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So sad about the Beta-Kappa ring....it was very old, some of the girls in my chapter had mothers who'd worn the Beta-Kappa ring.
At one time (I don't really know when) a lot of Kappas and Betas were couples. There was a sterling silver ring with the two crests on it, and the most recently pinned couple had it until the next Beta-Kappa combo was pinned, then they passed it on...and so on and so on. Wonder which Kappa kept it?
We only had a couple of Beta-Kappa pairs when I was in school, because of location girls in our house tended to date Sig Eps or Sig Alphs. My husband was a TKE, but of course they are gone from Nebraska as well. They were Phi chapter, but had periods throughout their history where they were on and off campus, so when they started to have problems with numbers there were no alums of a certain age in a financial position to help. When we were in school they were a huge house, won intramurals every year, had guys on homecoming every year and lived in two houses and an annex (their houses were the two across the courtyard from each other right next door to the KD and DG houses, and their annex was located in what is now a parking lot near the AXD house).
Lincoln girls were counted differently, I think, so you could take more people if you had more Lincoln girls. They could only live in the house one semester of their college career. We didn't have a Lincoln girls room, although I know that was pretty common. We HAD to live in the house, no other options, unless you got married. Period. Soph, Jr., Sr. If you were an academic redshirt (5th yr) then you got to live in an apartment if there was no room in the house.
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