equeen actually has nothing to do with my the greek aspect of my identity.
Part of the
E-Week (Engineers Week) tradition at OU is to vote for St. Pat (the senior who has contributed the most to E-Club and the College) and a Queen (in the modern era, we choose a King as well). The CoE student body voted for yours truly to be Queen in 1999.
This was a big deal, both for me personally, as well as in the context of the
Tradition of Sooner Engineering. To elaborate, the Tadition has spanned several decades. It revolves around student involvement in Engineers' Club.
E-Club hosts a lot of events throughout the year, including a
Fall Festival (which introduces freshman & transfer students to all the student clubs within the College),
Open House which is a day-long math/science/engineering competition for high school students), and
Engineers Week (which coincides with Nat'l Engineers Week, but is tailored to our OU traditions, and is mostly social in nature). Additionally, E-Club holds hamburger feeds during home football games. Finally, some students are chosen to serve in
LKOT - the Loyal Knights of Old Trusty, a secret society of engineering students. Their primary function is to serve the College in anonymity. Our is the only College at OU that has its own shield. Ours is also the only College which has delegates for Homecoming Royalty.
I've been involved in nearly all aspects of the Sooner Engineering Tradition - I've worked nearly every hamburger feed for the past three years, and served as an officer and a member-at-large of E-Club for the past five years. It's been a great deal of fun, and between my involvement in A.S.K. and E-Club, I would say I've had a lifetime of learning and growing. So it was an honor and a privilege when my fellow students chose me to be their Queen.
I'm also proud to be an E-Queen because several of my friends (including two Sisters) have been E-Queens (one of them is
Artimis
). What I'm most proud of, however, is how much
fun my friends had with it. Several of my guy friends will never let chivalry die - and they had fun being my self-appointed knights. (I even had a self-appointed court-jester, and that was just
too funny). I really got a kick out seeing how much fun they were having addressing me as "m'lady" or "your royal highness." My friends had fun with it, and that's what really made it special for me. At their urging, I changed my university email alias to "equeen," and kept it as such until the next E-Week. I remember signing on to greekchat just before my reign was up, so kept the handle.
what a novel!!
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[This message has been edited by equeen (edited January 16, 2001).]
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