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[NutBrnHair]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

The author of The Help is now being claimed by Phi Mu.

Originally Posted by IrishLake

The main character and her friends were Chi O's in the book.

Wonder why she didn't make them Phi Mus? If you are going to use the name of a real NPC group -- why not make it your own?

[SoCalGirl]

Originally Posted by 33girl

OK, I know that everyone knows that Susan Harling (the woman who Shelby in Steel Magnolias is based on) is a Phi Mu. But wasn't there a rumor going around that the composite you see in one scene was a Chi O composite? I just watched SM again the other day and unless someone had a theater size screen and was able to freeze it I don't know how they could tell.

I remember catching that the last time I watched it, years ago. I think I posted about it at the time.

It's pretty easy to catch the differcence between them; when spelled out, 3 letters 5 letters versus 3 letter 2 letters.

[Xidelt]

All I want to say is that my badge was designed by Tiffany's, was voted Most Beautiful, has gone to the moon, and is in the Smithsonian. Also, Betty Crocker was a founding member of Xi Delta's alpha chapter.
Thank you. That is all.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by SoCalGirl

I remember catching that the last time I watched it, years ago. I think I posted about it at the time.

It's pretty easy to catch the differcence between them; when spelled out, 3 letters 5 letters versus 3 letter 2 letters.

Nah, it's a Phi Mu Composite. My mama has the Making of SM book, and I'm pretty sure you can see it in a picture.
There is also a picture of Julia Roberts with my old Surgery Dept Head, Dr. McDonald. He was Susan Harling's transplant surgeon, so they invited him down while they were shooting the movie to meet everyone. I knew a lot of people in S'port who knew her. Apparently her husband was a pediatrician, not a lawyer IRL, and married the mother of one of his patient's three months after her death. Yeah, Jackson wasn't as nice as in the movie.

[joliebelle]

Heather McDonald of Chelsea Lately fame is a Gamma Phi Beta from USC

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Nah, it's a Phi Mu Composite. My mama has the Making of SM book, and I'm pretty sure you can see it in a picture.
There is also a picture of Julia Roberts with my old Surgery Dept Head, Dr. McDonald. He was Susan Harling's transplant surgeon, so they invited him down while they were shooting the movie to meet everyone. I knew a lot of people in S'port who knew her. Apparently her husband was a pediatrician, not a lawyer IRL, and married the mother of one of his patient's three months after her death. Yeah, Jackson wasn't as nice as in the movie.

Jackson doesn't come off as the husband of the year in the movie, either. Think of the scene when Shelby tells her mother that she's pregnant.


As for Betty Crocker, she is NOT a real person! Several women have either posed for her picture, several women have edited the cookbook. An ADPi was one, I think the first, but I'm not going to swear to it.


Another call for a Pi Beta Phi!!!!

[IrishLake]

And a Theta was the voice of Betty Crocker on the radio for many years.

[ladybug12]

When I turned 50 a few years back, some of my wonderful Phi Mu friends took us on a trip to Natchitoches for a weekend. Shelby's house in the movie is now a wonderful bed and breakfast, and I stayed in her room with the pink tiled bathroom!

The owners of the B&B knew that we were all Phi Mus and knew Shelby's parents (not her real name). They dropped by on their way to church on Sunday morning before we left and took pictures with us. They were adorable, and spoke of how much their daughter loved being a Phi Mu.

It is a memory I will treasure forever.

BYW, Natchitoches is a very old town and worth a visit.

[BetaIotaDZ]

Originally Posted by Xidelt

All I want to say is that my badge was designed by Tiffany's, was voted Most Beautiful, has gone to the moon, and is in the Smithsonian. Also, Betty Crocker was a founding member of Xi Delta's alpha chapter.
Thank you. That is all.

I don't know you but I almost think you were in my pledge class. However, I am in a different group and probably pledged in different era from you. We learned most of your favorite urban legends from our pledge trainer (wonderful PT but painfully the granddaughter of our first Lamp editor and one of our earliest historians). So, our PT told us that our badge was designed by Tiffany's, was voted Most Beautiful, and is in the Smithsonian. She didn't tell us about its going to the moon but the giant step for mankind had only happened a few months before I went away to college so maybe... Anyway we know there was a badge of another group that did go to the moon. Also our history clearly states that a classmate of our founders, Arthur Bainsfather, designed the badge and that our first jeweler was the Newman Company.

