Category Archives: West Virginia University

Marcia Malone Slavin, Alpha Xi Delta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

t hitMarcia Malone Slaven was born in Grafton, West Virginia on July 17, 1932. In 1950, she enrolled at West Virginia University after graduating from Grafton High School. She was a student at WVU’s School of Pharmacy. In 1950, pharmacy … Continue reading

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Celebrating a Centennial Mountaineer Style

Centennial celebrations happen only once every 100 years. This weekend I was in Morgantown, West Virginia, helping the women of the West Virginia Alpha chapter of Pi Beta Phi celebrate its first century. In April of 1916 a group of  … Continue reading

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Pi Lambda Phi’s Connection to Broadway and More

Today is Pi Lambda Phi’s Founders’ Day. Pi Lambda Phi was founded in 1895 at Yale University by a group of men who were denied membership in the other Yale fraternities because of their religious and racial backgrounds. Frederick Manfred Werner, Louis Samter … Continue reading

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