FRAN’S BIO AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

PUBLICATIONS

Historical blog posts at facebook.com/PiBetaPhi  http://piphiblog.org/author/pibetaphihq/

The P.E.O. Record, P.E.O. Fact or Fiction, July-August 2012.

The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Remember: Pierce Arrow Car, Winter 2012.

The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Grace Coolidge Library, Winter 2012.

The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Remember: Balfour Cup, Fall 2011.

The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Dell Gillette, First Pi Phi to Teach at Settlement School, Fall 2011.

The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Remember: Early Extension Efforts, Summer 2011.

The P.E.O. Record, Forks in the Road: What if P.E.O. Had Never Changed, July-August 2011.

The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Remember: Balfour Cup, Fall 2011.

The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Remember: Pi Phi Conventions, Spring 2011.

The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Remember: Archives, Fall 2010.

The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Remember: First Lady of Literacy: Welthy Honsinger Fisher, Summer 2010.

The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Remember: Becoming Pi Phi, Spring 2010.

The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Remember: Holt House, Winter 2010.

Illinois Heritage Magazine, Forever Pi Phi, January-February 2010.

The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Remember: Arrowcraft Shop, Summer 2009.

The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Pi Beta Phi Archives, Summer 2009.

The P.E.O. Record, The Role of Religion in P.E.O., May-June 2009.

The Angel Sweets and Angel Treats Cookbook, Introduction, March 2009.

The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Remember: Sharing Recipes is a Pi Phi Tradition, Winter 2009.

The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Here’s to the Friendship True! A Tribute to the Pi Phi Cookie Shine, Co-authored with Wendy Drochelman, Winter 2009.

The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, Religion and Pi Beta Phi, Spring 2007.

Evelyn Peters Kyle: A Biography, introduction to Reflections: A Collection of Poetry by Pi Beta Phi’s Poet Laureate Evelyn Peters Kyle, Pi Beta Phi Foundation, 2006.

The History of Women’s Fraternities, essay on From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont website, www.lib.utk.edu/arrowmont.

Hearts That Are Bound by the Wine and Silver Blue, Pi Beta Phi Fraternity, Harmony House Publishers, 2005.

A New Fraternity First, Pi Beta Phi Convention program, June 2005.

Kappa Kappa of Sigma Chi, Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing, 2004.

Delta of Kappa Alpha Theta, Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing, 2003.

Illinois Zeta of Pi Beta Phi, Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing, 2003.

Grace Goodhue Coolidge: Pi Beta Phi. Published by the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, 2002, as Number 17 of its The Real Calvin Coolidge series.

Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society,  The History of Women’s Fraternities and the Growth of Coeducation, 1996.

Arrows, Angels & Admiration: Pi Beta Phi Fraternity Heritage Resource Manual, September 1995.

 

PRESENTATIONS

St. Louis Gamma Phi Beta Alumnae Club Founders’ Day, Syracuse, Sororities and a Pink Carnation, November 11, 2012.

St. Louis Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Club, Elizabeth Clarke Helmick,  Pioneering Spirit Behind the Settlement School, March 2012.

St. Louis Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Club Founders’ Day, Eighty-five Years Ago at the White House, April 25, 2009.

Celebrating Women Luncheon, SIUC, Twenty-three Years of Reaching for Issues that Touch Our Hearts, March 18, 2009.

P.E.O. Sisterhood, Illinois Chapter JN, Twenty-three Years of Reaching for Issues that Touch Our Hearts, January 14, 2009.

Greek Week speaker, Knox College, April 27, 2006.

Grace Coolidge, Fraternity Woman, program given at Grace Coolidge Day, University of Vermont, September 2002.

The National Panhellenic Conference: A Glorious Hundred Years, program at the College Fraternity Editor’s Association annual meeting, June 2002.

Grace Goodhue Coolidge, Vermont Beta, Pi Beta Phi Convention program, 2001.

Washington and Jefferson College Panhellenic Association, Our Common Heritage, October 21, 2000.

Women’s Studies 2nd Annual Conference, Eastern Illinois University, Panhellenic House: Women Coming Together, April 8, 2000.

Scholarship for and by Women, Poster Presentation, The History of the Women’s Fraternity System at SIUC, April 15, 1999.

SIUC Panhellenic Council, NPC Badge Day Dinner Speaker, Women’s Fraternities at SIUC: A Proud Heritage, March 3, 1999.

SIUC 1998 Leadership Conference, Heritage and Ritual: What It Means to Your Organization’s Future, September 26, 1998.

New York Alpha Chapter of Pi Beta Phi, Syracuse University, Keynote speaker at chapter’s centennial banquet, A Hundred Years at Syracuse, April 20, 1996.

Phi Kappa Phi Research Day, SIUC, The History of the Fraternity System at SIUC, 1948-1960, March 25, 1996.

Midwest History of Education Society, Chicago, IL, The History of Women’s Fraternities and the Growth of Coeducation, October 27, 1995.

MMOGSISP, SIUC, A League of Our Own: The National Panhellenic Conference, October 19, 1995.

Women’s Studies/UWPA Juried Competition Research Grant, November 1994.

 

EDUCATION

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, Ph.D., Educational Administration, 2002. Dr. William Eaton, Advisor. Dissertation: Coeducation and the History of Women’s Fraternities 1867-1902.

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, M.S. Higher Education, 1995. Thesis: The History of the Fraternity System at SIU, 1948-1960.

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, B.S. Dual degree, Newhouse School of Public Communications, College of Human Development, 1979.

 

HONORS

Pi Beta Phi Dorothy Weaver Morgan Award for Fraternity Loyalty, 2011.

Rotary Club of Carbondale Breakfast, Distinguished Service Award, 2010.

SIUC University Woman of Distinction, Doctoral Student, 2001.

National Interfraternity Foundation Balfour Fellowship, 1994.

Pi Beta Phi National Chapter Service Award, 1979.

Ruth Tolley Award, College of Human Development, 1978.