GLO Famous Members Urban Legends

[ComradesTrue]

Bump.

The Farrah/Tri Delta thread made me think of this one. That debate still doesn't seem to be settled!

Please note that this is a thread for myths/urban legends. Please do not come here to post about people who are actually members (unless you are dispelling a rumor).

For instance: I have seen several Theta chapter websites claim that Betty Crocker is a member. Betty Crocker was a fictional character who happened to be voiced by Theta alumna Marjorie Child Husted as listed on our website. It would be like claiming Bugs Bunny was part of your organization simply because Mel Blanc was a member.

Since this hasn't been bumped in several years I suspect that there are many more to be added.

(I know that several GLOs have a thread dedicated to this in their specific forum. I liked how this one lumped everyone together. A one-stop-shop you might say.)

[joliebelle]

Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow are not Gamma Phis.

[Xidelt]

Originally Posted by Blondie93

Bump.

The Farrah/Tri Delta thread made me think of this one. That debate still doesn't seem to be settled!

Please note that this is a thread for myths/urban legends. Please do not come here to post about people who are actually members (unless you are dispelling a rumor).

For instance: I have seen several Theta chapter websites claim that Betty Crocker is a member. Betty Crocker was a fictional character who happened to be voiced by Theta alumna Marjorie Child Husted as listed on our website. It would be like claiming Bugs Bunny was part of your organization simply because Mel Blanc was a member.

Since this hasn't been bumped in several years I suspect that there are many more to be added.

(I know that several GLOs have a thread dedicated to this in their specific forum. I liked how this one lumped everyone together. A one-stop-shop you might say.)

Wait.

Betty Crocker is NOT a real person?

My world has been shattered.

[KSUViolet06]

Ladies and gentlemen.

Britney Spears is NOT in a sorority.

I don't care how much you love her.

I don't care whose cousin's sister's neighbor said that she went through recruitment at Ole Miss/LSU/Bama and pledged Kappa/Theta/Chi O/Tri Delta.

They're lying, because Britney never even went to college.

Britney is also not an "honorary" Chi O/Kappa/Theta.

If another person tries to tell me that she is, I will scream.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Ladies and gentlemen.

Britney Spears is NOT in a sorority.

Consider me baffled that anyone would want to claim Brittany Spears as her sorority sister.

[pshsx1]

Originally Posted by Blondie93

For instance: I have seen several Theta chapter websites claim that Betty Crocker is a member. Betty Crocker was a fictional character who happened to be voiced by Theta alumna Marjorie Child Husted as listed on our website. It would be like claiming Bugs Bunny was part of your organization simply because Mel Blanc was a member.

SigEp will now claim the Cat in the Hat and every other Dr. Seuss character b/c he was a SigEp. :P

Welcome to the family, Sam I Am.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by Blondie93

Bump.

For instance: I have seen several Theta chapter websites claim that Betty Crocker is a member. Betty Crocker was a fictional character who happened to be voiced by Theta alumna Marjorie Child Husted as listed on our website. It would be like claiming Bugs Bunny was part of your organization simply because Mel Blanc was a member.

Since this hasn't been bumped in several years I suspect that there are many more to be added.

(I know that several GLOs have a thread dedicated to this in their specific forum. I liked how this one lumped everyone together. A one-stop-shop you might say.)

Originally Posted by Xidelt

Wait.

Betty Crocker is NOT a real person?

My world has been shattered.

From the Alpha Delta Pi International website:

"<> Agnes White Tizard, Sigma, Nutritionist; "Betty Crocker" authored Betty Crocker cookbook"

So, Agnes wrote the book, and Marjorie did the voice over? What a panhellenic collaboration!

[DaffyKD]

Originally Posted by Blondie93

For instance: I have seen several Theta chapter websites claim that Betty Crocker is a member. Betty Crocker was a fictional character who happened to be voiced by Theta alumna Marjorie Child Husted as listed on our website. It would be like claiming Bugs Bunny was part of your organization simply because Mel Blanc was a member.

Once upon a time when I was in college, I was told that Betty Crocker was a KD. I was also told that Pat Nixon, wife of President Nixon was a KD. When Mrs. Nixon died, no mention was made of it in the sorority magazine, thus I learned another legend was urban! I was also told that Racque Welsh was an Alpha Phi pledge who was asked to leave. After reading this thread, seems Ms. Welsh is claimed by several houses.

DaffyKD

[NutBrnHair]

On the Chi Omega website is a comprehensive list of well-known Chi Omegas. For as long as I can remember, there have been urban legends and/or rumors that everyone from Barbara Eden to Faith Hill is a Chi Omega! Not true. I thought I would include some of my research on famous women who some think are our Sisters!

•Cybill Shepherd: Cybill Shepherd -- that is her real name. She first attended Hunter College (we did not have a chapter at Hunter when she was there) and after a couple of stints at schools where there has never been a Chi Omega chapter, she attended the University of Southern California. Alumnae who were involved during the early 1970s have no memory of her being a Chi Omega.

•Lauren Hutton Real name: Mary Laurence Hutton – one of the first students to attend the University of South Florida in 1960 (before Theta Theta Chapter was founded) and then she transferred to Tulane University and graduated in 1964 (never a member of Rho Chapter).

