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Category Archives: Calvin Coolidge
A Vermont Graduation Brings Thoughts of Grace and Calvin Coolidge
Being in Rutland, Vermont, mere miles away from the Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth Notch, brings thoughts of the President and First Lady who were native Vermonters. Calvin Coolidge, a Phi Gamma Delta, and Grace Goodhue Coolidge, a Pi Beta Phi, … Continue reading
May 1 – Phi Gamma Delta’s Founders’ Day and FIJI Sires and Sons Anniversary
May 1, 1848 is the date of Phi Gamma Delta’s founding. John Templeton McCarty, Samuel Beatty Wilson, James Elliott, Daniel Webster Crofts, Ellis Bailey Gregg and Naaman Fletcher – the Immortal Six – were students at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, … Continue reading
Posted in Amherst College, Calvin Coolidge, Founders' Day, GLO, Greek-letter Organization, Greek-letter Organization History, Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Beta Phi
Tagged Amherst College, Calvin Coolidge, Fiji, Phi Gamma Delta, Sires and Sons
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New Ocean House, Swampscott, MA, the Site of Many Fraternity and Sorority Conventions
From the 1920s until the 1960s, the New Ocean House in Swampscott, Massachusetts, was the site of many conventions, including those of fraternities and sororities. Alpha Chi Omega’s 1924 convention took place at the New Ocean House. Kappa Kappa Gammas … Continue reading
Posted in Alpha Chi Omega, Calvin Coolidge, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, First Ladies, Fran Favorite, Fraternity meetings, GLO, Grace Coolidge, Greek-letter Organization, Greek-letter Organization History, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kappa Sigma, Phi Gamma Delta, The Anchora of Delta Gamma, The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi
Tagged Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Gamma, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kappa Sigma, New Ocean House, Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Swampscott
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A Holiday First for the Coolidges and the United States
At 5 p.m. on December 24, 1923, President Calvin Coolidge (Phi Gamma Delta, Amherst College) began a White House tradition. He touched a button and the electric lights on a 48-foot balsam fir sparkled with electricity. First Lady Grace Goodhue … Continue reading
Posted in Amherst College, Calvin Coolidge, First Ladies, Fran Favorite, GLO, Greek-letter Organization, Greek-letter Organization History, Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Presidents, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, University of Vermont
Tagged Calvin Coolidge, Electric lights, First Ladies, First Lady, Grace Coolidge, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, President, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, White House
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An American Tragedy in Newtown Brings Thoughts of a First Lady
The events of this past Friday strike at the heart of us all. So many lives taken, so close to Christmas and none of it makes much sense. Among the dead are the six-year-old daughter of Jeff Previdi, a Bethany … Continue reading
Posted in Beta Theta Pi, Calvin Coolidge, First Ladies, Fran Favorite, GLO, Grace Coolidge, Greek-letter Organization, Greek-letter Organization History, Pi Beta Phi, Presidents, University of Vermont
Tagged Grace Coolidge, Newton
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Fraternity History and Sorority History Do Matter!
It’s been a year since I started this blog. Some people stumble upon it while trying to find out which presidents were fraternity men, or which Olympic athletes were sorority members, or any odd number of searches that will lead … Continue reading
Posted in Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities, Calvin Coolidge, GLO, Greek-letter Organization, Greek-letter Organization History, Knox College, Men's Fraternities, Mount Holyoke College, National Panhellenic Conference, Notable Sorority Women, P.E.O., Presidents, Sorority History, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Syracuse University, The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Women's Fraternities, Women's Fraternity History
Tagged Chi Omega, famous NPC women, famous sorority women, Greek-letter Organization History, P.E.O., sorority history, Women's fraternities, women's fraternity history
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Happy 107th Anniversary to President and Mrs. Coolidge
At 2:30 p.m. on October 4, 1905 in in the parlor of the home of Andrew and Lemira Goodhue, with 25 friends and relatives in attendance, the Goodhue’s daughter Grace married Calvin Coolidge, a young lawyer. The bride wore a … Continue reading
Posted in Amherst College, Calvin Coolidge, Fran Favorite, Greek-letter Organization, Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Beta Phi, University of Vermont
Tagged Burlington Vermont, Calvin Coolidge, Figi, Grace Coolidge, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Beta Phi
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She Became First Lady by the Light of a Kerosene Lamp
Grace Goodhue Coolidge went to bed the evening of August 2, 1923 as the wife of the Vice President. She was awakened in the middle of the night. As her father-in-law, a Windsor County notary, administered the oath of office … Continue reading
Posted in Calvin Coolidge, Fran Favorite, Grace Coolidge, Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Beta Phi
Tagged Calvin Coolidge, Pi Beta Phi
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The Only President Born on the 4th of July. And He’s a Phi Gamma Delta!
Calvin Coolidge, a Phi Gamma Delta, and Grace Goodhue Coolidge, a Pi Beta Phi, were both natives of Vermont. They married in the Goodhue family home in Burlington. Although they spent their married life living in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. … Continue reading
Posted in Amherst College, Calvin Coolidge, Grace Coolidge, Northampton. Massachusetts, Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Beta Phi
Tagged Amherst College, Calvin Coolidge, Grace Coolidge, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Plymouth Notch Vermont
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