When was your mascot adopted? - Page 2

ThetaPrincess24 · #1 10-07-2003, 08:04 PM

Kappa Alpha Theta does not have a national mascot. Some chapters have been known to say that the kite is our mascot during rush sometimes, but the kite is really our symbol like the arrow is a symbol for Pi Beta Phi.

Some of our chapters, such as mine, have adopted a local mascot. My chapter's is the bumble bee because they are black and gold like our colors. The mascot itself however has no real special meaning and is NOT incorporated into ritual.

BaylorBean · #2 10-07-2003, 09:57 PM

Sigma Kappa doesn't have any nationally recognized mascots. Our symbols though are the dove and with the heart, which luckily are very easy things to find when looking for gifts!
I am not sure if chapters have their own mascots or not. Mine didn't. Some families at my chapter though had mascots. There was the cow family and the bear family.
I am curious now though. Any Sig Kap chapters with mascots out there?

honeychile · #3 10-07-2003, 10:04 PM

I should know this, but I can't find it. There is a lion on emblems from 1904. I don't know when he became Alphie, though, and I think there was a year or two when a unicorn was used (before 1904).

GtownGirl98 · #4 10-07-2003, 10:11 PM

I think Alpha Beta chapter (Georgetown College) used the mouse at one point. I know that it is the plush animal that is indicated for them in our bookstore and they used in on little gifts.

I for some reason thought that SK had the snake at one point.

Lil' Hannah · #5 10-07-2003, 11:29 PM

I think some of the SKs on here said that they were trying to move away from the snake because they're not exactly cuddly.

And this is from the old DG webpage about Hannah:

Although the song about "Hannah" is known by many Delta Gammas and has been generally sung since the '30s, its origins go back to an earlier date to a vaudeville ditty, "Hannah from Indiana," written by R.H. Wilson who, many years later, would be a Delta Gamma father. In the late '50s, "Hannah" became a perky, pigtailed blonde, wearing a short skirt and sailor blouse. This "Hannah" became known Fraternity-wide as the model for the "Hannah" Delta Gammas had sung about for so long.

There's more info on the new webpage, but my computer is so incredibly slow it would take me 5 minutes to pull it up. Most people are probably familiar with Hannah as a Raggedy-Ann doll, but she can't *officially* be that because of copyright infringements.

CardinalSM · #6 10-08-2003, 12:01 AM

Chi Os mascot is the owl which has been around since the beginning, and some chapters have their own mascots. My chapter uses the chili pepper just as much as we use the owl, it has been around so long and is so accepted that nobody knows where it originated. . .

Side note: The Phi Mus here use the ladybug all the time. . . you never see the lion used for gifts and if it is the only time I have seen it was on gifts from like licensed people on the internet,etc. I don't know if it is because we also have ADPi on campus and there are only 4 sororities so Phi Mu started using the lion less I don't know.

adpiucf · #7 10-08-2003, 12:30 AM

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Originally posted by honeychile

I should know this, but I can't find it. There is a lion on emblems from 1904. I don't know when he became Alphie, though, and I think there was a year or two when a unicorn was used (before 1904).

Honey, you're right. Our mascot was once a unicorn. Eventually, the lion was adopted.

ilovetheviolets · #8 10-08-2003, 02:17 AM

Tri-sigma doesn't really have a mascot (though families...bigs, littles...typically have a theme...i'm a naked bunny) or I just feel that a non-living thing could be considered a mascot. The symbol for sigma was adopted in 1974. It is the sailboat (one of the two nautical themed sororities). It is the saiboat because sigma's are always sailing forward and never looking back. It has nothing to do with our ritual...and well, it's impossible to find stuffed sailboats to give as gifts.

Optimist Prime · #9 10-08-2003, 02:32 AM

rattle snake was adotpted in 1856

unoffically we use OX but usally drawn/depicted as a minataur.

that's because our letters Theta Chi look like OX

Lil' Hannah · #10 10-08-2003, 09:56 AM

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Originally posted by ilovetheviolets
It is the sailboat (one of the two nautical themed sororities).

FYI: AST and DG both have anchors as their official symbols. I don't know if AST takes the nautical theme quite as far as DG does, though.

sigmadiva · #11 10-08-2003, 10:13 AM

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Originally posted by breathesgelatin
Ok, so most GLOs have official symbols. ie, Pi Beta Phi's is the arrow. This important because obviously it's a part of our badge and was with us from our founding.

We also have an unoffical mascot or symbol, which is the angel. This was adopted loosely in the 1930s from rush skits and songs about Pi Phi angels and then became widespread, and was finally adopted unofficially by our national organization as well.

When was your mascot (official or unofficial) adopted? ie, the Kappa Delta teddy bear (teddy bears weren't even invented when Kappa Delta was founded), Phi Mu's Sir Fidel, SGRho's poodle? Was there a period in time when a lot of GLOs were adopting such mascots? If so why was that?

The official mascot for SGRho is the Toy French Poodle, which was adopted in the late 60's (like '67 or '68). The mascot was suggested by Soror Quindonell Robertson of Zeta Delta Sigma Chapter. The poodle was selected because it is an intelligent animal.

LambdaPapi · #12 10-08-2003, 10:41 AM

My fraternity doesn't have an official mascot. We refer to ourselves as CONQUISTADORES since our founding in 1975.

Rio_Kohitsuji · #13 10-08-2003, 10:44 AM

My sorority's offical mascot in the dove, unofficial is the lamb

MysticCat · #14 10-08-2003, 10:46 AM

Phi Mu Alpha has never had an official mascot, but early on in our history an enigmatic black cat, known as the "Mystic Cat," became part of our lore. At one point, our national publication was called "The Mystic Cat"; the Mystic Cat appeared on the cover of our first songbook, and for a while, new members were sometimes nicknamed "kittens."

No one really knows anything about the origin of the Mystic Cat. As one song said:

"The most mysterious mystery is our mighty mystic cat,
He prowls about our chapter rooms and waxes sleek and fat;
We wonder what and where he is, but all to no avail --
He's a mystery from his mystic nose to the tip of his mystic tail."

The Mystic Cat has enjoyed something of a revival in the last decade or two, so I guess one could perhaps say that the Mystic Cat is our unofficial mascot.

SigK_Bama · #15 10-08-2003, 10:46 AM

I have also heard that SK's are trying to move away from the snake as a mascot. It's one of our symbols, which is talked about in Ritual, but we don't hold it as a mascot. The chapters I know of all use different things: panda bears, penguins, etc. Our local mascot used to be Winnie the Pooh. A number of years ago, as the story goes, it was the end of the school semester and girls were leaving the dorms. Two were roommates and SK's and one girl had moved out and was already downstairs when she realized that she had left her stuffed Winnie the Pooh upstairs in her room. Instead of going back upstairs to get it, she called out to her roommate who was still in the room (the window must have been open), and the roommate tossed the Pooh bear out the window to the sister. People then seemed to associate us with Winnie the Pooh. Well, that got old real quick, so a couple of years ago we changed it to a butterfly. It starts out as a caterpillar and morphs into something beautiful, much like a pledge going through the transformation to become a sister.