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Welcome! Chances are good you found this blog by searching for something about fraternities or sororities.
I was the last person anyone would have suspected of joining a sorority in college. I am sure I would have agreed with them, too.
When I made my way to Syracuse University, I saw the houses with the Greek letters that edged Walnut Park, and wished I could tour them. My roommate suggested I sign up for rush (as it was then called, today it’s known as recruitment) and go through the house tour round and then drop out of rush. It sounded like a plan. I didn’t realize that I would end up feeling at home at one of the chapters. And that I would become a member.
In this blog I will share the history of GLOs and other topics. I wrote a dissertation on “Coeducation and the History of Women’s Fraternities 1867-1902.″ It chronicles the growth of the system and the birth of the National Panhellenic Conference.
My Master’s thesis details the history of the fraternity system at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1948-1960. The dates are significant ones and the thesis is available on the top menu.
I have done research at the Student Life Archives and have written several histories of University of Illinois fraternity chapters for the Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing.
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Doctors Who Wore Badges: Fraternity Women in Medicine 1867-1902
Female Senators and Their Sorority Affiliation – 2019 Edition
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Fraternity Women Who Were Lawyers, 1867-1902 (When Women Could Not Vote!)
Hidden Figures on Alpha Kappa Alpha Founders’ Day
Sorority Women Writing Stories Whose Characters Are Sorority Women
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Elsie Katherine Bergegrun, M.D.
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Dr. “Mattibelle” Boger Shattuck
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Carlotta Joaquina Maury, Ph.D.
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Mary Elizabeth Lasher Barnette
Marguerite “Peg” Lindsley (Arnold)
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Mildred “Millie” Lonergan McAuliffe
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Tag Archives: Alpha Omicron Pi
Harriet Cone Greve, Alpha Omicron Pi, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024
The Omicron Chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, was chartered on April 14, 1902. Mattie Ayres Newman was the daughter of Dr. Brown Ayres, who began his tenure as the University’s President in 1904. His … Continue reading
Lucy Somerville Howorth, Alpha Omicron Pi, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
Lucy Somerville (Howorth) was born on July 1, 1895. Her mother was Nellie Nugent Somerville, the first woman to serve in the Mississippi Legislature. Howorth’s upbringing in Greenville, Mississippi, was a bit unconventional as Mississippi was not a hotbed of … Continue reading
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
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
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
My “Found” Volumes of The Fraternity Month
This week during our “Shelter in Place” order, I began cleaning out my GLO History cabinet. In the way back I found an unopened box with a bookstore’s label on it. I just put it aside while I whittled down … Continue reading
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
