Coat of Arms

[KarenC725]

They all look great! It's good to see people being proud and showing their houses' coat of arms.

[SilverTurtle]

This isn't the highest quality graphic, but you get the idea. It should be more gold than yellow, also.

(If the above image didn't show up, try this link

[Corbin Dallas]

Here is our coat of arms.

[matthewg]

Here it is, my chapters coat of arms

[AGDAlum]

I will leave it to one of my more computer-adept sisters to post an illustration of Alpha Gamma Delta's armorial bearings.

Alpha Gams are very proud of our founder Emily Helen Butterfield, who was an expert on heraldry. She wrote College Fraternity Heraldry (pub. by Banta, 1931). She designed the Zeta Tau Alpha and Tau Kappa Epsilon armorial bearings.

[AGDAlum]

BTW, because of Emily's expertise the Alpha Gam pledge (new member) pin is also heraldically correct. ("On a shield, parti per pale, or and vert, a fess gules," which means, "On a shield, divided in half vertically, gold left and green right, a cross-bar in red.")

Our coat of arms is described, "Gules, on a bend or, between two billets of the same, three annulets vert," or a red shield with a diagonal band of gold between two rectangles of gold, three green rings." The crest is "a red and a buff rose proper between epsilon and pi," the "proper" meaning "in their natural state."

It's interesting to note that newer GLO's apparently have no clue about heraldry when their design their coats-of-arms, nor are they inclined to learn. (Technically the crest is the part at the top, above the shield.)

[AlphaGam1019]

[BrianMUDU]

Delta Upsilon

Originally posted by AlphaGam1019

Let's not forget about the Canadian Armorial Bearings! The chapters in Canada use the Armorial Bearings without the helmet. It's contrary to the rulings of the British government for anyone except the sovereign to bear the royal helmet:

[bolingbaker]

Originally posted by matthewg
Here it is, my chapters coat of arms

How old is that coat of arms? Most of ours are of English heraldric. Your German escutcheon looks different. It's really beautiful.

[Optimist Prime]

Here is our description

Or, on a bend gules, a nowed serpent between two swords, points downward, pale wise all of the first. On an esquires helmet the crest of an eagle displayed Or.

It also has a motto at the bottom and a mantle or.

[erniegurl00]

Here's our crest:

[queequek]

I have trouble getting in the crest into the screen, so instead I just put a link,

http://www.stanford.edu/group/tdx/

Theta Delta Chi

[splendidg]

this is ours:

[aopirose]

This may be answered in Ms. Butterfield’s book, but the only copy I ever saw was on eBay. It quickly got out of my price range as it sold for over $500. Why did she not use a lozenge for the AGD or ZTA shield? In heraldry, a woman can only use a lozenge for her shield unless she is a sovereign. The other shield designs are considered masculine and more appropriate for one that must bear arms. Traditionally, women did not fight and thus did not bear arms. Any insight would be helpful.