I am proud of AOII because our ritual was written solely by our founders with every symbol, color, letter etc having specific and special meaning elicited from our ritual. Also, it has not changed a single bit since it was written in 1897. Not many sororities can claim this having letters chosen randomly, having rituals written by outside sources and colors picked because they were someones favorites. Nothing wrong with that, but I'm proud of the job our founders did.
I hope AOII is proud of me for achieving every goal I set forth for myself educationally and professionally. Also, I recently found nearly my entire pledge class for our 50th chapter reunion...5 months of work with only 2 women unfound!!
Here is my edited sentence to prove to you I had no intention of ripping any NPC group:
Other NPC sororities chose their emblems for specific reasons as well, but some had help from professors to write their rituals, some picked their colors because they just liked them, some picked their letters because they thought they looked good together and many have changed their names, rituals, colors and symbols over the years for reasons that are apparently important to them. AOII has been able to stay the same from it's inception, which I think is incredible given that it was written by very young, sheltered girls over 110 years ago.
Of course, the "some" is not really correct because some of these examples only occured in one NPC group.
Sorry if I offended you, it wasn't intentional, but I do get testy when someone puts words into my mouth.
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Last edited by AOII Angel; 09-28-2007 at 08:53 PM.
Reason: explained above
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