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Old 07-29-2002, 06:22 PM
AlphaSigLana AlphaSigLana is offline
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I have a problem! I can never remember the names of my sorority's founders. I remember bits and pieces of their names, but I've been in the sorority for 2 yrs I should know by now from pledgeship and the national tests etc!!!! I feel like a horrible Greek!!!! Yet I can remember what someone wore last week and what accessories they wore etc
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Old 07-29-2002, 08:41 PM
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Delta Phi Epsilon has the acronym D.I.M.E.S. for our 5 national founders which takes some of the pressure off:
Dorothy Cohen Schwartzman
Ida Bienstock Landau
Minna Goldsmith Mahler
Eva Effron Robin
Sylvia Steireman Cohn
I can't say the same about our local founders though =o\
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Old 07-29-2002, 09:59 PM
AlphaSigLana AlphaSigLana is offline
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WE use many little cows jump vertically, but it's the last names bc they each have two last names!!!! UGH! oh well
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Old 07-30-2002, 10:26 AM
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Lana, I hope you've never forgotten "a rootin, a tootin, a Calva Watson Wootton"!!
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Old 07-30-2002, 10:39 AM
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We have 11 founders, and I can only ever remember about 5 of them. One of my sisters made up a poem once to remember them all...I should ask her if she still knows it so that I can remember them, but I won't post it here because it was really dirty.

Ok, here are the ones I definitely remember:

Georgia Dickover
Marguerite Shepard
Estelle Shepard
Jennie Titus Smith Morris
Emily Butterfield

I think there was one named Flora Knight Mayer, too...I know it was something similar to Florence Nightingale, so that's how I remember it.

Any Alpha Gams have any hints for remembering them?
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Old 07-30-2002, 10:49 AM
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Don't feel bad. I am about to be a senior and I still can't always remember the names of all our founders (we have 9). I know - I am the worst Zeta ever!!! Themis is going to come down and strike me with lightning!! If I really try, I can maybe do it....
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Old 07-30-2002, 11:07 AM
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I have a very good memory and can name them right off the top of my head at any given moment.

Christina Gausas (Founding Advisor)
Jennifer Bobb
Jennifer Davis
Kathryn "Kitty" DiNicola
Anastasia "Tessie" Giannouris
Jill James
Michelle Jun
Angie Klock
Nancy Kwon
Holly Manssur
Anna Stergiopoulos
Deana Vietti
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Old 07-30-2002, 11:23 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by DWAlphaGam
Any Alpha Gams have any hints for remembering them?
Yes! I'll have to write it up in the Alpha Gam forum sometime!

I think the easist way to remember the founders is to make up a short story. Find a way to string all the founders together and then you'll never forget (especially if it's comical). I initiated in '99 and I still remember the story I made up and always teach it to some of the new members so they will remember.
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Old 07-30-2002, 01:02 PM
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Zeta Zeta...
I got this tip @ Convention...from of course a fellow Pa Zeta


Founders:
HAMMER FAD

Helen M. Crafford
Alice Bland Coleman
Maud Jones Horner
Mary Jones Batte,
Ethel Coleman Van Name
Ruby Leigh Orgain (what a great name!)

Frances Yancey Smith
Alice Grey Welsh
Della Lewis Hundley (another name I loooove)


Our first NM's are GEO but I don't know thier names hmmm maybe Barb or my ZIF CD can help!
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Old 07-30-2002, 06:44 PM
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SAI has 7 founders...let's see if I can name them all!!!

Leila Farlin Laughlin
Nora Crane Hunt
Georgina Potts
Mary Storrs Anderson
Elizabeth Campbell
Minnie Davis Sherrill
Frances Caspari

WOO HOO!!! I remembered them all.
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Old 07-30-2002, 07:29 PM
AlphaSigLana AlphaSigLana is offline
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33girl-- I have never heard the rootin, tootin, Calva Watson Wooton! Oh my!!! That must be from way back--hehe
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Old 07-30-2002, 07:50 PM
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Three seconds of web surfing:

http://www.uwrf.edu/alpha-sigma-alpha/history.htm

I didn't know ASA was another Longwood College sorority (we had KD and ZTA at my school).

*yawn* I guess I need to go do something productive now...
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Old 07-30-2002, 08:39 PM
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Ours are

Hellen St Clair Mullen
Stella George Stern Perry
Jessie Wallice Hughan
Elizabeth "Bes" Heywood Wyman

Hopefully they are all spelled correctly!

Sarah
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Old 07-30-2002, 08:51 PM
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one of the AGDs is gonna hafta PM me this founder song everybody is talking about! i can never remember all 11 either!
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Old 08-01-2002, 06:28 PM
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I remember SAI's founders by the acronym "FLENGM2" (FLENGM Squared):

Francis Caspari
Leila Farlin Laughlin
Elizabeth A. Campbell
Nora Crane Hunt
Georgina Potts
Mary Storrs Andersen
Minnie Davis Sherrill

-Jessica
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