Highschool Sororities....

[AngelPhiSig]

Okay I searched and didnt find anything so:

Did anyone's school have secret orgs for students, like sororities? I know that Ive read posts and people have mentioned that their grandmothers etc were part of them...

Any info?

Websites?

Help!

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Alison

[sigmagrrl]

I have no knowledge of any sort of societies. The only time I have heard of such things are on TV, like the episode that ran this past season on "Gilmore Girls"...

[Kevin]

There have been threads on this but I don't remember what they were called. Keep searching though, they're out there.

[twinstars]

My sorority's housemother was in a high school sorority (she's probably about 70 yrs old) and apparently there was a lot of hazing involved.

[RosmaPomia]

My own personal experience was with a group called "Exchangettes." We did something that I guess was like Rush, had weekly meetings, activities, and did community service. It was a lot of fun

[SATX*APhi]

I've posted this under High School Hazing, http://greekchat.com/gcforums/showth...&postid=205498, but here goes:


My H.S. hazing story


In high school there was something you could be initiated into, a secret society or underground sorority, if you will. You had to be "chosen" to join. The sophomores aka "Sophomore Misses" extend invitations to the freshman, juniors aka "Junior Ladies" extend to sophomores, and seniors aka "Senior Women" extend to juniors. You cannot join as a senior. If you were initiated as a freshman, you were initiated into Freshman Girls. Your sophomore year you were automatically a part of Sophomore Misses, etc.

I was initiated as a sophomore into Sophomore Misses. What the Junior Ladies did that year is get a list of all sophomores who were extended an invite to join. They assign to each Junior Lady 1 or 2 sophomores to pick up from their home before initiation. They drove us to someone's house where we all met. (There were tons of cars, mind you. The boys of the junior class came along to watch) Before getting to our meeting spot, some of the juniors took the sophomores that they had to go "shopping" for embarrassing items. The juniors could also have done stuff to them, such as making them wear their bras on the outside, etc. Luckily the junior who picked me up was super nice and did nothing to me prior to arriving at the meeting house. When we got to the meeting house, we were put into the back of pick-up trucks. Since the junior who picked me up drove a Mustang, I had to leave her since I would be getting dirty. The good thing is that I was put in the pick-up truck of the Junior Lady who had invited me to join, one of my good friends. She didn't make us do anything stupid, other than give her chihuahua dog a kiss! Most other sophomores there had lipstick put all over their face, Crisco in their hair, tampons hanging from their ears and tons of other things.

All pick-up trucks go to the same location, out in the middle of nowhere. They lay out a tarp on the ground and make us all lay next to each other, like sardines. They pour tons of junk all over us - eggs, flour, sardines, pickles, hot dogs, ketchup, mustard, peanut butter and tons of other junk. Some of the girls even had to pretend to be giving the junior guys oral pleasure. Fortunately, I was not! After all this is done, they drive us all to a car wash and spray us down. Then, they go and drop us off back home and afterwards there is a party.

FUNNY THING ABOUT JOINING:
We do nothing together after that! There was talk about having a party per semester. Yeah right! They did do football boosters my junior year. There were about 3 girls to each member on the 1st string football team. Before school on the day of each game the girls met with the guy and gave him treats. I didn't do this because I was in band and had a little sis to get things for every game. We were supposed to have a graduation party, yeah right! It was all a bunch of bull.

The ONE thing we did do: make t-shirts every year so that we could "represent."

Basically, you were initiated just to say that you were in Freshman Girls, Sophomore Misses, Junior Ladies or Senior Women. If you were initiated then you were part of the "popular" crowd.

[SigKapSundevil]

That sounds exactly like the movie"Dazed and Confused."

[SATX*APhi]

Originally posted by SigKapSundevil
That sounds exactly like the movie"Dazed and Confused."

My post?

[SigKapSundevil]

Yes, your post is just like the movie. Have you ever seen it? The senior girls round up the "chosen" freshman and have all the guys around watching, and they put stuff all over them like you said (mustard, ketchup, etc) and then they made them pretend to do sexual favors for the guys too. They also put them into pickup trucks and ran them through the car wash. I am guessing whoever started that tradition at your school probably got some of that stuff based off the movie!!

