Highschool Sororities....

[AngelPhiSig]

Okay I searched and didnt find anything so:

Did anyone's school have secret orgs for students, like sororities? I know that Ive read posts and people have mentioned that their grandmothers etc were part of them...

Any info?

Websites?

Help!

Luvnstuff
Alison

[sigmagrrl]

I have no knowledge of any sort of societies. The only time I have heard of such things are on TV, like the episode that ran this past season on "Gilmore Girls"...

[Kevin]

There have been threads on this but I don't remember what they were called. Keep searching though, they're out there.

[twinstars]

My sorority's housemother was in a high school sorority (she's probably about 70 yrs old) and apparently there was a lot of hazing involved.

[RosmaPomia]

My own personal experience was with a group called "Exchangettes." We did something that I guess was like Rush, had weekly meetings, activities, and did community service. It was a lot of fun

[SATX*APhi]

I've posted this under High School Hazing, http://greekchat.com/gcforums/showth...&postid=205498, but here goes:


My H.S. hazing story


In high school there was something you could be initiated into, a secret society or underground sorority, if you will. You had to be "chosen" to join. The sophomores aka "Sophomore Misses" extend invitations to the freshman, juniors aka "Junior Ladies" extend to sophomores, and seniors aka "Senior Women" extend to juniors. You cannot join as a senior. If you were initiated as a freshman, you were initiated into Freshman Girls. Your sophomore year you were automatically a part of Sophomore Misses, etc.

I was initiated as a sophomore into Sophomore Misses. What the Junior Ladies did that year is get a list of all sophomores who were extended an invite to join. They assign to each Junior Lady 1 or 2 sophomores to pick up from their home before initiation. They drove us to someone's house where we all met. (There were tons of cars, mind you. The boys of the junior class came along to watch) Before getting to our meeting spot, some of the juniors took the sophomores that they had to go "shopping" for embarrassing items. The juniors could also have done stuff to them, such as making them wear their bras on the outside, etc. Luckily the junior who picked me up was super nice and did nothing to me prior to arriving at the meeting house. When we got to the meeting house, we were put into the back of pick-up trucks. Since the junior who picked me up drove a Mustang, I had to leave her since I would be getting dirty. The good thing is that I was put in the pick-up truck of the Junior Lady who had invited me to join, one of my good friends. She didn't make us do anything stupid, other than give her chihuahua dog a kiss! Most other sophomores there had lipstick put all over their face, Crisco in their hair, tampons hanging from their ears and tons of other things.

All pick-up trucks go to the same location, out in the middle of nowhere. They lay out a tarp on the ground and make us all lay next to each other, like sardines. They pour tons of junk all over us - eggs, flour, sardines, pickles, hot dogs, ketchup, mustard, peanut butter and tons of other junk. Some of the girls even had to pretend to be giving the junior guys oral pleasure. Fortunately, I was not! After all this is done, they drive us all to a car wash and spray us down. Then, they go and drop us off back home and afterwards there is a party.

FUNNY THING ABOUT JOINING:
We do nothing together after that! There was talk about having a party per semester. Yeah right! They did do football boosters my junior year. There were about 3 girls to each member on the 1st string football team. Before school on the day of each game the girls met with the guy and gave him treats. I didn't do this because I was in band and had a little sis to get things for every game. We were supposed to have a graduation party, yeah right! It was all a bunch of bull.

The ONE thing we did do: make t-shirts every year so that we could "represent."

Basically, you were initiated just to say that you were in Freshman Girls, Sophomore Misses, Junior Ladies or Senior Women. If you were initiated then you were part of the "popular" crowd.

[SigKapSundevil]

That sounds exactly like the movie"Dazed and Confused."

[SATX*APhi]

Originally posted by SigKapSundevil
That sounds exactly like the movie"Dazed and Confused."

My post?

[SigKapSundevil]

Yes, your post is just like the movie. Have you ever seen it? The senior girls round up the "chosen" freshman and have all the guys around watching, and they put stuff all over them like you said (mustard, ketchup, etc) and then they made them pretend to do sexual favors for the guys too. They also put them into pickup trucks and ran them through the car wash. I am guessing whoever started that tradition at your school probably got some of that stuff based off the movie!!

