Crests you love

[PhoenixAzul]

I love the simplicity of the Phi Tau C of A

and the makeup of the ZBT crest is neat too..the scale.

And for unusual placement and useage of the badge, Delta Chi

[summer_gphib]

I love our crest. It may or may not be "right" in hearaldry, but I think it's beautiful!

[PhoenixAzul]

I gotta get to a scanner and take a picture of our crest...it isn't heralded at all really. Maybe I'll photography my paddle...

[ta kala]

of course I am partial to KD's...this is a version of one of the original crests, dating back to 1904:




I also really like Zeta Tau Alpha's and FIJI's.

[AGDLynn]

Don't forget that our beloved Emily also created IFC crests...If I remember correctly, TKE was one.

Yep...from the TKE website

"Modified slightly several times during the early years of Tau Kappa Epsilon, the present Coat-of-Arms, adopted in 1926, was designed by Dr. Carlton B. Pierce and Ms. Emily Butterfield."

[honeychile]

Originally posted by ADPi Conniebama

I love ours - of course I know what everything stands for so maybe that has something to do with it.

I looked through greek info pages and I like these:

^Alpha Xi Delta

^chi omege (although not knowing what it stands for I have always been fearful of the skull thing

^kappa Delta
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^kappa kappa gamma

I like the crests with a bunch of stuff on them. They keep my AADD suppressed.

LOL - I thought I was the only one who hated the concept of a skull & crossbones on a pin!!

I like the Alpha Sigma Phi's coat of arms that's shown - but isn't the "bar sinister" a sign of bastardy?

[AGDLynn]

When I found this during a goodle search on our sister Emily Butterfield, I found this gem!! (Emily wrote a book called College Fraternity Heraldry.)

http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/howe/

STEWART S. HOWE COLLECTION
(Record Series 26/20/30)

Illinois alumnus Stewart S. Howe provided the impetus for the development of the Student Life and Culture Archival Program at the University of Illinois Archives. Howe was founder of the Stewart S. Howe Alumni Service, which provided management, public relations, and fund-raising assistance to fraternities, sororities, and institutions of higher education. He had a life-long interest in higher education and was a dedicated collector of material dealing with fraternal organizations and other areas of college life.

Howe was a long-time friend and supporter of the University of Illinois and a frequent user of the Library and the University Archives. When he passed away in 1973, his collection of material dealing with student life, along with his personal and business papers, were willed to the University Archives. The collection contains over 350 cubic feet of material, dating from 1810 to the present, including books, journals, newsletters, clippings, correspondence, and photographs. It includes files on student life at over 300 American colleges and universities.

As a Kappa Sigma, Howe had a special interest in the American fraternity system and his collection demonstrates his emphasis in that area. He built the world's largest collection of materials dealing with fraternities and sororities. Supported by a gift from the Stewart Howe Foundation, the Student Life and Culture Archival Program is dedicated to building and maintaining this unique and outstanding collection.

The Howe Collection contains quarterly journals, histories, directories, catalogs, song books, handbooks, pledge manuals, and subject files for over 230 fraternities and sororities (active and defunct). It also contains material on interfraternity organizations such as the National Interfraternity Council, College Fraternities Secretaries Association, College Fraternities Editors Association, Interfraternity Research Advisory Council, National Panhellenic Conference, Professional Interfraternity Conference, and Professional Panhellenic Association. In addition, college and university subject files hold information on individual organizations and the fraternity system at a large number of institutions throughout the nation.

The following section of the Howe Collection finding aid lists only the journal, publications, and subject files for specific fraternities and sororities represented in the collection. The finding aid is arranged alphabetically by name of fraternity or sorority.
|A| B-C| D| E-J| K| L-O| P-R| S| T-Z|
The full (A-Z) version of this finding aid (147,671 bytes) is also available. A complete finding aid for the collection is available in the University Archives. For more information contact:


Archivist for Student Life and Culture
Archives Research Center
Room 105
1707 South Orchard
Urbana, Illinois, 61801

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[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by honeychile
LOL - I thought I was the only one who hated the concept of a skull & crossbones on a pin!!

I like the Alpha Sigma Phi's coat of arms that's shown - but isn't the "bar sinister" a sign of bastardy?

Remember that the heraldic blazon is described from the wearer's left and right, respectively; as presented facing you it's reversed. So what appears at first to be a 'bar sinister' is actually a 'bar dexter'.

[AngelPhiSig]

I love Phi Sigma Sigma's crest... Ive never seen anyone else with even a similar crest!

[honeychile]

Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
Remember that the heraldic blazon is described from the wearer's left and right, respectively; as presented facing you it's reversed. So what appears at first to be a 'bar sinister' is actually a 'bar dexter'.

OOPS!!! My bad!!

[SurfinDBeach]

Don't forget that our beloved Emily also created IFC crests...If I remember correctly, TKE was one.

You are correct... She helped design the current Coat of Arms...

There were three in use by us before the current... The first was not "correct," but was nice... Can't post that one...

This is the second one called the "Minchin Coat of Arms"...


This one is the third one used... Called the "Bastard Crest" for obvious reasons if you know your Heraldry...

LOL - I thought I was the only one who hated the concept of a skull & crossbones on a pin!!

Well then I guess you wouldn't like this image that one of our Fraters made for a webpage... It has an artistic version of the badge embedded onto the shield...

[ASUADPi]

Originally posted by summer_gphib
I love our crest. It may or may not be "right" in hearaldry, but I think it's beautiful!

Of course I'm totally partial to ADPi's, but Gamma Phi's is really pretty.

[a.e.B.O.T.]

Originally posted by SurfinDBeach

This one is the third one used... Called the "Bastard Crest" for obvious reasons if you know your Heraldry...

This is CLEARLY taken from the Beta Theta Pi Crest... Well, there is atleast a strong resemblence

[honeychile]

Originally posted by summer_gphib
I love our crest. It may or may not be "right" in hearaldry, but I think it's beautiful!

That is very pretty!!

[Glitter650]

I don't believe that the phi sig crest has any hearaldly behind it, either. And I can't say it's pretty, but I can say it is unique and it's meaning is really cool.