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Originally Posted by lovespink88
Well, we still have 'social calling', the second thing you described. Like you said, the purpose of them is to express interest for socials (and to tell the sorority/fraternity what a great time you had at your last event, if you had one that semester). The girls just look cute and bring food, while the guys have a little more variety. Some fraternities just bring flowers, candy and other little gifts, others do a song, dance or both. Oh, and chapters will only send about 2-5 people.
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So they took away the 'all chapter' serenades but kept the rest. It used to be this HUGE production on the first day of the week for the sororities, and then I think the guys started on Wednesday. I have memories of my entire house getting dressed in whatever themed costume we were that time around, practicing our songs that had personalized lyrics that could be changed for each fraternity, and driving all over campus for a few hours for these quick 5 minute productions put on in the living/great rooms of the fraternities.
I remember when Brittney Spears hit, and OMG...I swear we saw at least two sororities in the school girl costumes at EVERY house we stopped at. (We'd wait outside in these big groups at the houses because we were all serenading on the same night, and there would literally be hundreds of women standing outside the fraternity houses waiting their turn.) Some other themes I remember were Hawaiian themes, WWE Raw, blacklight glowstick dancers, just anything you could think of. The costumes and lyrics definitely were starting to get more and more outrageous, so I can only imagine what the very few years left of it were like.
The "left over" days that weren't the official serenade night were when the mini groups went to the houses we wanted to exchange with. If I recall correctly, they would bring cookies, brownies, candy baskets, Pokey Sticks, etc... to leave with the guys. So that part is the same. Don't get me wrong, serenades were A LOT of work, but I loved them! Occasionally a song will come on the radio that we used, and I don't even know what the right lyrics are; I know the ones we sang though. Ahhh, memorieeeeees!
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