Founding Member Legacy in the Chapter

Boodleboy322 · #1 01-09-2009, 10:07 PM

Does anyone have an active member in your GLO that is a direct lineage, decendant or relative of your organization's founding member(s)? My home chapter initiated the Great Grandson of my Fraternity's Founding Father from 1898 this past semester. Quite a Legacy to say the least.

Fraternal Regards,

Boodleboy322

Senusret I · #2 01-09-2009, 10:15 PM

My alumni chapter (Alpha Phi Alpha) counts among its active members the grandson of a founder. He's a really really nice guy. He was initiated in a different alumni chapter about 30 years ago.

em_adpi · #3 01-10-2009, 12:27 AM

Um, my little's greataunt was a charter member of another ADPi chapter.

Not as amazing as an actual founder, but I still think it's pretty cool!

Boodleboy322 · #4 01-10-2009, 07:21 PM

If this guy really gets hard core about the fraternity there's no doubt in my mind that he will have a strong voice on the National side. The really neat thing is that he is one of two males in the family since 1898 that understands what certain inscriptions on our founding father's tomb actually mean.

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Um, my little's greataunt was a charter member of another ADPi chapter.

Not as amazing as an actual founder, but I still think it's pretty cool!

honeychile · #5 01-11-2009, 12:16 AM

There is a chapter of Alpha Delta Pi which has had several descendants of the original members of the Adelphean Society as active members. We're talking 8-9 generation legacies here! The best my chapter ever did was a 5 generation legacy.

tallgreekalum · #6 01-11-2009, 02:55 AM

ADPhi has a decendant of our founder, Samuel Eells , 177 yrs of Eells'

Boodleboy322 · #7 01-11-2009, 05:06 PM

I've gone alumnus for a while now but do you suppose that these people get special treatment from the chapter or get treated like everyone else?

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There is a chapter of Alpha Delta Pi which has had several descendants of the original members of the Adelphean Society as active members. We're talking 8-9 generation legacies here! The best my chapter ever did was a 5 generation legacy.

moe.ron · #8 01-11-2009, 10:44 PM

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I've gone alumnus for a while now but do you suppose that these people get special treatment from the chapter or get treated like everyone else?

I get a feeling that they will all get special treatment.

honeychile · #9 01-11-2009, 11:38 PM

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I've gone alumnus for a while now but do you suppose that these people get special treatment from the chapter or get treated like everyone else?

The one chapter with a lot of the Founders' descendants are treated well because they sincerely know what sisterhood is all about, from what I've told.

The woman who was a 5-generation legacy at my own chapter was an entirely different story. She did not want to go greek in the first place, and was forced by her family to go through with it. She was initiated at Convention, rather than with her chapter, and then transferred to a school without a greek system. We did what we could, until we realized how badly she didn't want to do it, then let her do as she wished. Of course, our EO had a lot to do with letting her get away with murder, and not even giving it a chance.

breathesgelatin · #10 01-12-2009, 01:23 AM

I knew a young woman in college who was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and was indirectly descended from one of their founders. The founder was her great-great-however many aunt.

HONKY660 · #11 01-12-2009, 01:39 AM

My wife who is ZTA, had a member who was founder Maud Jones' great great niece or something, she said their chapter and the niece got special treatment at times.

LucyAnne17 · #12 01-12-2009, 02:21 AM

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Originally Posted by honeychile

There is a chapter of Alpha Delta Pi which has had several descendants of the original members of the Adelphean Society as active members. We're talking 8-9 generation legacies here! The best my chapter ever did was a 5 generation legacy.

I am a a 4th generation....my great grandmother, grandmother, aunt, and mother are all members of my sorority as well. I think there have been a few times that I've had a blind eye turned to me, but I also grew up knowing the importance of the sorority throughout my life...its kind of give and take I suppose. I don't think I'm related to any founders though! That would be pretty amazing- I wear my mom's pin to formal chapter though, and my Grandmother has her mom's pin framed in her house!

MysticCat · #13 01-12-2009, 09:55 AM

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My home chapter initiated the Great Grandson of my Fraternity's Founding Father from 1898 this past semester. Quite a Legacy to say the least.

That's really cool. But why did I have the idea that Father Mills had no children? Time for me to head back to the history books.