Fraternity and Sorority Arms, Seals, Flags and other Insignia

[KSUViolet06]

Since people are posting about Convention insignia and things:



These are our shields. Each chapter (collegiate and alumnae chapters) has a shield with their designation and founding year.

During the opening ceremonies of Covention, each chapter's delegate is escorted (one by one) into the room carrying their chapter's shield. They then are escorted to the podium, where they introduce themselves and say what chapter they represent. Then they walk over to the wall, hang the shield up for display, and take their seat.

Fun fact: Each person who carries the shield, signs the back of it with their name and the year. So you can look on the back of them and see who carried the shield of your chapter before you (they go WAY back).

These are a big deal. It's tradition for everyone who is at Convention from a chapter to take a group pic with their shield (ex: all the Alpha Betas in attendance take a pic with the AB shield).

[LucyKKG]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Fun fact: Each person who carries the shield, signs the back of it with their name and the year. So you can look on the back of some of them and see who carried the shield of your chapter before you (they go WAY back).

That's really neat! Do your alumnae chapters use Greek letter designations, too? Ours don't, but I know that some orgs do.

(I'm from the Eta Mu chapter at UCSC, and the San Jose Alumnae Association which has no Greek letters!)

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by LucyKKG

That's really neat! Do your alumnae chapters use Greek letter designations, too? Ours don't, but I know that some orgs do.

(I'm from the Eta Mu chapter at UCSC, and the San Jose Alumnae Association which has no Greek letters!)

No. Our alumnae chapters are like yours (city names).

You can't see them in that pic (well, they are in the bottom of that pic but you can't see them well enough to read them), but the alumnae chapter shields have the chapter name (ex: Cleveland Alumnae Chapter) and the year. They are also a different shape.

[ta kala]

Does anyone have images of Kappa Delta's two previous crests?

The original was quite different from our current crest, but the second version is closer. I want to say the original was in existence until at least 1904? I bought engraved images of both for my chapter suite when I was a collegiate, but cannot find a picture of either anywhere!

[SilverTurtle]

Wow. I learned something about my own CoA from this thread! (That Emily Helen Butterfield helped design our CoA).

Phi Beta's Coat of Arms:



(Higher res of Phi Beta CoA)

Note the difference between the gold & green laurel leaves. You will see our CoA with both. Until recently it was this design:


And our original CoA (from a bad scan from an old magazine) which is quite different.


(Link to high res)

The things I can tell you about the CoA are that our official flower is the American Beauty rose, which is pictured, and that the banner at the bottom is our motto in Greek "To Be Rather Than To Seem To Be".

Another official symbol that is fairly recent to us is our Allied Arts Design.



It's pretty obvious that it combines symbols of the arts we represent (nothing secret about this one!) music, art, dance, visual arts, etc. I've been told there's supposed to be a pen for writing under the dancer's feet, but I've never actually seen that. It's a popular jewelry piece for our members. (More bad photos!)

[Leslie Anne]

Originally Posted by ta kala

Does anyone have images of Kappa Delta's two previous crests?

The original was quite different from our current crest, but the second version is closer. I want to say the original was in existence until at least 1904? I bought engraved images of both for my chapter suite when I was a collegiate, but cannot find a picture of either anywhere!

I have them. I'll try to scan them and post some time tonight.

[OleMissGlitter]

I don't think this has been posted already. I was looking for something else on google books and came across this picture. It is from the Alpha Chi Omega history book.

sorry it is sideways, I wasn't sure how to move it when I pasted it from the book.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Since people are posting about Convention insignia and things:



These are our shields. Each chapter (collegiate and alumnae chapters) has a shield with their designation and founding year.

During the opening ceremonies of Covention, each chapter's delegate is escorted (one by one) into the room carrying their chapter's shield. They then are escorted to the podium, where they introduce themselves and say what chapter they represent. Then they walk over to the wall, hang the shield up for display, and take their seat.

Fun fact: Each person who carries the shield, signs the back of it with their name and the year. So you can look on the back of them and see who carried the shield of your chapter before you (they go WAY back).

These are a big deal. It's tradition for everyone who is at Convention from a chapter to take a group pic with their shield (ex: all the Alpha Betas in attendance take a pic with the AB shield).

AST does something very similar to this.. except we don't sign the back of the shields. I love the idea