Stick Guard/Upgrade Your Badge - Page 2

ASUADPi · #16 10-03-2006, 09:14 AM

Call EO and talk to someone there. They can not only change your address but they'll put one in an enevelope and mail it to you.

That happened to me this past year, with all the moving I did, it just got lost in the mail with all the forwards. I waited like two-three weeks (which was really long everyone had theirs and I just wanted mine), called EO told them I didn't receive my Adelphean, they verified the address and then mailed me one. Ironically, I had the one they mailed me within like 4 days (yeah made a whole lotta sense).

honeychile · #17 03-04-2009, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by FirstAndFinest

Couldn't you also get one with a crest, instead of the chapter letters? I do believe that is an option with the chain-only guard...

I have a crest guard on my one pin. It was on a pamphlet for available pins, but this was several years ago.

aggieadpi_01 · #18 03-06-2009, 05:15 PM

I lost my original pin, and now seriously regret not having a guard. In your opinion, which is the better one to get? The stick pin type, or the regular guard type?

honeychile · #19 03-06-2009, 10:20 PM

I honestly don't know anyone with a stickpin guard - yet. My own guard has saved my pin more than once - even through the washer!

polarpi · #20 03-08-2009, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by honeychile

I honestly don't know anyone with a stickpin guard - yet. My own guard has saved my pin more than once - even through the washer!

Yes you do

I actually prefer the stickpin to the original guard - I find it easier to pin on than the original one (but maybe that's because my original guard's clasp was very tight and hard to turn). I actually run more into the trouble of my dangles falling off the guard, but that's more because the loop of the dangle wasn't fully closed when put into the links of the guard

honeychile · #21 03-08-2009, 11:00 PM

^^ Who'd ever guess that?

I told all of my dangles (small chapter = lots of dangles) to my jeweler and was told that I'd have to get a new chain, because the one I have is too weak.

Then, it would have been $9.95 to connect each dangle.

There's a woman at every Panhellenic luncheon - I want to say that she's an Alpha Phi. She has her pin, a 4" chain, then her guard, with every dangle she's earned. She claims to wear it to work and other fancy occasions, on her lapel. Now, I don't know of a sorority who allows a pin to be worn on a lapel (we were, very briefly, and only if the blazer was buttoned shut), but frankly, it's stunning. You'd never know it's a sorority pin, and she gets questions about it all of the time.

Since I have some of my pins promised*, I would use a yellow gold with sapphires pin, with the crest guard, and all of the dangles in between. Maybe someday I can afford to do this!

*My sorority little sister has three daughters - twins and a spare - beautiful, intelligent, lively, and talented young ladies. Making a very long story short, I told my little that, if any of her daughters are initiated into Alpha Delta Pi, they can get the entry pin, but have her choice of any of the ones I've rescued. The twins are juniors, so this could happen soon (she prays!).