Does your family show Greek Love?

[BlueReign]

Originally posted by tld221
im the first in my immediate family to be greek. my sister is starting college next year and maybe my brother is going to college the year after

i think being greek is something my sister is considering. the first thing she says is, after looking at her #1 school pick's BGLOs is "XYZ looks fun!"

dont see her being blinded by that light. then again, time will mature her decision into something better than "XYZ looks fun"

my aunt is a Delta in SC. we havent spoken since my sophomore year, so she doesnt know of my new life of Sigma. i dont know how shes going to react, i think she really expected me to be Delta.

no one else in my family is in or completed college, so i stand alone.

You sound a lot like me. Do your thang neo!

Maybe I'll get to meet you soon at a NE Regional... if I ever go? Perhaps this year I will.

[Tickled Pink 2]

I am the first and also the first to graduate from a 4 yr college.

[1flypoodle]

My dad is a member of PBS and when I was first entering college he expected me to do zeta, but when i crossed Sigma Gamma Rho and told him about it he was cool with it. He was just happy I kept blue in the family.

My sister on the other hand will be entering college this next year and she's considering pledging, but she says she doesn't know what she wants to do.

Either way it's all love

[tld221]

Originally posted by BlueReign
You sound a lot like me. Do your thang neo!

Maybe I'll get to meet you soon at a NE Regional... if I ever go? Perhaps this year I will.

maybe midwinter? dont know how im getting there...
but definitely NE regional and most def Boule!

[TrueBeauty]

Im the first greek in my family as well as the first to attend a 4 year university. My family was pretty supportive. The first time I wore my line jacket around my grandma she said "Ooh that jacket is pretty, but what does E.R.P mean" She's so funny. I showed her the greek alphabet and then she got it. My mom is very proud she always brags to her friends about how Im a "Simma Gamma Rho".

[mulattogyrl]

I have an uncle who's a Kappa. He was very supportive, but the rest of my family wasn't initially. They said Greek life took time away from family life (I'm very family oriented). But they learned that I could mix the two. Now they're very supportive. My family brags now about how I'm a Delta, so it's all good.

[IOTA-4A'88F]

I was the first to become Greek. My younger cousin came to MSU a year after me and he was interested in XYZ fraternity so I encouraged him to pursue it. He tried to make friends with some of the XYZ brothers but was disrespected because most of my cousin's friends were Iotas (when you are a friend or family member of an Iota, you are pretty much under the Brown and Gold umbrella). Then we had our smoker and he showed up, totally surprised me.

Four years later, both of us became Masons in the same class.

We are cousins and brothers two times over.

[MightyQuinn]

Originally posted by Aurora6
Just curious, do you have relatives who are members of Greek Lettered Organizations? If so, how did they respond to you becoming greek?

I do not have anyone in my family who is a member of a BGLO so I get the impression they could care less one way or another. My mother's take on it was if I'm happy she is happy for me. She knows what Delta Sigma Theta stands for and represents through me and my actions so hopefully I will be the one to spread the Delta light to my younger cousins .

[rho4life]

Originally posted by rho4life
I was pinned by a cousin, but I've also got Deltas on both sides of the familly. Most of the men went to the military instead of college.

Turns out there's also and AKA in the family. As I was trying to recruit a young cousin, it came up in conversation. As long as people go to college, and pick ONE organization, I'm happy.

....But I'm happier if it's Sigma!

[Bajan_Delta]

I'm the second person in my family to graduate college, with my cousin who is one year older being the first and she was way too focused on studying to consider going greek so, I am the only greek. Most of the family don't even know what the heck that means. Where I'm from, we don't have such things as fraternities or sororities. I told my mother and she says, "is that a cult?"

[NUPE4LIFE]

I have an aunt and 5 cousins who are AKA, and my aunt as well as a cousin married Ques. I'm only Kappa in the family. My cousin-in-law teases me all the time about how I made the wrong decision. It's all in good fun. He's a minister but he still reps that Omega Psi Phi! My mother questioned me though when she knew I was thinking about pledging. She was like why are doing this. She thought I was wasting my money. She eventually came around.

[Azul]

Ironically, my niece who is three years older than my daughter became a Sigma before I became a Zeta. She was the first to "Go Greek" in our family. I became a Zeta a year later, and my daughter followed in Momma Dove's footsteps, crossing in January '06.

My Mom teases us saying "my babies look like Queens in their "Royal Blue."

[icebrAKA]

All of the greeks in my family are Alphas and Omegas. I started the legacy and hope to continue the legacy. But if my daughter chooses to go elsewhere I won't be mad. But she better be the best damn Zeta, SGRho, or Delta that she could be!

[TRSimon]

Originally posted by Azul
Ironically, my niece who is three years older than my daughter became a Sigma before I became a Zeta. She was the first to "Go Greek" in our family. I became a Zeta a year later, and my daughter followed in Momma Dove's footsteps, crossing in January '06.

My Mom teases us saying "my babies look like Queens in their "Royal Blue."

That's so sweet. I have a variety of other greeks in my family. It's interesting as time goes on and people pledge and marry greek people. I'm all about family graduating from college, with honors, getting jobs/into grad schools of choice, before anything else.

[neosoul]

Originally Posted by Bajan_Delta

Where I'm from, we don't have such things as fraternities or sororities. I told my mother and she says, "is that a cult?"

My heritage is African and my parents kinda thought the same, but I was like come on now, Cousin A, B, C, D & E are greek so it's cool. I'm an aspirant and when I talk to my male cousins they are supportive of whatever choice I make