Chapter Designations

[BaylorBean]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Sigma Kappa uses the "standard" naming except there are no Eta ____ or Iota ____ chapters. My guess on the Eta is that there are too many er.."puns" that can be made with that designation... (who wants to be Eta Pi chapter after all...)

No odd chapter designations that I'm aware of except that our Alpha, Beta, and Gamma were all at the same school, then got folded into each other and then closed when Colby College banned Greek Life.

There are one set of specific chapter designations actually. When we merged with Pi Kappa Sigma, all those chapters were given the designation of Delta _____ for the Sigma Kappa Chapter names.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by BaylorBean

There are one set of specific chapter designations actually. When we merged with Pi Kappa Sigma, all those chapters were given the designation of Delta _____ for the Sigma Kappa Chapter names.

Cool didn't know that. (Do you have any more info on that merger btw? I'm interested in details of Pi Kappa Sigma, but don't know where to find info about it. )

[exlurker]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Cool didn't know that. (Do you have any more info on that merger btw? I'm interested in details of Pi Kappa Sigma, but don't know where to find info about it. )

For information about Pi Kappa Sigma's early years a good bet if you cn find it is the book "Golden Years with Pi Kappa Sigma 1894 - 1949," by Emma Newell Seaton (historian). It's hardcover, 529 pages plus index, but only take the sorority up to 1949, long before the merger. It might still be around in some college libraries or used bookstores, as well as possibly some of the SK chapters that were formerly Pi Kappa Sigma.

ETA: Back to the topic: Pi Kappa Sigma used the Alpha - to- Omega, then Alpha Alpha ans so on system, with very rare exceptions. For instance the Pi Kappa Sigma chapter at Southwest Missouri State *should* have been "Alpha Upsilon," but it was formed from a local, Theta Nu Theta. and

"So great was the attachment to the parent name that the petitioners asked permission of the Grand council of Pi Kappa Sigma to keep at least part of that name . . . ."

The result? The chapter designation was Theta Nu.

[notmanhattan]

I know earlier in the thread they talked about FIJI chapters being named after their towns or their schools. But what about the FIJI chapter at the University of Georgia-- Kappa Deuteron. Anyone know where this came from?

[banditone]

I think that Fiji naming scheme is pretty cool. Mostly because I know Fiji's who are awesome guys.

Question: So how do you determine your oldest chapters if you don't do it by a standard 1) letter, then 2) two letter form?

For instance, in Sigma Nu if I hear a chapter update from a single letter chapter, I KNOW it's some old-school chapter founded in the 1800's. (Beta is the oldest still active chapter. As our founding site, VMI, no longer allows fraternities)

How do you know?

[Pike_Cardinal]

Pike goes in order of alphabet, then repeats with Alpha Alpha and so on.

[banditone]

Originally Posted by Pike_Cardinal

Pike goes in order of alphabet, then repeats with Alpha Alpha and so on.

Cool.... So if someone says Im' from the Gamma chapter you're like. Niiiice.

[Pike_Cardinal]

How does it work with your organization if a chapter is closed and then rechartered? Do they take the old name or a new one?

[tallgreekalum]

Originally Posted by banditone

I think that Fiji naming scheme is pretty cool. Mostly because I know Fiji's who are awesome guys.

Question: So how do you determine your oldest chapters if you don't do it by a standard 1) letter, then 2) two letter form?

For instance, in Sigma Nu if I hear a chapter update from a single letter chapter, I KNOW it's some old-school chapter founded in the 1800's. (Beta is the oldest still active chapter. As our founding site, VMI, no longer allows fraternities / U. of Virginia - Gamma - 1871.....)

How do you know?

If you're asking me, we've only had 48 chapters in all, so we just learn them in order.

[rufio]

For DU we just go by the name of the school. my Chapter is the Arizona State Chapter. then theres San Diego chapter, Northern Arizona Chapter... etc. etc.