The Basic symbols of all GLO's

[sairose]

Originally posted by Winterbloom
Meep! I knew I'd bungle something.

See how long it's been since we did Member Education? And see how well I remember, especially on Christmas holiday!

~Emma

LOL You did great on everything else though! Don't feel bad...until recently I thought the pearl was our official jewel...then I found out we don't HAVE an official jewel. I don't know why the pearl isn't though!

[DGwithagrey]

Actually, our philanthropy is Service for Sight, our foundation is the Delta Gamma Foundation

So, our line up would be

Delta Gamma International Fraternity
Founded: 1873 at Lewis School for Girls, Oxford, MS
Executive Offices: Columbus, OH
Colors: Bronze, Pink, and Blue (most chapters sub yellow for bronze)
Symbol: Anchor
Flower: The Delta Gamma Cream (or Cream Colored) Rose
Mascot: Hannah doll
Motto: Do Good
Publication: Anchora
Philanthropy: Service for Sight
Foundation: Delta Gamma Foundation

Correct me if I'm wrong, but we don't have a jewel.

[honeychile]

Awesome work, PenquinTrax! The only thing I would add about Alpha Delta Pi is that we also include the African Violet as our flower, due to the seasonal rarity of the Woodland Violet.

honeychile

[CarolinaCutie]

Originally posted by hendrixski
Kappa Delta Rho
commonly called KDR
founded Midlebury VT in 1904.
official colors: Middlebury Blue and Princeton Orange
(my chapter colors are black white and red, whose aren't)
mascot: peragrin Falcon.

open motto: HONOR SUPER OMNIA (honor above all things)


be nice to us, we just recently lost almost 30 chapters. not that we were that big to begin with.

Well if it makes you feel better, KDR is one of the ONLY fraternities that Phi Mu hangs out with at my school. The KDRs are real sweethearts

[Betarulz!]

Beta Theta Pi Facts:

Founded: August 8, 1839 at Miami University (OH)

Nickname: Beta, BTP <-------I hate that

Mascot: Dragon

Colors: Delicate Shades of pink and blue are official, though everything is pretty much red and dark blue now.

Flower: the Rose, but I'm not sure which variety and I can't find it on our GF website...wish I had my pledge manual at home.

Gem: The diamond is standard on all badges (though now due to expense cubic zirconium is in the badge first recieved upon membership and if you want the diamond you must buy a new badge)

Philanthropy:Was Children's Burn Awareness but that has since been dropped as a national partnership in favor of chapters finding programs that have a bigger impact in the community of the chapter. However chapters can continue to do Children's Burn Awareness if they so desire.

[nyrdrms]

Gamma Phi Beta

Nickname: G Phi B, G Phi, Gamma Phi

Colors: Brown and Mode (light and dark brown)--official international colors; Blue and Gold--explansion colors; Red, Yellow, Blue, and Green--informal colors

Mascot: no international mascot, but some chapters adopt their own local mascot

Symbol: the Crescent Moon

Jewel: Pearl

Flower: Pink Carnation

[AOIIalum]

nyrdrms -- I've been curious about this, and your post reminded me -- why does Gamma Phi use so many colors? What's the difference between "explanation" colors and "informal" colors? I think your official colors are so distinctive!

Fraternally,
Christin

[alphaiota]

great job posting all of the sororities. two other things for sigma kappa though.

jewel - pearl
philanthropy - main sea coast project
no official mascot, but we use the dove, heart and sometimes snake. that's it.

shelley j
sigma k

[Beryana]

Originally posted by PnguinTrax
I'm such a Greek Geek, I have all this information:
This is taken directly from the NPC 'Green' Book

I would have to agree that most of the information about AOII is correct, HOWEVER Barnard College and Columbia University are not interchangable. . . . . Barnard was the women's college of Columbia University. Our Founders were student of Barnard College as women were not allowed to attend Columbia University proper.

Sarah

[gphiangel624]

Originally posted by PnguinTrax
I'm such a Greek Geek, I have all this information:
This is taken directly from the NPC 'Green' Book

NAME: GAMMA PHI BETA
GREEK LETTERS: gfb
FOUNDED AT: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SYRACUSE, NY
FOUNDING DATE: NOVEMBER 11, 1874
COLORS: LIGHT & DARK BROWN
FLOWER: PINK CARNATION
SYMBOL: CRESCENT MOON
PHILANTHROPY: CAMP SECHELT FOR GIRLS, GFB FOUNDATION


ZTA FOUNDATION

Just a slight new correction- our new Philanthropy is CampfireUSA. Camp Sechelt was low on funding and counselors, so it was sold and we recently began a philanthropic partnership with CampfireUSA. :-)

[SigkapAlumWSU]

Originally posted by PnguinTrax
I'm such a Greek Geek, I have all this information:
This is taken directly from the NPC 'Green' Book

NAME: SIGMA KAPPA
GREEK LETTERS: SK
FOUNDED AT: COLBY COLLEGE WATERVILLE, ME
FOUNDING DATE: NOVEMBER 9, 1874
COLORS: MAROON & LAVENDAR
FLOWER: VIOLET
MASCOT, SYMBOL: DOVE, HEART
PHILANTHROPY: ALZHEIMER'S & GERONTOLOGY AWARENESS, LOCAL PHILANTHROPIES, SK FOUNDATION

ZTA FOUNDATION

Originally posted by alphaiota
great job posting all of the sororities. two other things for sigma kappa though.

jewel - pearl
philanthropy - main sea coast project
no official mascot, but we use the dove, heart and sometimes snake. that's it.

A couple of minor corrections:
Philanthropy: Maine Sea Cost Mission, Alzheimer's foundation. Gerontology, and Inherit the Earth. (yes, folks, count 'em, that'd be 4!)
Official Mascots: Dove and Heart, adopted in 1994 and 1988 respectively, although the Snake is widely used as an unofficial mascot
Nicknames: Sig Kaps, Sigma K's, Snakey K's, Sigma's (although this is not used on campuses with Sigma Sigma Simga's)

[loveaxo]

Alpha Chi Omega's philanthrophy is also Victims of Domestic Violence.

[Tom Earp]

Lambda Chi Alpha



Founded: 1909 Boston U
Merger: 1939 with TKN and to this day is the largest Merger of any Greek Orgs.

Flower: White Rose

Colors: Purple, Green, and Gold

Coat of Arms: Most intricate
and True to the Hereldry of yore.

Philanthropy: "Great American Food Drive". The largest in the World

No mascot or official gem other than the pearl that is in the Badge part of the Cresent.

Badge and recognition symbol: The Cross and The Cresent.

Nicknames: Lamda Chi's, Chops, Choppers.

[SilverTurtle]

Phi Beta

Nickname: none

Founded: May 5, 1912 at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)

Flower: American Beauty rose; the yellow rose is also commonly used, tho not "official"

Colors: violet & gold

Jewel: none officially, although pearls are used on our jeweled badges

Mascot: none, although some chapters have their own various ones

Symbols: rose, lyre

Motto: To Be Rather Than To Seem To Be

National Philanthropy: the MacDowell Colony

[nyrdrms]

AOIIalum--

Sorry about that, it was a typo...it was supposed to say that blue and gold are our expansion colors...used for when we have colonies...I think, I just learned about it all at our last retreat.