Trefoil Club

[naraht]

Please let me know if anyone has seen the term "Trefoil Club" used to describe Alpha Phi Omega pledge classes. This would almost certainly be at an HBCU in parallel to the Alpha Phi Alpha usage of Sphinx Club and Alpha Kappa Alpha usage of the Ivy Club.

(also for the GSS'ers reading, has GSS chapters at HBCU's used something similar)

Thank You.
Randy

[gamma_girl52]

From what I was told, Gamma Sigma Sigma's was called "The Omicron Pledge Club".

[oesdivav]

Originally Posted by gamma_girl52

From what I was told, Gamma Sigma Sigma's was called "The Omicron Pledge Club".

depends on the school different schools used different names

[naraht]

Originally Posted by oesdivav

depends on the school different schools used different names

I haven't seen a pledge club name for GSS other than the Omicron Club and for Alpha Phi Omega other than the Trefoil Club. Please enlighten us....

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by naraht

I haven't seen a pledge club name for GSS other than the Omicron Club and for Alpha Phi Omega other than the Trefoil Club. Please enlighten us....

This is only anecdotal, but I've heard of some chapters calling their pledges Torches. Or maybe that's a Viking thing. Whatever the case may be, I go by what I've seen documented at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.

naraht, if you haven't been yet, I promise you will be in hog heaven looking through the old yearbooks.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

This is only anecdotal, but I've heard of some chapters calling their pledges Torches. Or maybe that's a Viking thing. Whatever the case may be, I go by what I've seen documented at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.

naraht, if you haven't been yet, I promise you will be in hog heaven looking through the old yearbooks.

I went to the stacks of the library looking for yearbooks, but anything that is more ordered than that would be good.

Senusret,

BTW, I was *asked* by the Zeta Phi brothers who won the next sectional conference to do a "History of Alpha Phi Omega in Maryland, DC and (northern) Virginia". I told them I didn't think I was qualified.

[naraht]

Originally posted by gamma_girl52
From what I was told, Gamma Sigma Sigma's was called "The Omicron Pledge Club".

Presumably from the Omicron on the Active Pin symbolizing equality?

Randy

[sweete81]

Zeta Phi uses the term Trefoil Club to describe pledges

[naraht]

Zeta Phi was the only place that I had seen it. Specifically in the rush posters in the 1993 timeframe...

Randy

[28zpfa03]

Originally posted by naraht
Please let me know if anyone has seen the term "Trefoil Club" used to describe Alpha Phi Omega pledge classes. This would almost certainly be at an HBCU in parallel to the Alpha Phi Alpha usage of Sphinx Club and Alpha Kappa Alpha usage of the Ivy Club.

(also for the GSS'ers reading, has GSS chapters at HBCU's used something similar)

Thank You.
Randy

I have heard it from members at HBCUs and I've heard of it once again from some members at another institution....cannot put my finger on that one right at this moment; however, when I do I will inform you.

[28zpfa03]

Originally posted by gamma_girl52
From what I was told, Gamma Sigma Sigma's was called "The Omicron Pledge Club".

I second this statement

[Senusret I]

Originally posted by naraht
Zeta Phi was the only place that I had seen it. Specifically in the rush posters in the 1993 timeframe...

Randy

It's in the yearbooks from the 1960's.

[naraht]

Cool, then a continued tradition by Jerry Brown (finally remembered his name)

[naraht]

Chi Lambda Elizabeth City State University apparently also used "Trefoil Club".

There is a picture of those in the trefoil club in the 1972 and the 1975 Elizabeth City State University Viking yearbooks.

http://www.archive.org/stream/ecsu00001972eliz#page/58/
http://www.archive.org/stream/ecsu00001975eliz#page/60/

Note, that these yearbooks and the ones around that time (just change the 1972 or 1975 in the URL to logical values) are a good place to verify the pledge clubs of other various groups...
(from 1974 unless noted)

APhiA - Sphinx Club
AKA - Ivy Leaf Club
PBS - Crescent Club
ZPB - Archonian Club
OPP - Lampados Club
DST - Pyramid Club
KAPsi - Scrollers Club
SGR - Aurora Club (1975)
Xi Psi Chi - Pawns (note, not Pawns Club) (Not familiar with this group)
GSS - Omicron Club
GPhiG - Swanxmen
SPhiS - Ladybugs
IPhiT - Centaurs

(Note, unfortunately Chi Lambda at the time also illustrates how tough it may be to make *certain* that a chapter is inactive. Chi Lambda was declared inactive at the July 1987 APO Board meeting. There are Pictures and pages for Alpha Phi Omega all the way through the 1990 Viking yearbook.)

[Senusret I]

Innnnnteresting.