YAY!!! New local sorority in the works here :)

[BlueEyedButrfly]

very true.

now, what about charters? do locals usually have those?

[aopirose]

Originally Posted by BlueEyedButrfly

very true.

now, what about charters? do locals usually have those?

Mine did. It was a nice framed certificate with the signatures of the founders. Each founder got a copy of it and another copy was kept in the President's binder.

[BlueEyedButrfly]

Cool. What goes on it? The Sorority name and the date it was founded?

[Tom Earp]

This is very exciting having founded a local myself.

We started with the idea to affiliate but did have the following that I designed: Coat of Arms, Active Badge, Pledge Pin, and Banner.

We never had a Charter as we were affiliated within the school year with LXA. All members Active and Pledge were Initiated then.

For a Charter:
1. Organization name.
2. Coat of Arms under it.
3. Date of Founding.
4. School of Founding.
5. List of Founders.

I found that by founding a local, we were all pretty new to this and made many mistakes, but the rewards were even sweeter.

I also found that I learned more by doing this than the years of college as we all did.

Good luck and I wish you the very best!

[BlueEyedButrfly]

Thank you Tom! We are VERY excited. We are going to work on our desing tomorrow for the coat of arms. Where did you order your active badges and pledge pins from? I've looked around on some greek websites but they all seem to only do those for national sororities. I was thinking we could use a lavalier (sp?) with our mascot instead of pins. Also, thanks for the information for the charter

[Xidelt]

For right now, a lavalier might be your best option. If you have a pin designed, you are going to have to pay a few hundred dollars (one-time fee)to have the die made and you are probably going to have a minimum order on the pins that might be 300-500 pins. PM PhoenixAzul and ask her about having pins made--her local sorority at Otterbein College just had some active pins made. Since you are just getting established, you might not need 300 pins or have the funds to pay the set-up fees right now. As far as pledge pins, some sororities use ribbons of their colors on a safety pin for the pledges. (I think there was a thread recently in the Local forum about ideas for making pledge pins--you might want to search and see.) If any of your symbols are somewhat common, you may be able to order lapel pins as pledge pins. For example, one of my sorority's symbols is the star. We used star lapel pins ordered off of a lapel pin website (there are several to choose from!) for recent pledge classes.

[Tom Earp]

Ours were done many years ago 41 to be exact. The number of pins were not that high but because I designed them, there was a fee for set up. But times and costs change of course.

About the only one who makes pins now is Herff Jones who has bought Burr Patterson and Auld who bought Masters of Design.

Their # is 800-422-4348 for inquiries. Ask about a new Badge set up fee and amount needed. You may think of doing letters only which could be cheaper for you starting up.

But check on both design or just letters.

[deltasinoshawa]

hey tom just wondering if you could help us out. we really want to start a local at our college, there are frats but no sorority we were just wondering since you have so much knowledge lol if you could help us out and give some pointers or just tell us how you went about it

THANKS
Deltas

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

This is very exciting having founded a local myself.

We started with the idea to affiliate but did have the following that I designed: Coat of Arms, Active Badge, Pledge Pin, and Banner.

We never had a Charter as we were affiliated within the school year with LXA. All members Active and Pledge were Initiated then.

For a Charter:
1. Organization name.
2. Coat of Arms under it.
3. Date of Founding.
4. School of Founding.
5. List of Founders.

I found that by founding a local, we were all pretty new to this and made many mistakes, but the rewards were even sweeter.

I also found that I learned more by doing this than the years of college as we all did.

Good luck and I wish you the very best!