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Originally Posted by Alumiyum
I was told the same thing when I was a new member but have since been told there's nothing saying new members can't possess/wear the armorial bearings. I've never checked, so I don't know what the real deal is. But either way, letters are definitely allowed.
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I can't imagine that we'd start allowing uninitiated new members to have or wear the Armorial Bearings, and if that change was made I can't find it anywhere. The most recent issue of
The Quarterly has an article about the Armorial Bearings, but makes no mention of who can or cannot wear it. In Member Services of our website I only found mention of Initiated Members being eligible to wear the Badge and Armorial Bearings. I did learn something from looking in my New Member Guide, the Armorial Bearings were only supposed to be worn on clothing or jewelry. The few items I have with the Armorial Bearings are neither clothing or jewelry, oops.
The other thing in
The Quarterly article that struck me was the opening sentence "Before Alpha Gamma Delta introduced an official
brand (or visual identity), the Armorial Bearings served as the Fraternity’s first visual mark. It appears on many of the Fraternity’s earliest documents as the symbolic image of Alpha Gamma Delta." Same issue highlights events in May 1904, and our Founding Sisters appeared to have designed and ordered our monogram style badge to wear May 30th 107 years ago. I think of our badge as the original brand/visual identity, not only as it was there in 1904, but more sisters will wear it than the Armorial Bearings, and therefore more people will recognize us by our jewelry.
I'm curious about our upcoming roll out of new branding material. Please let it include a squirrel, please, please, please.