Back in the day . . .

[SWTXBelle]

AOII Angel - Let me guess - replace "Gamma Phi" with AO II, and you've got your pref song!

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

AOII Angel - Let me guess - replace "Gamma Phi" with AO II, and you've got your pref song!

No, but that would be a nice song too! Instead of "Love" we sang A-O-Pi really drawn out. One line I do remember is:
A-O-II
It is for always
and not just college years

[Benzgirl]

RAIDS!!!
Of course, there were always food and/or bevvies involved.

[aephi alum]

"The day" was mid-1990's for me...

It was still called rush, rho chis were still rho chis, and real candles were used at pref. The year I rushed was the last year sororities could give flowers to rushees (*ahem* PNMs) at pref. One of our songs had the word "rushee" in it. (I don't think we use that song any more. "Rushee" has two syllables; "potential new member" has six, so it doesn't quite fit the meter.)

AEPhi had just changed over from "pledge" to "new member". My new member manual says "pledge manual" on the spine, and the word "pledge" is used throughout.

Real candles were used for candle passes, too, but there was a candle pass for a baby. When I had my candle pass for getting engaged, the circle happened to start with me, and I had to explain carefully that I was engaged and not pregnant.

[srmom]

How about planning/skipping your classes around All My Children, One Life to Live & General Hospital! We all met in the tv room with our lunches (had to sneak them out of the dining room under the nose of the house mom) to watch. I usually would try hard to hang in there for the 1/2 hour Jeapordy episode - you know, intellectual stuff since I was skipping class

Luke & Laura's wedding was a must see.

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by srmom

How about planning/skipping your classes around All My Children, One Life to Live & General Hospital!

I had a friend back in high school who didn't participate in any after-school activities because she had to get home in time for General Hospital. Her only extracurricular was choir because it met during the school day.

This, of course, was in the days before TiVo, but there were programmable VCRs. I went to high school in the Bronze Age, not the Stone Age.

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

I had a friend back in high school who didn't participate in any after-school activities because she had to get home in time for General Hospital. Her only extracurricular was choir because it met during the school day.

Luke and Laura, and the Cassadines

[barbino]

Originally Posted by srmom

How about planning/skipping your classes around All My Children, One Life to Live & General Hospital! We all met in the tv room with our lunches (had to sneak them out of the dining room under the nose of the house mom) to watch. I usually would try hard to hang in there for the 1/2 hour Jeapordy episode - you know, intellectual stuff since I was skipping class

Luke & Laura's wedding was a must see.

Thank you for reminding me - I'd almost forgotten. Our house always had those three soap operas on in a row on the TV in the lounge. One semester I was 5 minutes late to a class almost all the time because I wanted to watch the end of "All My Children." I wasn't the only one, and then we'd walk to class together really fast so that the profs wouldn't think that we were coming in too late.

[OldAOPi]

Oh, and when we passed the Loving Cup around, it had real LOVE in it, not grape juice....

And I remember the AMC and GH sagas. I had never watched soaps before then. I never did care for One Life to Live - and it was between those two...we did name one of our son's Tristan - not after Tristan "Scorpio" Rogers, but I did know the name from that! Remember Anna with the plastic scare? She is on one of those makeover shows on Style or one of those channels.

[AOIIalum]

Originally Posted by OldAOPi

Oh, and when we passed the Loving Cup around, it had real LOVE in it, not grape juice....

You owe me a new can of Diet Coke, thankyouverymuch.

[FSUZeta]

diet coke-please.......it was tab and tab alone!

serenades were so much fun-giving them and receiving them. one fraternity even had two of the members accompany them on guitars and the changed the words to "california girls" to sororities on campus and then of course, the chorus was "wish they all could be like the zeta girls" when they sang to us, and then when they got to the next street over, it was the pi phi girls, adpi girls, etc.

rush was full blown with a song and dance in the front yard to welcome the rushees to the house. after each party, the rushee was escorted by her hostess to the ends of the walk and down the steps and when enough sisters had been freed up, we started another song and dance, lining our sidewalk. we always sang the greek alphabet song and the chorus was "let me hear you say, zeta tau alpha, let me hear you say, zeta tau alpha, let ne hear you say, zeta tau alpha"......on and on and on and on! graduating sisters passed down their hideous rush dresses to anyone who needed them-the sorority chapters did not totally revamp recruitment every year.

some of the fraternity members across the street would climb out on their porch roof and give the rushess scores on cards, like the diving judges did at the olympics. it was so cruel, whether they got a "10" or a "1" and it always worried us that some rushees might not see it as an asset to have a fraternity across the street.

certain groups hung out at certain bars. at our hangout, only beer or bottled cokes were served. there were a couple of old pin ball machines(jumbo was one of them) a couple of foosball tables and several pool tables. they always played either,"the women all get prettier at closing time" or "why don't we get drunk and screw" as the bar closed. lovely!

greek week was a big deal and included some competition every night for a week. same with sigma chi derby.

we could get group seating at the football games and fraternities would do their cheers at the game.

[honeychile]

*Hoping there's a nursing home for greeks!*

I just want to say, "I remember that!" to so many things!

FSUZeta, that's how we sang the alphabet song, too - I think. Did it have a kind of beat to it, almost like an island beat? We used to do it with Jamacain accents at times. I've heard it sung/chanted a lot of ways, but that one's still my favorite.

Did anyone else have to do the "half clap"? Maybe it's because everyone clapping would have been much too loud in a suite, so about half the chapter clapped with 3 fingers lightly hitting the other palm.

When did Chapter Meetings go to Sundays, as opposed to Mondays? I miss that still.

[tallgreekalum]

Alpha Delts click, we don't clap!

Originally Posted by honeychile

*Hoping there's a nursing home for greeks!*

I just want to say, "I remember that!" to so many things!

FSUZeta, that's how we sang the alphabet song, too - I think. Did it have a kind of beat to it, almost like an island beat? We used to do it with Jamacain accents at times. I've heard it sung/chanted a lot of ways, but that one's still my favorite.

Did anyone else have to do the "half clap"? Maybe it's because everyone clapping would have been much too loud in a suite, so about half the chapter clapped with 3 fingers lightly hitting the other palm.

When did Chapter Meetings go to Sundays, as opposed to Mondays? I miss that still.

[AnchorAlumna]

OK, here's a pre-cell phone memory: PHONE DUTY!!
Our house had 1 phone number, 3 lines. Every pledge had to do phone duty, which meant answering the chapter phone and going to get the callee. Which was GREAT for getting to know who was who.
I remember the Georgia chapter house had a little alcove that included buzzers for individual rooms. You could pick up the phone on your floor...or come downstairs and meet your date.
At Alabama, we had a little room at the top of the stairs called the "Anchor Room," and it was the heart of the house. 2 phones, couches and a bench, with a full-length mirror outside in the hallway.
You'd hang out there with everybody else...smoking cigarettes...playing cards. Everybody with a date would try on different outfits and check themselves in the mirror...at which point everybody hanging out could express their opinion on the outfit!
At the end of the date, they'd come in, change clothes and come crash in the Anchor Room to report.
Good times!

[alum]

Originally Posted by honeychile

When did Chapter Meetings go to Sundays, as opposed to Mondays? I miss that still.

Hmmm, we had Chapter Meetings on Sunday nights because Monday- Thursday were "School Nights" and we NEVER scheduled anything on an academic night.

My daughter is currently in college and they do have their chapter meetings on Monday evenings.