fun for a winter night...

[Erik P Conard]

As a genealogist (genealogy is a personal encounter with history)
I have gathered biographical items when I can. It is fun to learn
of the various GLOs our kin belong to.
And you can carry it as far as you want, tho GLOs were not in great numbers until the 20th century.
Sometimes we overlook recommendations (too bad) as a legacy
will help you to get continued interest by the family.
Gosh, SAE and Beta seem to take quite a bit of pride in their history and lineages. It is really neat to read their mags and to be privvy to all their connections. And some of the other fraternities have like, but not as many, connections.
I so wanted my daughter to pledge, she had a dozen different sororities her kin belonged to (and almost all of them loved it), but it was her choice. A jock, an honor student, pretty and a good
card player, she told me the other day she wished she had. And
my son was a legacy many times, including my own, top on campus at the time. He did not either. But the lifestyles of the
chapter would have turned me off, too...the hovel...sob
Some of us oldsters had hoped to carry on the Greek thing, and we hope it might return for the next generation.
Why don't you write down those names, just for kicks?
If you live in a small town, say back in your old home town, did you ever calculate how many went greek? I did, and it was fun
to gather and gab....or how 'bout this: how 'bout a loose alum
IFC in town, meet a coupla times a year, single out good men who
plan college, alert the greeks at respective campi. I did this many
years ago. I have a list of 47 Tekes from Lyons, Kansas and near
thirty SAEs, several Betas and Sigs and so on--
Fraternity is for life in case you can't grasp my thread....LOL

[Tom Earp]

Isnt it always The Truth?

There seems to be no legacys or people who care.

Times have changed and maybe not for The Best.

GLOs have become second classed Citizens and I am not really sure Why?

Maybe quit being Proud and Wearing Letters instead or wearing shoe LOGO and beer t-shirts?

[Coramoor]

I'd say about 90% of the guys in my chapter do not have greek parents. Of the guys that do have greek parents, all of them come from really strong greek families. They are they 4th or 5th generation to join.

My chapter always gets recs and lists of kids that are legacies and we do a good job of following up...but often the legacies have little interest in Greek life. It's odd.

I don't know if it's just the time period that their parents were in college and they didn't have quite the same experience as older alumni did or what.

[ilikehazing]

That was one of the main reasons I joined a fraternity, Erik. I wanted the lineage passed down to my kids. In my chapter, we only had I believe only a couple legacies, but we stole several legacies from other fraternities. My parents weren't greek, but all of my good friends from high school went greek.

[macallan25]

Every person still alive in my family was greek, all grandparents, both parents, and all aunts and uncles.

[AGDem]

As far as I know, there are no other greeks in my family on either my father or mother's side. I think my brother was actually the first greek, with me following and that's it. But this is interesting, I'll have to look back into our family's history a bit and see if there actually were any greeks. I'm pretty sure there weren't on my mom's side though, as I think one of her brothers was the first in her family to go to college.

[macallan25]

Originally posted by Erik P Conard
As a genealogist (genealogy is a personal encounter with history)
I have gathered biographical items when I can. It is fun to learn
of the various GLOs our kin belong to.
And you can carry it as far as you want, tho GLOs were not in great numbers until the 20th century.
Sometimes we overlook recommendations (too bad) as a legacy
will help you to get continued interest by the family.
Gosh, SAE and Beta seem to take quite a bit of pride in their history and lineages. It is really neat to read their mags and to be privvy to all their connections. And some of the other fraternities have like, but not as many, connections.
I so wanted my daughter to pledge, she had a dozen different sororities her kin belonged to (and almost all of them loved it), but it was her choice. A jock, an honor student, pretty and a good
card player, she told me the other day she wished she had. And
my son was a legacy many times, including my own, top on campus at the time. He did not either. But the lifestyles of the
chapter would have turned me off, too...the hovel...sob
Some of us oldsters had hoped to carry on the Greek thing, and we hope it might return for the next generation.
Why don't you write down those names, just for kicks?
If you live in a small town, say back in your old home town, did you ever calculate how many went greek? I did, and it was fun
to gather and gab....or how 'bout this: how 'bout a loose alum
IFC in town, meet a coupla times a year, single out good men who
plan college, alert the greeks at respective campi. I did this many
years ago. I have a list of 47 Tekes from Lyons, Kansas and near
thirty SAEs, several Betas and Sigs and so on--
Fraternity is for life in case you can't grasp my thread....LOL

I really didn't read this very well before I made my first post. But you are right. My home town in Texas has a huge amount of SAE's. On my father's side, him, my grandad, greatgrandad, and both uncles are SAE...as am I. Grandmother went Pi Phi. On my mom's side, she went Pi Phi, uncle FIJI, grandfather FIJI, aunt Kappa, other aunt Pi Phi, and two uncles Phi Delt.

