Category Archives: University of Kansas

Rest in Peace, Bob Dole, Loyal Kappa Sigma

Robert “Bob” J. Dole, an October 4, 1942, initiate of the Kappa Sigma chapter at the University of Kansas, died on December 5, 2021, at the age of 98.   He was the first Kappa Sigma to be named Kappa Sigma … Continue reading

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Leona Baumgartner, Ph.D., M.D., Pi Beta Phi, #NotableSororityWoman, #WHM2021

Leona Baumgartner became a member of Pi Beta Phi at the University of Kansas where her father was a member of the faculty. She immersed herself in activities including acting in a number of theatrical productions and managing the K.U. … Continue reading

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Aeroplanes Make a Buzz at Kansas University in 1920

Alpha Omicron Pi was founded on January 2, 1897, at the home of Helen St. Clair (Mullan). She and three of her Barnard College friends, Stella George Stern (Perry), Jessie Wallace Hughan, and Elizabeth Heywood Wyman had pledged themselves to … Continue reading

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Etta Moten Barnett, Alpha Kappa Alpha, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2019

Etta Motten Barnett was born in Weimar, Texas on November 5, 1901. She first enrolled at Western University, a historically black college in Quindaro, Kansas. In 1918, she married Lieutenant Curtis Brooks, a former teacher. They moved to Oklahoma and … Continue reading

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“By God! Mother Cahill’s Picture!”

As I was researching sorority women’s service during World War I, I came across this entry in a post WWI Banta’s Greek Exchange and it sent me down a rabbit hole. Who was Mother Cahill? Ann, who was sometimes referred to as … Continue reading

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The Longest Day, #DDay, and the Loss of @KateSpade, KKG and Fashion Icon

On the 74th anniversary of the Longest Day, D-Day, I acknowledge the servicemen who sacrificed so very much on that day. We are indebted to them. On June 6, 1944, 5,000 ships, 11,000 aircraft and 150,000 Allied troops began the operation … Continue reading

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Lucinda Smith Buchan on Pi Beta Phi’s Giving Day

Pi Beta Phi was founded on April 28, 1867, at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, by 12 young women. Ten of them gathered in the southwest bedroom on the second floor of a home owned by “Major” Jacob Holt. The … Continue reading

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Flora Richardson Colman, Pi Beta Phi, #WHM2018, #notablesororitywomen

Almost six years after Pi Beta Phi was founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois on April 28, 1867, the Kansas Alpha chapter at the University of Kansas was chartered. Between the two dates, there were several other chapters founded … Continue reading

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Beta, Pi Phi, and P.E.O.

My life has been lived east of the Mississippi, the last half of it just miles from the river. When we first moved to Illinois, it was odd to tell people that we were five hours from Chicago, the only … Continue reading

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Speeding Through April in Iowa and Kansas

I’ve been AWOL. It’s the 12th of April and there has only been one post for Chi Omega’s Founders’ Day. There are several other NPC Founders’ Days coming along and I hope to commemorate those as well. Where have I … Continue reading

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