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A Vermont Graduation Brings Thoughts of Grace and Calvin Coolidge

Being in Rutland, Vermont, mere miles away from the Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth Notch, brings thoughts of the President and First Lady who were native Vermonters. Calvin Coolidge, a Phi Gamma Delta, and Grace Goodhue Coolidge, a Pi Beta Phi, … Continue reading

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A Holiday First for the Coolidges and the United States

At 5 p.m. on December 24, 1923, President Calvin Coolidge (Phi Gamma Delta, Amherst College) began a White House tradition. He touched a button and the electric lights on a 48-foot balsam fir sparkled with electricity. First Lady Grace Goodhue … Continue reading

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An American Tragedy in Newtown Brings Thoughts of a First Lady

The events of this past Friday strike at the heart of us all. So many lives taken, so close to Christmas and none of it makes much sense. Among the dead are the six-year-old daughter of Jeff Previdi, a Bethany … Continue reading

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Installed on Thanksgiving – Pi Beta Phi at UVM

It’s Thanksgiving and that always makes me think of an event that happened in 1898 in Burlington, Vermont. The installation of the Vermont Beta Chapter of Pi Beta Phi took place in the Goodhue family home. The Goodhue’s only child … Continue reading

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Happy 107th Anniversary to President and Mrs. Coolidge

At 2:30 p.m. on October 4, 1905 in in the parlor of the home of Andrew and Lemira Goodhue, with 25 friends and relatives in attendance, the Goodhue’s daughter Grace married Calvin Coolidge, a young lawyer. The bride wore a … Continue reading

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NPC Women and Fraternity Men in the White House

In the spirit of 2012 being an election year, a post on the fraternity men and National Panhellenic Conference women who have lived in the White House seems quite appropriate. National Panhellenic Conference women who have served as First Lady … Continue reading

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“If My Father Were Your Father, You Would.” – Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

July 7, 1924 was most likely one of the worst days of Grace and Calvin Coolidge’s life together. Their youngest son, Calvin, Jr., died at the age of 16. On June 30, he had played tennis on the White House … 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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Lemuel H. Murlin, Phi Kappa Psi and Kappa Alpha Theta Husband, Confers Doctoral Degree on Grace Coolidge

On December 12, 1924, Grace Goodhue Coolidge received an honorary degree from Boston University. President Lemuel H. Murlin gave these remarks, “Grace Goodhue Coolidge, student, university graduate, teacher; daughter, wife, mother; in every station exemplifying the finer qualities of mind … Continue reading

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