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While I was an active, sororities and fraternities serenaded before their big events/formals and sometimes as thank you after partnering for homecoming, etc.
We would serenade the independent dates at our house, then go to each of our dates' fraternity houses. This took place on a school night the week before the formal/event. We would typically learn one or two pop songs (for our Christmas formal, it was a couple of Christmas songs), then we would sing one of our sorority songs, and end with a fraternity song of each of the houses we were serenading--with the guys joining in. We usually had two or three part harmony, and practiced after dinner in the weeks before the serenade. It was a big deal at our campus and every chapter had a songleader. Some fraternities would come serenade if one of their members became pinned or engaged to one of our members, but not all did that.
Actually, singing in general was big among the fraternities and sororities.... We ate a sit down dinner each evening, and our prayer was sung, then we ended dinner with several songs, either one of ours or a fraternity song and sang a lot of songs during rush to the rushees. (not recruitment or PNM's......)
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