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Originally Posted by honeychile
Surprisingly, I am a Pope!
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As am/was I.
Once a Cardinal, always a Cardinal.
During the late 60's we still Lavaliered (I never knew how to spell that) then pinned, etc.
Besides many of the other things mentioned in posts above, a couple of things specific to my chapter/campus.
Allegedly, "Greek Week" originated at Ohio University. I can't prove that, but it's what I've heard for years.
In addition, we had J-Prom every year which included pretty elaborate skits that fraternities and sororities or fraternities and women's dorms put together, cinluding big sets, etc. These were performed outside and judged.
"Teas" was a code word for beer blast. ie: "Hey, we're having a Tea with the Pi Phis Friday..."
Then there was the (world famous?) Delt Regata where we put together really disreputable "rafts" and floated down the Hocking River.
And, of course, pledge pranks which we won't go into here.
(Well, except the the time we all stole a pair of our big brothers briefs, put their names on them and strung them from the pillars on the front of the Chi-O house...)
We had formal dinners when nobody sat down at the table until the house mother was escorted in by either the chapter or pledge president. We were taught table etiquite by "mom." That's where I learned which fork to use. Afterwards, we sang some of our great Delt songs.
(My favorite: "Delta, Delta Tau, loved fraternity. Hearts to true, true to you, burn with loyalty. Brothers, we stand as one, in our mystic vow. When, in health, we sing to thee, Dear Old Delta Tau.")
Most of us dressed for football games in sports coats, sweaters and ties and our dates wore skirts, sweaters, etc.
If we were pinned to sorority woman, she wore our badge as well as hers.
Almost all of our cars had our letter decals on the rear window, and if we had a Greek pinmate, often both sets of letters were displayed on our cars.
There's more, but finally we almost always dressed for class and wore our badges most of the time in public. When we weren't dressed appropriately for badges, we generally wore our letters on sports wear.
You know, some of those traditions wouldn't be so bad today.
) One of my sisters took the class with me and could not understand why she made a "D" in "etiqwet" (her original pronunciation!) I swear she only made it to class once every couple weeks.
Hybrid Mode
