Anyone know what fraternity this pin represents?

begalli · Sep 20, 2004

Are you sure that's not a DO (doctor of osteopathy) pin?

It does look like a fraternity/sorority pin though the way the pearls are laid.

P_RN, ADN, RN · Sep 20, 2004

I don't know what it is, it could be that. It's on eBay and I thought it would be easy to ID. I like to collect odd nursing/medical stuff. Even the seller didn't know.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=3930700807&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT

begalli · Sep 20, 2004

Hey P_RN, I like to collect stuff like this too. I mostly collect stuff for my son who's an avid soccer fan of teams the world round. But I have found some vintage nursing books whose content just blows my mind! I'm also an ebay seller!

I showed your picture to my daughter who has a masters degree in math. She said that there aren't any greek symbols in that pin, but the image in the middle of the diamond shape is the symbol for the pathergian (sp?) theorem in math.

I can't figure out, though, the caduceus connection with that math symbol, and then the DO.

Quite a unique and interesting pin!

begalli · Sep 20, 2004

Btw, for clarification iit's spelled....Pythagorean theorem.

P_RN, ADN, RN · Sep 20, 2004

I have to watch myself on eBay! I have bought some pretty good stuff .

I know I've been looking at this symbol for an hour or more. The three squares are the 47th problem of Euclid.....he proved Pythagoras' theorum about 300 years later. That symbol is also Masonic and I asked my DH and he said he's never seen it either.

The caduceus gets me...osteopaths have only one serpent.

begalli · Sep 20, 2004

Well I wish I could be more help. I have sold things on ebay that have taken months of research just to find out what they were. Those are usually the most valuable items (monetarily and emotionally for some).

At any rate, good luck and happy bidding!

:)

vaughanmk · Sep 20, 2004

I have no clue what it would represent, but I'll look around. For some reason this has me intensly intrigued.

chris_at_lucas_RN, RN · Sep 20, 2004

It is a DO pin. Not a fraternity pin, unless they have some sort of honorary fraternity, like Phi Beta Kappa.

Bet somebody lost it.

Would be cool to find the original owner--did you read about that lost high school ring that showed up in Engand and the finder tracked down the original owner in Dallas, TX? The ring had been lost about 40 years ago. The original owner was a classmate of my DH.

I heard they are going to be on Jane Pauley.

Anyway--it's a DO pin.