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Category Archives: Beta Theta Pi
The Graduation Edition – Alumna / Alumnae /Alumnus / Alumni
I love the pomp and circumstance of graduation ceremonies. After all, I earned a degree based mainly on the color of the hood (two of my favorite colors wine and silver blue, which just happen to be Pi Beta Phi’s … Continue reading
Happy Founders’ Day, My Dear Pi Beta Phi!
When Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois opened in September 1856, 26 of the 99 students were women. Ten years later, when the 1866-67 academic year began, the cost of the first term was $12 in tuition and $9 for each … Continue reading
Champaign’s Virginia Theater – Home of Ebertfest
(This blog was posted a week or so before Roger Ebert’s death. I am so sorry to hear of his passing. I also discovered that a P.E.O. friend and Knox College alumna was Ebert’s childhood friend and neighbor. What a … Continue reading
Posted in Beta Theta Pi, GLO, Greek-letter Organization, Greek-letter Organization History, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kappa Sigma, National Panhellenic Conference, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Theta, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, University of Illinois
Tagged EbertFest, Roger Ebert, University of Illinois, Virginia Theater
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Happy Birthday Stephen Sondheim, Musical Theater Genius and a ΒΘΠ
Happy Birthday Stephen Sondheim! He is one of my favorite composers and I have wonderful memories of attending Sondheim shows on Broadway with my daughter while she was at Mount Holyoke (who says college family weekends need to be spent … Continue reading
Posted in Beta Theta Pi, GLO, Greek-letter Organization, Greek-letter Organization History, Williams College
Tagged Beta Theta Pi, Broadway Genuis!, Stephen Sondheim, Williams College
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Baird’s Manual of American College Fraternities Debuted 135 Years Ago
My thanks to Christopher Walters, a fraternity history enthusiast and a member of Phi Mu Alpha, for writing this blog post. In 1879 a revolution occurred in the fraternity world. It was in March of that year when a little booklet, … Continue reading
Posted in Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities, Beta Theta Pi, GLO, Greek-letter Organization, Greek-letter Organization History, NIC, North-American Interfraternity Conference, Sorority History, Women's Fraternity History
Tagged Albert P. jacobs, Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities, Christopher Walters, Fraternity, Greek-letter Organization History, National Panhellenic Conference, NPC, Women's fraternities, women's fraternity history
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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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DePauw’s 1870s Samurai Fraternity Men Who Were Betas and Dekes
In 1877, four young Japanese men arrived in Greencastle, Indiana. They became students at the alma mater of their teacher, an American missionary. They, too, like their mentor, became fraternity men. Two joined Delta Kappa Epsilon and the other two … Continue reading
Posted in Beta Theta Pi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, DePauw University, GLO, Greek-letter Organization, Men's Fraternities
Tagged Aimaro Sato, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, DePauw University, Francis H. Sisson, Francis Hinckley Sisson, Greencastle Indiana, Indiana Asbury University, Izumy Nasu, Keizo Kawamura, Ogata Sennosuki, Sutemi Chinda
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