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Category Archives: Kappa Kappa Gamma
Happy 111th Birthday, NPC!!
The National Panhellenic Conference, the umbrella organization of 26 women’s fraternities and sororities celebrates its 111th birthday this year. Here is the postcard Margaret Mason Whitney sent to the women who were scheduled to attend the first meeting on May … Continue reading
Posted in Alpha Phi, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Founders' Day, Fran Favorite, Gamma Phi Beta, GLO, Greek-letter Organization, Greek-letter Organization History, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, National Panhellenic Conference, Notable Sorority Women, Pi Beta Phi, Sorority History, Women's Fraternity History
Tagged National Panhellenic Conference, NPC History
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Sisters Helping Sisters When Times Get Tough
In 2012, the 26 National Panhellenic Conference member groups (and/or their foundations) provided almost $3 million dollars in academic scholarships to their members to pursue undergraduate, graduate, and professional studies. In addition, most of the groups fund emergency grants to members. … Continue reading
Posted in Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Phi, Alpha Sigma Alpha, Alpha Sigma Tau, Alpha Xi Delta, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Delta Phi Epsilon, Delta Zeta, Fran Favorite, Gamma Phi Beta, GLO, Greek-letter Organization, Greek-letter Organization History, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, National Panhellenic Conference, Phi Mu, Phi Sigma Sigma, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Delta Tau, Sigma Kappa, Sigma Sigma Sigma, Sorority History, Theta Phi Alpha, Women's Fraternities, Women's Fraternity History, Zeta Tau Alpha
Tagged NPC, NPC Foundations
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Fraternity and Sorority Magazines – Preserving History, Fostering Enthusiasm and Promulgating Lifelong Loyalty
This week, I had the opportunity to read hard copies of recently published sorority magazines.* What fun it was to turn the pages and read about some of the 26 National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) organizations! Good works are being done. … Continue reading
Posted in Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Gamma Delta Quarterly, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi Delta, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Delta Zeta, Gamma Phi Beta, GLO, Greek-letter Organization, Greek-letter Organization History, Ida Shaw Martin, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Alpha Theta (magazine), Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, National Panhellenic Conference, Notable Sorority Women, Phi Mu, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Kappa, Sorority History, The Anchora of Delta Gamma, The Angelos of Kappa Delta, The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, The Eleusis of Chi Omega, The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma, The Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega, The Quill of Alpha Xi Delta, The Themis of Zeta Tau Alpha, The Trident of Delta Delta Delta, Zeta Tau Alpha
Tagged Florence Armstong, L. Pearle Green, National Panhellenic Confrence, NPC, NPC Editors, R. Louise Fitch
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The Early History of the Women’s Fraternity System at the University of Kansas
By 1870, eight state universities accepted women; these institutions were the Universities of Kansas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan, and California (Newcomer, 1959). Women’s fraternities provided the female students with a support system in an educational environment that was … Continue reading
Fraternity Women Who Were Lawyers, 1867-1902 (When Women Could Not Vote!)
During the time frame of this study, 1867-1902, women had few legal rights. Therefore, it is interesting to note that several of these early fraternity women became lawyers at a time when women were not yet allowed to vote. In … Continue reading
Posted in Alpha Phi, Delta Delta Delta, DePauw University, Fran Favorite, GLO, Greek-letter Organization, Greek-letter Organization History, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, National Panhellenic Conference, Notable Fraternity Women, Notable Sorority Women, Pi Beta Phi, Sorority History, University of Minnesota, Women's Fraternity History
Tagged Female lawyers who were sorority women. female lawyers who were fraternity women, NPC, sorority history
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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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Celebrating the Early NPC Delegates During Women’s History Month
To celebrate Women’s History Month, I wrote this post about some of the early NPC delegates. It was published in the March 2013 Alumnae Panhellenics Newsletter. The National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) met for the first time on May 24, 1902 … Continue reading
Posted in Alpha Xi Delta, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Fran Favorite, GLO, Greek-letter Organization, Greek-letter Organization History, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Mary Love Collins, National Panhellenic Conference, Notable Sorority Women, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Kappa, Women's Fraternities, Zeta Tau Alpha
Tagged May Agness Hopkins, May Lansfield Keller, National Panhellenic Conference, NPC
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Happy Birthday Mizzou! In 1902, There Were Only Two – KKΓ and ΠBΦ
“Happy Birthday Mizzou! Founded in 1839 as America’s first public university west of the Mississippi, MU celebrates its 174th birthday today!” read the status of one of my Pi Phi friend’s facebook page. How could I not cobble together a … Continue reading
Posted in GLO, Greek-letter Organization, Greek-letter Organization History, Kappa Kappa Gamma, National Panhellenic Conference, Notable Sorority Women, Pi Beta Phi, Sorority History, University of Missouri, Women's Fraternity History, Zeta Tau Alpha
Tagged Beta Sigma Omicron, Gratia Wodside, Helen Guthrie Miller, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, University of Missouri, Zeta Tau Alpha
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“Hazing as Girls Practice It” – The University of Chicago’s Esoteric Club, 1896
“What objection can Miss Talbott (sic) make to a national fraternity in the face of this?” was written on a page that had an undated article entitled “Hazing as Girls Practice it.” It was in with some late 1890s correspondence … Continue reading
Posted in American Association of University Women, Bradley University, Davida Harper Eaton, Delta Sigma Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), National Panhellenic Conference, Phi Delta Theta, Pi Beta Phi, Sorority History, University of Chicago, Women's Fraternities, Women's Fraternity History
Tagged Bradley University, Davida Harper Eaton, Kappa Kappa Gamme, Marion Talbot, NPC. women's fraternity history, Phi Delta Theta, Pi Beta Phi, University of Chicago, William Rainey Harper
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Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, Settlement House Founder and Kappa Kappa Gamma
Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch was a social worker at a time when that discipline was in its infancy. She was also a fraternity woman and played a role in the first gathering of what came to be the National Panhellenic Conference. … Continue reading
Posted in Boston University, Conventions, Fraternity meetings, GLO, Greek-letter Organization, Greek-letter Organization History, Kappa Kappa Gamma, National Panhellenic Conference, Notable Sorority Women, The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma
Tagged Boston University, Greenwich House, Kappa Kappa Gamma. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma
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