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04-21-2013, 09:10 PM
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This is an interesting item. Apparently this may be the first example of a "pledge pin (key)" as the person whose name is on the back was enrolled in the Emory & Henry Prep school, but never attended E&H, and there doesn't seem to be any chapters, or attempts of a chapter of Phi Kappa Psi at Emory & Henry.
My thoughts are that this was given to this person as a sort of "pledge" item for when this guy started college to go to a school where Phi Kappa Psi had a chapter. Its from 1869, and very nicely engraved.
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04-22-2013, 01:24 AM
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SWTXBelle and AzTheta, after seeing the family photo and reading about Miss Demaree and her badge, I have to say I've been THOROUGHLY reinforced as to the whole meaning of legacy. Wow! Badge Trends never fails!
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Me, too!! VERY cool!
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04-28-2013, 10:51 PM
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Interesting story behind that key...love the old stories and traditions of early greek life
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05-08-2013, 11:29 PM
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While packing up for the end of the school year, I found my new member book! Thumbing through, there were two pictures of GORGEOUS badges I had to take pictures of to share. I'm not sure if they've been in the thread before, but they're beautiful to look at anyways.
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05-08-2013, 11:37 PM
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The emerald badge... well, actually all of them, but the emerald badge especially - makes me just swoon. Look at the differences in those badges!
ETA: would the bar pin be what I have seen in photos as a "collar pin"? Do you know what I'm talking about?
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05-08-2013, 11:56 PM
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I know what you're talking about, but I'm not sure if that's what it was. There wasn't really anything in the book about the badges/pin specifically aside from the captions from what I remember. I would love to check but unfortunately, in the disaster zone that is my room mid-packing I can't find anything.
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05-09-2013, 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by happilyanchored
While packing up for the end of the school year, I found my new member book! Thumbing through, there were two pictures of GORGEOUS badges I had to take pictures of to share. I'm not sure if they've been in the thread before, but they're beautiful to look at anyways.
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Thanks for posting these! I love them! I appreciate that all of our badges now are uniform and tie us together, but MAN do I wish we still had some variety/choice beyond diamonds or pearls.
If you don't mind me asking, what year was this new member book published? Mine didn't have these photos! 
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05-09-2013, 11:08 AM
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I was a new member last year and it had the 2010-2012 Council on a page somewhere...so sometime after Convention 2010?
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05-09-2013, 11:33 AM
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That emerald badge is to DIE for!
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05-09-2013, 11:35 AM
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I love that bar pin!
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05-10-2013, 12:43 AM
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Happy sigh. Someone posted pretties.
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05-10-2013, 02:33 AM
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*pouts that her sorority doesn't allow any variation on badges*
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05-10-2013, 07:32 PM
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*pouts that her sorority doesn't allow any variation on badges*
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Perhaps, but your badge is beautiful in it's simplicity AND has 27 pearls! I have a soft spot for pearls.
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05-11-2013, 05:18 PM
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From the mid 1940s
A Chi Omega from Sigma Chapter (Randolph-Macon) & a Kappa Sigma from Delta Chapter (Davidson) who both transferred and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill.
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05-11-2013, 05:24 PM
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Also, just picked up a nice twin pin set from 1910 from my fraternity! This is from the University of Nebraska and was cool that it was a Kappa Sigma pin and Chi Omega pin. Since Chi Omega was founded by a member of Kappa Sigma.
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Seems to be common, considering there is a connection between the two groups....
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