Category Archives: Delta Gamma

Marjory and Ruth Cowan, Delta Gamma, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

March 15 is the date upon which Delta Gamma celebrates Founders’ Day. Read about the founding of Delta Gamma and its connection to Phi Delta Theta, a fraternity whose Founders’ Day is also celebrated on March 15. MARJORY COWAN Marjory … Continue reading

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Margaret Sprague Carhart, Ph.D., Delta Gamma, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2021

Margaret Sprague Carhart, Ph.D., was born into an academic family. Her father Henry Smith Carhart, a physicist, taught at Northwestern University from 1872-86 and at the University of Michigan after that. On August 30, 1876, he married Ellen M. Soulé … Continue reading

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She Cherished the Relationships She Had With Her Sorority Sisters

Delta Gamma was founded at the Oxford Female Institute, also known as the Lewis School, in Oxford, Mississippi. The school was established before the Civil War and eventually was absorbed by the University of Mississippi. Delta Gamma’s three founders, Eva … Continue reading

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Gratia Countryman, Delta Gamma, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2020

Delta Gamma was founded at the Oxford Female Institute, also known as the Lewis School, in Oxford, Mississippi. The school was established before the Civil War and eventually was absorbed by the University of Mississippi. Delta Gamma’s three founders, Eva … Continue reading

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Happy 146th, Delta Gamma!

Imagine three young school girls longing to be at home with their families on Christmas. Eva Webb [Dodd], her cousin Anna Boyd [Ellington], and Mary Comfort [Leonard], all from Kosciusko, Mississippi, were unable to be travel home from the Lewis … Continue reading

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Alice Shepard Riggs, Delta Gamma, #NotableSororityWomen #WHM2019

Alice Shepard (Riggs) was born in Turkey when her parents were medical missionaries. Imagine how long she must have traveled to enroll at Syracuse University in the fall of 1905. There, she became a member of Delta Gamma. She wrote … Continue reading

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#IAmASororityWoman and #myFraternity

The excitement of fraternity and sorority recruitment is in the air. Today is August 1 and it signals the start of Delta Gamma’s #IAmASororityWoman campaign. I love sharing the stories of all Greek-letter organizations connecting the past to the present … Continue reading

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The First NPC Meeting – Chicago, May 24, 1902

May 24, 1902, is a special day for the National Panhellenic Conference, the umbrella organization of 26 women’s fraternities and sororities. Although a first meeting of seven women’s organizations happened in Boston in 1891, little was accomplished and save for … Continue reading

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A Dissertation, a Chi O Barrette, and a Fiji 50th Celebration

March was #WHM2018, Women’s History Month, and after writing 31 posts in 31 days, I am questioning my sanity. I do love discovering the stories of #notablesororitywomen, and don’t ask me who my favorite was this go-around, because I adored … Continue reading

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Edith and Grace Abbott, Delta Gamma, #WHM2018, #notablesororitywomen

March 15 is the date upon which Delta Gamma celebrates Founders’ Day. The organization was founded by Anna Boyd Ellington, Eva Webb Dodd and Mary Comfort Leonard, students at the Lewis School for Girls. Due to inclement weather and difficult … Continue reading

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