Sororities that dropped out of NPC?

[honeychile]

Didn't Iota Alpha Pi decide to disband in the 70's? I can remember seeing their pin, and since it's so like the ADPi pin, wondered why they didn't think of asking for a merger.

[CutiePie2000]

There was an IAPi chapter at U of T (that's Toronto, people) and according to this page, it was disbanded as an IHQ.
http://canadiangreeks.com/directory/uoft.html
I always thought that another GLO "ate it up"...maybe if someone has an ancient Baird's floating around, we can find out for certain.

[LaneSig]

Was Kappa Beta Gamma ever a member of NPC?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by LaneSig

Was Kappa Beta Gamma ever a member of NPC?

No, they never had enough chapters, and when they did get close, the required # jumped up. I think I read somewhere that NPC was going to make a grandfather-type exception and let them in anyway, but they decided that's not what they wanted to do.

It would be very disadvantageous to enter the NPC with less than (or even equal to) the min. amount of chapters. It's hard enough now for the bottom few groups to be competitve.

[paulam]

Originally Posted by honeychile

Didn't Iota Alpha Pi decide to disband in the 70's? I can remember seeing their pin, and since it's so like the ADPi pin, wondered why they didn't think of asking for a merger.

Honeychile, back in the "day" (the 70's), Iota Alpha Pi was considered a Jewish sorority. That is the most likely reason it did not consider a merger with ADPi or any other sorority. They had a few chapters in common with SDT, AEPhi, DPhiE and Phi Sigma Sigma, which were also considered historically Jewish sororities at that time. I don't know why they did not consider approaching any of us about merging. Is there an IAPi alum out there who can give us a clue?

Paula M.
Sigma Delta Tau
ΣΔTPatriae Multi Spes Una One Hope of Many People

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by paulam

Honeychile, back in the "day" (the 70's), Iota Alpha Pi was considered a Jewish sorority. That is the most likely reason it did not consider a merger with ADPi or any other sorority. They had a few chapters in common with SDT, AEPhi, DPhiE and Phi Sigma Sigma, which were also considered historically Jewish sororities at that time. I don't know why they did not consider approaching any of us about merging. Is there an IAPi alum out there who can give us a clue?

Paula M.
Sigma Delta Tau
ΣΔTPatriae Multi Spes Una One Hope of Many People

I didn't think it was my place to say that. I can remember seeing one of their pins on ebay - it was diamond shaped with a "shadow" diamond in azure blue <<>. Seemed to be a lead pipe cinch - until I discovered the "why"!

[Buttonz]

Originally Posted by paulam

Honeychile, back in the "day" (the 70's), Iota Alpha Pi was considered a Jewish sorority. That is the most likely reason it did not consider a merger with ADPi or any other sorority. They had a few chapters in common with SDT, AEPhi, DPhiE and Phi Sigma Sigma, which were also considered historically Jewish sororities at that time. I don't know why they did not consider approaching any of us about merging. Is there an IAPi alum out there who can give us a clue?

Paula M.
Sigma Delta Tau
ΣΔTPatriae Multi Spes Una One Hope of Many People

Paula,

My only guess would be that the majority of their chapters were at a school that had at least one if not more of the above mentioned GLO's and instead of having a ton of new chapters it would have been a lot of the merging of the chapters which would have been harder?