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Old 04-05-2004, 02:16 AM
CardinalSM CardinalSM is offline
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Hmmm our founders name choices are:

Charles Richardson
Jobelle Holcombe
Jean Vincenheller
Alice Cary Simonds
Ina May Boles

I would consider the name Charles for a boy, and Alice and Carrie are family names so a maybe on those too. I kind of like the combination Alice Cary.
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Old 04-05-2004, 11:12 AM
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"Sorority" names

Cute names I think I would be cute for middle names:
Delta (think Delta Bourke)
Zeta (Think Catherine Zeta Jones)
Alfa (think Alpha)

Flower names:
Violet
Rose
Ivy
Lily

Jewel Names:
Pearl
Ruby

Color Names:
Garnet
Azure
Verdi (Latin for green)
Onyx
Ivory
Sage (I know a boy named Sage)


Mascot Names:
Lionel or Leo
Beary

Names with meanings that could be linked your GLO:
Maggie-means Pearl
Eve-means Life
Felicity-Happiness
Hope- Virtue
Hannah- Graceful
Regina-Queen
Sarah-Princess
Vera-Truth
Zoe-Life
Abla-Wild Rose
Akili-Wisdom
Arlene-Pledge (hahahahaha)
Orianna-Golden
Erin-Peace
Tierney-Noble
Alethea-Truth
Athena-Wise
Ianthe-Violet Flower
Nora-Light
Slenea-Moon
Sonya-Wise
Vaness-Butterfly
Yolanda-Violet Flower
Tiana-Princess
Stephanie-Crowned
Ione- (pronounced Eye-O-Knee)=Violet (greek)-There's an actress named Ione Sky

Symbol Names:
Torch
Princess (for a crown)-I actually work with a girl named Princess
Clio
Roman (for a Roman Lamp)
Quillin (AXiD)
Star-lots of people have stars on their badges

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Old 04-05-2004, 11:22 AM
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I always joke I'd name a child E. Adeline.
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Old 04-05-2004, 01:59 PM
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Re: "Sorority" names

I think a lot of the names you mentioned are pretty, but...

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Mascot Names:
Lionel or Leo
Beary
Beary??? I couldn't inflict such a name on my child!!! As for Quillin, is that a male or female name?

But I did really like Erin (of course I did, it's my name! ), Alethea (I had a friend named this in HS), Tierney, and Felicity, just b/c they're pretty names.
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Old 04-05-2004, 03:39 PM
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We moved to a new house a couple of weeks ago and our next door neighbors have a little girl named Hannah. I didn't think anything of it until I heard her mom call her "Heartless Hannah" a couple of times. I asked why she had that nickname and the mom laughed and said Heartless Hannah was a song her sorority used to sing in college. You guessed it; Hannah is a DG legacy
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Old 04-05-2004, 03:54 PM
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The Founders of Alpha Xi Delta:

Cora Bollinger Block
Alice Bartlett Bruner
Almira Lowry Cheney
Frances Elisabeth Cheney
Bertha Cook Evans
Eliza Drake Curtis Everton
Juila Maude Foster
Lucy W. Gilmer
Harriet Luella McCollum
Lewie Strong Taylor

"The first child born of an Alpha Xi Delta Founder was Born to Harriet and her husband on July 1, 1898. She named her daughter Marion Alpha Gossow, in honnor of Alpha Xi Delta." - Alpha Xi Delta - A 100 Year History

So naming a child after our sorority has happened. I don't know if i could name my child Alpha but Lowry wouldn't be to much of a strech b/c it is a family name for me (but spelled differently). I love the names Elisabeth and Maude. The only thing with Maude is that you would have to be very strong little girl to put up that name. But if I have a little girl, I already have her named picked out - Melissia Theresa. There is no danger of my first daughter being named after my sorority but the second girl . . .
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Old 04-05-2004, 05:01 PM
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dorcus?



what the hell? can that name even be traced back to anything?
Actually it's a Biblical name.

Still, I wouldn't want to name anyone that.
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Old 04-05-2004, 05:02 PM
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Re: Re: "Sorority" names

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I think a lot of the names you mentioned are pretty, but...



Beary??? I couldn't inflict such a name on my child!!! As for Quillin, is that a male or female name?

But I did really like Erin (of course I did, it's my name! ), Alethea (I had a friend named this in HS), Tierney, and Felicity, just b/c they're pretty names.
Beary=Barry Boys names

Quillin-boy or girl-I got it from the name Quinn-which can be both for a boy or girl.

Just for the record-I didn't like it either. Just posted it as an option!
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Old 04-05-2004, 08:18 PM
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Hey GeekyPenguin do you know what the "E" in Frances E. Haven's name stands for. I've looked all over the internet, but every one uses her middle initial. I'm wondering if if stands for Elizabeth. I'm naming my daughter Mary Elizabeth. Mary is very common on my husbands side and Elizabeth has been used at least once every generation in my family since the 1600's (I've traced it back that far). So, if Frances middle name is Elizabeth, my daughter would also be named after two of the founder. Frances E. Haven and Mary Alice Bingham.
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Old 04-05-2004, 08:33 PM
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Actually it's a Biblical name.

Still, I wouldn't want to name anyone that.
no dorcus jones, huh?
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Old 04-05-2004, 08:41 PM
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Hey GeekyPenguin do you know what the "E" in Frances E. Haven's name stands for. I've looked all over the internet, but every one uses her middle initial. I'm wondering if if stands for Elizabeth. I'm naming my daughter Mary Elizabeth. Mary is very common on my husbands side and Elizabeth has been used at least once every generation in my family since the 1600's (I've traced it back that far). So, if Frances middle name is Elizabeth, my daughter would also be named after two of the founder. Frances E. Haven and Mary Alice Bingham.
I have absolutely no idea. Maybe it's something as bad as the E in E. Adeline.
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Old 04-05-2004, 11:52 PM
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I should have named my daughter after Chi Omega somehow. I attended my first Convention as an advisor in 1998, when I was 6 months' pregnant with Paige. Up until that time I was convinced I was having a boy....I think it was a defense mechanism because I wanted a girl so badly. When I was sitting there in our first official business meeting, I felt the baby kicking for the first time, and I looked around me at all the other women, many mothers and daughters and sisters, and I thought "I'm here at convention with MY daughter....my legacy!" Three days after I got home I had my ultrasound that confirmed I was having a baby girl!!!! And let me tell you, she THINKS she's already a Chi Omega!!!

There was a girl on our campus who was a Chi O leg. Her mother gave her the middle name CHI in honor of the chapter that meant so much to her. And "Jane Chi Doe" went Alpha Phi. Go figure.
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Old 04-06-2004, 12:48 AM
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I've already decided that if I have an adorable AOII legacy (which absolutely MUST happen) I would like to name her Stella Janae, Stella after our founder and also because I got the award and Janae because it's a middle name that runs in the family.
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Old 04-11-2004, 07:10 PM
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no sig kaps chimed in so here it goes. i remember our founders by using the "FILME"
francis mann hall
ida fuller pierce
louise helen coburn
mary caffrey low
elizabeth gorham hoag

i reall liked helen, mary, and especially elizabeth, but i wouldnt put my daughter through the tormant of being called IDA cuz theres a lot of jokes that can spawn off that. i gave one of my sister a beta fish and she called it Siggy.....which was cute
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Old 04-11-2004, 07:25 PM
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Well, our former president named her dog Colby after our Colby Gentleman. The Sig Kap ladies know who I'm referring to and so do any men who have had the honor of being a Colby gentleman.
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