Describe Your Pin(s)!

honeychile · #1 02-05-2004, 12:57 AM

With all the talk on the ebay thread about the type of pins we each have, and realizing that we have one of the best sororities for personalizing our pins, I thought it would be fun to describe the pins we each have.

Pictures would be great! Also, note whether or not you wear a guard with yours, and if so, does it come from the bottom point, or from the side point?

An aside: I understand that one Alpha Delta Pi (who shall remain nameless, but is in the heirarchy) has a marvelous collection of pins - including an Adelphean pin!!! I would really, really like to see a poster or such made of her collection - can you imagine seeing over 100 different types of Alpha Delta Pi pins?!?!

SLUadpi · #2 02-05-2004, 01:10 AM

I just have a plain badge as of now, but I was wondering if any other chapters give pearl and gold balls to hang from their pins for scholarship? we give pearls for 3.7 and up and gold for 3.9 and up.

polarpi · #3 02-05-2004, 01:29 AM

My badge that I ordered for initiation is the plain badge, but I did order the guard to go along with it....I hang it from the bottom point and it's completely filled with dangles. Our chapter didn't give us the gold/pearl ball dangles for GPA, but I ordered them on my own, since I had gotten both GPA requirements for each type of ball dangle during my collegiate years.

The pin I saved off of ebay is gorgeous...it's a pearl and kind of turquoise/aquamarine alternating stones badge. I love the colors of it...I probably would've ordered one like it had I had the money when I first joined ADPi!

nauadpi · #4 02-05-2004, 03:10 AM

I picked my pin because it is both my birth stone and has adpi colors... So I have the pin with aquamarine points and the rest pearls. I also have a guard that hangs from the bottom, with these dangles:

-Scholarship Chair
-Webmaster
-150th
-Diamond Sister
-3x Pearls (3.5 and up)

In my chapter at the scholarship brunch held in the fall at parents weekend we gave out pearls for 3.5 and up and gold balls for 4.0s...

Random, but one of these days I will also probably pick up the Recruitment Information Manager dangle and I might pick up multiples for things I was multiple of (ie Diamond sister I have taken 3 total and I was scholarship chair two different years).

I will post a pic when I get a chance to finally take one...

Adelphean · #5 02-05-2004, 03:23 AM

What an awesome thread!

The pin I ordered at intitiation was not my first choice (I almost spent my last dime for the all diamond badge!), but was all I cared to spend at the time!

It is white gold , pearls, and has diamond points. I also have a Beta Beta chapter guard set with pearls. The guard hangs from the bottom point. I have dangles for Diamond sister, scholarship (pearl), and some more, which I can't think of at the moment.

-Lindsay
Beta Beta

JaimeNicole · #6 02-05-2004, 04:27 AM

not to start a tangent, but does anyone know if there is some kind of catalogue to order a guard from, or how much they cost?

ps. everyones pins sound gorgeous!

honeychile · #7 02-05-2004, 09:45 AM

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Originally posted by JaimeNicole
not to start a tangent, but does anyone know if there is some kind of catalogue to order a guard from, or how much they cost?

ps. everyones pins sound gorgeous!

I'd be interested in this, too. I know that when you order something from the Gift Mart, they usually include a catalogue with the dangles in it, but have never seen one with the pins.

Btw, I absolutely LOVE the pins that have the guards from the bottom point! For some reason, they seem much nicer to me. Of course, mine are from the side.

texas*princess · #8 02-05-2004, 11:42 AM

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Originally posted by honeychile
I'd be interested in this, too. I know that when you order something from the Gift Mart, they usually include a catalogue with the dangles in it, but have never seen one with the pins.

When I was an Alpha, our NMC gave each of us a color brochure with all the different ADPi pins/guards so we could decide which pin we wanted to order. I believe I still have my brochure somewhere.

Do all chapters have that? Maybe our NMC has some extra brochures?

