New Member pins

prdlocal · #1 01-04-2002, 06:30 PM

Hi all! I was looking for some help in finding something. See, my sorority has been buying our new member pins from a local jeweler for years. Well, they stopped selling them, or, actually, the company they get them from is going out of business. So, I need to find this pin somewhere else... any ideas??? I'm looking for a good source of sorority and fraternity pins, new member ones in particular.

P.S. What makes it worse is that I can't change the pin because it is on our crest!

P.P.S. Oh! And, we're a local sorority, so I can't just contact nationals.

PenguinTrax · #2 01-04-2002, 07:30 PM

The jewelers that service the national groups will also serve local and regional groups.

Contact MastersofDesign.com or Burr, Patterson & Auld.

hocnsoc81 · #3 01-04-2002, 11:14 PM

Buy them off of ebay. J/K

penguintpa_lady · #4 01-04-2002, 11:56 PM

We came acrossed the same problem last year with our pins

& we still have not got it taken care of. Which means from my pledge class on up do not have pins.

dzsaigirl · #5 01-05-2002, 02:23 AM

Have them wear their ribbons instead of pledge pins.

penguintpa_lady · #6 01-05-2002, 03:03 PM

well in my case its not the "new member " (pledge) pins that we can not have made any longer its actually our Sorority Pins

Hootie · #7 01-05-2002, 05:47 PM

I'd try Barb's recommendation before mine but this is another way to get them made.
Take the pin to a different jeweler and have them make a mold for it. I worked in jewelry retail for 2 1/2 years and once this guy came in because he'd lost a family crest ring that had been made in England. He wanted us to remake it but the problem was he just had a drawing...so we couldn't send that to the manufacturer.
Anyways - you get my point. I'd try another store!

prdlocal · #8 01-22-2002, 07:30 PM

Okay, I'm pledge mistress for my sorority. I'm going to have pledges really soon here, and I don't have pledge pins! I really don't know what to do. I guess the company that carried them has gone out of business. I can't not have this pin. It's on our crest. I need to find it! I suppose in the meanwhile I could have the girls wear ribbons

Thanks for all the advice, and I will look for a place to make a mold of it. Or, if anyone knows where I can find a small blue shield with a yellow diagonal strip, paleeeaaase let me know.

SigkapAlumWSU · #9 01-23-2002, 01:28 AM

prdlocal- I PMed you!