Hi guys, sorry to crash your board, but just wanted to put in my 2 cents on this issue dear to my heart
Although no Theta would deny the special relationship we have with Phi Gamma Delta, y'all aren't our official brother fraternity -- none of the NPC sororities have a brother fraternity 'nationally'.
Also, our founder Bettie Locke Hamilton did have a brother who was a Fiji, but her father was a Beta Theta Pi.
From the University of Delaware Theta chapter website:
Bettie Locke had been exposed to fraternity life, as her father was a Beta Theta Pi and her brother was a Phi Gamma Delta. When her friends in the Phi Gamma Delta chapter at Asbury asked her to wear their fraternity badge as a token of friendship, she declined, saying that she couldn't wear the letters unless she knew the secrets and meanings behind them. Instead, with encouragement from her father, she set out to form a fraternity for women.
She told her friend, Alice Allen, of the idea and together they wrote the constitution and by-laws, planned the ceremonies, designed a badge, and sought other women on the campus worthy to belong to the new Kappa Alpha Theta.
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Now, I agree that there are similarities in the Fiji badge and the Theta badge -- and I'm' sure they're not coincidental! But Kappa Alpha Theta was founded by women, for women.
No offense meant, of course, but I wanted to make sure no-one got their stories switched!
Theta love and mine
Greekgrrl
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