[24183] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Use of old Rituals.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (EricBenet06)
Thu Mar 4 10:37:30 2004
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 09:34:55 -0600
Reply-To: EricBenet06 <ericbenet06@verizon.net>
From: EricBenet06 <ericbenet06@verizon.net>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Randy, this is a wonderful question, and here is an opinion or two:
Old rituals should not be used. Each ritual should have a unique ID number and
essentially "loaned" to chapters until the next edition of the ritual is printed.
Chaper who lose their rituals should be fined.
We should always keep tabs on missing rituals. Some people might not take it
this seriously, but I do. PERSONALLY, I would love for each brother to receive
their own ritual (as some orgs do) but I think that since APO is so large, that
is not only unfeasible, but not a good idea if we actually want to keep our few
secrets really secret.
So anyway, yeah.....old rituals need to be tracked and turned in when a new
edition is available.
I have never been able to find an answer to the specific differnces between
contemporary rituals and the older ones. I think tha deleted aspects of the
ritual should be preserved and discussed, but not forgotten.
Wouldn't it have been nice to see a re-enactment of the ORIGINAL ritual at the
75th Anniversary convention?
--Rashid
>
> From: "Finder, Randolph J Mr NGB-ARNG" <Randolph.Finder@ngb.army.mil>
> Date: 2004/03/04 Thu AM 08:59:19 CST
> To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
> Subject: [APO-L] Use of old Rituals.
>
> I am interested in opinions on the use of rituals prior to the current
> ritual for the pledging and brotherhood ceremonies. As a fraternity we do
> often do so. When chapters take pledges in the Spring semester after
> convention, most simply use the pledge ritual from previous to convention in
> their ritual books.
>
> While I think it would be *VERY* cool to read the initiation ritual that my
> chapter founders had in 1929, I don't think it would be appropriate to use
> it in place of our current brotherhood ritual to induct pledges. How far
> back do people feel comfortable going?
>
>
> Randy Finder
> randolph.finder@ngb.a
