Highschool Sororities.... - Page 2

Senusret I · #1 06-22-2002, 09:13 PM

My high school in Washington, DC, which was predominately black, has a local sorority called Cultured Pearls, which was established by an AKA on the administration. It seems to perform as a charm club. There is also mentoring. It wasn't founded until after I left, so the details are sketchy. Contact Christine Easterling at Calvin Coolidge High School in DC for more information.

chantillylace55 · #2 06-22-2002, 09:31 PM

There was a sorority at my mom's high school in So Cal. They were called the Denotians and you could only join if you were invited to... my mom was invited, but declined because she didn't want to be limited to one group of friends (they didnt talk to anyone outside of the Denotians)... She said they did silly things for the girls getting initiated (wearing pins, wearing clothes inside-out to school, getting them drunk), but that was about it. I'm not sure if it was designed to filter into the NPC system, but the majority of my mom's friends that were in it did end up going greek (I think a lot were USC Pi Phis)... that's about all I know

orchid2 · #3 07-06-2002, 12:33 AM

Hmmm... oh yes, they had them at my high school. There were four groups, each at its own level of eliteness, and you had to be asked in your 8th grade year.

They printed t-shirts for different events, did some community service, held formals and balls, an annual sisterhood retreat, a "greek week" of sorts, etc. The pledging process lasted an entire school year (rather than 6-8 weeks), and the girls would come to school and to football games in ridiculous costumes the week before initiation.

These groups have been in our town for generations and generations, and a lot of the girls end up going greek once they get to college. The high school sororities are sponsored by matronly "study clubs," which is probably my town's equivalent to a junior league.

ChiOJenn78 · #4 07-06-2002, 12:52 PM

My highschool didn't have hs sororities, but since it was an all-girls hs, I guess you could call us one big sorority

We did have Big Sisters when we were freshman, and then when we were juniors we got Little Sisters. That was the closest thing we had. Anyhoo, I had never heard of sororities in high school until I moved down here to Galveston and they have 3 or 4 at the hs here. I think it's kind of silly, personally, to have a sorority in hs.

Funny story-I was taking a dress to get altered because I was coming back for one of Mr.ChiOJenn's formals and the lady doing the alterations was asking me what it was for, and I told her a fraternity formal. She was like, oh, what sorority are you in? Is it blah blah blah(started naming off the hs sorority names)-I was like, um NO. Do I still look like I'm in hs??

Anyhoo....

risingstar · #5 05-03-2007, 11:53 AM

My high school has several sororities. A lot of the schools in my area have them. That is all.

Elephant Walk · #6 05-03-2007, 02:00 PM

Definitely had them. One white sorority (Delta Beta Sigma), it seemed like they had alot of fun. And a black fraternity, all I know is they went by the Beta's. From my limited knowledge, it seemed like Arkansas had alot of chapters of DBS.

tld221 · #7 05-03-2007, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by IAmMysticCat

BECAUSE i AM NOT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD?

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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

You need to get in the corner.
Nose to the wall.

LOL LiKE, THAT WOULDVE BEEN MY ANSWER CAUSE THE SORORiTiE COMES BEFORE i DO! THERES NO i iN SORORiTie...

(oh damn, there's 2... shyte... now what?)

JWithers · #8 05-03-2007, 10:47 PM

In my HS we had service organizations like Anchor Club and Key Club, which are (I assume) off-shoots of GLOs. I know in Anchor we had a ritual initiation and were very selective about whom we invited to join. GPA and extra-curricular were taken into consideration also. We had interviews with alums and had to write an essay.

I went to a college with no GLOs but transferred to a larger U and then for post-grad and was always interested in college sororities. A colleague of mine in grad school told me to ask about post-grad recruitment (she said 'rush' was verboten)? I never heard of that. Is it a real thing? I won't reveal the org. in case it's wrong info. But I love the histories behind your orgs. and think it's a really interesting concept.

I especially love the symbolism behind the flowers and colors. I love the book by Geri Laufer "Tussie Mussies" which reveals the medieval and rennaissance meanings behind many different flowers and how the combinations of these flowers contained hidden meanings.

