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On National Teacher Appreciation Day: SIUC and the AES / NPC Merger

May 7 is National Teacher Appreciation Day. In honor of Southern Illinois University’s beginnings as a teaching training institution (a/k/a normal school), I am including this segment of the history of SIUC’s fraternity system. There were three mergers which affected the … Continue reading

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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

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Baird’s Manual of American College Fraternities Debuted 135 Years Ago

My thanks to Christopher Walters, a fraternity history enthusiast and a member of Phi Mu Alpha, for writing this blog post. In 1879 a revolution occurred in the fraternity world. It was in March of that year when a little booklet, … Continue reading

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Celebrating the Rebirth of Two NPC Alpha Chapters!

This spring two National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) organizations are recolonizing their Alpha chapters. Zeta Tau Alpha is returning to its birthplace at Longwood University. Alpha Omicron Pi is revitalizing the chapter whose home will be the now co-ed Columbia University, with … Continue reading

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Alumnae Panhellenics: The Foundation for Sorority Success

My thanks to Jane Sutton, Alpha Xi Delta and National Panhellenic Conference Chairman, for being today’s guest blogger. Jane also has her own blog at http://alphaxideltanpc.blogspot.com/ As chairman of the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) and previously as the national president … Continue reading

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The 32nd NPC Meeting in Williamsburg, Founding Site of ΦΒK

From November 27-December 1, 1951, the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) met in Williamsburg, Virginia. Edith Reese Crabtree, Kappa Kappa Gamma, served as chairman. Alpha Phi Margaret Hutchinson served as secretary and Delta Gamma Mavis Mann was treasurer. The 11 associate … Continue reading

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Doctors Who Wore Badges: Fraternity Women in Medicine 1867-1902

In 1870, there were 525 female doctors in the United States (Newcomer, 1959).   Among the fraternity women who became physicians were founders of two NPC groups, Rachel Jane “Jennie” Nicol, a founder of Pi Beta Phi, and Eleanor Dorcas Pond … Continue reading

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Happy Founders’ Day Gamma Phi Beta!

On November 11, 1874, Gamma Phi Beta was founded at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.  Gamma Phi’s founders are Mary A. Bingham Willoughby, E. Adeline Curtis, Frances E. Haven Moss, and Helen M. Dodge Ferguson. Below they are pictured … Continue reading

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On Election Day, Let Us Honor Carrie Chapman Catt, a Proud Fraternity Woman!

Today is Election Day. One hundred years ago women did not have the right to vote in presidential elections. A fraternity woman, Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, an Iowa State Pi Beta Phi, was a leading force in the suffrage movement. Catt … Continue reading

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Happy Founders’ Day Alpha Sigma Tau

On November 4, 1899, eight young women, Mable Chase, Ruth Dutcher, May Gephart, Harriet Marx, Eva O’Keefe, Adriance Rice, Helene Rice, and Mayene Tracy, formed a sorority at the Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University) in Ypsilanti, Michigan. … Continue reading

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