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May 1 – Phi Gamma Delta’s Founders’ Day and FIJI Sires and Sons Anniversary

May 1, 1848 is the date of Phi Gamma Delta’s founding. John Templeton McCarty, Samuel Beatty Wilson, James Elliott, Daniel Webster Crofts, Ellis Bailey Gregg and Naaman Fletcher – the Immortal Six – were students at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, … Continue reading

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The Only President Born on the 4th of July. And He’s a Phi Gamma Delta!

Calvin Coolidge, a Phi Gamma Delta, and Grace Goodhue Coolidge, a Pi Beta Phi, were both natives of Vermont. They married in the Goodhue family home in Burlington. Although they spent their married life living in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. … Continue reading

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Calvin Coolidge, Pride of the Amherst College Phi Gamma Delta Chapter

1920 was a very busy year for Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge, a Phi Gamma Delta from Amherst College’s Class of 1895. On April 8, he was one of the speakers at a dinner meeting of the College’s Central Massachusetts Alumni … Continue reading

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Grace Coolidge and Orange, Connecticut

Orange, Connecticut is a small town, west of New Haven. It’s where my husband grew up and where we visit yearly. When I found a Grace Coolidge letter written from Orange, my curiosity was piqued. Did Grace Coolidge really spend … Continue reading

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Gracing the White House

  “The Eighteenth National Panhellenic Congress representing 150,000 Sorority Women in session at Parker House, Boston, Mass.; sends greetings and best wishes to you as the first Sorority Woman to grace the White House,” is the text of the telegram … Continue reading

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My Double Sisters and Me – P.E.O. and Pi Beta Phi

  Pi Beta Phi was founded as I.C. Sorosis on April 28, 1867 at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois. The second chapter of I.C. Sorosis was founded in December of 1868 at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mt. Pleasant Iowa, 58 … Continue reading

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Grace Goodhue and Calvin Coolidge – Pi Beta Phi and Phi Gamma Delta – The First President and First Lady Initiated into Greek-Letter Societies while in College

When Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President on August 3, 1923, it heralded a fraternity first. The nation had its first couple who had both been initiated as members of Greek letter societies while in college. Grace Goodhue was … Continue reading

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Grace Goodhue Coolidge – Vermont Beta

Grace Goodhue Coolidge is my very favorite First Lady. Find out why at https://www.franbecque.com/grace-goodhue-coolidge-my-favorite-first-lady-and-a-loyal-pi-phi/

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