Do you still have your pledge ribbons?

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by DGTess

Do chapters even still use pledge ribbons?

How long have you had yours?

Boy, good old question! My ribbons ought to be somewhere within The Boxes of Important Yesteryear Memorabilia. I believe there are six ribbons in all. Since I would really like to locate a letter I wrote to myself 40 years ago and mailed on 7-7-77, I may be able to find a few fun sorority mementos within those Boxes soon. Finding my old pledge book would clear-up a few nagging questions I've recently thought of regarding names of sisters from my pledge class.

[navane]

Yep!

[GreekOne]

We returned our ribbons when we received our Pi Alpha pins. So, I don't have the ribbon. But, I have so many great mementos. Do you have your hard copy "Shield and History" books? My daughter loved seeing those when she pledged a few years ago. So fun to share.

[dukedg]

I still have mine somewhere with my Shield and the paper anchor with my name I got on Bid Day. Everyone at Duke wore ribbons when I was there, but none of the California chapters I've advised have used them. It's probably a campus thing where either all the sororities or none do them. Ours were all loops at Duke (I'm probably not explaining that well); were others' straight lines like navane's photo?

[TLLK]

I believe that Navane and I attended the same university and as I recall everyone wore ribbons similar to the ones in her photo in our organization's colors.

I'm not sure where my shield and history book ended up though I still have old memorabilia left over from initiation etc...

One time my mother and about four of her pledge sisters had a weekend together. I lent them my my old formal champagne flutes, ice tea glass, and other assorted formal glasses that were engraved with the crest to use.

[honeychile]

We had a largest Pledge Ribbon, tied in a bow, for our first day. I don't think other chapters do this, but we then cut ours into a folded over V shape after initiation, to wear on days such as Founders Day.