new to greek life. don't fully understand the concept of families.

[AOII Angel]

My chapter did families, but we never named them. I can count my family back 11 generations. It's pretty neat to now follow all of those women on FB and see how they turned out to be professional women with ties to AOII. I love it. I perpetuates the lifetime aspect of the organization. I don't understand the family name since over time that may or may not mean anything to the people in the family (imagine a name picked by people in the 70s being relevent to members now.) It's all up to what your chapter want to do, though.

[MST62]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

I don't understand the family name since over time that may or may not mean anything to the people in the family (imagine a name picked by people in the 70s being relevent to members now.) It's all up to what your chapter want to do, though.

I totally agree with the 70s name choices - my chapter used to have terribly dated family names, but they were recently changed to names tied to our organization, to prevent this from happening in the future. All of our family names are now one of my organizations symbols, part of our crest, etc. I like it a lot better than being named 'The Goonies Family' or something, just because someone liked that movie.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by MST62

I totally agree with the 70s name choices - my chapter used to have terribly dated family names, but they were recently changed to names tied to our organization, to prevent this from happening in the future. All of our family names are now one of my organizations symbols, part of our crest, etc. I like it a lot better than being named 'The Goonies Family' or something, just because someone liked that movie.

Hell yeah for the Goonies!

[CougADPi]

Originally Posted by MST62

I totally agree with the 70s name choices - my chapter used to have terribly dated family names, but they were recently changed to names tied to our organization, to prevent this from happening in the future. All of our family names are now one of my organizations symbols, part of our crest, etc. I like it a lot better than being named 'The Goonies Family' or something, just because someone liked that movie.

My family was the "Brown Haired Hussies". None of us knew where the name came from, but apparently the more recent members have changed it. I always thought it was funny.

[MST62]

Originally Posted by CougADPi

My family was the "Brown Haired Hussies". None of us knew where the name came from, but apparently the more recent members have changed it. I always thought it was funny.

HA! Our previous ones were pretty simple and boring, some people just got mad that they weren't related to our organization in any way, so the ladies a few classes ago changed them. If they had been as creative as that, I totally would have fought to keep the name!