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Welcome! Chances are good you found this blog by searching for something about fraternities or sororities.
I was the last person anyone would have suspected of joining a sorority in college. I am sure I would have agreed with them, too.
When I made my way to Syracuse University, I saw the houses with the Greek letters that edged Walnut Park, and wished I could tour them. My roommate suggested I sign up for rush (as it was then called, today it’s known as recruitment) and go through the house tour round and then drop out of rush. It sounded like a plan. I didn’t realize that I would end up feeling at home at one of the chapters. And that I would become a member.
In this blog I will share the history of GLOs and other topics. I wrote a dissertation on “Coeducation and the History of Women’s Fraternities 1867-1902.″ It chronicles the growth of the system and the birth of the National Panhellenic Conference.
My Master’s thesis details the history of the fraternity system at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1948-1960. The dates are significant ones and the thesis is available on the top menu.
I have done research at the Student Life Archives and have written several histories of University of Illinois fraternity chapters for the Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing.
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Doctors Who Wore Badges: Fraternity Women in Medicine 1867-1902
Female Senators and Their Sorority Affiliation – 2019 Edition
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Fraternity Women Who Were Lawyers, 1867-1902 (When Women Could Not Vote!)
Hidden Figures on Alpha Kappa Alpha Founders’ Day
Sorority Women Writing Stories Whose Characters Are Sorority Women
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Hortense Greenman Brozman, Alpha Epsilon Phi, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
Hortense Greenman (Brozman) grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. She was an athlete in the days before Title IX gave female athletes the opportunity to excel at sports. Nonetheless, she won 12 athletic letters during her years at Westport High … Continue reading
Elizabeth Ross Haynes, Alpha Kappa Alpha, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
Elizabeth Ross (Haynes) was the daughter of formerly enslaved parents. She was born on July 31, 1883, in Mount Willing, Alabama. In 1900, at the State Normal School in Montgomery, Alabama, she graduated first in her class. She was awarded … Continue reading
Marilyn Friedman Fernberger, Sigma Delta Tau, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
Marilyn Friedman (Fernberger) was born on August 13, 1927, and grew up in Philadelphia. At the Philadelphia High School for Girls she enjoyed playing field hockey, tennis and she swam on the swim team. At the University of Pennsylvania, she … Continue reading
Emma F. Lowd, Gamma Phi Beta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
Emma F. Lowd was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1865. Months before she graduated from Boston University in 1887, she became a charter member of the Delta chapter of Gamma Phi Beta. The chapter was installed on April 22, 1887 … Continue reading
Nancy Osborn Brataas, Alpha Phi, #NotableSororityWomen #WHM2023
Nancy Osborn (Brataas) was born on January 19, 1928. After high school, she enrolled at the University of Mineesota where she became a member of Alpha Phi. She married Mark Gerard “Jerry” Brataas on November 27, 1948. He had served … Continue reading
Alice Dugged Cary, Zeta Phi Beta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
Alice Dugged (Cary), who was born in 1859 in New London, Indiana, was educated in Marshall, Michigan. She attended Wilberforce University and graduated in 1881 and taught and was assistant principal at Kansas City, Missouri’s Lincoln High School. She became … Continue reading
Aimee Vanneman Higdon, Chi Omega, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
Aimee Vanneman (Higdon) was born in what was then called Persia; today it is Iran. The daughter of a missionary surgeon, she spent her childhood there and left to attend Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She received a B.A. … Continue reading
Vee Shakarian Toner, Delta Zeta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
Venus “Vee” Shakarian (Toner) was born on December 19, 1906, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to immigrants from Istanbul, Turkey. She became a member of Delta Zeta while attending the University of Pittsburgh. She was a prominent athlete when she was in … Continue reading
Rev. Hannah J. Powell, Sigma Kappa, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
Hannah Jewett Powell was born in Clinton, Maine, on October 6, 1866. She enrolled in a teacher’s course at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. There, in 1893, she became a member of the Beta chapter of Sigma Kappa. The sorority … Continue reading
LaRona J. Walls Morris, Ph.D., Sigma Gamma Rho, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
Dr. LaRona J. Walls (Morris) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1942. She graduated from East St. Louis Senior High School in Illinois in 1960. After graduation, she attended Mildred Louise Business College. (Dr. Mildred Louise Sammons, the founder … Continue reading
