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