Initiation/Greeting Handshake

• Informant info
  • Junior at Penn State Sorority
• Type of lore (verbal, material or customary), Genre, Subgenre
  • Customary
• Language
  • English
• Country of Origin
  • United States
• Social / Cultural Context
  • Pennsylvania State University Sorority
• Informant’s comments
  • Taken very seriously. In order to get fully initiated in the house, we had to knock on the door and the Vice President of Administration of the sorority was standing there waiting for us. We have a secret handshake that only sisters of the house know that we had to do with the Vice President in order to enter. Once we successfully do our handshake we are fully initiated and the handshake becomes a greeting amongst sisters at meetings and around campus.
• Collector’s comments
  •  anonymous as to not give away the identity of the sorority and informant