Back in the day . . .

[jon1856]

How could I forget "The Walk for Development"?
Started down on the lower end of 6th ave by the bridge.
Had a drink at every bar between there and chapter house.

As well as The Black Mug contest......

[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.

[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.

[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!

[AOIIalum]

Originally Posted by honeychile

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.

We didn't do that, but did anyone else "snap"?

Originally Posted by RaggedyAnn

Phone chains and calendars.

No email. No cell phones.

Oh yeah. Don't forget the one big Fall Mailing with *everything* your chapter needed for the entire year (and don't lose a page of it either!) No computers either. Xerox copies of the calendars and typewritten chapter reports--in duplicate or triplicate, with carbon paper. This is one area that's MUCH better today, ladies!

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by AOIIalum

Xerox copies of the calendars and typewritten chapter reports--in duplicate or triplicate, with carbon paper. This is one area that's MUCH better today, ladies!

Ah, the smell of mimeograph fluid!!

[jon1856]

As a pledge, having to carry $1.55 in change as well as either a match or a lighter. And I did not smoke!!

[ForeverRoses]

[QUOTE=AOIIalum;1628189]We didn't do that, but did anyone else "snap"?
/QUOTE]

We snapped. Took me a couple years of going to work meetings to get out of the habbit of snapping when I agreed with something.

I remember open parties at the fraternity houses. only a few parties required you to be on the guest list. Most were open to any female. We had a board where people could list all the fraternity parties going on a particular weekend. Then we would pick and chose which ones to go to.

We also had fraternities that would host "after hours"- basically parties that didn't start until after the bars were closed.


Also, we called our mixers "Teas". So it would be announced for example that we had a tea with the Phi Taus on Thursday night at the Greenery from 6-9.

We also called the rush parties "teas" so we had open house, first teas, second teas, and final teas. I don't remember any tea ever being served.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

I remember open parties at the fraternity houses. only a few parties required you to be on the guest list. Most were open to any female.

Yep. They kind of half heartedly started having "tickets" and such, but these didn't last long.

Theta Chi always had happy hours on Fridays. You went into the basement at 3:30 - came out at 6:30 w/ a buzz and with it still light out. Ugggggg.

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

I remember open parties at the fraternity houses. only a few parties required you to be on the guest list. Most were open to any female.

This still happens at some schools.

And I think a lot of chapters still snap--I know mine did occasionally as did others at W&L.

[Zillini]

How could I forget phone duty and wake up duty? Each active living in the house had an assigned code, like morse code. When they got a call on the house phone or a visitor you had to buzz their code. Long, long, short, short or whatever.

No alarm clocks were allowed in the sleeping dorms. Pledges (Yes, we were pledges!) with morning phone duty had to wake up actives. There was a board for each dorm with tags for each girl saying when she needed to be woken up. Heaven forbid you didn't wake an active up on time!!!

[Benzgirl]

We had phone duty too. That sister always answered the door.
Who could forget...."Jane, you have a visitor" (female) vs. "Susan, you have a guest" (male)?

[FSUZeta]

phone duty-i always enjoyed it. pledges did phone duty during the dinner hour, so they also got to open to door to various and sundry groups who wanted to make an announcement to the chapter during dinner. the dinner duty pledge could either eat earlier, or could have her meal in the downstairs phone room. each member had a cubbie in the phone room where she could receive her mail and notes/messages.

there were two phone lines for our house, and three phones-the phone in the phone room, a phone on the 2nd floor landing and one on the 3rd floor landing. luckily for the phone duty person, you merely buzzed upstairs and anyone would answer the buzz and either yell for the sister that she had a phone call or that she had a visitor downstairs. in house sisters rotated phone duty from 7 to 11 sunday thru thursday and the pledges rotated phone duty from 7 to 11 on friday and saturday nights. fun times.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by OldAOPi

Animal House came out around then - so then we all had......TOGA PARTIES!!!

But everybody always tried to "personalize" their toga attire in some way.

Originally Posted by breathesgelatin

Well, it took some chapters a LONG time to get rid of candles.

I still can't over learning here at GC that so many sororities have stopped using real candles.

Originally Posted by BBelleADPi

Oh, my yes! Along with "Mrs. Grace," "39-21-40 Shape", "Myrtle Beach Days," "Johnny Dollar," "Monkey Time", "Far Away Places", "Rainy Day Bells","Little Red Book,"etc. I still listen to this music when I run! Billy Stewart, Georgia Prophets. (And BTW, this was still the music for all of us when hubby was in medical school. We still shagged, and still do to this day. Weddings are always fun!)

We do too.

Originally Posted by jon1856

As a pledge, having to carry . . . either a match or a lighter. And I did not smoke!!

With me, it was a book/box of matches. I liked the box matches better -- they burned a little more slowly.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

But everybody always tried to "personalize" their toga attire in some way.

LOL. The Life Savers sheet was a very popular toga.