Help identify this pin, please

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

If she was a DG, I would hope she would know what her coat of arms looks like!

She said that she knew it was the crest but didn't know what the purpose of it was, so that's why I asked. I could own an old pin shaped like the Kappa coat of arms and not know the original intended purpose of it.

However, I don't understand why if she's an Alpha Xi she would want to wear any other organization's badge, regardless of who the original owner may have been. My mom is a Kappa Delta. I am a Kappa. I love my mother. I love Kappa. I wouldn't want to wear her KD badge. It's possible to honor family and fraternity.

[WhiteRose1912]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

She said that she knew it was the crest but didn't know what the purpose of it was, so that's why I asked. I could own an old pin shaped like the Kappa coat of arms and not know the original intended purpose of it.

However, I don't understand why if she's an Alpha Xi she would want to wear any other organization's badge, regardless of who the original owner may have been. My mom is a Kappa Delta. I am a Kappa. I love my mother. I love Kappa. I wouldn't want to wear her KD badge. It's possible to honor family and fraternity.

She doesn't want to wear it. She has already graduated, and keeps her family's pins on her graduation stole, which is hanging from her mirror. It'd be more appropriate to say that she is displaying her family's pins.

[swarmina]

Originally Posted by WhiteRose1912

She doesn't want to wear it. She has already graduated, and keeps her family's pins on her graduation stole, which is hanging from her mirror. It'd be more appropriate to say that she is displaying her family's pins.

Yay! WhiteRose wins! So sorry for all the drama. I thought the original ? was clear, but I guess not. I just wondered what this DG pin was for. It is obviously now almost 100 years old. My GM is long gone and I can't ask her, thus I ask the next best wise source, GreekChat!

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by WhiteRose1912

She doesn't want to wear it. She has already graduated, and keeps her family's pins on her graduation stole, which is hanging from her mirror. It'd be more appropriate to say that she is displaying her family's pins.

I'd be willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that DG has a policy regarding badge disposition upon a member's death, which doesn't include being displayed by a nonmember. Our rules are that the badge gets buried with the deceased or returned to HQ. Titchou can correct me if DG doesn't have something similar in place.

If this is the case, displaying it isn't the thing to do, either.