I hereby declare today as Learn More About the History of Greek-Letter Organizations Day!
There are more than 700 posts on this blog. Some are much more interesting than others, and I will be the first to admit that. However, there really is something for everyone on here, or so I’ve been told.
If you are looking for posts about a specific organization (or person, place, or thing), use the search box putting the name of the organization in quotes. That will bring up a list of posts where that organization is mentioned. The category drop-down menu will also bring up the posts about a specific GLO.
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I love it when readers tell friends (and foes, too) about this blog. It is not disloyal to read about GLOs other than you own. We have many things in common and those of us in the GLO world are truly family.
And now some fun facts about me (written for something else, but I am very short of time today and want to post something).
I have played 12 days worth of solitaire (the every third card version) on my ipad. Luckily, it’s in five or ten minute segments a few times a week.
I had three children in 18 months (and that’s why I no longer speak in complete sentences!). Our daughter is 18 months older than her identical twin brothers. They lived their childhood via consensus and compromise. After they were of college age and home at different times, they had the opportunity to experience being an “only child.” All attention was focused on the sole offspring in our midst and all choices were differed to their whim. They all insist they dislike the experience.
I met my husband in the kitchen of the Pi Beta Phi chapter house at Syracuse University. I initiated his sister. When I first learned how she spelled her last name, I commented that it was a ridiculous (and I know I used “ridiculous” rather than say, “odd,” or “unique”) to spell a name which was pronounced “Beck.” About a year later, I married her brother and have been spelling it, “B as in boy, E, C, Q, U, E,” ever since!
I collect the histories of other Greek-letter organizations. My very favorite is a 1930s History of Kappa Kappa Gamma and every time I open it I am amazed at the amount of work it must have been to collect and publish such a tome in a time before spreadsheets and computer programs.
Carnations have always been my favorite flower.
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