Help identify this pin, please

[swarmina]

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by swarmina

My GM was a Delta Gamma. At a family get-together I brought out my graduation stole, which now holds my GM, GF, M, and my greek pins. My brother told me about a pin that he uses as a tie tac. This is the pin. It is not the Delta Gamma pin, but has the DG symbols, plus tau, delta, eta. Does anyone know waht this pin could be? Thanks for your help!

It's the Delta Gamma coat of arms. Your brother really should not wear that since only members of DG wear the COA or the badge of DG.

[swarmina]

but what was the purpose of the pin? Was it a sweetheart pin? ???
And, tell my brother what to do? Ha! I am trying to get him to send it to me so I can add it to the collection on my stole.

Thanks!

[Titchou]

Not a sweetheart pin. Only initiated Delta Gammas are allowed to wear the crest (we don't call it a coat of arms). It oculd have been a lapel or hat pin of some sort. But please, he should not be wearing it....and neither should you be wearing it or a Delta Gamma anchor badge.

[swarmina]

I am NOT wearing any pins that are not mine. I have a graduation stole that I wore at my graduation. It hangs on my mirror. It has all my family members pins. GM, GF, mom, dad. mine. We are trying to figure out what this pin was. And you know what? I can rest my head nicely on my pillow allowing my brother with Multiple Sclerosis who loved the world out of my sweet grandmother to wear her sorority crest as a DG as as tie tac if that makes him smile and remember her! If someone mistakes him for a Delta Gamma...their prob! Oy!

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Not a sweetheart pin. Only initiated Delta Gammas are allowed to wear the crest (we don't call it a coat of arms). It oculd have been a lapel or hat pin of some sort. But please, he should not be wearing it....and neither should you be wearing it or a Delta Gamma anchor badge.

Originally Posted by swarmina

I am NOT wearing any pins that are not mine. I have a graduation stole that I wore at my graduation. It hangs on my mirror. It has all my family members pins. GM, GF, mom, dad. mine. We are trying to figure out what this pin was. And you know what? I can rest my head nicely on my pillow allowing my brother with Multiple Sclerosis who loved the world out of my sweet grandmother to wear her sorority crest as a DG as as tie tac if that makes him smile and remember her! If someone mistakes him for a Delta Gamma...their prob! Oy!

Many GLOs had various non-official pieces of jewelry made with their crests ( sorry Titchou, we don't have one at all, so what do I know ) and Coats of arms on them. If you want to come to GC and ask for help about a piece of jewelry related to a GLO, don't get upset if you are told something you don't like, even though the rules don't change for your brother with multiple sclerosis. I'm sure there are many ways that your brother can remember his beloved grandmother without breaking the rules of the organization that obviously meant so much to her. It's not that others may think he is a DG, but that he is wearing an emblem that means nothing to him that meant so much to your grandmother and all of her DG sisters. If you have a problem with that, just scurry away from GC...we didn't ask to hear about your pin, your brother or your grandmother. We just told you the way things are done. If you don't like it, keep it to yourself.

[Titchou]

and I did say "please."

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Titchou

and I did say "please."

You did.

[Titchou]

Thank you!

[amIblue?]

I know the op's brother isn't a Delta Gamma, but do we know if the op is one or not?

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

I know the op's brother isn't a Delta Gamma, but do we know if the op is one or not?

If she was a DG, I would hope she would know what her coat of arms looks like!

[AGDAlum]

I assume it's a lapel pin that for a Delta Gamma to wear on...her lapel. (What a concept.)

The OP said her "greek pin" is on her graduation stole. Is that just for safekeeping? (My badge is in my jewelry box.)

[WhiteRose1912]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

I know the op's brother isn't a Delta Gamma, but do we know if the op is one or not?

The OP is an Alpha Xi Delta.

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

If she was a DG, I would hope she would know what her coat of arms looks like!

She said that she knew it was the crest but didn't know what the purpose of it was, so that's why I asked. I could own an old pin shaped like the Kappa coat of arms and not know the original intended purpose of it.

However, I don't understand why if she's an Alpha Xi she would want to wear any other organization's badge, regardless of who the original owner may have been. My mom is a Kappa Delta. I am a Kappa. I love my mother. I love Kappa. I wouldn't want to wear her KD badge. It's possible to honor family and fraternity.

[WhiteRose1912]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

She said that she knew it was the crest but didn't know what the purpose of it was, so that's why I asked. I could own an old pin shaped like the Kappa coat of arms and not know the original intended purpose of it.

However, I don't understand why if she's an Alpha Xi she would want to wear any other organization's badge, regardless of who the original owner may have been. My mom is a Kappa Delta. I am a Kappa. I love my mother. I love Kappa. I wouldn't want to wear her KD badge. It's possible to honor family and fraternity.

She doesn't want to wear it. She has already graduated, and keeps her family's pins on her graduation stole, which is hanging from her mirror. It'd be more appropriate to say that she is displaying her family's pins.