Alpha Beta Chi?!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by philfratman1961

The sorority was totally active, here is the link of it: http://www.alphabetachisorority.org/Photos.htm

Wrong college, so since the sorority to which you linked is a local, I assume wrong Alpha Beta Chi.

[philfratman1961]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Wrong college, so I assume wrong Alpha Beta Chi.

Might that what he/she mean will onlye be one of the chapters of Alpha Beta Chi, cause there`s only one Alpha Beta Chi.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by philfratman1961

Might that what he/she mean will onlye be one of the chapters of Alpha Beta Chi, cause there`s only one Alpha Beta Chi.

Particularly if we're talking about locals, or local socials and professional GLOs or honor societies, it is possible for more than one group to have the same name.

The Alpha Beta Chi to which you linked is a local sorority at Alfred State College. (All fraternities and sororities at Alfred State College are locals, meaning they are not affiliated with any larger organization.)

The Alpha Beta Chi that the Op asked about was at St. John's University in New York City, and appears to have been a business sorority. She said the coat of arms as shown in the pledge book was a simple gold shield with the letters on it. The page to which you linked shows a coat of arms of the group for the at Alfred State that doesn't match that description.

pas, you can find a list of all general/social GLOs that have been at St. John's here. Since ABX isn't listed, and given your grandmother's reference to it as a business sorority, my guess it was a professional GLO, not a general/social one. Don't know if that helps.

[oldu]

The 1968 edition of Baird's Manual lists Alpha Beta Chi as a social sorority founded in 1950 at the College of Business Administration at its Brooklyn campus. That campus was ultimately consolidated on the main campus with the other separate divisions which had been scattered. It lists 3 fraternities & 2 sororities. Two of the fraternities are now listed as active on the Staten Island campus which St. John's acquired during the 1970s so maybe that school was moved to Staten Island instead of Queens. It could be that the sororities just closed instead of moving. This may shed a little light on the mystery.

[MysticCat]

^^^ Sounds like you're on the right track, oldu. Does the Baird's entry say anything about Alpha Beta Chi's colors or symbols, or anything else of that kind, or is it just a pure listing?

[oldu]

Sorry, just a listing of the groups & their date of founding.

[CutiePie2000]

Greekchatters come and go, but there used to be a very knowledgeable person on these boards named "localsororities" and they were the go-to person for questions like this.

However, this is going back to the early 2000's when they were on this board. I think they even had a website that they maintained..I think it was an angelfire or geocities website (yes, that old).