Old Letters
 

Hey, im looking for pictures of guys wearing letters from the 1940's. every year we have a war themed rush and this year we are trying to throw together a WWII themed rush. I hope you guys can help.

Are you looking for only pictures of Sigma letters or any letters at all?

This probably doesn't apply but GettyImages has a lot of interesting stuff on their site from the 1940s.

They have a few Sigma Chi photos. The ones I looked at weren't in letters but one was of a hazing practice and the other was during a chapter chartering ritual or something.

I forgot to mention...contact your HQ. If you beg enough, they could probably scan and email you some decent pics...

Try your university archive as well. They keep pretty much everything and anything....old yearbooks, old copies of the newspaper, etc. The ones at Otterbein were fantastic for random school trivia/random information.

I know that sometimes military recruiting images are repurposed for rush - maybe that's it?

Sigma Nu was founded at VMI so I can see the tie-in with military/war themes for their rush even if they are on a liberal or pacifist campus.

To me, a WWII theme in terms of parties would be more of the Andrews Sisters and the patriotism side.

Offensive?
 

How would you find a WWII theme offensive?

Due to our military tradition, we use patriotic images of American soldiers as part of our rush material. Since we live in Gettysburg there is a high concentration of reenactors, even in our own fraternity. Its not like we are goosestepping around the house. We have posters saying things like "Sig's Lead the Way" and such, just rephrasing some propaganda posters. The idea spawned years ago by a brother who was a viet nam vet and we have done a different time period every year that culminates in a period party, with music from the time.

And im looking for any pictures of letters, not just sigma nu

I do not find this offensive at all considering SN back ground of being founded at VMI. It would be a natural thing for this SN chapter being located at one of the Civil Wars most hallowed battle grounds.

When you say letters, do you mean written letters of Greek type letters as we know them today?

Good luck in your quest for these types of info.

For what it is worth, "Sig" and "Sigs" are common nicknames for Sigma Chi. As such "Sigs Lead the Way" is quite accurate. :cool: However, if y'all have a Sigma Chi chapter on campus, then it might not help y'all - Sigma Nu - with your recruitment. ;)

I hope you don't include the apostrophe.

No harm meant, this just makes me insane. Especially when students/graduates of higher learning institutions do it.

Ha. ;)

This makes my initial post even coolerererer.

I looove Sigma Chis.

Its us and SAE on our campus. supposedly Sigma Chi is coming back, but thats to be seen.

i am really wondering what fraternity jerseys looked like. I know we all wear letters on tshirts today, but i have never really seen it in the past, they seen to be screen printed and not embroidered.

out of curiosity...When did "wearing letters" as we know it today come into fashion? my parents were Greeks in the late 50s and they claim they never had the sweatshirts with letters as we do now. Both men and women had blazers with the crest. Women wore their pins on dresses and sweaters with skirts, never with pants. The sororities had sweatshirts with the crests and the name spelled out. My dad still wears his college class ring with the greek letters in the stone.