Greek Teachers?

[SigKapSmurf]

When I went back to my HS to see some teachers before Thanksgiving this year I was wearing my homecoming sweatshirt with my letters on it and this teacher that I had never had, but she still knew me was like, "You're a SK!!! I'm an Alpha Phi!!" She was so excited as was I!! It is great to run into other people who you have a special bond with even if they are not part of your GLO they are still Greek!

[hannahgirl]

I never knew of any of my teachers being greek when I had them, but I found some out after I had became a member.

I knew that my first grade teacher's daughter was an Alpha Phi at Baldwin Wallace College in OH and I waited on them at work all the time. Well her daughter came up one day and we started talking and I told her that I was a DG and she was like...."my mom's a DG!" I thought that was sooo cool!

There are a bunch of greeks currently teaching in my district now....2 Alpha Phis, 2 DGs, a FIJI (who is actually a coach).

[RioLambdaAlum]

my cousin who just graduated this past year when i did is now a teacher and she was a delta zeta.

[PiPhiGirl2005]

Apparently, my 10th grade composition teacher, Mrs. Berry, attended the same school I do (Hillsdale) and was also a Pi Phi.

I had known during high school that Mrs. Berry had gone to Hillsdale because she had a pennant on the wall in her classroom, and she congratulated me when I told her my plans to attend. However, she never made mention of being in a sorority, at least not that I picked up on! One day not long after I became a new member, I was chatting with my cheerleading coach (who was a Chi Omega at Hillsdale) and came to find out that she had known Mrs. Berry. She then pointed out that she thought my teacher had been a Pi Phi so I dug out some of our chapter histories from the mid-eighties and there she was!

One of these days, I need to stop by my old high school and say hi to her.

My track coach was a Sig Ep. Soon I will be a teacher and don't worry I will keep letters somewhere in my room!

[dzrose93]

My high school Spanish teacher is a Phi Mu alumna, and she was at the pref party when I went through Rush.

My high school Journalism teacher is a DZ alumna. She attended the same college that I did, so I got to see her composite hanging in the house when I pledged.

[docdaisy]

I don't know if any of my teacher were Greek but...

I received my PhD in May and I'm an adjunct Political Science professor at a school with big Greek system. My department chairman has told us that we cannot mention our Greek affiliation to our students, as he considers it "unprofessional." However, he has an Alpha Phi Alpha keychain, so I proudly display my DZ keychain. That's about as "Greek" I can be.

[meheron]

During Thanksgiving Break I went to my sisters high school to help with a fundraiser (I am 8 years older then my sister who is a freshman). I had on letters and this teacher came to pick up her order and said that she was also a Theta. We began to talk and I found out that she had been in my chapter only a few years before I had joined. (Now my sister wants me to go through the scapebooks and find some pictures of her teacher She asked her if it was ok if I brought back some funny pictures of her during her college years.) Anyway, my sister now thinks that it is the coolest thing that I consider her Spanish teacher one of my sisters.

[jwoods9]

I had no idea what Fraternities or Sororities were when I was in high school...neither my mom nor dad (nor grandparents) attended college....

[oudeltasig04]

i have no clue if any of my teachers were greeks but im sure a couple of them were, i wasnt really interesting in greeks until i was in college

[AlphaSigOU]

Back when I was in high school over 20 years ago, our school newspaper and yearbook were almost always award winners, and that was thanks to Mrs. Grant, who helped start many North Miami Senior High students on a journalism career.

Sigma Delta Tau members should recognize her name: Miriam Rosenbloom Grant, past national president.

[KSUViolet06]

My kindergarten and 5th grade teachers (whom I still keep in touch with) are AKA's. My cousin teaches HS math and is a Sigma Gamma Rho. My Communication Theory professor last semester is a Tri Delta and actually used rush examples when talking about elements of communication.

I'm a future teacher and I've worked in a kindergarten. I wore my letters once because I was planning on going straight there to a philanthropy. I got plenty of questions from 5 year olds like "What are those funny E's on your shirt?" I simply explained that it's a cool club for girls in college that do lots of fun stuff and help a lot in the world. They would ask "Can I be in one?" and I'd say "When you're in college, you can."

I've also done observations in local high schools and while I didn't wear letters, I wore my badge on several occasions. I also have several letter key chains. In this case all it did was cause a distraction. All the boys would ask, "So do you guys party and drink and have parties in your house? Can I come?"

[AWJDZ]

Several of my teachers in high school and middle school were greek. I can remember seeing plates on their cars and some wearing jackets with letter, just can't remember which organizations. I know one of my female PE teachers is an AKA.

I do not have any DZ stuff in my room. I have some turtle sticky notes and pens on my desk and I have been know to use a lot of pink and green. I occansionally wear something with letters on it to soccer or volleyball practice. Most of my students know that I am a DZ. I teach middle school and they are very interested in "life after high school", but I always give them very postive images of greek life since most associate it with the mtv shows and movies. I have met a few moms who are DZs, which is really cool!

[texas*princess]

I don't recall ever hearing any of my professors mention being greek. Now that I think about it I don't remember seeing any subliminal hints either

[Erik P Conard]

Back in the 50s when the teachers' colleges were opening up for
the NIC fraternities, TKE was one of the pioneers...we thought, gosh, we'll get the jump on some of our competitors as there'd
be high school teachers as greeks and they'd help us rush.
WRONG...did not work, has not worked. First, the public school
teacher was generally not well-paid and had few allegiances to
much of anything. Second, headquarters/alumni did not try to
capitalize on it. Third, the greeks on the TC campuses did not have near the good housing the U's did, and the teachers mostly
came from the TC's.
As a college teacher, I would sometimes wear my badge during
Greek Week or something appropriate. I was heavily criticized for it by my colleagues...most of who were not greeks and had nary
a clue as to what greek life was about, not to speak of the lack of
social skills several professors retain to this day.
So, the idea of Mr Chips being a greek or the hotshot lecturer as
one of ours...is still well-hidden. Being somewhat of a rebel, I
wore a TKE sweatshirt the next day...but that was kinda dumb...
Most teachers are not greek and perhaps it is just as well; there
is little future, money-wise, in the ed biz, and the rank and file
teacher does not join much of anything. The powerful Rotary clubs, meeting at noon, freezes out the teacher and hourly one
as they cannot get the time to join such a group.
Even worse, the dedicated teacher, toiling for forty years, gets a
room named after him/her upon retirement. The entrepreneur,
a Greek (likely a Beta) gives the school millions and gets a whole
building named after him...before age 50 and he may/may not
even show up at the ribbon cutting. Not a slam at Betas!
That's the way it was...movin' west...