Friends from high school you found out is in your GLO

[DeltaSigStan]

MY lil bro went to Regional COnvention, and one of his good friends from high school joined Delta Sig at another school.

That ever happen to any of you?

Might not sound exciting, but I would be like WTF?

[Taualumna]

Two girls I was in the senior choir and Folk Group with in high school are AGDs.

[LXAAlum]

Stan,
I went to my 10 year high school reunion in 1995...and found out the guy who was next to me in the yearbook was a LXA at the University of Denver - and there were a couple other LX's from our class, all at different chapters (CU, CSU, and Oklahoma, I think)...

None of us really knew each other all that well (it was a HUGE high school), and we all belonged to different "cliques" while in school, but, this was something that did bind us together, and it was quite amazing to see jocks, academics, cowboy, and a band geek (yep, that was me!) being able to really identify with one another....

[adpiucf]

There were a lot of people from my high school who attended my university, and a lot of us went Greek. I had sisters in my chapter I'd known since middle school, and Panhellenic sisters in the other chapters, too, that I'd known from various high school activities.... gives all-new meaning to the sorority being a "home away from home."

[SATX*APhi]

A few girls I went to H.S. with are Alpha Phis at Texas Tech.

Another gal is an Alpha Phi at Texas.

I am sure there are others that joined at other universities, I just haven't seen them all in so long.



Oh! I forgot! The mothers of several girls I went to H.S. with are also Alpha Phis.

[sageofages]

One of the reasons I joined Phi Mu was because of a (then) girl who had been in my HS Senior Home Room .

She ended up being my GrandBig and closest sister in the chapter....

[chideltjen]

I found out that a girl that went to the same high school as me (but a grade younger) became a Chi Delt at Sonoma State. I saw her at greek sing one year when they all came down and it kinda blew me away cuz I totally recognized her. Small world. Now she is one of my sisters.

[ambición6]

I went to HS with one of my sisters but we didnt talk much because she was a grade below me, it was purely by coincidence that we end up at the same college and part of the group that founded the chapter of my fraternity at my school. There are other girls that I went to HS with that joined my fraternity and I would have never thought of them as people who would go greek.

[PhiPsiRuss]

A lot of my classmates went to schools with no greek systems, or with greek systems that would soon be shut down, so there weren't too many that went greek. One friend was a Sigma Chi at Tulane, and one was an AEPi at Emory. I visited my friend at Tulane when I was a freshman (OK, I was also visiting Mardi Gras ) and they were pretty cool.

[TheEpitome1920]

I have several friends who are now in various NPHC organizations

Soror @ Lewis University (Illinois)
Soror @ Bradley University (Illinois)
Delta @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
AKA in Indiana, not sure the name of the school
Kappa @ Langston University (Oklahoma)

Some of them I knew wanted to pledge once we graduated while others were a pleasant surprise!

[Quala67]

In Alpha Phi Omega, this happens a lot - because the high schoolers that are drawn to community service are also drawn to the service programs of APO.

I actually sit on the National Board of Directors with a former high school friend - the same friend who encouraged me to join. This is the first time that two folks from the same HS are on the Board at the same time.

[LionTamer]

There were VERY few people from my high school who joined fraternities or sororities at any school - I think one Alpha Phi, one PhiMu and a couple of BSBs at my school, and an SDT at Cornell

So when I went through rsuh at ASA I was surprised to see a sweet, quiet, very poised and very ladylike girl from my street at home, who had been 2 years ahead of me in HS. She did NOT fit the extroverted image that ASA (justifiably) had. We used to ride together to day camp when we were kids, but I figured she wouldn't remember me at all.

Well, I was lucky she did remember me, because when someone who didn't know me said "she seemed okay to me, but she was dating my best friend's boyfriend last year, and my friend said we should cut her. What was she like in high school?" this girl was able to pipe up that I was actually kind of a nerd, and not a wild Jezabel or anything. Saved my bacon. (It's sad but amazing the amount of totally-off-limits information about post-rush discussion you can squeeze out of girls after just a few hours at the Lion's Den)

Oddly enough, the same thing happened in reverse the next year. A total stoner from the class behind me came through rush looking like Little Miss Prep. She wasn't mean, slutty or a potential trouble-maker, so I kept my mouth shut, figuring we all deserve a second chance. Ended up with us, and it worked out brilliantly - she was a wonderful addition to the sorority and ended up as a lawyer. I never said anything to her about her transformation, but once at lunch she did say something about how she "used to dress a lot differently" in high school, and I laughed a little too loudly, and she just sort of looked at me like "don't even go there." .

[_Lisa_]

A girl from my high school joined Sigma Kappa @ Georgetown College but I haven't seen her since the last Founders Day event I went to...we never really got along though. I'm glad we have something in common.

[GtownGirl98]

Not in my same sorority but I was looking at websites one night and one of them had a picture of this girl on the opening page... let's just say we weren't the closest of friends (her sister and I almost came to blows on the soccer field one day). It was still cool to find a picture of someone that I knew.

[ISUKappa]

I was surprised to find that the younger sister of a girl I knew in high school joined my chapter--I was already out 2 years by then. I didn't think she really "fit" our chapter; the next year she resigned her membership.

Otherwise I haven't met anyone I know from my high school who was a Kappa elsewhere. Considering my hs was small (400 students total) and less than half of each graduating class went to a 4-year college, we had quite a few girls that went to my school go through recruitment. By the time I graduated, at least four were Alpha Gams, two were Sigma Kappas, one was a Gamma Phi and two were Kappa Deltas.