Officer titles. Common or not?

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Gusteau

Yes! Many chapters also use it to serenade sororities. Its a nice song, but extremely difficult to sing, especially a cappella.

ETA: I have a terrible singing voice as it is, so I feel bad for potential future wife...and all those people in Denny's this one time.

That's awesome.

LOL @ hazing people at Denny's like that.

[KSigkid]

Kappa Sigma has the following:

President: Worthy Grand Master
Vice-President: Worthy Grand Procurator
2nd Vice President: Worthy Grand Master of Ceremonies
Secretary: Worthy Grand Scribe
Treasurer: Worthy Grand Treasurer

They correspond to the names of chapter officers, except they have the name "worthy" in front.

[KSUViolet06]

On the chapter level, our officer titles are pretty common:

President
Vice President
Recruitment Director
Treasurer
Secretary
Education Director
Panhellenic Delegate

On the national level our Exec Council is as follows:

National President
National Treasurer
Alumnae VP [deals with all things related to alumnae chapters/alumna volunteer coordination/etc.]
Collegiate VP [deals with all things related to assisting our collegiate chapters and coordinating volunteers to work with them]
Membership Development VP [deals with expansion opportunities, developing and sustaining colonies]
Publications VP [deals with all our publications, the website, social networking endeavors, etc.]
NPC Delegate

[SAEalumnus]

Our national board of directors is referred to as the Supreme Council:

Eminent Supreme Archon - President/CEO
Eminent Supreme Deputy Archon - Vice President
Eminent Supreme Warden - Financial officer
Eminent Supreme Herald - duties as assigned by the ESA
Eminent Supreme Chronicler - duties as assigned by the ESA
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Eminent Supreme Recorder - Executive Director/COO (not technically a member of the Supreme Council, but generally listed among the national officers)


At the chapter level, the following officers will appear in every chapter, but the composition of any given chapter's executive board will vary:

Eminent Archon - President
Eminent Deputy Archon - Vice President
Eminent Treasurer - Treasurer
Eminent Recorder - Recording Secretary
Eminent Correspondent - Corresponding Secretary
Eminent Chronicler - Historian
Eminent Warden - Seargent-at-Arms
Eminent Herald
Eminent Chaplain

[naraht]

It is just the names for the National Head, but I found a book that lists them for a number of National Fraternities, Sororities, Professional and Honoraries. It is from 1915, so it doesn't include all of the current groups...

http://books.google.com/books?id=nFd...page&q&f=false

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by naraht

It is from 1915, so it doesn't include all of the current groups...

It could also be out-of-date. It lists ours as "Supreme President," which was correct in 1915. Sometime though (late 40s?), we changed the "Supreme" in all of our national offices to "National," so that know we have a National President. Don't know why the change was made.

Great find, though!

[Senusret I]

I love how the president of the Chemistry professional is Grand Master Alchemist!

[Psi U MC Vito]

I was surprised to learn that Theta Xi used to be a professional fraternity.

[Gusteau]

That link is very interesting. I couldn't remember the date we made our officer titles secret, so I was wondering if I would open it up to find something that should not have been published. Luckliy (or not so luckily if you're nosey) it listed "AA."

What's really fascinating is that we're listed among general fraternities when we were still a legal fraternity in 1915. We went single membership in 1909, which began the trend that led us to become a general fraternity, but it was not official until 1922. It really goes to show how prevalent it was to initiate men outside of legal studies leading up to the 1922 resolution.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Gusteau

That link is very interesting. I couldn't remember the date we made our officer titles secret, so I was wondering if I would open it up to find something that should not have been published. Luckliy (or not so luckily if you're nosey) it listed "AA."

Yeah, I've run into a couple of GLOs where concept of what is private has changed somewhat over the last century or so. Prior to things like Google Books, it didn't really matter if there was something in the 1890 Baird's Manual that wasn't public today, since for books that old, it wasn't like the entire campus would read it. Now, on the other hand...

Randy

[LucyKKG]

I know this isn't a GLO, but don't the Elks have kind of archaic officer names? I think I went to an Elks lodge for poll training and saw a parking space reserved for the Exulted Ruler or something along those lines.

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by LucyKKG

I know this isn't a GLO, but don't the Elks have kind of archaic officer names? I think I went to an Elks lodge for poll training and saw a parking space reserved for the Exulted Ruler or something along those lines.

Look at the Masons if you want to go that way.

[Drolefille]

National President
National VP for Alumnae
National VP for Collegiate Chapters
National VP for Membership
National VP for Extension
National VP for Programming
National VP for Communication
National VP for Finance

Our chapter titles are pretty similar to the "translated" versions of others above with some of the positions styled as VP positions matching the National Council. We're pretty boring, but I actually like that we're very business-esque.

[rljenk]

Alpha Rho Chi has a number of unusual titles as an architecture fraternity.

Worthy Architect (President)
Worthy Associate Architect (Vice-President)
Worthy Estimator (Treasurer)
Worthy Clerk (Recording Secretary)
Worthy Scribe (Corresponding Secretary)

The Worthy Estimator gets the most chuckles. In construction, an estimator is a professional who reviews the plans, determines the amount of materials required, and provides an budget (estimate) for the design.

[Gusteau]

I mean, if I had found something secret I would have just kept my mouth shut, but I'm always wondering if I'll run into something surprising.