Initiation
Chapter (Formal)
Other Ritual Services
Ritual Potpourri
100

This item of clothing during the initiation service symbolizes humility and light 

What is the white initiation robe?

100

During the duration of the chapter business meeting, members should place their hands and feet in this way.

What is holding the hands in countersign position and feet flat on the floor, unless uninitiated new members are present?

100

The significance of this service is to honor the members of a collegiate chapter that are graduating/transferring, therefore becoming alumnae members?

What is the Rite of Passage?

100

The Gamma Phi Beta colors of light and dark brown symbolize this

What is the sunlight and shadows of life?

200

This item, worn by only by initiated members during the initiation service, symbolizes devotion to principles and ideals through unobstructed vision.

What is the white fillet?

200

To be admitted if you're late to a chapter business meeting, the member performs these three actions

What are the Gamma Phi Beta knock, countersign, and password response?

200

This service is performed following the election of officers each year

What is Installation of Officers?

200

This is the significance of our open motto: "Founded Upon a Rock."

What is that all endeavors of worth that are to endure must be built upon a firm foundation?

300

This item, worn by the chapter president during The Processional and The Pinning Ceremony, symbolizes noble achievement

What is the chaplet (crown) of pink carnations?

300
During the Mystic Circle in closing exercise, this person is the last to stand at the open end opposite of the chapter president?

Who is the last initiated member of the most recently initiated new member class?

300

During the Founders Day Service, these particular collegiate chapters are recognized

What are the specific chapters represented by someone in attendance from those chapters at the Founders Day Service?

300

The crescent moon of our sorority always faces to the left for this reason

What is because the left-facing waxing moon is a new moon as the start of the cycle and is growing. A right-facing waning moon is slowly disappearing?

400

During The Tableaux, the Founders representatives wear these four colors of robes, symbolizing truth, love, faith, and life

What are blue, pink, yellow, and green?

400

When a member wishes to speak during the meeting and only initiated members are present, she says this to address the president

What is Madam Presbytata?

400

This service is performed by a collegiate chapter at the first chapter business (formal) meeting of the school year

What is the Reaffirmation service?

400

These are the four secret tests of membership

What are the Gamma Phi Beta knock, password, sign and countersign, and secret grip?

500

This section of the Initiation service represents an initiate's promise of lifelong fidelity to the Sorority in return for the privilege of wearing a Gamma Phi Beta badge

What is the Pinning Ceremony?

500

This is where chapter advisors and international representatives should sit if present for a chapter business meeting

What is at the beginning of general seating, before the initiated members of the chapter?

500

During the Golden Crescent Award service, awards are presented to alumnae members recognizing their milestones of this number of years since their initiation

What is 50 years?
500
This should never be written or spoken above a whisper

What is the Gamma Phi Beta secret motto?

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