[dekeguy]

My Aunt told me that she was in a High School Sorority that was school sanctioned and very carefully monitored by the chapter advisors and the administration and served as a sort of feeder organization to the NPC houses at Newcomb College. Lots of fun but tightly controlled. Apparently there were a dozen or so of these sororities, but that the system was dieing out in the late 50s and was gone by the mid 60s. I asked some cousins down in New Orleans who told me that there used to be an extensive network of High School Fraternities and Sororities which were independent of college Greek organizations but did tend to feed into certain houses in the deep South at least. The Fraternities died out in the fifties and the sororities in the sixties and were replaced in New Orleans by a club called "Valencia" which had tennis courts, a swimming pool, a huge party room and club house facilities like a Country Club but limited to kids in high school! Valencia was a social club that might have been seen as basic training for college and Greek life but I think it was more than that.
One of my friends in Law School said that his mother belonged to a national highschool sorority called Chi Kappa Chi (XKX) when she was growing up in Hammond, Indiana. According to him, this was also tightly controlled by the administration at his Mom's school but that some other chapters or other houses were very much into hazing and serious drinking and this led to a law baning HS greek orgs in Indiana. We asked one of our Law profs who we knew to be Greek and he told us that he was aware of similar HS systems in Richmond and in Baltimore and that his father had been in a HS fraternity in St Louis before he went SAE at Missouri. He said that he was pretty sure they all died out about the same time as well. Sounds like in Louisiana they came up with an alternative social organization and in Indiana they shut them down by law. I don't know what happened elsewhere . This is all second hand info but I think its interesting that there was a whole HS level of National Greek Orgs that seem to have died out or gone into deep cover. Anybody know any info about this they can share?

[exlurker]

High School Sorority in Virginia Banned?

A news story out of Danville reports on a decision about the Sub-Debs and another high school sorority:

http://www.registerbee.com/servlet/S...324&path=!news

Excerpt (by the way, if this kind of thing were being done in college by an NPC sorority, and word got out or complaints were made, wouldn't the chapter get corrective action from their national?):

Part of the initiation involves girls not washing their hair for a couple of days and carrying “goodie bags” filled with candy. A senior member can require a “rat” to run over and give them candy during the school day.

The “rat” tries to get as many members as possible to sign a book that shows they received candy, but the senior member can rip out that page in the book and make the “rat” start over.

Originally Posted by exlurker

High School Sorority in Virginia Banned?

A news story out of Danville reports on a decision about the Sub-Debs and another high school sorority:

http://www.registerbee.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=DRB%2FMGArticle%2FDRB_BasicArti cle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173353794324&path=!news

Excerpt (by the way, if this kind of thing were being done in college by an NPC sorority, and word got out or complaints were made, wouldn't the chapter get corrective action from their national?):

Part of the initiation involves girls not washing their hair for a couple of days and carrying “goodie bags” filled with candy. A senior member can require a “rat” to run over and give them candy during the school day.

The “rat” tries to get as many members as possible to sign a book that shows they received candy, but the senior member can rip out that page in the book and make the “rat” start over.

Does the state of Virginia consider these acts hazing?

If so, someone should educate the co-president on Virginia's hazing law.

[asa06091987]

Originally Posted by OTW

Does the state of Virginia consider these acts hazing?

If so, someone should educate the co-president on Virginia's hazing law.

if you think thats bad--you should hear my college's interpretation of hazing...they're really hypocritical. its hazing to have a member of an organization be alone in a room with a new member of the organization, but they haven't done anything with respect to known hazing that goes on in some local orgs on campus eg: one organization used to kidnap new members of different sororities and then make the sisters do things like jump on trampolines half-naked to get the girls back--

oh and we didnt really have "high school sororities" but we did have a bunch of different clubs to which you needed to appeal for membership, or be specifically invited...some of them were pretty exclusive, but none of them hazed (as far as i know) i think it was mostly to make up for the fact that we dont have greek orgs in my state (college level that is) and a lot of kids in my highschool didnt go away to school...

[cuteASAbug]

Originally Posted by asa06091987

if you think thats bad--you should hear my college's interpretation of hazing...they're really hypocritical. its hazing to have a member of an organization be alone in a room with a new member of the organization, but they haven't done anything with respect to known hazing that goes on in some local orgs on campus eg: one organization used to kidnap new members of different sororities and then make the sisters do things like jump on trampolines half-naked to get the girls back--

oh and we didnt really have "high school sororities" but we did have a bunch of different clubs to which you needed to appeal for membership, or be specifically invited...some of them were pretty exclusive, but none of them hazed (as far as i know) i think it was mostly to make up for the fact that we dont have greek orgs in my state (college level that is) and a lot of kids in my highschool didnt go away to school...

I thought URI has a fairly large Greek system?

[SATX*APhi]

Originally posted by SigKapSundevil
Yes, your post is just like the movie. Have you ever seen it?

Never seen the movie. Maybe I should.