Old Magazine Ad
 

Hi KDs!

I was looking through a box of all my old stuff from college and came across this ad for Lane Cedar Chests. I pulled it out of a copy of Seventeen magazine in 1988 and saved it. Check out the paddle! :D

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3.../KD_Lanead.jpg

I need a Lane cedar chest for all of my KD stuff :)

I actually REMEMBER that ad! Not because it had a KD paddle, but because my sister had a Lane chest, and I have some random antique one.

Plus, I was a reader of Seventeen from age 11 till about 20?!

How fun! And yes, I need a chest for all my stuff to. I have one at my parents house... I just need to convince them to not only give it to me but bring it to me as well as my car's too small to bring it itself. :p

Kinda off topic here, but seeing the paddle made me think of this...

My pledge class was the last one to make a paddle for their bigs. After my class, our chapter abandoned the paddle tradition and, instead of replacing it with plaques or something, just stopped this type of exchange altogether. Most of our paddles looked identical to the one in the picture (probably because most of the paddles we'd seen looked just like it). So my question is this: was there a standard paddle design that was suggested by HQ? We had certain guidelines we had to follow when making the paddle (the crest had to be above everything else, AOT couldn't be on it unless the paddle exchange was after initiation, letters had to be secured in a way that would ensure they would never fall off (i.e., we couldn't use wooden letters that were glued on since they could fall off easily)). I had just assumed that these guidelines were chapter-specified. But since most of our paddles looked like the one in this ad, I'm wondering if there was something in place on a higher level. Anyone know?

Not sure what happens now..
 

When I was in AO, we received paddles from our big sister's like the one's in the Ad. They were different from what a lot of other chapters do. Our's were not made by the big sisters, they were made for us by a company and everything was burned/etched into the wood. Everyone's paddle looked the same, with the exception of the names/years on the back.

The chapter that I advise uses homemade paddles that the littles give their bigs after initiation. I've never heard them talk about rules for what goes where, or not being able to use glue on the letters so I think it might have been a local tradition/rule.

Kathy, does AO still do the same type of paddles?

In AOT,
Melissa

We did not make paddles. At initiation, the littles gave their bigs a pillow. Most of the pillows had something to do with the big's interest. There were a lot of super cute one. My second little made me one with the crest embroidered entirely by hand-- there were no home embroidery machines and software in those days, in fact there were no such things as computers. It was a fantastic pillow that managed to get lost on our move back to Southern CA from Albuquerque.

DaffyKD

Yesterday, the Delta Eta chapter initiates presented paddles to their bigs. They were so cute! The girls made them themselves, and they were really cute. It was after initiation, and one girl had 2 paddles that she had made. One for her Big, and another one for her mom, who was at initiation for her. The mother-daughter paddle was so sweet, and the mom was crying b/c it was such a surprise for her.

At my chapter the big sisters make paddles for their littles and present them after initiation. We don't have guideline or anything but each family has their own traditions. For example my family has a certain design that is put on all of our paddles and another family has the names on the paddles go horizontal instead of vertical.