fun for a winter night...
As a genealogist (genealogy is a personal encounter with history)
I have gathered biographical items when I can. It is fun to learn
of the various GLOs our kin belong to.
And you can carry it as far as you want, tho GLOs were not in great numbers until the 20th century.
Sometimes we overlook recommendations (too bad) as a legacy
will help you to get continued interest by the family.
Gosh, SAE and Beta seem to take quite a bit of pride in their history and lineages. It is really neat to read their mags and to be privvy to all their connections. And some of the other fraternities have like, but not as many, connections.
I so wanted my daughter to pledge, she had a dozen different sororities her kin belonged to (and almost all of them loved it), but it was her choice. A jock, an honor student, pretty and a good
card player, she told me the other day she wished she had. And
my son was a legacy many times, including my own, top on campus at the time. He did not either. But the lifestyles of the
chapter would have turned me off, too...the hovel...sob
Some of us oldsters had hoped to carry on the Greek thing, and we hope it might return for the next generation.
Why don't you write down those names, just for kicks?
If you live in a small town, say back in your old home town, did you ever calculate how many went greek? I did, and it was fun
to gather and gab....or how 'bout this: how 'bout a loose alum
IFC in town, meet a coupla times a year, single out good men who
plan college, alert the greeks at respective campi. I did this many
years ago. I have a list of 47 Tekes from Lyons, Kansas and near
thirty SAEs, several Betas and Sigs and so on--
Fraternity is for life in case you can't grasp my thread....LOL
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