Eight Founding schools or seven? (Change on Wikipedia)

[ECUGSS]

this is an old thread but I would like to add that I would think that since our organization has gone to the point of researching this to change our member-in-training materials and expanding our history that we should teach the correct information to our members with an FYI that "when I pledged, it was XYZ but the sorority did more research and it was actually XYZ" so you should remember the NEW stuff. clearly it has been backed by printed documents and so even if you were (and I) were taught different, we know better and i believe we should teach the accurate information ... just my humble opinion

[naraht]

Originally Posted by ECUGSS

this is an old thread but I would like to add that I would think that since our organization has gone to the point of researching this to change our member-in-training materials and expanding our history that we should teach the correct information to our members with an FYI that "when I pledged, it was XYZ but the sorority did more research and it was actually XYZ" so you should remember the NEW stuff. clearly it has been backed by printed documents and so even if you were (and I) were taught different, we know better and i believe we should teach the accurate information ... just my humble opinion

I think that Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_Sigma_Sigma) has been updated to match the current member-in-training information. Hmm, I wonder what the group at U of Miami that went to Beekman Towers was named. (Even though they are *not* a founding organization of Gamma Sigma Sigma)

[ihr]

From the GSS National Archivist:

Eta was reserved at the 1st national convention in Chicago, but University of Miami in Coral Gables came into Gamma Sig as Upsilon in 1958, 6 years after the representative from U of M showed up at Beekman Towers.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by ihr

From the GSS National Archivist:

Eta was reserved at the 1st national convention in Chicago, but University of Miami in Coral Gables came into Gamma Sig as Upsilon in 1958, 6 years after the representative from U of M showed up at Beekman Towers.

Agreed.

What comes to mind is that a reasonable assumption would be that the representative from U of Miami was representing a female collegiate service organization (trying to use the appropriately wide description of the groups), just as the the representatives from the other schools were. I wonder if it was a Greek Letter Organization (like Alpha Gamma Chi, Gamma Sigma Sigma, Phi Gamma or Omega Service Sorority) or not (like Booster Squad or Women's Service Organization).

[gamma_girl52]

Originally Posted by naraht

Agreed.

What comes to mind is that a reasonable assumption would be that the representative from U of Miami was representing a female collegiate service organization (trying to use the appropriately wide description of the groups), just as the the representatives from the other schools were. I wonder if it was a Greek Letter Organization (like Alpha Gamma Chi, Gamma Sigma Sigma, Phi Gamma or Omega Service Sorority) or not (like Booster Squad or Women's Service Organization).

The representative from Uof Miami was from an organization called Sigma Lambda Phi, an sorority founded on that campus in 1950.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by gamma_girl52

The representative from Uof Miami was from an organization called Sigma Lambda Phi, an sorority founded on that campus in 1950.

Googling for "Sigma Lambda Phi" and "University of Miami"..

The 1961 Ibis Yearbook page for Gamma Sigma Sigma at http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/.../Page_283.html says "UM's Upsilon Chapter was known as Sigma Lambda Phi until 1958, when it joined the national organization."

There is also a page for Sigma Lambda Phi in the 1955 Ibis Yearbook at http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/.../Page_260.html

Looks like strong ties with the Alpha Phi Omega chapter.

Page for GSS at University of Miami in 1960 at http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/.../Page_292.html

(other years, check out http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&n...&aq=f&oq=&aqi=)

Edited the Wikipedia page to add Sigma Lambda Phi.

[gamma_girl52]

Originally Posted by ECUGSS

right out of the history LOL

EXACTLY. Can't go wrong with that!