Category Archives: Alpha Omicron Pi

Madeleine Zabriskie Doty, Alpha Omicron Pi, #NotableSororityWomen, on Founders’ Day

Alpha Omicron Pi was founded on January 2, 1897, at the home of Helen St. Clair (Mullan). She and three of her Barnard College friends, Stella George Stern (Perry), Jessie Wallace Hughan, and Elizabeth Heywood Wyman had pledged themselves to … Continue reading

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Wilkie Hughes, Alpha Omicron Pi, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2022

After Wilkie Hughes graduated from Alexandria High School in Alexandria, Indiana, she entered Indiana University. There she became a member of the Beta Phi Chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi. Hughes served as Chapter President and was also President of the … Continue reading

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Happy Founders’ Day, Alpha Omicron Pi!

Alpha Omicron Pi was founded on January 2, 1897, at the home of Helen St. Clair (Mullan). She and three of her Barnard College friends, Stella George Stern (Perry), Jessie Wallace Hughan, and Elizabeth Heywood Wyman had pledged themselves to … Continue reading

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Dorothy Mayo Morris, Alpha Omicron Pi, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHW2021

Dorothy Mayo (Morris) was born on August 11, 1908, in Orono, Maine. After she entered the University of Maine she became a member of the Gamma Chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi. She majored in romance languages and graduated in 1930. … Continue reading

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Aeroplanes Make a Buzz at Kansas University in 1920

Alpha Omicron Pi was founded on January 2, 1897, at the home of Helen St. Clair (Mullan). She and three of her Barnard College friends, Stella George Stern (Perry), Jessie Wallace Hughan, and Elizabeth Heywood Wyman had pledged themselves to … Continue reading

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Irma Sompayrac Willard, Alpha Omicron Pi, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2020

Irma Sompayrac Willard was born in 1897 in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. In 1916, she graduated from the Louisiana State Normal School in Natchitoches. She then enrolled at Newcomb College in New Orleans where she became a member of Alpha Omicron … Continue reading

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Mary Donlon, Alpha Omicron Pi, #NotableSororityWomen #WHM2019

Mary Donlon (Alger) joined Alpha Omicron Pi at Cornell University. She spent one year doing general classes and the following three as a law student, when Cornell’s law school only required one year of college study to enroll as a … Continue reading

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Dr. Achsa Bean, AOPi, #WHM2018, #notablesororitywomen

Achsa Bean was a member of the Alpha Omicron Pi chapter at the University of Maine, where she earned two degrees. The November 1925 To Dragma of Alpha Omicron Pi reported that she was doing graduate work and the chapter … Continue reading

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“Mrs. Sherlock Holmes” and Alpha Omicron Pi

If you look at the list of Founders’ Days at the bottom of this blog, you will see that I have Alpha Omicron Pi listed as celebrating Founders’ Day, today, December 8. According to the post on the AOPi website: … Continue reading

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Leland F. Leland on the Founding Day of TKE

Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) was founded on January 10, 1899 at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. In a meeting at 504 East Locust Street, Charles Roy Atkinson, Clarence Arthur Mayer, James Carson McNutt, Joseph Lorenzo Settles, and Owen Ison Truitt … Continue reading

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