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Adapted from The Key Fall 2014: When Allie Fox was initiated at Beta Upsilon, West Virginia, she expected to gain a lifelong sisterhood of friendship and love. But she didn’t realize that she also would deepen the connection she already shared with her late grandmother through a little piece of Kappa history: her grandmother’s badge. Allie’s grandmother, Joan Rodgers Shields, Maryland, picked her up from the bus stop every day when she was a child. They would work together on math problems and English papers, but her grandmother’s lessons reached beyond the classroom. “One of the many things my grandmother taught me was to strive to be the best person you can be in everything you do,” says Allie.
Adapted from The Key Fall 2014:
When Allie Fox was initiated at Beta Upsilon, West Virginia, she expected to gain a lifelong sisterhood of friendship and love. But she didn’t realize that she also would deepen the connection she already shared with her late grandmother through a little piece of Kappa history: her grandmother’s badge.
Allie’s grandmother, Joan Rodgers Shields, Maryland, picked her up from the bus stop every day when she was a child. They would work together on math problems and English papers, but her grandmother’s lessons reached beyond the classroom. “One of the many things my grandmother taught me was to strive to be the best person you can be in everything you do,” says Allie.
I felt a unique connection and a sense of comfort and belonging as I walked through the halls of the house.
During the time they shared together, Allie loved to listen to Joan’s stories about her Kappa days. Well into her 80s, Joan was still talking about days when she lived in the Kappa house; she even made it a point to introduce Allie to her sorority sisters, who Joan lovingly referred to as Allie’s aunts. Allie knew that she, too, wanted to experience what her grandmother had.
Allie joined Kappa two years after her grandmother died. “I felt a unique connection and a sense of comfort and belonging as I walked through the halls of the house,” says Allie. “I remember thinking during Recruitment that this was the feeling she always spoke about.”
Shortly after initiation, Allie sought to reclaim the 1940s-era badge that Joan had once worn. On July 19, 2014, Allie received the badge from Kappa’s archives, where it had been kept since 2011.
“When I wear her badge I feel her with me in my heart,” says Allie. “Seventy-two years separate our initiation dates, but now we share the key that binds us.”
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