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elliottoge · #1 03-29-2010, 08:47 PM

I would very much like to know more information regarding Gamma Sigma Sigma @ ECSU

naraht · #2 03-30-2010, 08:42 AM

If you are also the one on blackplanet, then I think that we wanted you as a source of information...

I can give you more specific information on archive.org, is there anything specific?

elliottoge · #3 03-30-2010, 03:35 PM

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If you are also the one on blackplanet, then I think that we wanted you as a source of information...

I can give you more specific information on archive.org, is there anything specific?

I am the person. I can remember some specifics regarding the group and a lot of the names. That was 38 years ago.We came under the establishment Gamma Sigma Sigma at St Augustine College in Raleigh, North Carolina. I specificially want to know about the Charter. This group did numerous fund raising events to pay for membership dues, etc. We were cleared finiancially and actually had to travel to Raleigh, NC for the final cermony.

gamma_girl52 · #4 03-31-2010, 10:40 PM

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I would very much like to know more information regarding Gamma Sigma Sigma @ ECSU

Randy, thanks for the heads up.

Soror, check your inbox.

naraht · #5 04-01-2010, 11:40 AM

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Randy, thanks for the heads up.

Soror, check your inbox.

NP. On the one hand I'm curious as an *outsider* what happened.

OTOH, gamma_girl52, you are either the best person in existence to investigate this, or you are close and you run into that best person at Board meetings.

*Maybe* there are APO alumni from either ECSU or St. Augustine who might be able to contribute, but I'm not one of them

gamma_girl52 · #6 04-02-2010, 10:47 AM

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NP. On the one hand I'm curious as an *outsider* what happened.

OTOH, gamma_girl52, you are either the best person in existence to investigate this, or you are close and you run into that best person at Board meetings.

*Maybe* there are APO alumni from either ECSU or St. Augustine who might be able to contribute, but I'm not one of them

Well, yes...I'm the Membership Director

I'd already started researching this beforehand, as we currently have an IG at ECSU now and I have been working with them since last Fall semster. Every time we get a new group I try to get as much background information as possible especially if it's an reactivation effort (this group is not, but the pictures spurred it). The National Archivist couldn't find anything on them when I sent her these exact pictures a while back, which left me confused.

Why this happened was because these ladies were traveling to Raleigh and were pledging at Epsilon Alpha chapter, which was at St. Augustine's College (which is inactive now); so technically all of these ladies are EA initiates.

naraht · #7 04-02-2010, 12:24 PM

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Well, yes...I'm the Membership Director

I'd already started researching this beforehand, as we currently have an IG at ECSU now and I have been working with them since last Fall semster. Every time we get a new group I try to get as much background information as possible especially if it's an reactivation effort (this group is not, but the pictures spurred it). The National Archivist couldn't find anything on them when I sent her these exact pictures a while back, which left me confused.

Why this happened was because these ladies were traveling to Raleigh and were pledging at Epsilon Alpha chapter, which was at St. Augustine's College (which is inactive now); so technically all of these ladies are EA initiates.

Ah...

This explains the "We have sisters at ECSU, but no chapter."

This is almost as much fun as the Alpha Phi Omega extension at Ferrum.

In about 2000 we had an extension at Ferrum, which was a rechartering of Phi Omicron chapter. About 6 months later after research by both the chapter and by staff it was determined that back in the 1970s, due to changes at the school and vietnam that the group had not in fact gone through chartering although letters had been assigned. So the rechartering group became a chartering group.

gamma_girl52 · #8 04-08-2010, 10:38 PM

Just to update all--we now have an official colony at Elizabeth City State, which I formally approved last week. There are 20 members.

naraht · #9 04-09-2010, 08:47 AM

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Just to update all--we now have an official colony at Elizabeth City State, which I formally approved last week. There are 20 members.

Congrats!

Hopefully they also will be given the explanation of why Gamma Sigma Sigma is in the ECSU yearbook, but ECSU is a new charter. (Not sure if you want to send the Colony Historian a link to this thread on greekchat

Hopefully those sisters at ECSU from the 1970s who initiated at St. Augustine can be invited for Chartering and be made honorary sisters of the new chapter as well.

elliottoge, do you have contact with any of the others who were at ECSU with you?