far off what I *thought* the various things meant versus what they actually mean. Anyone else?

I guess I was clueless, but I didn't really realize that anything had a deeper meaning.

I was absolutely blown away when the meaning of our Armorial Bearings was explained to us. Every single thing on our Bearings has a meaning--nothing and I mean NOTHING was left to chance or chosen because it looked pretty.

As a lot of you know, one of our Founders, Emily Butterfield, was an expert on heraldry. She designed or assisted in the design of many armorial bearings for NPCs and NICs. Emily was an amazing woman, and she gave me two of my very favorite things concerning Alpha Gamma Delta--the Armorial Bearings and the Purpose.

I like ours, cause its simple and classy. There is no gaudy designs around it. It is what it is. I like it. go Beta! Although, I must say that SAE's is pretty sweet.

These are the ones that I can look at for hours on end, because I study heraldry, there are some universal symbols and I just love the design and detail that went into these creations.

Theta
ADPi
KD
ZTA
KKG

KAPsi
DST


Alpha Sigma Phi
Fiji
Kappa Sigma

I like KKG
http://www.stanford.edu/group/kappa/crest.gif

However, I am partial to my own fraternity's ideals! As you all might know in AOII we do no have a crest or shield.
"AOII believes that the Fraternity has an essentially Greek heritage, and not one of medieval or Masonic background. Thus it does not have a shield or a crest as a symbol."--From AOII website. We do use our rose in place of a crest/shield.
http://www.isu-aoii.com/images/aoiicrest.gif

I love ours, and I'm partial to Phi Mu's as well. I believe it was Emily Butterfield who helped change ours to reflect more of the heraldry rules, like changing the banner at the bottom to spell out "Alpha Xi Delta" in Greek instead of just having the letters.

http://www3.telus.net/greek/alphadeltapicrest.jpg
I think the ADPi crest is unusual and cool looking.
http://www3.telus.net/greek/alphaphicrest.jpg
I love Alpha Phi's color combo and the Ursa Major on the crest, and the little ivy leaf at the top, plus it's clean in design.

http://www3.telus.net/greek/alphasigmaalphacrest.gif
and the ASA crest, because I'm partial to the phoenix!

I love ours, mainly because the design is very symmetric overall, which is important to me. I love how so many of our symbols and colors are included, along with our open motto (Let us steadfastly love one another).

http://www.tridelta.org//REPOSITORY/..._COLOR_RGB.GIF

I also really like ADPi's crest too.

I think Delta Gamma's is rather purty....
http://www.deltagamma.org/gallery/crest2.gif


I also like the KKG crest:
http://www.kappakappagamma.org/Image.../symbols01.gif

I'm quite partial to ours:

http://www.apolouisville.org/img/crest.gif

Like DeltaEtaKP, I didn't really think about the things in our crest having special meaning until it was explained to us. Then again, I had no clue our letters stood for other words and had a secret meaning until that was revealed, too. :)

As My Brother RH Cooper Said, LXA is the most true to Heraldry of any and was made so by a very deep study by one of the early Members.

Second would be Alpha Phi Omega.

Granted, each Coat Of Arms Means much to each of the Members and have special significance in Ritual.

Some are simplistic and very beautiful, but looking at all, LXA is Hands Down one of the most accurate and meaningful for Trueism to Our Heratiged as Greeks of the Social Order..:cool: