[FSUZeta]

In my day, my chapter would sing songs during dinners-usually 2 times a week. Someone would tap their ice tea glass with her spoon, everyone would quiet down, and that person would start singing the song and we would all chime in. It was such fun!

Once a month we celebrated birthdays with birthday cake for dessert and we sang a song while the birthday girls ran around the table where they were seated.

We had wooden crowns that we had to have signed by each initiated member. In order to get the signature, it forced the pledges to meet with the "actives" as we called them, and really have a conversation with them. Our big sisters would take them crown away at a specific deadline and would decorate the front of the crown as an initiation gift for us. Unfortunately, that is considered hazing now.

We had a washboard band with ukuleles, a washboard, guitars, spoons, bongos, an overturned washtub with a broom handle and string for a bass, a jug, etc. We performed at various charity events around Tallahassee. We wore overalls and red gingham checked shirts. You had to audition to get in. I played the bongos.

And last, but not least, sometimes after dinner, someone would throw a fist in the air, and yell "ahhhhhhhhhh" and everyone would join in, and we would run outside and hold a spirit circle in the front yard. After the spirit circle, we would all run back in and chant a cheer in the foyer-one that we could only chant if there were no guests, and our "servers", the collegiate guys who served dinner and cleaned up after, were gone.