Big Brother Chapter

[JoinerLxa]

Some comments in the "Daily Facts" thread made me think of this, but I
thought it better to start a new thread.

WHICH CHAPTER WAS THE "BIG BROTHER CHAPTER" OF YOUR CHAPTER?

A BBC is the chapter which provided the ritual team for initiation of the
"founding fathers" of a new chapter (BBC term invented by me )

I remember an old Paed. that had this info in it...I also remember it had
the WRONG BBC for my chapter (Gtown).

So I'll get it started...here are the ones I know:

BBC of Georgetown is Hanover (ThKN) [Univ of KY when Union occurred]
BBC of Eastern KY U is Georgetown
BBC of Western KY is Georgetown
BBC of Vanderbilt (re-installed 1991) is Union Univ.
[I think the original Vandy chapter, 1920's-1930's, was installed by
Cumberland Univ chapter which hasn't been open in decades. Or maybe
they installed themselves....many of the "founders" in the 1920's were
alums from other chapters]

Probably the Paed dropped this list as there were more and more closed/
rechartered chapters with multiple BBCs (And to make room for instructions
on "how to tie a tie" )

Of course Cole installed most of the early chapters solo, so by default that
would be Boston I suppose.

Any others?

[EM1843]

UF (Epsilon Mu) was installed by Auburn (Omega).
USF (Lambda Mu) was installed by UF (Epsilon Mu).

As for the origional UF TKN chapter, I don't know. UF was one of the few campuses where LCA and TKN didn't get along at the merger so most of the TKN history and papers have been lost.

[JonoBN41]

The founders at Florida Tech were initiated by Florida Southern. But since I can recall returning borrowed regalia to Stetson prior to installation (when we had to have our own), perhaps they were more of a Big Brother Chapter.

[Cube TX]

Wow, it has just dawned on me that I was chapter president, vice-president and risk manager... as well as IFC president and secretary... and never once did I even think about what chapter initiated my chapter's first class.

That's good history to know and I wish I'd known that in order to have the fraternity educator teach it to the new associates.

[EM1843]

For our 70th Aniv. a few years ago we were actually able to get in contact with one of the brothers from Auburn who was at our installation. We managed to do a conference call with him, Doc Smith (GHPhi, Order of Merit), Doc Dirghalli (Former GHA), Tony Dunn (Order of Merit), and others. It was amazing to hear a 90 year old man talking about the birth of our chapter

[JoinerLxa]

The UFla ThKN chapter was one of the founding chapters, so they
installed themselves. The founding ThKN chapters all had "Badge Out"
ceremonies on Oct. 11, 1924 that mostly re-enacted the founding
of the Grand Chapter on June 9. ThKN used this ceremony for
installing new chapters. It differed slightly from "regular" subsequent
initiations.

So we can list those 11, plus Westminister that was installed before
Oct 11, as not having "Big Brother Chapters". They'd have "Union BBC's"
though.

Since initation into ThKN "counted" as initiation into LXA (there was
no need for ThKN initiates to see the 'new' ritual, though they were
encouraged to), many of the UFla ThKN's may have never seen
LXA ritual.