[naraht]

I understand brothers efforts to purchase pins, and I will do so as well if it is an older pin. But Alpha Phi Omega's general policy on pins is as loose as *ANY* Greek letter organization I've ever seen. The following things should give you a feeling..

1) Multiple pins (pledge or service) can be purchased in any order.
2) We don't require that the number of pins match the number of reported pledges or reported brothers. Chapters can build up stock...
3) While the pledge pin is "property of the chapter", I have only seen two chapters actually contact pledges to try to retrieve pins. And neither would have been willing to sue over the matter.
4) Service pins are property of the individual, which includes their heirs..
5) The standard pins don't cost much at all...

I'm actually on a Fraternitypin trading list on Yahoo. Almost everyone on there is a member of a Fraternity or Sorority and *none* of them would ever wear the pin of a fraternity they didn't belong to. (With the exception of a fraternity which merged one that they belonged to.)

Now if you want a National Organization willing to go the additional 720 miles to care about this, I suggest you look at Alpha Kappa Alpha. They don't even want their pins *buried* with their sisters.

Randy