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Originally Posted by SydneyK
Kinda off topic here, but seeing the paddle made me think of this...
My pledge class was the last one to make a paddle for their bigs. After my class, our chapter abandoned the paddle tradition and, instead of replacing it with plaques or something, just stopped this type of exchange altogether. Most of our paddles looked identical to the one in the picture (probably because most of the paddles we'd seen looked just like it). So my question is this: was there a standard paddle design that was suggested by HQ? We had certain guidelines we had to follow when making the paddle (the crest had to be above everything else, AOT couldn't be on it unless the paddle exchange was after initiation, letters had to be secured in a way that would ensure they would never fall off (i.e., we couldn't use wooden letters that were glued on since they could fall off easily)). I had just assumed that these guidelines were chapter-specified. But since most of our paddles looked like the one in this ad, I'm wondering if there was something in place on a higher level. Anyone know?
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We did not make paddles. At initiation, the littles gave their bigs a pillow. Most of the pillows had something to do with the big's interest. There were a lot of super cute one. My second little made me one with the crest embroidered entirely by hand-- there were no home embroidery machines and software in those days, in fact there were no such things as computers. It was a fantastic pillow that managed to get lost on our move back to Southern CA from Albuquerque.
DaffyKD