New Badges for Sale Online
 

http://www.hjgreek.com/index.cfm?eve...ategory_ID=578

Just received this in the advisor's newsletter

Odd. I've only ever poked around on the sororities but I've never seen the ability to order a badge online from hjgreek before.

What
 

What?? Anyone can just order one of our badges online, now???

Don't we have to order these through the AO?

Surely it's verified somehow through your Headquarters' Office.

Usually though they show the badges online they don't let you order them. This is unusual and probably just an error on HJGreek's part. Here's hoping someone called them!

Order through the AO
 

You must order these through the AO. Your information is verified, then order placed by AO staff and it arrives at your door.

Well that makes me feel a little better... Now, If only I were qualified to get one! But I'll have one on my lapel soon enough I guess.

I own more than one
 

I purchased two of the 10K with real diamond pins so they can be passed down to my kids. I have also purchased about a dozen from E-bay just to get them back into a Beta's possesion. Not sure what I will do with them.

Oldest Pledge, if you are interested in keeping the badges in the Beta family permanently, the AO is collecting badges and storing them in the museum/gallery. I usually try to purchase random badges if/when I have the finances to do so.

Wall O' Pins
 

I am aware of the wall o' pins at the AO. I am going to at least wait until my son reaches college. If he is lucky enough to be at a school that has a Beta chapter/colony and gets a pledge, they will get passed to him enmasse.

However, if there is ever a colony put back at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana (where Larry Bird went to college) I might consider giving them to the founding fathers as a gift.

Well, you are not actually suppose to give it to your son. The only ones who can have the badge are: your mother, daughter, sister, fiance or wife.

You mean in terms of giving to a non-Beta right? I know lots of situations where legacies were given their father's pins- but those guys were also Betas.

With my two "good" pins with my name on it, my plan is to give one to each kid upon my death. They are both keenly aware of my 20 year pledgeship and struggle to finally get initiated. They gave up a weekend to drive me to the ceremony right before Christmas 2004.

Even if my son opts not to become a Beta, he can hold it for his son and pass Grandpa's pin to him. Unless I give it to my grandson.

I think you get the picture.

I'm sure they would be treated with the utmost respect by your children and grandkids.

Personally, I don't think it would be wrong if your badges became family heirlooms passed down to Beta or even non-Beta relatives...

...but I'm not the AO, either. haha

I will be buried with my badge. Its not that I won't trust my son (if I have one, currently have one daughter), but I want him to earn his own badge to wear and cherish. I have a pin from 1901 as well, a stick-pin style badge - old, unique and very interesting. This one, I'd probably donate to the AO for display, as there are very very few like it. I also have about 3 badges from when I was president of guys who never picked them up, or deactivated. They won't go on eBay, they'll eventually get to the wall o' badges at the AO....sometime.

My wife and I have her grandparents badges from the 50's - his TKE badge, her ADPi badge. We have them in a nice picture/shadow box on display. It's a really nice way to celebrate their lives.