[dekeguy]

My Aunt told me that she was in a High School Sorority that was school sanctioned and very carefully monitored by the chapter advisors and the administration and served as a sort of feeder organization to the NPC houses at Newcomb College. Lots of fun but tightly controlled. Apparently there were a dozen or so of these sororities, but that the system was dieing out in the late 50s and was gone by the mid 60s. I asked some cousins down in New Orleans who told me that there used to be an extensive network of High School Fraternities and Sororities which were independent of college Greek organizations but did tend to feed into certain houses in the deep South at least. The Fraternities died out in the fifties and the sororities in the sixties and were replaced in New Orleans by a club called "Valencia" which had tennis courts, a swimming pool, a huge party room and club house facilities like a Country Club but limited to kids in high school! Valencia was a social club that might have been seen as basic training for college and Greek life but I think it was more than that.
One of my friends in Law School said that his mother belonged to a national highschool sorority called Chi Kappa Chi (XKX) when she was growing up in Hammond, Indiana. According to him, this was also tightly controlled by the administration at his Mom's school but that some other chapters or other houses were very much into hazing and serious drinking and this led to a law baning HS greek orgs in Indiana. We asked one of our Law profs who we knew to be Greek and he told us that he was aware of similar HS systems in Richmond and in Baltimore and that his father had been in a HS fraternity in St Louis before he went SAE at Missouri. He said that he was pretty sure they all died out about the same time as well. Sounds like in Louisiana they came up with an alternative social organization and in Indiana they shut them down by law. I don't know what happened elsewhere . This is all second hand info but I think its interesting that there was a whole HS level of National Greek Orgs that seem to have died out or gone into deep cover. Anybody know any info about this they can share?

[SATX*APhi]

Originally posted by SigKapSundevil
Yes, your post is just like the movie. Have you ever seen it?

Never seen the movie. Maybe I should.

[Senusret I]

My high school in Washington, DC, which was predominately black, has a local sorority called Cultured Pearls, which was established by an AKA on the administration. It seems to perform as a charm club. There is also mentoring. It wasn't founded until after I left, so the details are sketchy. Contact Christine Easterling at Calvin Coolidge High School in DC for more information.

[chantillylace55]

There was a sorority at my mom's high school in So Cal. They were called the Denotians and you could only join if you were invited to... my mom was invited, but declined because she didn't want to be limited to one group of friends (they didnt talk to anyone outside of the Denotians)... She said they did silly things for the girls getting initiated (wearing pins, wearing clothes inside-out to school, getting them drunk), but that was about it. I'm not sure if it was designed to filter into the NPC system, but the majority of my mom's friends that were in it did end up going greek (I think a lot were USC Pi Phis)... that's about all I know

[orchid2]

Hmmm... oh yes, they had them at my high school. There were four groups, each at its own level of eliteness, and you had to be asked in your 8th grade year.

They printed t-shirts for different events, did some community service, held formals and balls, an annual sisterhood retreat, a "greek week" of sorts, etc. The pledging process lasted an entire school year (rather than 6-8 weeks), and the girls would come to school and to football games in ridiculous costumes the week before initiation.

These groups have been in our town for generations and generations, and a lot of the girls end up going greek once they get to college. The high school sororities are sponsored by matronly "study clubs," which is probably my town's equivalent to a junior league.

[ChiOJenn78]

My highschool didn't have hs sororities, but since it was an all-girls hs, I guess you could call us one big sorority We did have Big Sisters when we were freshman, and then when we were juniors we got Little Sisters. That was the closest thing we had. Anyhoo, I had never heard of sororities in high school until I moved down here to Galveston and they have 3 or 4 at the hs here. I think it's kind of silly, personally, to have a sorority in hs.

Funny story-I was taking a dress to get altered because I was coming back for one of Mr.ChiOJenn's formals and the lady doing the alterations was asking me what it was for, and I told her a fraternity formal. She was like, oh, what sorority are you in? Is it blah blah blah(started naming off the hs sorority names)-I was like, um NO. Do I still look like I'm in hs?? Anyhoo....