Back in the day . . .

[OldAOPi]

Oh, and when we passed the Loving Cup around, it had real LOVE in it, not grape juice....

And I remember the AMC and GH sagas. I had never watched soaps before then. I never did care for One Life to Live - and it was between those two...we did name one of our son's Tristan - not after Tristan "Scorpio" Rogers, but I did know the name from that! Remember Anna with the plastic scare? She is on one of those makeover shows on Style or one of those channels.

[AOIIalum]

Originally Posted by OldAOPi

Oh, and when we passed the Loving Cup around, it had real LOVE in it, not grape juice....

You owe me a new can of Diet Coke, thankyouverymuch.

[FSUZeta]

diet coke-please.......it was tab and tab alone!

serenades were so much fun-giving them and receiving them. one fraternity even had two of the members accompany them on guitars and the changed the words to "california girls" to sororities on campus and then of course, the chorus was "wish they all could be like the zeta girls" when they sang to us, and then when they got to the next street over, it was the pi phi girls, adpi girls, etc.

rush was full blown with a song and dance in the front yard to welcome the rushees to the house. after each party, the rushee was escorted by her hostess to the ends of the walk and down the steps and when enough sisters had been freed up, we started another song and dance, lining our sidewalk. we always sang the greek alphabet song and the chorus was "let me hear you say, zeta tau alpha, let me hear you say, zeta tau alpha, let ne hear you say, zeta tau alpha"......on and on and on and on! graduating sisters passed down their hideous rush dresses to anyone who needed them-the sorority chapters did not totally revamp recruitment every year.

some of the fraternity members across the street would climb out on their porch roof and give the rushess scores on cards, like the diving judges did at the olympics. it was so cruel, whether they got a "10" or a "1" and it always worried us that some rushees might not see it as an asset to have a fraternity across the street.

certain groups hung out at certain bars. at our hangout, only beer or bottled cokes were served. there were a couple of old pin ball machines(jumbo was one of them) a couple of foosball tables and several pool tables. they always played either,"the women all get prettier at closing time" or "why don't we get drunk and screw" as the bar closed. lovely!

greek week was a big deal and included some competition every night for a week. same with sigma chi derby.

we could get group seating at the football games and fraternities would do their cheers at the game.

[jon1856]

FSU;
You just had to bring up rush
As my chapter house was on the corner, we had three Sorority houses all around us.
And well we did not have numbers, we sort of talked among our selfs about that subject.
The one thing that to this day I remember is one Sorority's clapping and song

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by jon1856

FSU;
You just had to bring up rush
As my chapter house was on the corner, we had three Sorority houses all around us.
And well we did not have numbers, we sort of talked among our selfs about that subject.
The one thing that to this day I remember is one Sorority's clapping and song

oh yes, the guys across the street from us knew all our rush songs and dances and on the friday of work week(when we had about had it with the rush chairman and all our sisters) we come tripping out of the front doors and the french doors, busby berkley style, to spy the guys across the street doing the exact same thing-well not the exact same thing, because they just had a single front door-but it was priceless and was just what we needed at that time, when all our nerves were frazzled and we were hating everything about rush.

and ya know something-they were pretty good!

[AnchorAlum]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

diet coke-please.......it was tab and tab alone!

serenades were so much fun-giving them and receiving them. one fraternity even had two of the members accompany them on guitars and the changed the words to "california girls" to sororities on campus and then of course, the chorus was "wish they all could be like the zeta girls" when they sang to us, and then when they got to the next street over, it was the pi phi girls, adpi girls, etc.

rush was full blown with a song and dance in the front yard to welcome the rushees to the house. after each party, the rushee was escorted by her hostess to the ends of the walk and down the steps and when enough sisters had been freed up, we started another song and dance, lining our sidewalk. we always sang the greek alphabet song and the chorus was "let me hear you say, zeta tau alpha, let me hear you say, zeta tau alpha, let ne hear you say, zeta tau alpha"......on and on and on and on! graduating sisters passed down their hideous rush dresses to anyone who needed them-the sorority chapters did not totally revamp recruitment every year.

some of the fraternity members across the street would climb out on their porch roof and give the rushess scores on cards, like the diving judges did at the olympics. it was so cruel, whether they got a "10" or a "1" and it always worried us that some rushees might not see it as an asset to have a fraternity across the street.

certain groups hung out at certain bars. at our hangout, only beer or bottled cokes were served. there were a couple of old pin ball machines(jumbo was one of them) a couple of foosball tables and several pool tables. they always played either,"the women all get prettier at closing time" or "why don't we get drunk and screw" as the bar closed. lovely!

greek week was a big deal and included some competition every night for a week. same with sigma chi derby.

we could get group seating at the football games and fraternities would do their cheers at the game.

You were probably close to my time at FSU. I preffed Zeta, by the way.

67-71. Rush was VERY formal, there were 18 houses and ice waters took two days. It seems like rush took almost two weeks. The fraternities would cruise the streets checking out the rushees. KA's rented a huge flatbed truck with hay and a keg and drove around yelling out stuff to the rushees. These are the senior executives and attorneys and judges of today. Who woulda thunk they'd even graduate?

Dinner at 5:30 sit down, family style, sing the blessing before and after the meal, bus boys, Mom is escorted out before the ladies were allowed to leave. Announcements, calling on pledges to recite the greek alphabet, fraternity boys coming by to tap girls for little sisters, honoraries coming by during dinner to tap new members, announcing a candlelight in the living room, singing around the anchor.

Monday night was chapter night all over campus. And yes, Ken's was a fun place. The Derby I snagged in 1969 hung over the bar for almost 30 years and my husband and I are forever memorialized with our names still written on the wall.

Fraternity weekends at Panama City. Pledge pins with your colors on a little bow on top. Group seating at football games where we wore dresses and the guys wore coats and ties. Girls purses were the perfect place to hide the Jack Daniels and Southern Comfort.

I could go on and on.

[AnchorAlumna]

Ah....happy days!