[Swordmaker]

Re the Delta Tau Delta "Where we go one, we go all" citation. . .

Unfortunately, I followed that rabbit till it died of exhaustion and it has one source: a hand painted Colman ice-cooler with the Delta Tau Delta crest with the "really cool" saying included in the art work by the artist Emily Perry. It’s really nice in purple.

"Delta Tau Delta crest "where we go one we go all" hand painted
fraternity formal cooler UF American Gators by Emily Perry"

The photo was picked up and retweeted and reFacebooked multiple times, but every time, it was the same cooler, post White Squall movie. I found ZERO references to the quote associated with Delta Tau Delta that did NOT include the cool cooler. I even found it on a German language Fraternity Facebook page. . . Same Kool Kooler. . . and one that appeared to be in Korean. Too bad. I was hoping for a classical source that went back years and this could have been it. It wasn’t.

[greeneyes]

Oh well. Another one bites the dust I guess. Too Bad.

[generally]

Many thanks!

Interesting.

[TEXOKIE]

RE DELTA TAU DELTA ORIGINS OF WWGOWGA:

Thank you Swordmaker! I searched for that one too and came up a dry hole as well.

The only thing I might wonder is if the saying might be among their secret verbiage.... and if that were the case, I wonder if any Delts were involved in making the movie “White Squall” which seems to be the origin of the saying... at least as far as I can trace. Even if it were found to be the case, if the verbiage is secret, there may be no way to verify it, unless a Delt would be willing to step up.....

Someone mentioned that the syntax indicates Elizabethan or some old kind of word order, but still I have not found old precedents for the saying.

Unless Q gives further crumbs and emphasizes importance to ferreting out the origins, I am going to abandon the hole..... but not plug it!