Founder's Legacies?
 

Okay, so I searched, and it may be the "late night" kindergarten teacher brain kicking in, but I couldn't find anything on this -

Have there/are there any legacies of NPC sororities that have joined either their NPC or a different NPC organization?

In my grand scheme of procrastinating, my brain wandered to wondering if this has ever happened? Like Fay Chertkoff (bad choice, I dont think she ever married, Phi Sig was her love) having a great-great-granddaughter who joined Phi Sig at a school.

Any ideas?

Definitely, and probably more often than you'd think. A Sigma Kappa friend of mine advises a chapter with a founder's many times great granddaughter.

In my own organization I am only aware of a founder's son who is also a Delta Chi.

I know the granddaughter of one of our founders and she is a member of the same group.

Yes for ADPi--I remember reading about one in a fairly recent (within a few years) issue of the Adelphean about this

Check out page 18 of this issue of Gamma Phi Beta's The Crescent:

http://digital.publicationprinters.c...ation/?i=67967

I know that there are some instances of a founders offspring or grandchild joining a seperate organization than the ones they founded.

That to me would seem a little awkward at family gatherings.

BG

Not if the founders are dead. ;)

The great-something grandniece of one of our founders actually was a member of my chapter and graduated the year before I was a new member. They had an article in the ANCHORA this summer about our founder's relatives who ended up joining Delta Gamma.

The granddaughter and great granddaughter of one of our founders were just initiated at our centennial convention :)

AOII has no Founder legacies. Only one of our four Founders had children, Helen, and her girls went to Barnard after sorority life was disbanded. :(

The great great grand niece of Chi Omega Founder Jobelle Holcombe was initiated into our chapter at Northwestern Univ. within the last 5 years.

I just hope that if the founder's legacy goes elsewhere, she is the one that chooses the other chapter, and not the chapter dropping her!

Can you just imagine the backlash for dropping a founder legacy?

We had a Founder's....great-granddaughter, I think...come through rush. She dropped us, but somehow word got around that we had dropped her. That fire took years to stomp out!

While there are no direct legacies to your founders, what about great grand nieces as NutBrn mentions? Did Helen's sisters have daughters, etc.

Sometimes they have to self-identify. Pi Phi has 12 founders, only about half had children. Keeping track of all possible combinations of relations would be a daunting task.

I realized one day that while I had met or corresponded with the great-great grandchildren of one of our founders, they had not known of each other. Sadly, when I realized this one had already passed away. (The founder had a daughter and a son. The daughter married and moved west; the son moved east. They each had children. Those children had children.) Perhaps if the internet was around 75 years ago the families would have connected. One of these women had some of the founder's items that she donated to our archives. She said she likely had them because she was a Pi Phi and her sisters had joined another organization (perhaps there wasn't a Pi Phi chapter where they went to school, I did not ask).

Delta Chapter (University of Texas) seems to have the record number of Founder Legacies. A couple of our Founders didn't leave any children, so that makes it a bit more special.

When I was in school, we had a five-generation/Adelphean legacy. Sadly, she really didn't want to go greek, but she did pledge, was initiated at Convention, transferred schools, and was never heard from again. :(

As far as I know, there are none.

None of our founders had children. As far as I know, one of our founder's nieces became a Soror.

Wyman Legacy
 

As Elizabeth Heywood Wyman's great great grand niece, I can verify that AOII does have a member tied to the founder.

While I've known her for some time, I had the honor of hearing the granddaughter of Mary Comfort Leonard speak at Founders Day in Tuscaloosa last Sunday. What a treat to hear her personal memories of her grandmother! And to see all the artifacts she brought with her. We also learned that one of her granddaughters will be going to college next year and is looking at Alabama. Since the Fraternity has her badge in the archives(a replacement she got at the 1909 Convention as her original one had been lost)1, their family members are initiated with it. Very cool!

Two great great granddaughters of one of Phi Mu's national founders were in the UGa chapter recently!

Hello and welcome to GC! Please come introduce yourself in our AOII forum, we're glad to have you here.

Fingers crossed that she attends Bama and pledges DG! How great would that be to have a founders great-great(?) granddaughter AND get to see that very special badge at initiation?

I think I would faint dead away!

Well that is pretty cool.

In Kappa Sigma, we had several descendants of the founders become members of the fraternity, and I think there are one or two descendants still around who are members, but back in the 1980s the fraternity had something really cool happen. The spiritual founder of Kappa Sigma was an old Greek Scholar named Manual Chrysoloras who came to Italy in the 1400s to teach greek to the students.......

Anyway, in the 1980s one of the chapters actually initiated a guy who was a direct descendent of Chrysoloras! There was a bunch of articles written in the magazine about it and he attended many conclaves before moving back to Greece. I wish I had been alive to have been able to experience that!

BG

I believe I am a distant great granddaughter of one of the founders of Alpha Delta Pi. All the research I've been able to find online points to a direct lineage, but I really need to make a trip to Georgia to search archives and verify 100%. While I am not an ADPi, my mother is. Mom didn't become related until after she married my dad.

I know Julia Bishop Coleman's daughter and granddaughter are Delta Zetas. Beyond that, I don't know.

We have one Founder -- Ossian Everett Mills, "Father of Sinfonia." The original members of our Alpha chapter are referred to as charter members of the Fraternity.

Father Mills' great-great-grandson, Eric Mills, was initiated in 2008 by our Gamma Theta chapter (University of North Texas). I may be dreaming this -- I'm not finding any reference to it on the web -- but I seem to recall reading that he was not aware that his great-great-grandfather was the founder of Sinfonia when he pledged.

In addition, Father Mills' grandson, Arthur Mills, was initiated as a national honorary member (Alpha Alpha chapter) in connection with Founder's Day observances in Boston in October 2004. The honorary initiation was in recognition of the support and assistance he gave Fraternity leaders who were doing historical research in preparation for our 1998 Centennial. Mills, who was born about six years after Father Mills' death, was around 77 at the time of his initiation.