[sageofages]

Originally Posted by GammaZeta

But what history does a pin have? It's just a piece of metal.

How does having a small pin help understand "where you are going"?

A pin is NOT a piece of history. It is not relevant to our founding. Original letters related to our founding is history. Finding out where someone is buried is history.

So, again I ask the question:

Now, which would benefit the greater good of the fraternity?

A. Buying an old pin for $3,000 with no historical value, other than being old.

B. Donating that $3,000 to a scholarship fund, or using it to help a struggling chapter out with recruitment.

Anyone?

I couldn't agree with you more. Recently (in the last 6 months or so) a "historically" significant badge for the Philomathean Society was up for auction. A donor (through our foundation) bid over $5000 for it. They were prepared to go much much higher to get it into our archives. The original sister/owner was from the second ever pledge class and at that time each badge was hand made and slightly different. The sad thing was it was the foundation bidding against a sister who could afford it, to raise the price so high.