[USCTKE]

If you live in a small town, say back in your old home town, did you ever calculate how many went greek? I did, and it was fun
to gather and gab....or how 'bout this: how 'bout a loose alum
IFC in town, meet a coupla times a year, single out good men who
plan college, alert the greeks at respective campi. I did this many
years ago. I have a list of 47 Tekes from Lyons, Kansas and near
thirty SAEs, several Betas and Sigs and so on--

Although I havent actually counted all of them like you have I do know that there are 4 TKEs (including me) that graduated from my high school (relatively small school that has only been opened for 10 years) and one girl that I graduated with that is dating a TKE and who is a Tri-Sigma. There are also numerous (at least 10-15) people from my high school that are Delta Sigma Thetas (my high school was about 75-80% black), several Phi Beta Sigmas, one or two AKAs and an Omega or two.

[LaneSig]

I have a cousin who is a Kappa Delta and another who joined Sigma Chi (with me). That's the only family members I have that joined. I come from a small town and quite a few went Greek. It's funny, the org they joined depended on the college they went to:
University of Missouri - most guys went Delta Upsilon or Pi Kappa Alpha, with 1 rebel going Phi Delta Theta; the girls went Chi Omega
Southeast Missouri State - the guys went Delta Chi; the girls joined Alpha Delta Pi
Arkansas State University - Sigma Chi (cousin Jeff and me), Tau Kappa Epsilon; Kappa Delta or Zeta Tau Alpha for girls (unfortunately, both chapters now closed - sad because all of the girls were great)
Truman State University - Alpha Kappa Lambda for guys; Delta Zeta for girls
I guess that is pretty common for small towns. I know at Arkansas State, you would find out what town someone was from and then know which GLO they were likely to join.

[Jestor]

I'm the first person in my family on both sides as far as I know to go Greek. I hope any children I have will want to be Greek as well.

[KSigkid]

I'm often surprised at how many people from my high school ended up going Greek, and how many friends at other high schools did the same. It was never anything we discussed prior to going to college, so I just assumed I was the only one who would do it. Several went to locals; one is a Lambda Chi, one a Pi Phi, one a Tri Delt, one a Sigma Pi, one even went Kappa Sig. Those are the ones I can remember right now, although I know there are others.

In my own family, it's been only myself, my mom, my cousin and my uncle. My mom and cousin joined locals, while my uncle joined Zeta Psi.

[Drolefille]

My aunt is an AOPi, my grandmother (mom's mom) is a DZ, my mom's and ADPi, I'm a SK and my sister is a TriDelta

We're panhellenic

[Optimist Prime]

One cousin is SAE (the one who convinced me to go to college in the first place)

Another cousin is Phi Kappa Psi

My uncle was/is Pi Kappa Phi

that is all, I believe.

[AChiOhSnap]

At my high school, I found out that a LOT of girls joined AXO... the closest AXO chapter in state to mine has something like seven or eight girls that went to my high school. I nearly had a heart attack when I visited and it was like a high school reunion. There are also a couple Thetas there from my h.s., and a couple Alpha Phis.

In my family, I come from a lot of Tri-Delts, my grandma actually left a sizeable portion of her estate to Tri-Delta after she died. I think a couple of my aunts were Tri-Deltas too, although they've kept very quiet about it.

There is somewhat of a greek legacy in my family, but oddly enough, nobody really pushes it. I'm the first in my "generation" to go greek...however I'm also one of the oldest, so time will tell. I guess my family is just really low key about being greek.

[Tom Earp]

Funny that You mention this. I am the first and only Greek in My Family. Also the first to go to College.

I was the First to become a 32nd Degree Mason after so many years.

I got My Uncles Ring for 32nd and am Still proud as the first College Grad and GLO Member and Founder.

They did always back Me for what, I did at times.

But, I made them proud and that is what counted.

I was invited to a Cocktail Party and With Guests, them at My Law Proffs House. God, They were so both Proud to even be there!

So now, each of You have Your own Legacys to be proud of. Just Do It and Be Proud!