[Barbie's_Rush]

You claim you received and accepted your bid in Spring 09, but your older posts tell a different tale. You're a member. You're a local. You're a founder. You're charged with starting a colony. You're attending convention with Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia from a chapter at a different college. I guess this is a whole new fraternity that you're having issues with. Strange history you've got here since 2007. Whatever.

Originally Posted by MariettaPhiMA

Hey bros-

Not trying to spam the message board but I wanted to give brothers the opportunity to get this.

I am selling an alumni key. They were made back in the 80's and possibly before. I don't really have any other info on it.

Help a brother out and place a bid!

Item #:110391109865

MEG
Alpha Kappa-Spring '07

Originally Posted by MariettaPhiMA

I initiated 5/25/07 at Ohio University and soon after transferred to Marietta College. I was charged with creating a chapter at MC.

There is a rumor in the Alpha Kappa chapter at OU that there was a group of interested guys at Marietta in the 1980's or 1990's. They were not able to get colonized so initiated and stayed active at OU.

In February of 2007 I started the Red, Black and Gold Club. We consisted of three members: myself, my little, and a member of the local women's sorority Omicron Chi Theta. Although we were able to recruit more members we were the only three who stayed active.

The name was soon changed to Harmonious Beginnings. We are a registered student organization with the former Delta Upsilon advisor as our advisor. We even have the second and third floors of a boarding house two blocks from campus with our letters (Eta Beta) out front.

We now have only two members as the OXO graduated. My little just transferred to the community college over the hill. He's still technically active because he comes to meetings but I can't allow him to participate in thing here at the college.

There's a very long explanation of the current status of the Greek community that I won't get into. I will say that the Delts, the Kappas and the Lambda Chis have expressed support for us.

We have met so many challenges but there is one that we just cannot overcome. The chairman of the music department is a Sinfonian but he refuses to even speak to me about the possibility.

With that being the case there has been a lot of discussion as to what to do with the group. The most popular choice is to split into two entities.

The first would be the Mid-Ohio Valley Area Alumni Association. There are a ton of alums in the area and this is a way to still contribute to Sinfonia without starting a collegiate chapter.

The second is to form a local fraternity from HB. Our interest group has been approached by Tau Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Sigma Phi about using our group to re-charter their inactive chapters. We accepted the offer from ASP. However, once they found out that I was a Sinfonian all contact from them ended.

We have also looked into expanding a regional or local fraternity but have not been able to find any near us that are willing to do so.

Therefore we have decided to start our own local fraternity to counterbalance via Title IX the local womens group.

While we will always have close ties to Sinfonia, especially to the Alpha Kappa chapter only 40 miles away, we are trying to make an organization not based on any existing one.

Any thoughts, ideas, comments, etc?

Originally Posted by MariettaPhiMA

As of now I am planning to attend. But it will depend on how my summer work situation works out.

I'll be traveling down with brothers from the Alpha Kappa chapter.

Originally Posted by MariettaPhiMA

I'm currently bidding on an ebay item: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...:X:RTQ:US:1123

My question is what in the world is it? I'm planning on using it as a lavaliere but it's not like any lavaliere I've ever seen. It looks similar to an honor society key but very obviously has our letters on it. It looks very old. I'm especially drawn to how different the "S" looks. It's not as stylized as the one we use today.

I looked through the Centennial History and couldn't find anything about it. Could this have been a gift of some sort or possibly even a lavaliere?

I asked the seller and she said she knew nothing about it other than she had got it in a lot of jewelry. She's located in North Carolina. Other than that I have nothing to go on. I will email her again to ask what else was in the lot and where/from whom she bought it from to try to trace it back.

I'm also sending Mongiovi the link

Oh, and please don't outbid me on this. I really want to get it for my girl!

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Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia-Alpha Kappa Chapter (Ohio University)
Alpha Mu Pledge Class-5/25/07
Harmonious Beginnings-FMA Interest Group (Marietta College)

Originally Posted by MariettaPhiMA

We were founded in February 2007 as an interest group of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. That didn't work out so we became an interest group of Alpha Sigma Phi. Once they found out I was a Sinfonian they stopped contacting us. We recently decided to create our own local.

Question: What do we name ourselves?

It should be an easy question but we can't decide on a name. Any that you particularly like? The local womens sorority is OXO (hugs and kisses) so we thought about a little joke like that. Pi Rho, Delta Iota Kappa, Alpha Sigma Sigma, Tri Chi, or even Gamma Delta Iota. That last one is because there are 30+ Greeks on our campus that have transferred in and the Greek community will not let us join their houses or participate in any Greek activities.