Meeting your Brother/Sister/Sorors somewhere you didn't expect

[atrianglepi]

I was at a neighbor's Super Bowl Party a few years back and I asked another neighbor( a Delta Gamma) if her daughter rushed/pledged at Furman. She told me she pledged ADPi. I said I'm an ADPi and another woman whose daughter was in my Girl Scout troop I was a leader for was standing there, she then turned over the dish she had brought to reveal the ADPi address labels we all get every year. I tell you we are everywhere.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Jen

I always get a clue that people might be Greek themselves when they say Alpha FEE instead of FIE. It always makes me ask if they were Greek because unless you are, that's something you probably won't know.

Not necessarily. I've run into quite a few non-Greek people who pronounce it FEE, which is the standard British pronunciation and seems also to be used by some in the science and math context. I can still hear one person, who I know wasn't Greek, from 30 years ago seeing me wearing letters and saying "Ah, you're in Fee Mu Alpha."

On the other hand, Alpha FEE rather than Alpha FIE is something I learned here at GreekChat, long after my college days. We didn't have Alpha Phi at my school, so I didn't know to use FEE. Ditto Alpha Xi Delta.

[Leslie Anne]

I think I might have mentioned this on GC before. A few years back, I was looking for some help from a professional organizer. So I went to the National Association of Professional Organizers web site and did a search for the type of help I needed and the area I live in. I got a bunch of listings and proceeded to visit different web sites. Finally, I found one that I felt comfortable with so I gave her a call and made an appointment for her to come to my home the following week. When she arrived I showed her into my very unorganized office. She noticed all the KD stuff and blurted out, "Are you a Kappa Delta?! So am I!" That was the first time something like that happened to me. I thought it was neat how of all the organizers I could have picked I ended up with a sister.

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

On the other hand, Alpha FEE rather than Alpha FIE is something I learned here at GreekChat, long after my college days. We didn't have Alpha Phi at my school, so I didn't know to use FEE. Ditto Alpha Xi Delta.

We pronounce it "FIE" ... the correct way.

Anyway.

Several years ago, when my husband and I first moved to this area, we were looking for a synagogue to join. We were coming up on the High Holy Days with nowhere to go. The United Jewish Center in Danbury, CT (which serves both the Reform and Conservative movements) had an offering: You had to meet with the rabbi, attend one Friday evening service, and attend a prospective-member tea, and you would get free HHD tickets.

At the tea, I found myself talking to someone whose name sounded really familiar, but I couldn't place it. In the course of conversation, I asked her what she did, and she told me that she was a national officer of her sorority. I asked her which one. She said "Alpha Epsilon Phi". I nearly dropped my tea. Everything clicked into place - she had been at my initiation and at my chapter installation! (Bonnie Wunsch)

We ended up joining a different synagogue, though.

[DSTRen13]

I was working the Junior League Thrift Sale talking to another JL member, "X". I don't remember now how it came up in conversation, but we realized that we both had a friend in common, "Y". When I said that I knew Y from the alumnae chapter of my sorority, Y was startled, and revealed that she is also a Delta. We'd known each other for almost a year and had no idea! She then told me that another JL member, "Z", is a Delta as well - at the time, Z and I served on communications council together and saw each other pretty regularly, and again, I had no clue she was a Delta! At our next meeting, I mentioned it to her & subsequent shouting ensued. The other members at the meeting just stared at us like we were crazy, and one girl commented "Okay, you must have just discovered you're sorority sisters or something."