University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) 2012 Recruitment

[BAMA2]

I have an interesting twist on delayed rush at Ole Miss. When my daughter went thru rush in 2008 at Alabama, a high school friend of hers that went through was released from rush. This girl was in the Honors program at Alabama. Nevertheless, the day she was released she packed her bags and headed back home. She then enrolled at Ole Miss (for that same fall) and because of delayed rush she was able to go through and she did get a bid. She ended up back home the next year! She often said she never should have left Alabama but she was so caught up in rush at the time that she made a rash decision that she regrets to this day.

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by Giddy

Dear Mary Poppins,

Thank you! You're totally right. I'd forgotten the best part of the story. (And now that others have followed-up so diligently, I do recall hearing her sister pledged DDD.) The image of Mobley driving up to Oxford (in a convertible I heard at the time), marching into the Chi-O house and removing her picture is just too delicious.

I heard that she pulled up in a horse-drawn carriage wearing a hoop skirt. And that she snatched that portrait with a moxie that would make Scarlett O’Hara blush.

Originally Posted by Giddy

Maybe my age is showing, but seems like the stuff today is so boring in comparison. It's either poor grades or drinking or drugs or sex or some other tired misbehavior that takes too much time and energy and gives little in return. These current tales of woe are not the rush stories we live to re-tell. They're sad and mundane. No inspiration.

Perhaps the new stories will develop some interest after 50 years of recollecting and retelling. And the new stories may even include pics – for better or for worse. Most likely worse.

Meanwhile, I didn’t trip across anything to indicate that Mary Ann Mobley’s daughter, Clancy (Collins was her last name), ever pledged any sorority. She attended the Sorbonne in Paris and Magdalen College in Oxford, England, before graduating from Stanford. Nice article regarding the southern influence of her California wedding:

Worthy of royalty: Southern tradition reigns as the daughter of Mississippi's first Miss America weds in California

Originally Posted by Giddy

Ole Miss Sorority rush is the best.

Definitely – a bastion of the Old South.

[MaryPoppins]

Originally Posted by Hartofsec

Meanwhile, I didn’t trip across anything to indicate that Mary Ann Mobley’s daughter, Clancy (Collins was her last name), ever pledged any sorority.

Hmm. Perhaps I may have accidentally confabulated her with another ChiO legacy story.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by Hartofsec

Definitely – a bastion of the Old South.

LOL, there are plenty of us who wouldn't exactly consider that a good thing.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by IUHoosiergirl88

Since we have deferred recruitment I'll speak in terms of school years...she left at the end of the '08-'09 school year and joined the UK chapter fall of '09

Originally Posted by MaryPoppins

So she went somewhere that sophomores are routine in NM classes? That would make sense.

Don't know if this makes a difference but my understanding is that UK has a junior quota. Or maybe it is an upperclassman quota that includes sophomores.

[Giddy]

No -- don't necessarily consider it the bastion of anything -- except it isn't dull. Ever read Faulkner? There's a reason his work isn't tired or stale. Lots and lots of layers.

Written couple of recs to OM for the first time in 25 years. Don't live in the region. Never have. OM rush gave me the best people and interviewing skills which I've used to great advantage throughout my career -- NOT in the south. No doubt other SEC schools are similar. But Ole Miss is one of a kind.

Best to all the OM rushees, sororities and those supporting them.

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

LOL, there are plenty of us who wouldn't exactly consider that a good thing.

...acknowledged

Perhaps not the "South will rise again" part, but more the charm, romanticism, and tradition maybe.

[Gingerdeltaz]

This may have been answered before, but I'm curious about something...what is the reasoning for having a two week (approximately) lapse between the water parties and the start of recruitment at Ole Miss?

I would have thought that the water parties would have been moved back to be closer to the other recruitment events.

[MaryPoppins]

Originally Posted by Gingerdeltaz

This may have been answered before, but I'm curious about something...what is the reasoning for having a two week (approximately) lapse between the water parties and the start of recruitment at Ole Miss?

I would have thought that the water parties would have been moved back to be closer to the other recruitment events.

I've been told that it's meant to give the PNMs a chance to try recruitment out before the registration closes.

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by Giddy

No -- don't necessarily consider it the bastion of anything -- except it isn't dull. Ever read Faulkner? There's a reason his work isn't tired or stale. Lots and lots of layers.

Speaking of Faulkner -- his niece, Dean Faulkner Wells, was Mary Ann Mobley's sorority sister at Ole Miss.

Dean Faulkner Wells wrote a memoir about Faulkner (her "Pappy") and her life in Mississippi -- Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/03/25...ing/index.html

She passed away several months after this article was published.

(haven't read the book, but it sounds like a good read)

[Gingerdeltaz]

Originally Posted by MaryPoppins

I've been told that it's meant to give the PNMs a chance to try recruitment out before the registration closes.

Got it...makes since that is is right before the last day of registration. Thanks!

[OleMissGlitter]

Originally Posted by Gingerdeltaz

This may have been answered before, but I'm curious about something...what is the reasoning for having a two week (approximately) lapse between the water parties and the start of recruitment at Ole Miss?

I would have thought that the water parties would have been moved back to be closer to the other recruitment events.

Some years there is a bigger gap between water parties & philanthropy parties .....just depends on football schedule.

PS presentations were awesome. Ole Miss would be lucky with any of the four (DZ, ADPi, Alpha Phi, & AGD)! I believe Panhellenic should announce something soon!

PSS I heard over 1200 are registered again!

[MaryPoppins]

Originally Posted by OleMissGlitter

Some years there is a bigger gap between water parties & philanthropy parties .....just depends on football schedule.

PS presentations were awesome. Ole Miss would be lucky with any of the four (DZ, ADPi, Alpha Phi, & AGD)! I believe Panhellenic should announce something soon!

PSS I heard over 1200 are registered again!

Good to hear from you!

[Gingerdeltaz]

Originally Posted by OleMissGlitter

Some years there is a bigger gap between water parties & philanthropy parties .....just depends on football schedule.

PS presentations were awesome. Ole Miss would be lucky with any of the four (DZ, ADPi, Alpha Phi, & AGD)! I believe Panhellenic should announce something soon!

PSS I heard over 1200 are registered again!

Keeping my fingers crossed for Delta Zeta, but gotta admit, any of the four would be great!

Will they wait until after recruitment to make the announcement?

[KillarneyRose]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

When DG colonized at Bama, knowledgeable posters said it was probably too early for ADPi or ZTA to come back to Ole Miss. If that's still true, what other groups might be a fit for Ole Miss? Alpha Chi Omega and Alpha Gamma Delta come to mind as having long-standing chapters at big schools in neighboring states. Delta Zeta, too.

I would so love to see Delta Zeta at Ole Miss!