Kappa Gamma Delta?

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

Quick question....

Okay, me and my girls basically are holed up in a room finishing up our constitution and etc...well..we decided to change the name do to some situations. We then decided to end on "Kappa Gamma Delta". However, there is a local asian interest sorority and a pre-med sorority (it consists of maybe 3 chapters) I found on the internet w/the same name.

Would it be proper to continue to use the name? It's the only one we all truely fell in love with and since the other groups are on the West coast and we're on the east coast..well...ya know. Any thoughts??

[aephi alum]

It shouldn't be a problem, since the other Kappa Gamma Delta groups are local/regional and not in your area.

IMO, locals should stay away from the letters of NPC, NIC, NPHC, and other inter/national orgs, and locals/regionals at the same school and possibly also in their geographic area... but there are only so many 2- and 3-letter combinations of Greek letters out there... eliminate the ones that don't stand for anything meaningful, and the ones that spell odd things (who'd want to be known as Alpha Sigma Sigma? ) and you have even fewer options.

How is Kappa Gamma Delta / whatever doing these days?

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

We see, we found the proper meanings we wanted, that's why it meant so much to us. (we've been in this damn room for over 6 hours working on this..)

Basically, we only have 1 other fraternity that uses Kappa (TKE), none that uses Gamma, and 1 local sororoty that uses Delta (Delta Theta).

[aephi alum]

Maybe I'm misinterpreting your post... I didn't mean the individual letters, I meant the letter combinations. As in, you shouldn't start a local sorority called (say) Alpha Epsilon Phi, because there's already a national by that name, but no problem if you want to call yourselves (say) Epsilon Phi Alpha.

If you've found letters you like and that are meaningful to you, and there aren't any inter/national GLOs or locals/regionals near you that are using them, I say go for it.

[tunatartare]

If the other Kappa Gamma Deltas are local and far away from you, and it's the name that truly fits you, I say go for it! However, it might turn out to be a bit of a problem if the other KGD's end up becoming national.

[enlightenment06]

I agree. Unless one of the other groups goes national go ahead and keep the name.

[KillarneyRose]

Ditto

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

*finally gets home*

Well, hopefully we'll only have the local name for a year...

Here's another question, do you think it'd be possible for us to have a Nat'l look at us before the beginning of fall semester? Afterall, we practically have a guarantee that we'll be recognized by the beginning of next semester.

*continues to work on by laws*

I need a drink...*whew*

[Kristin AGD]

I really like it. Great name. And like you said, hopefully it will only be for a year!!

[AGDLynn]

Here's my point of view....

AGD has a chapter in Athens, which is near Rio Grande.

Active and inactive Ohio Chapters are:

Alpha Gamma, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH
Zeta Iota, Miami University Oxford, OH
Alpha Lambda, Ohio State University Columbus, OH
Zeta Lambda, Findlay College Findlay, OH
Zeta, Ohio University Athens, OH
Alpha Phi, Marietta College Marietta, OH
Alpha Kappa, Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH
Alpha Delta, Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware, OH
Alpha Iota, Baldwin-Wallace College Berea, OH
Omega, University of Akron Akron, OH

It's a compliment that you want to use Gamma Delta but people may think they heard Alpha Gamma Delta.

I know that sometimes Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Xi Delta, Alpha Gamma Rho (yea I know it's a male fraternity) get mixed up. My vote would be to go for another combination than KGD.

Best of luck to you

[Kristin AGD]

LOL. I didn't make the connection.

I knew I really liked the sound of those letters. I just didn't spend too much time thinking about why.

[Beryana]

Originally posted by AGDLynn
It's a compliment that you want to use Gamma Delta but people may think they heard Alpha Gamma Delta.

I know that sometimes Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Xi Delta, Alpha Gamma Rho (yea I know it's a male fraternity) get mixed up. My vote would be to go for another combination than KGD.

I would have to disagree with that logic. If the meaning behind the letters Kappa Gamma Delta is what you are standing for then go for it! If people get it confused with other groups it will happen no matter what letters you choose. A good friend of mine (a Kappa Delta) thought that I was in Alpha Delta Pi for weeks before she saw my license plate bracket that says Alpha OMICRON Pi (and I have been wearing letter sweatshirts, etc). People misreading letters willhappen no matter what and so you need to decide on letters that represent what you stand for, not appearances (side note: the local I was a member of chose the letters because of the first two founders' names and the third letter was decided on because it was more asthetically pleasing than another!).

Did the founders of Alpha Gamma Delta consider no choosing those letters because they might be confused with Alpha Xi Delta?

Sarah

[AGDLynn]

Since I wasn't at Syracuse in 1904, I have no idea. I stand behind my opinion as you stand behind yours.

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

Originally posted by Beryana
I would have to disagree with that logic. If the meaning behind the letters Kappa Gamma Delta is what you are standing for then go for it! If people get it confused with other groups it will happen no matter what letters you choose. A good friend of mine (a Kappa Delta) thought that I was in Alpha Delta Pi for weeks before she saw my license plate bracket that says Alpha OMICRON Pi (and I have been wearing letter sweatshirts, etc). People misreading letters willhappen no matter what and so you need to decide on letters that represent what you stand for, not appearances (side note: the local I was a member of chose the letters because of the first two founders' names and the third letter was decided on because it was more asthetically pleasing than another!).

Did the founders of Alpha Gamma Delta consider no choosing those letters because they might be confused with Alpha Xi Delta?

Sarah

You just reminded me of something that we were actually discussing earlier today. Even though we tried to stay away from Nat'l sounding names, staying away from local names took the top priority. Also, like I stated before, the letter meanings meant more to us than anything. We even arranged the letters differently but, it was not very aesthetically pleasing. *please note, I'm very anal retentive on these type of things *

See, we have a local that has a name VERY similar to 2 Nat'l sororities and they wish to call themselves by the Nat'l nicknames. We didn't set out to do that. We have already decided that our "name" will simply be Kappa's. Heck, the very FIRST name started out with Kappa Gamma! lol!

[texas*princess]

Originally posted by Beryana
I would have to disagree with that logic. If the meaning behind the letters Kappa Gamma Delta is what you are standing for then go for it! If people get it confused with other groups it will happen no matter what letters you choose. A good friend of mine (a Kappa Delta) thought that I was in Alpha Delta Pi for weeks before she saw my license plate bracket that says Alpha OMICRON Pi (and I have been wearing letter sweatshirts, etc). People misreading letters willhappen no matter what and so you need to decide on letters that represent what you stand for, not appearances

I agree! Some of my friends from back home still think I'm a member of Alpha Delta Phi (yes, a male fraternity, but they didn't know that) and I always tell them it's Alpha Delta Pi

like Beryana mentioned people will misread letters no matter what the combination, so if you've found letters that fit your organization, I would say go for it!

side note of ADPi history: Interestingly enough, Alpha Delta Pi used to be Alpha Delta Phi before it was changed to avoid confusion with the male fraternity