Category Archives: Alpha Epsilon Phi

Happy Founders’ Day to Delta Zeta and Alpha Epsilon Phi

Two National Panhellenic Conference groups, Delta Zeta and Alpha Epsilon Phi, were founded on October 24. In 1902, Delta Zeta made its debut at Miami University in Ohio; Alpha Epsilon Phi was founded in 1909 at Barnard College in New York City. … Continue reading

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Bessie Margolin, Alpha Epsilon Phi, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2022

Bessie Margolin became a member of the Alpha Epsilon Phi chapter at Sophie Newcomb College. Born in New York City to Russian Jewish immigrants, she and her family moved to Tennessee. Her mother died when Margolin was a child, and … Continue reading

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Rosaline Greene, Alpha Epsilon Phi, #NotableSororityWoman, #WHM2021

Rosaline Greenberg, who later used the professional name Greene, was born in Hempstead, New York, on Long Island. The only  Jewish female student at Bay Shore High School, she was editor of the school newspaper and valedictorian of her class. … Continue reading

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Ruth Freeman Solomon, Alpha Epsilon Phi, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2020

Ruth Freeman (Solomon) was born in 1908. When she was three years old, she and her family left the Ukrainian city of Kiev, which was part of czarist Russia. It was a long voyage to America. In the 1980s, she … Continue reading

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Lillian Copeland, Alpha Epsilon Phi, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2019

Lillian Copeland was born Lillian Drossin on November 25, 1904, in New York City. Her parents were Polish immigrants. After her father’s death, her mother remarried and Lillian took her stepfather’s name. As a child she moved to the west … Continue reading

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26% of NPC Sororities Celebrate Founders’ Day in October

October is a busy month for Founders’ Day celebrations. Seven of the 26 National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) organizations will be a year older before Halloween gets here. While I always try to write a post for the NPC groups on … Continue reading

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An AEPhi Tribute, a ZBT Treasure, and a Pi Phi Story

I was looking at the Alpha Epsilon Phi website and came across this wonderful tribute to Margery Rosen Mendelson, a 1938 initiate of the AEPhi chapter at the University of Missouri. She became a member because of the “wonderful stories … Continue reading

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Royal Weddings and More

Playin’ catch-up again! Tomorrow, Kappa Kappa Gamma Meghan Markle will become the wife of Britain’s Prince Harry. She will not be a princess, however, but her title will be the Duchess of Sussex. Best wishes to the royal couple and I … Continue reading

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Dinah Shore, Alpha Epsilon Phi, #WHM2018, #notablesororitywomen

Fannie Rose Shore, better known as Dinah Shore, became a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi at Vanderbilt University and she served as the chapter’s president. Graduating with a degree in sociology she founded the Athenian Sing, an a capella contest … Continue reading

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A Poignant Chi Omega Story and a Talk With Charlotte Rae, AEPhi, “Mrs. G.”

It’s Women History Month and I have been trying to profile sorority women who served in World War I. It’s not as easy as it looks and frankly and I not sure if anyone is interested. That’s never stopped me … Continue reading

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