Honorary Members

[SigmaPsiPBK]

I was just curious if any organizations out there admit honorary members and if so what the requirements and procedures are (ie. do they skip the recruitment process, are they privy to all the details of the organization, do they pay dues, etc...)

[AlphaSigOU]

Alpha Sigma Phi does not confer honorary member status; all members are equal in status as Brothers. Faculty advisors may be initiated by the chapter, as long as the person is not already a member of a social Greek organization that is national in scope.

It's not done very often but the closest thing to an honorary membership is Member-At-Large status. These members are not affiliated with any chapter. M-A-L status may also be conferred to selected members of colonies that never reached chartering, as well as members of Phi Pi Phi and Alpha Gamma Upsilon whose chapters were inactive when they merged with Alpha Sigma Phi in 1939 and 1965, respectively. (All members of Alpha Kappa Pi were incorporated into Alpha Sigma Phi when the fraternities consolidated in 1946.)

[PhoenixAzul]

Our honorary members are inducted on the basis of service to the chapter, dedication to the school, merits of scholarship and purity of heart. Our current advisor (male!) is an "honorary" member. He has been initiated, knows most of the ritual of the sorority, except for one part that he is not permitted to know or experience. Just as his role of advisor,he has a say in the voting/activites of the chapter. I think the advisor before him was also initiated by the girls. I don't remember any RECENT honorary initiation, but I believe that our oldest living founder was officially inducted into Tau Delta (it was Tomo Dachi when she founded it in 1915!) a few years ago, which was really special.

[Tom Earp]

LXA did not have a declaration for PNAIs or Honory Members until I asked them about it this year.

While we do have and have had "Honory" Members, My Chapter has had 5, are all considered Full Members of Good Standing. The reason for this is because each one has gone through Initiation not as a New Associate, but as an observer.

It is not given lightly. If a person is selected to become one, it has to be approved by our Grand High Zeta, or National Board Members.

As AlphaSigOU said, We too Initiated TKN Members who merged with LXA in 1939.

[slayerzbt]

We have done this at my particular chapter. We call them "friends of the fraternity". We basically assign them this status if for some reason they are unable to join but they are really close with us. For example, one guy worked at our bookstore and came down to the house all the time but didn't go to Gannon so we let him become a "friend". They dont have to pay dues or anything like that. I believe they are allowed to wear letters, but I'm not sure because the ones I know I have never seen wearing letters. They can also wear the pin and can give the traditional fraternity "greeting" to brothers. We've only done this about 4 or 5 times in the 15 years our chapter has been in existence.

[DeltAlum]

Delta Tau Delta doesn't have honorary members. A number of organizations have given honorary stauts to famous or important people according to posts here in Greek Chat. We just have never chosen to do that.