Lost my pin

[AlphaSigLana]

My nationals sent me an email with the email address of a jewelery place I can get pins from.

[AlphaGam1019]

Are you going to get the same one as you had before?
Is that jewerly shop local?

[AlphaSigLana]

The jewelery store isn't local as far as I know. I joined my house fall 2000 and didn't get my pin until Fall this year. I want the same pin, but i don't have the funds right now. I think I will wait and order one when the spring rushees order theirs. I will still look and if I find one cheap enough I'll get it.

[AlphaGam1019]

geez, why did it take so long to recieve your pin?! If I ever had to re-order my badge, I'd have to go through our IHQ. Do you have to as well, or can you order direct to the jewelers?

[AlphaSigLana]

The reason it took a yr is because new member ed at the time didn't send our stuff in so in the spring the new-new member ed had to send it in. I have no idea, but Mr. Earp is being a big help.

[Tom Earp]

LANA, Mr. is my Father!

Just call me Tom!

[ErikaXO]

I lost my pin too....we had a tradition that when we got initiated our big gave us a white hankie. We were to pin our badge on it and wear it inside our dress on our wedding day, which I did. In the ensuing melee, I ended up taking it out and slipping it into a gift bag so I wouldn't lose it (ha!!!) Well someone (either me or my mom) later grabbed the bag, thought it was just tissue wadded up in it, and pitched it (aaaaarrggh!) It wasn't until 4 years later, when I attended Convention as an advisor, that I ordered a new one. Now I just need to get a badge ring to put it on and wear and enjoy. (Mind you, my little had lost it when I gave it to her so I was without it for over a year then til she found it, then I got it back and lost it again at the wedding.)

[AlphaSigLana]

But aren't you old Tom Earp- like in your forties?

[AlphaGam1019]

ouch!

[AlphaSigLana]

I'm just playing with Tom I know he is much older than Forty!

[aggieAXO]

There is a place in Indianapolis, Indiana that makes the pins for my sorority and I bet they make other sorority pins too. I can't remember their name-sorry but maybe call AXO national-they will have the name b/c I originally heard about it from the current president (I asked b/c i lost a pearl from my badge)

good luck! and if I remeber the name I will re-post

[Tom Earp]

Thank Ya AG1019!!!!! For the Ouch

Lana, I am a very mature 24 Or the other way Will not tell

[PM_Mama00]

I know how u feel. Big sisters give their littles their badge until they get their own. Well, when I gave my badge to my little sister, I kept thinking in my head "please don't lose it". We were cleaning up after a sisterhood thing, and she had it in her hand, and what did she do? She lost it! I'm not mad at her becuz it could've happend to anyone. I think we just order our badges through national so hopefully I'll be getting mine when her badge comes in. But I don't think I would want someone else's badge that was returned to national becuz our initials and initiation date were engraved on the back. Do any other organizations do that?

[dzsaigirl]

Have you checked in your car? Under the seats, under the floormats, between seat and door, in every crevass? Have you looked to see if it fell into your purse?

My badge has a badge guard on it so that both latches would have to come undone for the badge to fall off.

[AGDLynn]

Traditions have changed over the years. At one time, the sister's name, school, member ID and initation date (?) were engraved on the back. Wow, musta been squeezed since the badge isn't that large, lol.

My member ID is on the back but I don't think that they do that anymore.

Since AGD has been around since 1904, maybe more badges are passed down to newer sisters. If a sister receives someone else's badge, I think it would be neat to know who had it before.