Why?

AlphaSigLana · #1 08-07-2001, 06:31 PM

Why does ASA have two symbols(mascots?) I am confused why we have Raggedy Ann and the ladybug. WHo came up with these?

33girl · #2 08-09-2001, 08:44 PM

When I pledged, we were told ASA's national mascot was Raggedy Ann and our chapter's local was the turtle. Sometime after I graduated, the turtles kind of disappeared (might have been cause DZ used them all the time, but I don't know).

Raggedy Ann was chosen because she was a friend of children, so since we were originally an all-education sorority it fit. I think there were problems with making RA the "official" mascot for the same reasons DG encountered - either Hasbro put their foot down, period or wanted us to drive a truck of money up to their factory.

One of my sisters told me around 94 - 95 was when all the ladybug paraphernalia started appearing in the Greek store and the RA stuff started decreasing. Who, how, when, where or why the ladybug was chosen, I have no idea. Are you registered on AlphaNet? Go ahead and post it there and see if they give an answer. I'm not sure if it is our "official" mascot.

AlphaSigLana · #3 08-10-2001, 11:31 AM

33girl I am trying to get on Alpha Net, but since I didn't have the phoenix I had to contact them bc alternate registration didn't work. Hopefully more people visit ALpha Net than this ASA site.

33girl · #4 08-10-2001, 08:04 PM

I think you can post on that "advisor net" section without a password. The whole site definitely needs some work.

MiamiAlpha · #5 03-23-2002, 04:17 PM

Hi, Alphas!

Just some input into the mascot thing:

"When I was in school" our mascot was the panda bear, and we had a stuffed white bear named Alphie who had his own presonalized rocking chair in the suite. Yes, Alphie went on all those Pledge-Things we're not allowed to do any more: Went to class with pledges...the whole bit. He also traveled with us on walkouts.

We had a hard time finding mascot things, unlike the "big groups" whose mascots/symbols were made up into jewelry and all and marketed thru the Greek Shops (Zeta crowns, AOPi lions, etc....) But, pandas were easy to find in stationary and other things like that.

When the chapter closed in mmm....1991-2 something like that, Alphie disappeared, never to be seen again.....

When the chapter reorganized in 1994, the women decided to use 'stars' as the universal symbol - for the ease in finding 'star stuff'. The ladybugs took off, too, and by the time the chapter closed ladybugs were predominant.

At Muskingum (ZO) the interest group had chosen frogs for their mascot and were thrilled when Lori S. told them ASA had no "regular mascot" (remember, she's an Emporia Apple), so they could choose their own. They kept the frogs and liked the ladybugs so much they incorporated them, as well.

Even tho I started as a 'panda bear' I am partial to the ladybugs; I just never embraced the Raggedy Ann thing.

Did any other chapter ever have a mascot not mentioned here?

33girl · #6 03-23-2002, 11:48 PM

Hey Laura, good to see you on here!!

Our local (Beta Chi Upsilon) had bunnies as the mascot...we were, you guessed it, the Beta Bunnies. (Heck, it was 1959!) By the time we went ASA, ZTA was on campus with bunny stuff everywhere...so the bunnies hopped out of our lives as far as possibly being a local mascot.