Back in the day . . .

[honeychile]

*Hoping there's a nursing home for greeks!*

I just want to say, "I remember that!" to so many things!

FSUZeta, that's how we sang the alphabet song, too - I think. Did it have a kind of beat to it, almost like an island beat? We used to do it with Jamacain accents at times. I've heard it sung/chanted a lot of ways, but that one's still my favorite.

Did anyone else have to do the "half clap"? Maybe it's because everyone clapping would have been much too loud in a suite, so about half the chapter clapped with 3 fingers lightly hitting the other palm.

When did Chapter Meetings go to Sundays, as opposed to Mondays? I miss that still.

[tallgreekalum]

Alpha Delts click, we don't clap!

Originally Posted by honeychile

*Hoping there's a nursing home for greeks!*

I just want to say, "I remember that!" to so many things!

FSUZeta, that's how we sang the alphabet song, too - I think. Did it have a kind of beat to it, almost like an island beat? We used to do it with Jamacain accents at times. I've heard it sung/chanted a lot of ways, but that one's still my favorite.

Did anyone else have to do the "half clap"? Maybe it's because everyone clapping would have been much too loud in a suite, so about half the chapter clapped with 3 fingers lightly hitting the other palm.

When did Chapter Meetings go to Sundays, as opposed to Mondays? I miss that still.

[AnchorAlumna]

OK, here's a pre-cell phone memory: PHONE DUTY!!
Our house had 1 phone number, 3 lines. Every pledge had to do phone duty, which meant answering the chapter phone and going to get the callee. Which was GREAT for getting to know who was who.
I remember the Georgia chapter house had a little alcove that included buzzers for individual rooms. You could pick up the phone on your floor...or come downstairs and meet your date.
At Alabama, we had a little room at the top of the stairs called the "Anchor Room," and it was the heart of the house. 2 phones, couches and a bench, with a full-length mirror outside in the hallway.
You'd hang out there with everybody else...smoking cigarettes...playing cards. Everybody with a date would try on different outfits and check themselves in the mirror...at which point everybody hanging out could express their opinion on the outfit!
At the end of the date, they'd come in, change clothes and come crash in the Anchor Room to report.
Good times!

[Benzgirl]

We had phone duty too. That sister always answered the door.
Who could forget...."Jane, you have a visitor" (female) vs. "Susan, you have a guest" (male)?

[alum]

Originally Posted by honeychile

When did Chapter Meetings go to Sundays, as opposed to Mondays? I miss that still.

Hmmm, we had Chapter Meetings on Sunday nights because Monday- Thursday were "School Nights" and we NEVER scheduled anything on an academic night.

My daughter is currently in college and they do have their chapter meetings on Monday evenings.

[ktbug10474]

Originally Posted by honeychile

*Hoping there's a nursing home for greeks!*

oh there will be and i'll start it. you're gonna have to give me a few more years to get out of college and start making money etc.. etc..

But here are the details.

Alpha Zeta Nursing Home

Helping Greeks reminisce about the old days.


and the requirements to get in.....

a) a scavenger hunt
b) a chugging contest
c) there shall be a pledge period and initiation
d) and anything else yall would like to add

[EEKappa]

I can smell the paint pens just reading this thread! All my friends on my floor would bring me stuff to paint their letters on, which was good since I had already put KKG on everything I could find. I got really good at drawing Theta kites.

We received pref gifts that we took with us, and the ADPis bid cards were done in counted cross stitch. The sisters on that committee worked on them all summer long.

Formal chapter meetings were a sea of Laura Ashley dresses. Our pref dresses were navy taffeta for two years, then changed to our choice of white with light blue or dark blue chintz sashes.

Did anyone else find out who their big sister was with a scavenger hunt? Or get taken out for a pledge kidnap breakfast?

[Tom Earp]

Ah, lets go back to the 60-70's!

Much more formal as far as dress went on Campus!

Dress was semi formal for guys, coats and ties for meetings.

Meeting days were every Tuesday night and we wore appropriate attire on campus and meetings. Let the Campus know who we were!

Weekends, oh well, look out as that was fun time! But, letters were worn on T-Shirts once again to let them know who were are/were!

Now! They wear beer, or shoes, GAP, Old Navy shirts!

That really promotes GLOs!

[OldAOPi]

Originally Posted by EEKappa

Did anyone else find out who their big sister was with a scavenger hunt? Or get taken out for a pledge kidnap breakfast?

1978 - We did - we matched up socks. We would go hide in the house somewhere and the pledges would come look for a sock to match up with theirs. And we did kidnap our pledges for breakfast and took them, of course, to McDonalds. We kidnapped our Big Brothers also, to let them know they had been selected. The Sig Eps did that for their little sisters, too. What, people don't kidnap people anymore?

We went to Mcdonalds for everything, especially large Cokes and Fries when they were doing the Monopoly game. And then there were those that did dumpster diving.....yuck! but they would come back with bags of still warm food that was thrown in the dumpster at the end of the shift.

[em_adpi]

Originally Posted by OldAOPi

What, people don't kidnap people anymore?

My diamond little bignapped me this year and took me to IHOP.