SEC Recruitment coming up!

[blueangel]

Originally Posted by BBelleADPi

Amen to all that! Rush in the seventies, when I was in school, was all the way, every night! And we all loved every minute of it!!

Yep, us too! We had to have matching pref dresses with white or silver shoes. We all were to buy the same teal fabric and MAKE our pref dresses over the summer. (I don't sew!)

I still have my rush sked-- all the skits, songs, and required outfits for each day. There was a sort of "rush camp"-- everyone in our Zeta chapter came back to school a week early. All day long, there were skit practices at the house, song practices and seminars (know your sorority, Zeta etiquette and manners, etc) for the entire pre-rush week. Long days-- starting at 8am and ending at 9pm.

We were assigned a "rush buddy" which was kind of a "secret santa" thing.. and all during the week, we would leave presents for your rush buddy.

[carnation]

You guys have certainly brought back memories of seventies rush! The one that made my mother crazy was the one where we had to have antebellum dresses sewn (and I don't sew!) over the summer. At least we didn't need hoops in them, lol, but our theme was "Showboat" and our piece de resistance song was sung to the tune of 'Ol' Man River"..."Sweet carnations across the nation, the wine and blue are waiting for you.." and so help me, we converted our chapter room into an authentic showboat with a night scene outside, gangplank, and chirping cricket noises from under the gangplank.

[FSUZeta]

oh lordy; we did "my fair zeta"(my fair lady) and wore these hideous bridesmaidy pastel dresses with the requisite picture frame hat in coordinating colors. how ever did a recruitment vp become convinced that we would look lovely in those IN august IN florida???

another chapter did pippin and was dressed in loud colored knee britches , white stockings , matching suspenders-they looked like old fashioned paper boys. what were we all thinking??

[hmd1014]

Courteney Cox a Delta Zeta??

Courteney Cox attended (but dropped out of) Mount Vernon College in Washington, D.C., which became part of George Washington University in 1999. If I'm not mistaken, MVC didn't have sororities.

[BBelleADPi]

Carnation, FSUZeta, and BlueAngel:

Oh. My. God. And I thought our "Rolling on the River" theme night (yes, with plank!) and matching had-to-be-sewn gingham blue and white prairie dresses for ice water teas was bad!!! (How much money DID we all spend???) Oh, and I most DEFINITELY remember my crowning glory was singing a Barbara Streisand solo on theme night when I was a junior-but I don't remember what that theme night was!! But good, good times! Rush-yes, I said RUSH-was just so much fun!!!

[honeychile]

I remember a Barbara Streisand solo for Pref - "Sisters... Ladies who need sisters... Are the luckiest people... In the World..."!!

We had a TCC who showed us photos of a SEC chapter she was in, and we were totally amazed! We did Safari Hunt skit, but they did theirs with MATCHING Safari clothing, pith helmets, shoes, etc! Their Pref night had to be a white (the material was provided) antebellum dress, made over the summer of course. I can remember the one sister requesting something like FORTY yards of material for hers! We were totally in awe!

One restriction our non-SEC chapter had was t-shirts. NO sister would be caught dead in one before, during, or after Recruitment, and a PNM who would wear one to a party could cause more than one eyebrow to lift! Now, was that a local thing, or was that just us?

I added this so that some of the newer sisters and alumnae can better understand why some alumnae are stunned at PNMs or sisters with multiple piercings and/or tattoos!

[FSUZeta]

well, i was before the advent of a t-shirt for every event in the chapters life-we had our letter jerseys, maybe a letter sweatshirt or a letter baseball-type t-shirt. we wore those AFTER class.

i truly cannot remember anyone showing up for recruitment inappropriately dressed. i guess that all the rushees had gotten the memo.

honey and carnation-i love those lyrics-we all thought we were so cool, and now i feel like we were so hokey!!

"life is a cabaret, ol'chum, when you're in z-t-a!"