She didn't tell us that the trademark Betty Crocker was a DZ sister but I know we share that legend because a few months after my pledging Mercedes Bates, Chi chapter, was named Delta Zeta Woman of the Year. Mrs. Bates was General Mills executive vice president and was director of the Betty Crocker Kitchens beginning in 1964. The name Betty Crocker was first used in 1921 to make letters to customers seem more personal. The iconic face was added to packaging in the 1930s with several updates over the years. "I see her as a career woman," Bates said of the sixth version in 1980, "a professional, first and last."

I really came to this thread to share something that popped up from my homepage today. It is a TMZ bit about "Guess the Greek". Hope this link works: http://photos.tmz.com/galleries/gues...ab=most_recent

[ComradesTrue]

Originally Posted by BetaIotaDZ

I really came to this thread to share something that popped up from my homepage today. It is a TMZ bit about "Guess the Greek". Hope this link works: http://photos.tmz.com/galleries/gues...ab=most_recent

Oh, dear. They have labeled Pi Phi as Phi Beta Phi. Several times. Including letters each time.

Also, I have heard on multiple occasions that Whitney Port initiated into Theta, but she is not listed in our national directory under that name. TMZ has her as a Pi Phi. Can anyone confirm this?

[GTAlphaPhi]

Originally Posted by Blondie93

Oh, dear. They have labeled Pi Phi as Phi Beta Phi. Several times. Including letters each time.

Also, I have heard on multiple occasions that Whitney Port initiated into Theta, but she is not listed in our national directory under that name. TMZ has her as a Pi Phi. Can anyone confirm this?

Not a formal confirmation, bu I remember on an episode of her old show The City, she made the acquaintance of a male model who it turned out had also attended USC. The exchanged their Greek affiliations and she definitely said "Theta".

[Tulip86]

Originally Posted by GTAlphaPhi

Not a formal confirmation, bu I remember on an episode of her old show The City, she met made the acquaintance of a male model who it turned out had also attended USC. The exchanged their Greek affiliations and she definitely said "Theta".

I've only heard Theta for Whitney as well.
She is also mentioned as a "Famous Theta" on several Theta chapter sites. (Baylor for example)

[ChioLu]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

On the Chi Omega website is a comprehensive list of well-known Chi Omegas. For as long as I can remember, there have been urban legends and/or rumors that everyone from Barbara Eden to Faith Hill is a Chi Omega! Not true. I thought I would include some of my research on famous women who some think are our Sisters!

•Lauren Hutton Real name: Mary Laurence Hutton – one of the first students to attend the University of South Florida in 1960 (before Theta Theta Chapter was founded) and then she transferred to Tulane University and graduated in 1964 (never a member of Rho Chapter).

•Heather Locklear: Locklear attended UCLA, but was not a Chi Omega. Heather Thomas who starred with Lee Majors in the TV series “The Fall Guy” (1981-86)– was an initiate of Gamma Beta at UCLA.

Here's the Lauren Hutton story I heard: She was in Nashville shooting a movie in the 1980s. Lauren was staying at a downtown hotel that was the venue for a Vanderbilt Chi Omega date party. She was invited as a guest to the party and ended up leaving with a members' date. How this got morphed into Lauren being a member of Chi O, I have NO idea.

Heather Locklear: She pledged Chi Omega and is pictured in the Bruin yearbook in the Chi O group photo that year. Heather deactivated. A year later, she pledged Tri Delta. Never initiated and left school when her acting/modeling career started to take off.

Zeta rumor: I had always heard that the wife of the founder of Hallmark cards was a Zeta Tau Alpha, as the logo for the company is a 5-point crown (like ZTA's symbol). But haven't seen any evidence to this. Can any ZTA's verify?

Now, I do know that a beer was created for a Chi Omega. The former CMO of Iron City Beer (located in Pittsburgh) created Iron City Light for his wife, a Chi Omega alumna. (I'm friends with the daughter and verified the story at her wedding.) Now that's love!

[33girl]

Whoah, that would kind of make Lauren a cougar. LOL

I had no idea about IC Light! It's not the best beer in the world, but beer is beer.

I've also heard the Hallmark rumor but I think it was debunked.

[DrPhil]

Lauren Hutton was lovely but has aged horribly.