University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) 2012 Recruitment

Giddy · #1 08-27-2012, 04:10 AM

Dear Mary Poppins,

Thank you! You're totally right. I'd forgotten the best part of the story. (And now that others have followed-up so diligently, I do recall hearing her sister pledged DDD.) The image of Mobley driving up to Oxford (in a convertible I heard at the time), marching into the Chi-O house and removing her picture is just too delicious. Maybe my age is showing, but seems like the stuff today is so boring in comparison. It's either poor grades or drinking or drugs or sex or some other tired misbehavior that takes too much time and energy and gives little in return. These current tales of woe are not the rush stories we live to re-tell. They're sad and mundane. No inspiration. But Mary Ann Mobley is still my hero. And so are all the participants in this drama. Even the Chi-O's. Imagine. The audacity to cut Miss America's sister! Takes guts. And the Tri-delts walked away a winner with a great pledge and valued member to this day. What's not to like about this story!

Ole Miss Sorority rush is the best.

BAMA2 · #2 08-27-2012, 08:37 AM

I have an interesting twist on delayed rush at Ole Miss. When my daughter went thru rush in 2008 at Alabama, a high school friend of hers that went through was released from rush. This girl was in the Honors program at Alabama. Nevertheless, the day she was released she packed her bags and headed back home. She then enrolled at Ole Miss (for that same fall) and because of delayed rush she was able to go through and she did get a bid. She ended up back home the next year! She often said she never should have left Alabama but she was so caught up in rush at the time that she made a rash decision that she regrets to this day.

Hartofsec · #3 08-27-2012, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Giddy

Dear Mary Poppins,

Thank you! You're totally right. I'd forgotten the best part of the story. (And now that others have followed-up so diligently, I do recall hearing her sister pledged DDD.) The image of Mobley driving up to Oxford (in a convertible I heard at the time), marching into the Chi-O house and removing her picture is just too delicious.

I heard that she pulled up in a horse-drawn carriage wearing a hoop skirt. And that she snatched that portrait with a moxie that would make Scarlett O’Hara blush.

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Originally Posted by Giddy

Maybe my age is showing, but seems like the stuff today is so boring in comparison. It's either poor grades or drinking or drugs or sex or some other tired misbehavior that takes too much time and energy and gives little in return. These current tales of woe are not the rush stories we live to re-tell. They're sad and mundane. No inspiration.

Perhaps the new stories will develop some interest after 50 years of recollecting and retelling. And the new stories may even include pics – for better or for worse. Most likely worse.

Meanwhile, I didn’t trip across anything to indicate that Mary Ann Mobley’s daughter, Clancy (Collins was her last name), ever pledged any sorority. She attended the Sorbonne in Paris and Magdalen College in Oxford, England, before graduating from Stanford. Nice article regarding the southern influence of her California wedding:

Worthy of royalty: Southern tradition reigns as the daughter of Mississippi's first Miss America weds in California

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Originally Posted by Giddy

Ole Miss Sorority rush is the best.

Definitely – a bastion of the Old South.