Initiation
This item of clothing worn during the initiation service symbolizes humility and light.
What is the white initiation robe?
What is the importance of dress code during formal chapters?
What is to prepare for career life/interviews?
The significance of this service is to honor the members of a collegiate chapter that are graduating or transferring schools, therefore becoming alumnae members.
What is the Rite of Passage?
This should never be written or spoken above a whisper.
What is the Gamma Phi Beta secret motto?
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?
To be admitted as a latecomer to a chapter business meeting, the member performs these three actions.
What are the Gamma Phi Beta knock, countersign, and password response?
This service is performed following the election of officers each year.
What is the Installation of Officers?
These are the four secret tests of membership.
What are the Gamma Phi Beta knock, password, sign and countersign, and secret grip?
During the Request for Admission, this song, written in 1880, is sung. The song can symbolize the taking away of sins and leaving people cleansed, temple building, and wandering singers.
What is "The Goat Song?"
These three chapter members are the only ones to sit at the front of the chapter room during the chapter business meeting.
Who are the chapter president, recording secretary, and parliamentarian?
Annual celebration date to commemorate the founding of Gamma Phi Beta
Our signature of ΠKE has this meaning.
What is "Faith and Good Will?"
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?
The proper way of sitting during a formal chapter
What is feet flat on the floor or ankles crossed right over left?
The first ritual service a new member attends
What New Member Ribbon Pinning Service on Bid Day?
This Hebrew word, written on the Gamma Phi Beta badge, is symbolic of the Founders and of complete growth.
What is "arba?"
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?
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 may I address my sisters?
The four founders and what they are known for
What is Helen M. Dodge (Scholar), Frances E. Haven (Artist), E. Adeline Curtis (Friend), Mary A. Bingham (Aristocrat)?
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?