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Ten Notable Sorority Women

“Are you telling me that Carrie Chapman Catt was a member of a sorority?” I was asked with some incredulity. It wasn’t meant as a polite question. I wanted to say that technically Catt was a member of a women’s … Continue reading

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World War I “Hello Girls” Led by Grace Banker, a Gamma Phi Beta

Gamma Phi Beta Grace Banker (Paddock), from the short-lived Iota Chapter at Barnard College, went oversees during World War I to do her part in the war effort.* A call went out for experienced switchboard operators who could speak both … Continue reading

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The Grand President Who Was a Kappa Before She Was a Pi Phi

Emma Harper Turner, one of Pi Beta Phi’s most influential early Grand Presidents, started her fraternity life as a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.  “How can that be?” you say. “There are rules against that!” It’s quite simple; the National … Continue reading

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Ivy Kellerman Reed, Ph.D., Tri Delta, Ardent Esperantist

Among the women in attendance at the first National Panhellenic Conference meeting in Chicago in May 1902 was Tri Delta’s representative, “Miss Kellerman,” as noted on the postcard that Margaret Mason Whitney sent to the delegates (see picture below). An … Continue reading

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