(I am running out of Pythonic ways to do this. Probably a sign that the joke has run its course, yes?)
Beta Phi Mu
International Library and Information Studies Honor Society
Hereby certifies that
Dorothea Rovner Salo
has been duly elected into full membership in its society and thus is entitled to all the Rights and Privileges appertaining thereto.
(signed) W. Michael Havener, President
Louise S. Robbins, Executive Director
2005, Date
Beta Phi Mu purports to stand for a Greek phrase meaning “Librarians are the guardians of knowledge.” Of course David (dutifully watching me twiddle my purple-and-white honor cords against my purple dress, and I swear I didn’t harmonize with my honor cords on purpose!) couldn’t resist trying to back-translate that one. What he came up with was ????????????? ?????????? ????????. “Or, in your case,” he whispered, pointing to another Greek word he’d written, “????????.”
“I’m a medusa?” I squeal-whispered back. “Rockin’!”
So then he got to doodling:
Which, if TAG didn’t already have a brilliant logo, would itself be a brilliant logo.
I picked up my cap and gown between Ed Cortez’s farewell shindig and the Beta Phi Mu shindig. When I got home from the latter, I put the whole rig on to figure out how to do it (those hoods aren’t easy to manage). I look something like a cross between a frigate and a funeral dais, but so be it; I earned it and I’m bloody well going to wear it.
