Category Archives: Goucher College

Isabel Kline Rock, Gamma Phi Beta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

Isabel Kline Rock grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey. She enrolled at Goucher College where she followed in her sister’s footsteps. Her older sister was a Gamma Phi Beta at Goucher and the biological sisters became sorority sisters. In … Continue reading

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Frances Steen Suddeth Josephson, Kappa Kappa Gamma, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

Frances Steen Suddeth Josephson grew up in Baltimore. She became a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma while attending Goucher College where she was a biology major. Her goal was to become a doctor. Dorothy Stinson, the president of Goucher, was … Continue reading

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Jacqueline Jenkins-Nye, Ph.D., Alpha Gamma Delta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2022

Jacqueline Jenkins-Nye moved to Baltimore, Maryland when she was a young child and her father started teaching at Johns Hopkins University. After high school graduation, she enrolled in Goucher College, which was then located in downtown Baltimore. There she became … Continue reading

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Janice Martin Benario, WAVE Code Breaker and Pi Beta Phi

Yesterday, a friend sent me a link to this article which appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.  Janice Martin (Benario) was a 1942 initiate of the Pi Beta Phi chapter at Goucher College. As a student, one of her professors recommended … Continue reading

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Eva Orrick Bandel Wilson, Alpha Phi, #notablesororitywomen #WHM2017

In 1897, Evalina “Eva” Orrick Bandel graduated from the Woman’s College of Baltimore before it changed its name to Goucher College. During her years there, she joined the Zeta Chapter of Alpha Phi. After graduation, her plans were to study … Continue reading

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Researching a Stranger and Finding a Familiar Face

The internet has made so many publications available at the click of a mouse. Last night while looking for some information about a prominent Delta Gamma, I came across, completely by accident, a digitized copy of the Goucher College yearbook. My … Continue reading

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The Graduation Edition – Alumna / Alumnae /Alumnus / Alumni

I love the pomp and circumstance of graduation ceremonies. After all, I earned a degree based mainly on the color of the hood (two of my favorite colors wine and silver blue, which just happen to be Pi Beta Phi’s … Continue reading

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Goucher College – Home of a Once Thriving Women’s Fraternity System

  The Women’s College of Baltimore, today known as Goucher College, was founded in 1885 and graduated its first class in 1892.  It was one of the few women’s colleges hosting chapters of national women’s fraternities.  There is evidence of … Continue reading

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The 100th Anniversary of the Suffrage Parade, Sorority Women, and a Guest Appearance by High School Student J. Edgar Hoover

This weekend marks the 100th anniversary of the March 3, 1913 Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C. Among the women who marched were sorority/fraternity women. Pi Beta Phi Carrie Chapman Catt was one of the speakers. Pi Beta Phi’s former Grand … 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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