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Original Collector: Christie C. Scheidt
Title: Traditions of Pi Beta Phi
Class: F101
Semester, Year: Fall, 1986
Contributor: Lindsey B
At the end of the year when the seniors are leaving, after they have been inducted into alumnae status, and what the seniors do is gather up all the stuff that characterizes them personally like something they have been known for in the house or something that they have done with a bunch of other seniors that they want to will to underclassmen to carry on the tradition or to keep their spirit alive…. That is a time for the seniors to give something that they feel, it is nothing that is in the ritual, but it is just something that the seniors carry on so they can live on in everyone else’s mind.
Context: The interviews were conducted at the Pi Beta Phi house at night in the room of one of the women in the house. The story was told by Christie C. Scheidt, a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority at IU. The date of this collection was December 4, 1986.