Pike_Cardinal · #9 05-03-2007, 11:09 PM

We didn't have greek organizations at my HS, and I'm sure it's rather unheard of in Ky period. Although, I do know a girl who said there was one sorority in her HS. I don't think I like the idea of it. There being one organization, which was apparently elitist, negatively skewed her opinion of greek life.

Xidelt · #10 05-04-2007, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by JWithers

In my HS we had service organizations like Anchor Club and Key Club, which are (I assume) off-shoots of GLOs. I know in Anchor we had a ritual initiation and were very selective about whom we invited to join. GPA and extra-curricular were taken into consideration also. We had interviews with alums and had to write an essay.

I went to a college with no GLOs but went to a larger U for post-grad and was always interested in college sororities. A colleague of mine in grad school told me to ask about post-grad recruitment (she said 'rush' was verboten)? I never heard of that. Is it a real thing? I won't reveal the org. in case it's wrong info. But I love the histories behind your orgs. and think it's a really interesting concept.

I especially love the symbolism behind the flowers and colors. I love the book by Geri Laufer "Tussie Mussies" which reveals the medieval and rennaissance meanings behind many different flowers and how the combinations of these flowers contained hidden meanings.

Key Club and many of those high school service clubs are sponsored by civic clubs like the Kiwanis Int or Rotary Clubs. They also have college level equivalents so students can continue their involvement. At the college and university level, Key Club is known as Circle K.

There are also opportunities to be involved in sororities outside of college. NPC sororities are not the only type. Community sororities also offer sisterhood, ritual, and symbolism and have social and philanthropic activities. They just don't happen to be affiliated with a college. Examples are Beta Sigma Phi or Epsilon Sigma Alpha. Google the term "community sororities" and you should get several results.

bro_strawter · #11 07-06-2002, 04:43 PM

We had Gamma Delta (band), Delta Tau Love (Band) and Gentry Phi Perfection, or G Phi P(Social) at my high school in Detroit.

Pi Kapp 142 · #12 07-06-2002, 06:09 PM

My friends and I had something like this in HS. We called it Hotel California (we were big into the eagles back then). We did not really think of ourselves as a fraternity, we just wanted to have a group of friends that agreed that there was a better way of being friends than just womenizing and being dicks to each other. We had a few rules and even had a few meeting and what not over the course of HS but it was mostly to agree on how we were going to have a party or something. WHat was really cool was that we had a whole big garage that wsa our clubhouse pretty much that we could have all kinds of functions at, Now that it has been a few years since leaving HS, almost all of my friends are part of a fraternity, usually in a leadership position, and very successful chapters at that.

Krisber81 · #13 07-06-2002, 06:52 PM

My High School and surronding high schools used to have sororities and fraternities but, MA educational board deleted them from all public schools, saying they harm the effect of education. That was back in the late 70's they did that. Now some schools still have them but they are known as something else...such as the Girls philantropic club

~Kristen

TPARose · #14 07-07-2002, 10:31 AM

My mother was a part of a high school sorority in her upstate New York School. They were called that "Epsilon Zetas" or the "Ezees" (HAa!) My mother moved to her school rather late so she "pledged" the sorority as a Senior, which normally wasnt allowed, but all of her friends were Ezees, so they made an exception. Although the rest of the younger girls had to do much more, the only thing that my mom had to do was write "E" on one cheek and "Z" on the other and walk around school"

When I found this out, I rolled around the floor crying with laughter, because I never thought that my mom was the type.. But now I know a lot more about my mom, so I know better

ADPiPrincess · #15 07-07-2002, 11:43 AM

There were three "secret societies" at my High school for girls and three for boys. There were always 12 girls in mine, and my mother was also in the society that I was in. We were not allowed to tell anyone that we were in the society, and we were allowed to hang out with anyone that we wished, but our loyalty fell in with those other 11 girls. It was a great experience, and I wouldn't have changed it for the world. I guess I should have known that I would go from one HS secret society into the First and Finest in the world!

Love to all my ADPi sisters and everyone else!