Pledging-what does it mean to you?

pmaharaj · #1 01-06-2012, 05:34 PM

If you had to pick an item that shows what pledging your soroity or fraternity meant to you, what would it be?

jazing · #2 01-06-2012, 05:40 PM

My pledge pin (we kept ours)

barbino · #3 01-06-2012, 05:40 PM

My pledge pin-- it was a symbol of my pledgeship. It is given back to the national before initiation. From initiation on, I had my Pi Phi arrow, not the "Beta" dart pledge pin.

For a long time, I had the pledge ribbons, too-- I don't think that I have them anymore.

JDCookMS · #4 01-06-2012, 06:06 PM

My pledge manual, the Bononia Docet... just everything about it, learning the history, time spent with others, etc.

AGDCanada11 · #5 01-06-2012, 07:33 PM

I wish I could have kept my Pledge Pin, because to me it represented the journey I took from accepting my bid, and pledging to uphold the ideals of AGD; through learning the history of my Founders and how AGD came to be what it is today, learning my Purpose and what it means to me and my sisters; right up to the lifelong commitment I made to AGD and my sisters across Canada and the United States. I was so sad when I had to return it, because it had been with me since Day 1.

Senusret I · #6 01-06-2012, 10:04 PM

I am not in this picture, but they are carrying my answer.

TheTrueGent · #7 01-06-2012, 10:06 PM

I got to keep my pledge pin and pledge manual. I look back on both fairly often

littlesquirrel · #8 01-07-2012, 01:14 AM

I loved my pledge pin, but we give those back, as well as our pledge manual. in my chapter it's a tradition to keep all of the petals from the roses we receive (starting at from when we get our bids and throughout all the rituals). If being a new member is about learning the traditions of your organization and bonding with your new family, those roses represent that pretty well for me.

KappaPi682 · #9 01-07-2012, 01:25 AM

My Bononia Docet. It holds the history of my fraternity and all the values upon which we base our organization.

MysticCat · #10 01-07-2012, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by jazing

My pledge pin (we kept ours)

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Originally Posted by AGDCanada11

I wish I could have kept my Pledge Pin, because to me it represented the journey I took from accepting my bid, and pledging to uphold the ideals of AGD; through learning the history of my Founders and how AGD came to be what it is today, learning my Purpose and what it means to me and my sisters; right up to the lifelong commitment I made to AGD and my sisters across Canada and the United States. I was so sad when I had to return it, because it had been with me since Day 1.

Ditto. (Except not the AGD part, obviously.

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I think brothers do get to keep their probationary members now; I wish that had been the case back in the day. We do keep pledge manuals. Mine disappeared in a move early on, but I have a copy of every manual published since I was initiated.

For me, the two items would be my paddle and my PM hat, which has the signature of every brother in the chapter when I pledged.

Psi U MC Vito · #11 01-07-2012, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

Ditto. (Except not the AGD part, obviously.

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I think brothers do get to keep their probationary members now; I wish that had been the case back in the day. We do keep pledge manuals. Mine disappeared in a move early on, but I have a copy of every manual published since I was initiated.

For me, the two items would be my paddle and my PM hat, which has the signature of every brother in the chapter when I pledged.

Actually MC the PM pins still go back at initiation.

MysticCat · #12 01-07-2012, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito

Actually MC the PM pins still go back at initiation.

Hmm. Maybe I dreamed that then.

pmaharaj · #13 01-08-2012, 11:34 AM

Awesome responses =D

I would say my pin and paddle- the paddle especially as it represents how much my pledge class went through.

AOII Angel · #14 01-08-2012, 01:10 PM

My AOII scrapbook. It has so much in it from my time as a NM. The rest of my time as a collegiate AOII is only sporadically covered. Every time we move my husband asks if I still want to keep it, and I look at him like he's grown an extra head. OF COURSE!

carnation · #15 01-08-2012, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by barbino

My pledge pin-- it was a symbol of my pledgeship. It is given back to the national before initiation. From initiation on, I had my Pi Phi arrow, not the "Beta" dart pledge pin.

For a long time, I had the pledge ribbons, too-- I don't think that I have them anymore.

I don't have the Beta dart but I do still have the pledge ribbons! Unfaded, oddly enough.