For what are you proudest of your GLO? AND what should your GLO be proud of you for?

[SWTXBelle]

Let's celebrate our pride in our GLOs by stating something about them that makes us proud, and then something that our GLOs can take pride in us for doing. Please keep this a positive thread - no need to disparge any other GLO.

1. Gamma Phi Beta - I love the term "sorority", and am proud that it was coined for us.

2. I formed the local alumnae panhellenic and a crescent circle.

[AlethiaSi]

1. Nu Sigma Chi- We are the only recognized local on my campus, our house was built for us and we own it, and have been around since 1928. We are also the only ones

2. I revived nu sig after we almost died out and saved our house from being sold... twice. (I did these things with the help and support of my sisters but I was the lead person on it)

p.s. good thread swtxbelle!

[SWTXBelle]

That's really great - on both counts!

[DSTCHAOS]

1. Being a trailblazer eversince her inception.
2. Being a trailblazer eversince my inception.

[SydneyK]

1. Kappa Delta does a lot to make me proud. I guess my current proud-to-be-KD stance is due (in part) to KD's association with Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty.

2. I don't do enough, unfortunately. When I was in school, I was the VP-Pledge Ed (I'm sure that title has changed!). I saw that office as my opportunity to impact the future of KD in as positive a way as possible. I really poured my heart into that position, and it was during that year that I truly understood the meaning of dedication.

[AlwaysSAI]

Sigma Alpha Iota
1) I am proud that, nationally, we are the strongest all female music fraternity-and I believe the only one to remain single sexed after title IX.
2) I am so proud of my little and the triumphant sister she has become. She's currently in charge of service and she is working so hard to start us some legacy based service projects!

Phi Sigma Pi
1) I am proud of our diversity. Even Nationally, we are a very diverse group of brothers who bond together in our strife for scholarship, leadership, and fellowship.
2) I am proud of the fact that I won my chapter a prestigious award last year and am helping to build our reputation as an organization that creates leaders.

[KSUViolet06]

*I'm proudest of our groundbreaking membership education program Essential Sigma and the success in retention our chapters have experienced since its implementation in 2005.

*I think Sigma can take pride in the fact that I live our open motto "Faithful Unto Death" every day. I am active in both an alumna chapter and assisting the collegians from my chapter as needed. I also continue to support Sigma financially by donating monthly to our Foundation.

I could go on and on, but those are the first 2 I thought of.

[AOII Angel]

I am proud of AOII because our ritual was written solely by our founders with every symbol, color, letter etc having specific and special meaning elicited from our ritual. Also, it has not changed a single bit since it was written in 1897. Not many sororities can claim this having letters chosen randomly, having rituals written by outside sources and colors picked because they were someones favorites. Nothing wrong with that, but I'm proud of the job our founders did.

I hope AOII is proud of me for achieving every goal I set forth for myself educationally and professionally. Also, I recently found nearly my entire pledge class for our 50th chapter reunion...5 months of work with only 2 women unfound!!

Here is my edited sentence to prove to you I had no intention of ripping any NPC group:
Other NPC sororities chose their emblems for specific reasons as well, but some had help from professors to write their rituals, some picked their colors because they just liked them, some picked their letters because they thought they looked good together and many have changed their names, rituals, colors and symbols over the years for reasons that are apparently important to them. AOII has been able to stay the same from it's inception, which I think is incredible given that it was written by very young, sheltered girls over 110 years ago.

Of course, the "some" is not really correct because some of these examples only occured in one NPC group.
Sorry if I offended you, it wasn't intentional, but I do get testy when someone puts words into my mouth.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Not many sororities can claim this having letters chosen randomly, having rituals written by outside sources and colors picked because they were someones favorites. Nothing wrong with that, but I'm proud of the job our founders did.

Just curious -- unless you know the rituals and ritual histories of other sororities, how can you be so sure that the symbols of other sororities aren't just as intentional as your own?

[Sugar08]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Not many sororities can claim this having letters chosen randomly, having rituals written by outside sources and colors picked because they were someones favorites.

That's news to me.

[paulam]

I am so proud that Sigma Delta Tau has chosen to align itself with preventing child abuse as its philanthropy. In a related subject, we joined with Jewish Women International in recent years for its Mother's Day project. Funds are raised to send flowers to women in shelters across the country who have been victims of abuse, bringing some beauty into their lives and that of their children.

I hope that my sorority is proud that I used the leadership skills I learned as an active to serve my community. I am a past president of a Jewish Women International chapter and a past officer of the local board.

Paula M.
Sigma Delta Tau
ΣΔT
Patriae Multi Spes Una
One Hope of Many People

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Just curious -- unless you know the rituals and ritual histories of other sororities, how can you be so sure that the symbols of other sororities aren't just as intentional as your own?

I know this stuff not because I know their rituals, but because they advertise it in their own histories. Some NPC groups chose colors that they just liked and added significance later, picked letters they thought looked good together, had professors write their rituals, changed their rituals over time, changed their colors (whether or not they have significance I don't know.) I know that every aspect of AOII was chosen after the ritual was written and not written into the ritual for another purpose. I like that. I'm not saying doing it the other way is wrong or bad. I just think it's special that AOII's founders did it this way!

[SWTXBelle]

Goodness knows, our colors are signficant and not chosen because they are pretty!

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Goodness knows, our colors are signficant and not chosen because they are pretty!

I know they have significance, but they have changed from the time your sorority was started. That is my point.

[Tom Earp]

Starting a local, affiliating with LXA and still there after 45 years and now with a new house.