Category Archives: Colleges and Universities

Isabel Kline Rock, Gamma Phi Beta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

Isabel Kline Rock grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey. She enrolled at Goucher College where she followed in her sister’s footsteps. Her older sister was a Gamma Phi Beta at Goucher and the biological sisters became sorority sisters. In … Continue reading

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Margaret Sawyer, Kappa Alpha Theta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

Margaret Sawyer grew up in Tuscola, Illinois. She was initiated into Kappa Alpha Theta in 1914 as a student at the University of Illinois and was her chapter’s president. She also served the Women’s League in the same capacity and … Continue reading

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Rhoda Muriel Ivimey, M.D., Alpha Phi, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

Born on November 1, 1888, in London England, Rhoda Muriel Ivimey came to America when she was three years old. After graduating from Morris High School, she entered Barnard College. There, she joined Alpha Phi and was known by her … Continue reading

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Marjorie Nicolson, Ph.D., Chi Omega, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

Marjorie Nicolson’s introduction as one of three pledges (new members) of the Chi Omega chapter at the University of Michigan noted that “on the afternoon of June 3, we gave a sewing party, and June 4 we entertained at dinner.” … Continue reading

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Carmel LaTorra Chittim, Delta Zeta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

Carmel LaTorra was born on November 17, 1894 in Boulder, Colorado. She graduated from Mount St. Gertrude Academy, a Catholic school which opened in 1892. According to Boulder Magazine, “a signed certificate of completion from Mount St. Gertrude’s meant automatic … Continue reading

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Harriet Cone Greve, Alpha Omicron Pi, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

The Omicron Chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, was chartered on April 14, 1902.  Mattie Ayres Newman was the daughter of Dr. Brown Ayres, who began his tenure as the University’s President in 1904. His … Continue reading

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Ethel J. McCoy, Alpha Chi Omega, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

Ethel J. McCoy grew up in Sanford, Florida. She graduated from Duvall High School in Jacksonville. She enrolled at Syracuse University where she became a member of the Lambda Chapter of Alpha Chi Omega. Syracuse winters must have been foreign … Continue reading

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Faye Safer Silverman, Delta Phi Epsilon, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

On March 17, 1917, Minna Goldsmith (Mahler), Eva Effron (Robin), Ida Bienstock (Landau), Sylvia Steierman (Cohn) and Dorothy Cohen (Schwartzman), students at New York University Law School, founded Delta Phi Epsilon. Five years later, the organization was formally incorporated in … Continue reading

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Marcia Malone Slavin, Alpha Xi Delta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

t hitMarcia Malone Slaven was born in Grafton, West Virginia on July 17, 1932. In 1950, she enrolled at West Virginia University after graduating from Grafton High School. She was a student at WVU’s School of Pharmacy. In 1950, pharmacy … Continue reading

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Janet Greig Post, Delta Delta Delta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

Janet Greig Post was born on November 21, 1871, in Fonda, in upstate New York. She grew up in Oneida, Illinois, and entered Knox College. There she became a member of the Epsilon Chapter of Delta Delta Delta. Although she … Continue reading

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