[6282] in APO-L
Re: Minnesota Alpha!?!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Finder)
Sun May 16 19:47:55 1993
Date: Sun, 16 May 1993 19:47:00 EDT
Reply-To: Randy Finder <NARAHT@drycas.club.CC.CMU.EDU>
From: Randy Finder <NARAHT@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
>HI there, This is Jenni fron Alpha Gamma Lambda chapter at ALbion College.
>I work in the college library here and we received the _Baird's Manual of
>American College Fraternities_ and APO was onr of the Recognition Fraternities
>listed. APO even was pages 1-7 of the 7th part of the book! I looked through
>those 7 pages and part of them were a listing of all the chapters from
>alpha to alpha gamma zeta (it was published in 1990, 5 more chapters, and ours
>would have made it!). Anyways, it also listed "Minnesota alpha" before Alpha
>chapter at Lafayette College. I was just wondering why I have never heard
>of this. I realize I'm new to this since we chartered a little over 2 years
>ago, but there is nothing in the history that i have read...
>
>If anyone knows anything about this interesting trivia please respond, ill be
>on all summer.....thanks in advance!
I see the entry that is bizarre is the copy I own. However...
Baird's is the best (and really only) reference book on fraternities out there.
However, I think that this entry is in error. There are other schools where
they have duplicated or missing information. For example, they have all 670
chapters of Alpha Phi Omega as active...
In previous editions they did list locals that went by the name Alpha Phi
Omega before Alpha Phi Omega started in 1925, but the only thing in common
was the name. I probably wasn't even a service oriented group. The four most
common letters for greek fraternity names are Alpha, Delta, Phi and Omega so
its not unreasonable that someone else decided to use the name before we did.
In short: Its either a local fraternity at U of Minn. @ Minneapolis that
started in 1902 and has no connection to us other than our name or more
likely, they had a misprint in the information that they got from the
University of Minn. and decided to list both the 1902 date they got from
the college and the 1942 date they got from APO national office in both
places.
>Jenni Bramble
>JBRAMBLE@ALBION.BITNET
>Alpha Gamma Lambda (AGL Rock)
YiLFS & Baird's ownership
Randy Finder
Section 84 staff