•Heather Locklear: Locklear attended UCLA, but was not a Chi Omega. Heather Thomas who starred with Lee Majors in the TV series “The Fall Guy” (1981-86)– was an initiate of Gamma Beta at UCLA.

•Lee Meriweather: Her real name is Lee Ann Meriwether and she attended City College of San Francisco. Chi Omega has never had a chapter there.

•Shelley Long: Born Shelley Lee Long, she studied drama at Northwestern University, but left before graduating. No record of her being an initiate of Xi Chapter.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

•Lauren Hutton Real name: Mary Laurence Hutton – one of the first students to attend the University of South Florida in 1960 (before Theta Theta Chapter was founded) and then she transferred to Tulane University and graduated in 1964 (never a member of Rho Chapter).

I know that this is saying that she wasn't a member - but just as a sidenote - in the book Model she says she got a modeling job because the person hiring her was impressed that she went to Sophie Newcomb. How did that work? Were the chapters actually at Sophie Newcomb or Tulane?

[libelle]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I know that this is saying that she wasn't a member - but just as a sidenote - in the book Model she says she got a modeling job because the person hiring her was impressed that she went to Sophie Newcomb. How did that work? Were the chapters actually at Sophie Newcomb or Tulane?

The chapters were/are at the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College of Tulane University. Non-Newcomb (Architecture and Engineering) female undergrads were able to join. [Although traditionally there are not many female students in those colleges.] B-school undergrads spend their 1st 2 years at Newcomb before transfering to b school so it was not an issue. Post Katrina renewal plan (reorganization), all undergraduates are members of Newcomb-Tulane Undergraduate College of Tulane U regardless of major.

[klf3kids]

I posted the same information once before in a similar thread, so please bear with me if you have already seen it:

Re: Heather Locklear...she was often confused with Heather Thomas (probably best known for her role as "Jody" on the '80s T.V. series, "The Fall Guy," and for a very successful "pin-up girl" type poster that came out about the same time as the show I believe). Both "Heathers" were at UCLA when I attended the university in the mid-late 70's and the reason Heather Locklear is frequently and incorrectly referred to as a Chi Omega alumna.

Heather Thomas was in my fall 1975 Chi Omega pledge class and she was definitely initiated (as we all were) during UCLA's winter quarter 1976. Heather Locklear began her studies at UCLA when Heather Thomas and I were upper classmen if I remember correctly. Heather Locklear was on the cover of the UCLA Bruin "Bearwear" catalogue her freshman year, I think, and became a campus sensation (but Chi O Heather Thomas was quite the campus beauty as well!).

FYI: Heather Thomas was highlighted in the Eleusis a few months ago for publishing her first novel, "Trophies." She was also interviewed on "The Today Show," etc., about the book.

[NutBrnHair]

Originally Posted by klf3kids

Re: Heather Locklear...she was often confused with Heather Thomas.. Both "Heathers" were at UCLA when I attended the university in the mid-late 70's and the reason Heather Locklear is frequently and incorrectly referred to as a Chi Omega alumna.

I personally wouldn't want to claim anyone who dated David Spade anyway! LOL

[ChioLu]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

On the Chi Omega website is a comprehensive list of well-known Chi Omegas. For as long as I can remember, there have been urban legends and/or rumors that everyone from Barbara Eden to Faith Hill is a Chi Omega! Not true. I thought I would include some of my research on famous women who some think are our Sisters!

•Lauren Hutton Real name: Mary Laurence Hutton – one of the first students to attend the University of South Florida in 1960 (before Theta Theta Chapter was founded) and then she transferred to Tulane University and graduated in 1964 (never a member of Rho Chapter).

•Heather Locklear: Locklear attended UCLA, but was not a Chi Omega. Heather Thomas who starred with Lee Majors in the TV series “The Fall Guy” (1981-86)– was an initiate of Gamma Beta at UCLA.

Here's the Lauren Hutton story I heard: She was in Nashville shooting a movie in the 1980s. Lauren was staying at a downtown hotel that was the venue for a Vanderbilt Chi Omega date party. She was invited as a guest to the party and ended up leaving with a members' date. How this got morphed into Lauren being a member of Chi O, I have NO idea.

Heather Locklear: She pledged Chi Omega and is pictured in the Bruin yearbook in the Chi O group photo that year. Heather deactivated. A year later, she pledged Tri Delta. Never initiated and left school when her acting/modeling career started to take off.

Zeta rumor: I had always heard that the wife of the founder of Hallmark cards was a Zeta Tau Alpha, as the logo for the company is a 5-point crown (like ZTA's symbol). But haven't seen any evidence to this. Can any ZTA's verify?

Now, I do know that a beer was created for a Chi Omega. The former CMO of Iron City Beer (located in Pittsburgh) created Iron City Light for his wife, a Chi Omega alumna. (I'm friends with the daughter and verified the story at her wedding.) Now that's love!

[33girl]

Whoah, that would kind of make Lauren a cougar. LOL

I had no idea about IC Light! It's not the best beer in the world, but beer is beer.

I've also heard the Hallmark rumor but I think it was debunked.