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Originally Posted by copper_stars
Oh, my bad...I should have read the rest of the board before replying. Sorry!
For Alpha Xi stuff, I know that Fozzie was created for us since Jane Hensen is an Alpha Xi and our mascot is the Fuzzies. And I hear that the first Kermit the Frog was made from curtains of an Alpha Xi Delta house.
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The prototype for Kermit was made from a coat that Jim Henson's mom threw in the garbage.
Jim
Henson went to my alma mater, U of Maryland and my graduating class sponsored a statue of Kermit that is on campus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:J...son_statue.jpg
His wife Jane Nebel Henson graduated from Maryland in 1955. I have never seen anything officially stating that she was an AXiD at Maryland- just stuff on chapter websites.
While I was on campus it was legend that Fozzie was named after an AXiD and that Miss Piggy was named after a Phi Sigma Sigma (which had the unfortunate nickname Phi Piggy Piggy.)
Disputing the Jane Henson/Fozzy/AXiD legend is this:
"Fozzie was named after puppet builder
Faz Fazakas, who created the
mechanism that allowed Fozzie to wiggle his ears."
This link should also clear up some muppet misconceptions- this article says she was an Alpha Phi Delta- which I have never heard of....
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/images/H.../DBack.97.html