Back in the day . . .

[ktbug10474]

Originally Posted by honeychile

*Hoping there's a nursing home for greeks!*

oh there will be and i'll start it. you're gonna have to give me a few more years to get out of college and start making money etc.. etc..

But here are the details.

Alpha Zeta Nursing Home

Helping Greeks reminisce about the old days.


and the requirements to get in.....

a) a scavenger hunt
b) a chugging contest
c) there shall be a pledge period and initiation
d) and anything else yall would like to add

[EEKappa]

I can smell the paint pens just reading this thread! All my friends on my floor would bring me stuff to paint their letters on, which was good since I had already put KKG on everything I could find. I got really good at drawing Theta kites.

We received pref gifts that we took with us, and the ADPis bid cards were done in counted cross stitch. The sisters on that committee worked on them all summer long.

Formal chapter meetings were a sea of Laura Ashley dresses. Our pref dresses were navy taffeta for two years, then changed to our choice of white with light blue or dark blue chintz sashes.

Did anyone else find out who their big sister was with a scavenger hunt? Or get taken out for a pledge kidnap breakfast?

[alum]

Tab was the only diet drink on the market for my first couple of years of college.

Theta gave out live goldfish at their Pref Night....much harder to deal with a fishbowl than a flower.

One of the Kappa moms made beautiful blue and white chocolate owl lollipops for our Pref Round. She drove them up from NC to Pittsburgh to hand-deliver them to our chapter so they wouldn't break.

[SWTXBelle]

Aren't moms the greatest during rush?

[Zillini]

Mid '80's at the U of Illinois

Big, big hair and shoulder pads. You could buy shoulder pads seperately to put them in a top that didn't have any or you just wanted to make them bigger. I remember wearing bright colored tank tops, a matching patterned big shirt over it with a wide drop belt. Skinny jeans or leggings tucked into scrunch boots with socks peeking out that matched the top. Neon was big too thanks to Wham's "Wake me up before you go-go".

Guys went for the Sonny Crockett look. Pastel shirts with a jacket. No socks and a couple of days worth of beard. Speaking of Miami Vice, Friday night watching was a mandatory event. Big groups of guys and girls would gather at fraternity houses to watch before heading out.

Pin attire meant hose & heels. The hose matched your outfit too so there were some pretty funky colors. Monday night's were Chapter meetings. You'd see tons of well dressed young women and men walking all over campus to their meetings. That was actually rather nice to see.

Pledge Walkouts. Drunken road trips to another campus that had a chapter of your GLO, often whichever football team you were playing that weekend. We'd bring sleeping bags and crash in their living rooms. There was a competition to see who could steal the most items with fraternity letters.

Monday nights meant Quarter Beers at O'Malleys. You could get smashed on only a few bucks. Every table tried to get the tallest stack of empty plastic cups. They played cheesy oldies and the whole place would sing along. Midnight meant it was time for "American Pie" and it was a badge of honor if you knew all the words.

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by Zillini

Pledge Walkouts. Drunken road trips to another campus that had a chapter of your GLO

We called these "bolts". They were the best! We'd kidnap our pledge master and some seniors (pulling them out of bed without notice, no hair, no makeup just straight onto the bus) and bolt! We'd also leave the suite and chapter floor a mess and be gone the entire weekend.

[alum]

I forgot about television!

In the 80s: Hill Street Blues, Cheers, LA Law were all on. All of these shows had graduates from our CFA Drama Department either in front of or behind the camera so it was somewhat obligatory to watch. The big thing was when Blair Underwood (who was a dramat who took a leave of absence for Hollywood ) was cast as a boyfriend of Denice from the Cosby Show. Even the most nerdiest of us Tartans(and there were a lot who vied for that spot) watched that.

My H was both a cadet and a professor at West Point. When he was a student, the drinking age was lower in NY and consequently Ike Hall was the place to be for plebes through cows, complete with sticky floors. When we were there during his professor year in the late 90s, Ike Hall was dead.

I went to my daughter's college Parents Weekend last fall. This school's PW is bizarre in that parents actually go to fraternity parties on Friday and Saturday night. I hadn't experienced sticky floors in some time but the memories came flooding back.

[FSUZeta]

honey, no caribbean beat, but a definate beat (almost like a cadence), thru the alphabet part. it was a good choice for rush because it would definately stick in your head(and would not go away!)

[RaggedyAnn]

Phone chains and calendars.

No email. No cell phones.

[jon1856]

How could I forget "The Walk for Development"?
Started down on the lower end of 6th ave by the bridge.
Had a drink at every bar between there and chapter house.

As well as The Black Mug contest......

[AOIIalum]

Originally Posted by honeychile

Did anyone else have to do the "half clap"? Maybe it's because everyone clapping would have been much too loud in a suite, so about half the chapter clapped with 3 fingers lightly hitting the other palm.

We didn't do that, but did anyone else "snap"?

Originally Posted by RaggedyAnn

Phone chains and calendars.

No email. No cell phones.

Oh yeah. Don't forget the one big Fall Mailing with *everything* your chapter needed for the entire year (and don't lose a page of it either!) No computers either. Xerox copies of the calendars and typewritten chapter reports--in duplicate or triplicate, with carbon paper. This is one area that's MUCH better today, ladies!

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by AOIIalum

Xerox copies of the calendars and typewritten chapter reports--in duplicate or triplicate, with carbon paper. This is one area that's MUCH better today, ladies!

Ah, the smell of mimeograph fluid!!

[jon1856]

As a pledge, having to carry $1.55 in change as well as either a match or a lighter. And I did not smoke!!

[ForeverRoses]

[QUOTE=AOIIalum;1628189]We didn't do that, but did anyone else "snap"?
/QUOTE]

We snapped. Took me a couple years of going to work meetings to get out of the habbit of snapping when I agreed with something.

I remember open parties at the fraternity houses. only a few parties required you to be on the guest list. Most were open to any female. We had a board where people could list all the fraternity parties going on a particular weekend. Then we would pick and chose which ones to go to.

We also had fraternities that would host "after hours"- basically parties that didn't start until after the bars were closed.


Also, we called our mixers "Teas". So it would be announced for example that we had a tea with the Phi Taus on Thursday night at the Greenery from 6-9.

We also called the rush parties "teas" so we had open house, first teas, second teas, and final teas. I don't remember any tea ever being served.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

I remember open parties at the fraternity houses. only a few parties required you to be on the guest list. Most were open to any female.

Yep. They kind of half heartedly started having "tickets" and such, but these didn't last long.

Theta Chi always had happy hours on Fridays. You went into the basement at 3:30 - came out at 6:30 w/ a buzz and with it still light out. Ugggggg.