I personally have a plain white-gold pin. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this at least a few hundred times, but I plan on getting an "upgrade" as a graduation gift

Sherra -- GU is starting to give out the pearls for scholarship again! There was a time for awhile that we didn't because I guess our scholarship chair just stopped, but we will be doing it again this semester

ADPiAkron · #9 02-05-2004, 01:33 PM

I have the all pearl badge. I also have a guard (BT for Beta Tau) with many dangles on it (check out the dangles thread). But to answer a question, I have a pearl dangle for a GPA 3.5 or above. We give out pearls for 3.5 and above and gold balls for 4.0 or 3 consecutive semesters of 3.5 and above.

I wanted a more extravagant badge when I joined, but I paid for it with my own money and that was the best I could do as a poor college kid!!!

PS: My guard comes from the bottom...but until it was mentioned on here I did not know there were differences like that.

honeychile · #10 02-05-2004, 01:51 PM

I'm giggling to myself, because it's been a LONG time since I ordered my pin, and the prices have at least tripled since I did! So, obviously, I don't have a brochure! Do they still offer two sizes, the regular and a "minature" badge? I've never been able to really tell the difference!

What I currently have:

1) My initiation pin: White gold (which I never wear anymore!

), pearls with sapphire points, guard chain from the side, plain guard, dangles for Pledge Education VP (which is what is was then called), Rec Chair, Chaplain, Spirit Chair. Incidentally, parents were SO pro-greek that my pin was actually my high school graduation present! Of course, they thought it would be a key, but they were still good sports!

2) Pin I bought from a sister who was going to pawn it!: Yellow gold, pearls, guard unattached, but plain.

3) Pin I bought on ebay: Yellow gold, pearls with ruby points, set into a ring, but I need to have it resized. If it costs more to have it resized than I paid for it, I plan to sell it to a sister, and rescue a similar one from ebay & have a ring made in my size!

nauadpi · #11 02-05-2004, 03:07 PM

For those women looking into buying another pin/replacement pin or a guard from ADPi you just need to contact nationals dirrectly. Just pick up the phone and call. They will answer all your questions, and I believe can send you all the info...

I personally am considering doing this, because I would like to take a pin and make it into a charm for my charm braclet. My chapter advisor had it and it was neat. Her braclet is also interesting because it has all the fraternity pins she was pinned with in college made into charms too...

texas*princess · #12 02-05-2004, 03:09 PM

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Originally posted by honeychile
Do they still offer two sizes, the regular and a "minature" badge?

From looking on the brochure I recieved as an Alpha, there is only one size available... that is really interesting that two sizes were available at one time!

All the pins on this thread sound beautiful

ETA Question about pins: So far I haven't been able to attend any ADPi conferences, but does EO sell pins at the conferences also?

honeychile · #13 02-05-2004, 03:41 PM

Texas*princess, I know that a lot of new items are available at Convention, more or less to test their sale-ability. I don't know about pins.

FWIW, my initiation pin (the white gold one) is a minature, but I can't honestly see a difference between it and the standard size. Okay, I may see the difference: I think that the minature has three stones between each point, and the standard has 4. I guarantee that I'll be checking this out the minute I get home!

I'm hoping that y'all have been keeping your pins in either their original box, or in a nice jewelry box! I keep mine in one of the "official" ADPi crested boxes, which easily slips into a pocket for different rites.

honeychile · #14 02-05-2004, 03:43 PM

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Originally posted by nauadpi
Her braclet is also interesting because it has all the fraternity pins she was pinned with in college made into charms too...

She didn't give them back?!?!?!

I forgot to mention that I have a Rho Lambda pin, and I've often thought of having it made into a dangle. Probably very faux pax, but I can remember putting on all my pins meant a very "holey" dress!

nauadpi · #15 02-05-2004, 05:45 PM

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Originally posted by honeychile
She didn't give them back?!?!?!

I forgot to mention that I have a Rho Lambda pin, and I've often thought of having it made into a dangle. Probably very faux pax, but I can remember putting on all my pins meant a very "holey" dress!

No she didn't give them back...and was actually pinned by about 3 different fraternities...Including her husband's...