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Want to take the paddle image a bit further? at my 1999 national conclave I went to the jeweller to purchase dangles...I got the one shaped like a paddle since I was recruitment chair and that corresponded to that position. Soon after My chapter advisor told me I had to take it off my badge because of its negative meaning. (this was the same convention in which some execs were upset that blindfolds were used in an innocent leadership exercise).
so in 2000, I go back to convention, see the jeweller and she offers me another dangle in exchange saying the man who was there the year before didn't know...unfortunately I already had that dangle since it represents new member educator(which I was as well)!! so now I have nothing to represent my position as recruit. chair (which i held for 2 1/2 years).
I have since lost that dangle, but if i find it I'm putting it back on! I'm alum and don't care what they say anymore.
on the actual topic, paddles were never a tradition...one year they tried to start it, but it never took off, and with our current advisor it never would.
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