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Originally Posted by LXA SE285
AnchorAlumna, DG had a really cool house. Was it built specifically for your chapter? It looks old and historic.
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Thanks, sweetie! Yes, it was built for us, but it wasn't that old. I believe it was built in the late 1940s or very early 1950s. It had columns at one time (UA has a requirement that all buildings have columns), but they rotted and were removed long before I got there, and were never replaced. The building was torn down for stadium expansion.
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Originally Posted by kk_gphib_01
It looks like that artist's rendering is now the Gamma Phi house...but AXiD and I believe SK have been in our house before us.
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You are correct, this is now the Gamma Phi house, with quite a bit of renovation. It was built for Alpha Xi Delta - in fact it was only about a year old when I was a freshman. Sigma Kappa was never in this house. They were in a big ugly brick house next to Delta Gamma (next to the stadium). That house was originally built for Alpha Phi. When I was in school, a fraternity moved into it (Phi Sigma Kappa? Phi Kappa Sigma? One of 'em). That building was also torn down for stadium expansion.
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Originally Posted by LXA SE285
Re: the Chi O chapter—I've been reading Mockingbird, the new biography of Harper Lee, and apparently she had a reputation as the campus oddball (the author quotes a Phi Mu who remembers her as a "nerd"). It speaks well of the Nu Beta chapter, though, that they liked her anyway.  |
I think sorority "images" were a LOT more fluid back then, expecially since it was a much smaller campus and everybody knew more people. And in the 1930s, it wasn't unusual for a chapter to have 20 or 30 members...or even fewer.
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