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Originally Posted by AGDee
Well, yeah, no real twists, just lots of memories about frilly rush and how crazy I was. I found out later that we borrowed the china from Wayne State every year because we didn't own anything. It also became a problem when our Prefs were the same day! I don't remember how we resolved that. We might have borrowed from U Mich that year?
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You might already know about this, but at Michigan State we had an enormous collection of teacups and saucers with a lot of sentimental meaning. It was a chapter tradition dating back to our founding that when a Chi alumnae married, she came back for a special tea and presented the chapter with a cup/saucer from her wedding china.
Those cups/saucers were gorgeous...so many different patterns/styles representing over 70 years of Chi chapter sisters. We only actually used them at Preference, and it terrified me to handle them...the thought of my clumsy self breaking a special teacup from a long ago sister's wedding china made me incredibly nervous.
Thankfully, I don't recall any ever actually breaking...we treated them with the utmost respect!
Such a shame that all those memories are packed away in storage somewhere, now that Chi is closed.
Makes me wonder what the heck is going to happen to them if the unthinkable happens and Chi doesn't reopen for a very long time. I hope that they are preserved in a safe place, whatever happens. (Side note - VandalSquirrel's grandmother was a Chi alumnae apparently from the 1920s (? on the year). Makes me wonder if she has a teacup in that collection, but VandalSquirrel suspects now.)
(I never got the chance to present a teacup to the chapter, since I married in 2003...after Chi closed. Of course, I didn't actually register for china anyhow. LOL. But, I had always planned on picking out a teacup/saucer that I liked anyhow and presenting it to the chapter. Perhaps when we reopen, they can host another tea for those of us who got married in the interim and feel like we missed out on a special Chi tradition.
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