Pretty AGD pin

[AZTheta]

VandalSquirrel, you are amazing! I like "detective work" and you have a talent in that area, for sure.

As for dates on badges, here's what I did with my new onyx badge: I had "ABC" "BD" and 4-1-11 engraved on the back of it. None of those initials would make sense to anyone else. ABC=Advisory Board Chairman BD = Beta Delta (chapter at UofA) and the date is my official appointment date. I made provisions for the badge upon my demise so it should never end up on any auction site. Still, the explanation will accompany the badge and it may end up lost so someday, there might be another GCer researching the weird engraving on an onyx badge.

You'd think I would have had second thoughts, being appointed on April First. One day I'll tell the tale of my first year as an ABC (if I make it that long).

[AGDAlum]

[QUOTE=AzTheta;2103469]VandalSquirrel, you are amazing! I like "detective work" and you have a talent in that area, for sure.

As for dates on badges, here's what I did with my new onyx badge: I had "ABC" "BD" and 4-1-11 engraved on the back of it. None of those initials would make sense to anyone else. ABC=Advisory Board Chairman BD = Beta Delta (chapter at UofA) and the date is my official appointment date. QUOTE]

Does anyone know when Alpha Gam badges ceased being engraved with the member's name, chapter, & initiation date? I was initiatied in 1971 and my badge has a serial number (AQ363, IIRC). My assumption is that Balfour stamped 'em and sent 'em out as they were ordered. Is that serial-number system still being used? Does IHQ maintain a list? (I should probably ask IHQ....are they in the midst of moving to the new building?)

[VandalSquirrel]

[QUOTE=AGDAlum;2103965]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

VandalSquirrel, you are amazing! I like "detective work" and you have a talent in that area, for sure.

As for dates on badges, here's what I did with my new onyx badge: I had "ABC" "BD" and 4-1-11 engraved on the back of it. None of those initials would make sense to anyone else. ABC=Advisory Board Chairman BD = Beta Delta (chapter at UofA) and the date is my official appointment date. QUOTE]

Does anyone know when Alpha Gam badges ceased being engraved with the member's name, chapter, & initiation date? I was initiatied in 1971 and my badge has a serial number (AQ363, IIRC). My assumption is that Balfour stamped 'em and sent 'em out as they were ordered. Is that serial-number system still being used? Does IHQ maintain a list? (I should probably ask IHQ....are they in the midst of moving to the new building?)

The serial number system is still being used on badges from about five or so years ago, and I'm quite sure the numbers are assigned and maintained by IHQ. I'm guessing at the system/methodology but the first set of numbers would designate chapter (installed in chronological order I assume), the second identifies the individual within the chapter in the chronological order she was initiated. My number is the same on items I've received from IHQ, like The Quarterly and was needed to register on the old website. I remember that some very eager and/or industrious collegians wanted to have access to things on our old website, and as their copies of The Quarterly were sent to their home/parent's address they had to have their parents read it off the mailing label or call IHQ. Now it is streamlined and our new members are able to access everything since we use Omega Fi and they have an account to pay bills.

[AGDAlum]

[QUOTE=VandalSquirrel;2104109][QUOTE=AGDAlum;2103965]

The serial number system is still being used on badges from about five or so years ago, and I'm quite sure the numbers are assigned and maintained by IHQ. I'm guessing at the system/methodology but the first set of numbers would designate chapter (installed in chronological order I assume), the second identifies the individual within the chapter in the chronological order she was initiated.


Well, my badge says AQ363. I was initiated into Epsilon Alpha chapter (which would have been Alpha Alpha if AGD did not use regional designations) and the chapter roll was over 800 initiates by then. I logged into MyAlphaGam and didn't see any membership number (such as would be on the Quarterly mailing label).

[VandalSquirrel]

[QUOTE=AGDAlum;2104184][QUOTE=VandalSquirrel;2104109]

Originally Posted by AGDAlum

The serial number system is still being used on badges from about five or so years ago, and I'm quite sure the numbers are assigned and maintained by IHQ. I'm guessing at the system/methodology but the first set of numbers would designate chapter (installed in chronological order I assume), the second identifies the individual within the chapter in the chronological order she was initiated.


Well, my badge says AQ363. I was initiated into Epsilon Alpha chapter (which would have been Alpha Alpha if AGD did not use regional designations) and the chapter roll was over 800 initiates by then. I logged into MyAlphaGam and didn't see any membership number (such as would be on the Quarterly mailing label).

Now that Omega Fi is managing our web site that number is probably not going to show up on the part of the website visible to us. I looked and couldn't find it, but I know that I had to have that label to have the right number to sign up for the old site. Who knows how many systems have been used over the years, and how long each one was used, and the reasoning for each one.

I'll try and remember to look at a copy of The Quarterly and see if I can remember the theory a collegian and I came up with to explain the numbering system we thought was being used. It is completely possible we saw patterns where none existed, as what's on your badge doesn't readily jump out to me.

[AGDAlum]

The stoneware jar where I keep magazines I don't want to throw out right away has several issues of the P.E.O. Record, and several editions of catalogs from Vermont Country Store and L. L. Bean, but no paper copy of the Q. That's what I get for tidying up. Therefore I can't find my membership number.

I do, however, have my LMAD card. It is heavy stock, originally gray but now quite yellowed around the edges. I carried it in my wallet for years but now have it pinned to the bulletin board above my desk. The serial number on that is 35770.

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by AGDAlum

The stoneware jar where I keep magazines I don't want to throw out right away has several issues of the P.E.O. Record, and several editions of catalogs from Vermont Country Store and L. L. Bean, but no paper copy of the Q. That's what I get for tidying up. Therefore I can't find my membership number.

I do, however, have my LMAD card. It is heavy stock, originally gray but now quite yellowed around the edges. I carried it in my wallet for years but now have it pinned to the bulletin board above my desk. The serial number on that is 35770.

I actually saw my small card today, I got a frame as a gift that was the perfect size and it is on my desk. On the back of the Spring 2011 issue of The Quarterly the bottom half of the page has an explanation of how to find your member number, and what the two part code means. I don't have it in front of me for the exact wording, so let me know if you want me to scan it or to tell you the exact words used.

I'm trying to remember what that collegian did to come up with some answer to the first part of our number. I'm really guessing here, but I think it might have been chapters in alphabetical order by school name, then the second being the number initiated into the chapter. If that was the case then every chapter after a certain point would not be in alphabetical order, and with schools changing names, that could get interesting. Maybe it was done by province? The only thing that is the most logical (for me) would be in order of installation, as the only hiccup would be a recolonization but chapters never really disappear, they are just resolved and can exist as alumnae chapters until there are no longer any alumnae. I can only think of one chapter that is closed where the school no longer exists in some form, even if the name of the school changed, and that one school is quite recent.