Other GLOs mentioned in your founding?

[MaryPoppins]

It's not mentioning the other GLO's but I think Theta's badge resembles both the Phi Gamma Delta badge and the Beta Theta Pi badge.

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

...I can't recall ever seeing any reference to that in any (sub any GLO name here) history...

I think alot - make that most - of our GLOS have only brief recounts of our histories, especially compared to what members now want to know about their foundings. In reading my own sorority's history, one member is cited as taking the initiative to contact a founder some 40 or 50 years after the founding to acquire some of the fraternity's artifacts. And lucky we were that they still existed! One of the founders also stated at a Convention that they never realized their little club would grow to be an international organization. So it's no wonder written histories are piecemeal.

And ritual history? Even worse! This stuff was not necessarily written down anywhere. The first 50 years, nobody thinks there's a need to write down "history." After all, everybody involved knows what happened. It's not until a third or fourth generation is asking for it that people realize how much as been lost and forgotten.

I would not rely on online histories, even on a GLO's national website. There's just not enough room.
On chapter websites, I've seen proven myths repeated as fact ("voted most beautiful badge" anyone?)

So any efforts to write down a fact-checked, detailed history is to be applauded.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

I think alot - make that most - of our GLOS have only brief recounts of our histories, especially compared to what members now want to know about their foundings. . . .

I would not rely on online histories, even on a GLO's national website. There's just not enough room.
On chapter websites, I've seen proven myths repeated as fact ("voted most beautiful badge" anyone?)

So any efforts to write down a fact-checked, detailed history is to be applauded.

I see your point, and I can agree to a point, but to be clear, the post of mine you quote was referring specifically my fraternity's history, and what I said was based on reading lots more fraternity history than just what's on a website or even in a probationary member handbook. We, like lots of GLOs, have published a fairly extensive history, and there are lots of other historical writings and resources (even on ritual) if one knows where to look or who to ask. Some of it you might have to go to HQ to read, but it's there.

I've read everything on our history I can get my hands on, and have listened to those who know our history better than anyone else. So that's the perspective from which I was speaking.