Historical connections to other orgs?

[OleMissGlitter]

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[NutBrnHair]

One of Chi Omega's 5 founders was Dr. Charles Richardson, a Fayetteville, Arkansas dentist, a regent at the University, a Mason, and a proud member and National Officer of Kappa Sigma Fraternity.

[tunatartare]

I've always wondered if there is any connection between Kappa Alpha Theta and Kappa Kappa Gamma because they both have the letters alpha omega omicron on their badges.

[Tom Earp]

While a difference then there was a lot of interaction between GLOs back in The Old Days.

The idea was to aid and assist New GLOs when possible.

Many were New and needed guidence and got it.

While We are all proud of our Founding, it is amazing who helped.

My Local after We became LXA helped another Soroity Local get started and since went by the wayside!

Have times and hard feelings changed us that much?

[exlurker]

Originally Posted by KLPDaisy

I've always wondered if there is any connection between Kappa Alpha Theta and Kappa Kappa Gamma because they both have the letters alpha omega omicron on their badges.

In one of the ancient Greek systems for representing numbers, alpha omega omicron would represent 1870 -- the founding year that both Theta and Kappa share. See the discussion of the alphabetic numbering system at

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac...k_numbers.html

Obviously, I have no way of knowing what meaning(s) are actually given to anything on the badge of either fraternity.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by exlurker

In one of the ancient Greek systems for representing numbers, alpha omega omicron would represent 1870 -- the founding year that both Theta and Kappa share. See the discussion of the alphabetic numbering system at

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac...k_numbers.html

Obviously, I have no way of knowing what meaning(s) are actually given to anything on the badge of either fraternity.

That's really cool!

[irishpipes]

AOII has a connection to Kappa Kappa Gamma. Barnard College (of Columbia University) was founded in 1889. Kappa chartered a chapter there in 1891. The classes were very small, and because the entrance requirements included knowledge of Latin and Greek, in addition to may other rigorous subjects, most students were slightly older than the traditional college students because they had to study after prep school in order to pass the entrance examinations. Since the classes were small, Kappa traditionally admitted to membership the entirety of each class. The class preceding the class of our founders was significantly larger and Kappa could not take everyone. As a result, the College needed a new fraternity. This need, along with other conditions, led to the founding of AOII. Our founders pledged themselves in December 1896 and officially became Alpha chapter of AOII on January 2, 1897.

Alpha Epsilon Phi was also founded at Barnard, in 1909. By that time Barnard had chapters of Kappa Alpha Theta (1898), Gamma Phi Beta (1901), Alpha Phi(1903), Delta Delta Delta (1903), and Chi Omega (1907). Unfortunately Greek life was later banned at Barnard and by 1917 all fraternities had closed their chapters, since recruitment of new members was prohibited.

[Kevin]

Sigma Nu was more or less founded in opposition to hazing and other ill-thought-of practices of Alpha Tau Omega's first chapter at the Virginia Military Institute.

To see more, click here for a thread on the legend of the "Blackfoot/Whitefoot":http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=38908

To be fair, ATO's version doesn't discuss much about the fact that they were the bad guys in all of this, but they were. Take my word for it because I'm completely unbiased.