Eight Founding schools or seven? (Change on Wikipedia)

[Senusret I]

I think I'll let a GSS decide if it counts.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

I think I'll let a GSS decide if it counts.

According the the GSS Marketing director (a member of their National Board), it doesn't anymore. I started talking to her after she changed the entry on Wikipedia.

[gamma_girl52]

Originally Posted by naraht

According the the GSS Marketing director (a member of their National Board), it doesn't anymore. I started talking to her after she changed the entry on Wikipedia.

Honestly if you asked someone on the National Board, then why are you asking again on GC? Particularly if you already went to the National site and saw it for yourself?

It's right there in black and white. You answered your own question. In my mind, it's still 8 schools. If you read you'll see that the U of Miami group joined several years later; but it still makes them a Founding School to me because they were already included in that original group. So to me, it's STILL 8.

However to clear this all up (and probably providing more information than necessary), we as a National body found that we needed to revise our history to clear up the years-old Ohio vs. Miami debate (you asked about that too in the past), and that puts it all to rest, as well as provide a deeper background into how our sorority was founded BEFORE the 1952 Convention. Our pledge manuals have been revised to reflect the change.

Proof that Wikipedia is NOT your friend.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by gamma_girl52

Honestly if you asked someone on the National Board, then why are you asking again on GC? Particularly if you already went to the National site and saw it for yourself?

It's right there in black and white. You answered your own question. In my mind, it's still 8 schools. If you read you'll see that the U of Miami group joined several years later; but it still makes them a Founding School to me because they were already included in that original group. So to me, it's STILL 8.

However to clear this all up (and probably providing more information than necessary), we as a National body found that we needed to revise our history to clear up the years-old Ohio vs. Miami debate (you asked about that too in the past), and that puts it all to rest, as well as provide a deeper background into how our sorority was founded BEFORE the 1952 Convention. Our pledge manuals have been revised to reflect the change.

Proof that Wikipedia is NOT your friend.

I tracked down the email for the GSS Marketing director well after I had asked to Greekchat.

I'm glad that the history has been properly investigated.

I have found some of the Alpha Phi Omega National Magazines from the 1950s with some information on the fact that Alpha Phi Omega was helping in getting Women's Community Service Organizations in contact with the group at Boston U that eventually became Epsilon chapter. It goes go into more depth that that...

I'd love to see more GSS sisters improving the Gamma Sigma Sigma article on Wikipedia.