GC Virtual Tour Book of Fraternity and Sorority Heritage Sites and Landmarks

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by pshsx1

Should we have some way to organize this thread? Otherwise, we might end up having a giant train of random quoting and conversation. Maybe a few posts that contain everything and is edited by one person and then the rest of the thread is someone dropping what they know--kind of like the closings/expansions thread. Just a thought?

Well, if you've got a plan for doing that, go for it. But I don't see how this thread will be any more disorganized or random than the badge trends thread, the arms and symbols thread, the HQ thread, the houses thread or other similar threads.

Personally, I think it's more fun and in keeping with the usually terribly disorganized GC ethos to let people post things about their own orgs and let the thread grow instead of trying to have a few master posts. It'll still turn into a train.

[pshsx1]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Well, if you've got a plan for doing that, go for it. But I don't see how this thread will be any more disorganized or random than the badge trends thread, the arms and symbols thread, the HQ thread, the houses thread or other similar threads.

Personally, I think it's more fun and in keeping with the usually terribly disorganized GC ethos to let people post things about their own orgs and let the thread grow instead of trying to have a few master posts. It'll still turn into a train.

Good plan!

I'll happily post about SigEp in a month or two once the Founders' Walk is completed in Richmond. It ought to be awesome.

[MysticCat]

I have an urge to bump this thread.

Sinfonia was founded at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in 1898. At the time, NEC occupied the former St. James Hotel on Franklin Square in Boston’s South End.




A chapter room was provided for the new fraternity in the basement of the building; I have read that the room had been the barbershop of the St. James. Here is the original Alpha Chapter Room.

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In 1903 or so, the Conservatory moved to its current location on Gainsborough Street in Boston. Again, a room was provided for Alpha Chapter. Here’s a picture of that room from the 1948-49 academic year:




Unfortunately, the Alpha Chapter eventually went inactive after the Conservatory took the room over for administrative uses. Various items from the room are now at Lyrecrest, our Fraternity headquarters. We can no longer visit the sites of either chapter room, but we can at least go to Franklin Square and see the place where we were founded.


Fun aside: GCers around my age or older may remember the (really awesome) television show St. Elsewhere from the 1980s. The old NEC, which still stands on Franklin Square in Boston, served as the exterior of the show’s St. Eligius Hospital. You can see it in the opening theme from the show here. (From Season 3 -- check the cast.)

Coincidentally, the music for the opening was written by Dave Grusin, a 1953 initiate of our Beta Chi Chapter at the University of Colorado.

[OleMissGlitter]

I drive past the Delta Gamma marker at least once a day in Oxford, MS...

[AGDAlum]

Here is SAE's Levere Memorial Temple in Evanston, Illinois.
http://www.sae.net/page.aspx?pid=258