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Originally posted by equeen:
I imagine this isn't a problem for organizations that have been well established for ages. Have you ever run into another GLO that shares your letters, but definitely isn't your organization? I'm not asking about experiences with perps. Have you ever run into another organization that is genuinely using (or has used) your letters, and had no idea that you existed? It could also go the other way around: did you ever find out that the letters of your org. were already in use by another organization?
For example: doing a random web search to find Alpha Sigma Kappa listings, I found the following interesting tidbits:
(1) There is an academic honor society at Seattle Pacific University called Alpha Sigma Kappa. On digging a bit further, I found that the honorary is actually called Alpha Kappa Sigma (false alarm!)
(2) Barb, you might find this one interesting: the Delta Omicron Chapter of ZTA (Lenoir Rhyne, 1962) began as a local (I assume) called Alpha Sigma Kappa Sorority.
Any body else run into coincidental naming like this?
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Well at Illinois college there are two local greek lettered literary societies tht share names with two national fraternities. There is sigma pi literary society which shares it name with Sigma Pi fraternity. The two attempted to merge at one point in the 60s or 70s. And there is also Sigma Phi Epsilon literary society for women also known as sigphip it shares its name with Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.