two groups with the same name

[NutBrnHair]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

I understand there are two Alpha Lambda Taus. My Dad was a member of the first one which later merged with TKE, I believe.

Originally Posted by Toby301

Only got through the first few pages, but I just want to confirm that little detail. Alpha Lambda Tau was a mostly southern based fraternity of 8 chapters. In 1946 they announced that they were splitting up. 5 of those 8 chapters joined Tau Kappa Epsilon. (They were University of Maryland, North Carolina State, Auburn, Louisiana Tech, and Tri-State College in Indiana.)

Interesting -- I'd love to know what happened to my Dad's chapter of Alpha Lambda Tau. He was President of the University of Chattanooga chapter in 1939.

[NutBrnHair]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

Interesting -- I'd love to know what happened to my Dad's chapter of Alpha Lambda Tau. He was President of the University of Chattanooga chapter in 1939.

MANY thanks to oldu for letting me know that the ALT chapter at UC became Pi Kappa Alpha!

[NutBrnHair]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

MANY thanks to oldu for letting me know that the ALT chapter at UC became Pi Kappa Alpha!

My Dad was President of the Alpha Lambda Tau fraternity chapter at University of Chattanooga in 1935-36. If he was alive today, he'd be 90 years old. About a month ago, I met one of my Dad's fraternity brothers! I told him I wear my Dad's pin on my charm bracelet. He said, "I don't know what happened to my pin -- I think I gave it to a girl who never gave it back!" He also told me of his fond memories of fraternity trips to my grandparents' cabin on Signal Mountain where they would go opossum hunting. I wish I had more time to talk to this sweet man -- he passed away last week.

[oldu]

I discovered two more groups named the same of now defunct fraternities. Kappa Phi Lambda, an Asian interest sorority with chapters located mostly in the east is the same name of a fraternity founded at Washington & Jefferson College in 1862. It expanded to 11 chapters within a few years but abruptly in the early 1870s various chapters left to become chapters of Delta Tau Delta, Psi Upsilon, Sigma Chi and Beta Theta Pi, and it was extinct by 1874. Another is Phi Delta Kappa, a professional educators organization. It is the same name of another group ironically founded at W. & J. in 1874. It expanded to five chapters, but after the other four closed for various reasons the Alpha chapter revived the then defunct Alpha chapter of Phi Gamma Delta in 1881 and it was out of business.

[ASTalumna06]

So I just did a random google search of "Alpha Sigma Tau, house" to see if I could find pictures of any AST houses from other chapters. I came across this photo album.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lh4.ggpht.com/_lN_tpMS0D4s/R9gl9scZDZI/AAAAAAAAABc/yCToeUUYQOQ/Furhmann.jpg&imgrefurl=http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/CIky45Q-BZudxIwKYPLP-w&h=483&w=278&sz=17&hl=en&start=1&usg=__lRuKLva9_C 4sCI3nizHafovCmyA=&tbnid=vMHFjVn9rFKN8M:&tbnh=129& tbnw=74&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpsi%2Bchapter%2Bfounder%26gbv%3D2%26h l%3Den

http://thetachiuw.org/History_1915.htm

Turns out it's an album of the start of the Psi chapter of the Theta Chi Fraternity at the University of Wisconsin. It originally started as the Aota Club in 1915, and in 1916, they became the Alpha Sigma Tau Fraternity and were known as such for 2 years.

I love looking at the pictures, too. My favorite is the fact that in 1957 the chapter had a Playboy Party, and it was actually written about IN Playboy! haha

[AOEforme]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

So I just did a random google search of "Alpha Sigma Tau, house" to see if I could find pictures of any AST houses from other chapters. I came across this photo album.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3D2%26hl%3Den

Turns out it's an album of the start of the Psi chapter of the Theta Chi Fraternity at the University of Wisconsin. It originally started as the Aota Club in 1915, and in 1916, they became the Alpha Sigma Tau Fraternity and were known as such for 2 years.

I love looking at the pictures, too. My favorite is the fact that in 1957 the chapter had a Playboy Party, and it was actually written about IN Playboy! haha

What a neat find! Thanks ASTalumna06!

The first photo is so cool! (I can tell exactly where he's standing too....)

[LucyKKG]

Those are such cool pictures! I love old stuff like that and I def have a soft spot for those Theta Chis!

Ok, I can't take credit for this (my ex did it):


"Theta Chi: New Century, Same Great Style"

[Doron]

There are so many sororities and fraternities out there. The one I'm in is really new so when they came up with a name they just used 4 letters. We get some looks for it and ordering stuff online is a pain, but we don't have to worry that we've copied someone. Perhaps more groups should start trying that.

Doron
Sigma AEPi

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

^^^ Isn't that the sorority from MTV's Sorority Life?

Right. But the real irony is:

Originally Posted by Doron

we don't have to worry that we've copied someone.

Originally Posted by http://www.sigmaaepi.com/Hisotry.html

In the fall of 1998, with the help of ΑΕΠ the idea of starting a Jewish woman’s group, not necessarily a formal sorority, was conceived and executed. Several informational meetings were held at the ΑΕΠs house and at the Hillel House. The response was extremely positive, and thus, ΣΑΕΠ was born.

The “Sigma” in our name is meant to represent “sisters of,” making us the sisters of ΑΕΠ to honor their contributions in creating this sorority.

[knight_shadow]

^^^ Isn't that the sorority from MTV's Sorority Life?

[Senusret I]

And Doron..... it's not personal. Trust me.

[knight_shadow]

I guess it's time for them to go back to the drawing board.

[33girl]

I think that they are a colony (see her sig) of the SAEPi from Sorority Life, which has added several chapters since the show aired. She meant "they" as in "the original founding girls in the chapter at Berkeley."

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I think that they are a colony (see her sig) of the SAEPi from Sorority Life, which has added several chapters since the show aired. She meant "they" as in "the original founding girls in the chapter at Berkeley."

That's what I originally thought, but didn't see anything on the SAEPi website about that colony. It's on Wikipedia now, though.

[truelies]

We share the same name (and nickname) as a regional sorority based out of PA. I believe we were founded about 20 or so years earlier and we are not linked to them. In the guest book archive from our old website you could see a few of their sisters have written to us and left their contact information but this was before I was a sister so I have no clue if we contacted them or not.