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Original Collector: Julie Greime
Title: None Provided (possible title = Kilroy’s Scavenger Hunt)
Class: F101
Semester/Year: Spring 1984
“OK. Um. We’re having them all come over here (the Phi Mu house) and I’m gonna giver her like a scavenger hunt. I’m gonna have her go to Kilroy’s, where I work, and some people there is gonna giver her another clue when she figure—figures out who at Kilroy’s it’s supposed to be and then um.. that phone right in front of the Stadium Services Building there’s gonna be a clue taped underneath that an you know make up a riddle for her over there.”—Suzanne Schwartz
Context: The story was told by Suzanne Schwartz (age 20) and again collected by Julie Greime. It was also completed at the Phi Mu house in the spring semester of 1984, but this collection was made in the early evening at Indiana University.
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Original Collector: Julie Greime
Title: None Provided (possible title = Evansville Pledge)
Class: F101
Semester/Year: Spring 1984
“Well, um… I received my mother at Evansville when I was a pledge. (Cindy is the transfer.) So, um, it was a little bit different than what we do here. We didn’t do a scavenger hunt. They just told us to be on our toes all weekend because we would find out who our sorority mother was sometime that week and we had no idea what was going on. It was all very secretive. So, um, it was… I had just gotten home from a party and it was about probably 5:30 in the morning and I had just gotten into bed, gotten my clothes, you know. I had been asleep an hour and all the suddin’ the door ‘bout breaks down and ‘bout four Phi Mus come in and blindfold me and, um, drag me out to McDonald’s in my nightgown and, um, we went out to breakfast and the rest of the Chapter was waiting there and all the pledges, you know, came and we learned songs and raised a lot of ruckus in McDonald’s and, um, ended up spending the rest of the day together.”—Cindy Schelm
Context: The context of this tale is very important. The story was again collected at Phi Mu in the early evening. Told to Julie Greime by Cindy Schelm, the story provides markedly more background because the woman is a transfer from another school. Previously a student from the University of Evansville, Schelm’s texture included the element of surprise Greime alluded to in her introduction. Also, the narrative includes very specific information like times and locations. Finally, the story also incorporates (by allusion only) other types of prevalent folklore from the sorority—songs.