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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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10 Sorority Women from the Golden Age of Television
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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Dr. “Mattibelle” Boger Shattuck
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June Wuest Becht, Alpha Delta Pi, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
June Wuest (Becht) was born on June 9, 1929. She loved women’s sports when women did not have many opportunities in athletics and Title IX was light years away. Attending Ritenour High School in St. Louis, she played basketball, field … Continue reading
Mignon Talbot, Ph.D., Kappa Kappa Gamma, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
Paleontologist Mignonnette “Mignon” Talbot became a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter at the Ohio State University in 1889. She followed her sister Ellen “Nellie” into the chapter. She earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. From 1894-1900, Talbot served on … Continue reading
Jan Tholen Saab, Sigma Sigma Sigma, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
Sometimes five women sitting around a kitchen table can start something that becomes much bigger than anyone could have anticipated. The Women’s Community Foundation (formerly Women’s Community Fund) began in 2000. In the ensuing 23 years nearly $400,000 in grant … Continue reading
Mary Wickes, Phi Mu, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
Mary Wickes was born Mary Isabella Wickenhauser in Saint Louis, Missouri, on June 13, 1910. She graduated from Beaumont High School at the age of 16. Her family home was a stone’s throw from the Washington University campus. Being an … Continue reading
Irma Ginsberg Kalish, Phi Sigma Sigma, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
Irma Ginsberg (Kalish) served as treasurer and archon (president) of the Phi Sigma Sigma chapter at Syracuse University. She was also valedictorian of the December 1945 graduating class and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Her writing career began early … Continue reading
Mynelle Westbrook Green Hayward, Kappa Delta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
Mynelle Westbrook (Green Hayward), horticulturalist and garden enthusiast, was born in 1902 in Kentwood, Louisiana, and moved to Jackson, Mississippi, when she was a young child. She attended Mississippi State College for Women and Millsaps College. In 1920, she became … Continue reading
Elva L. Bascom, Kappa Alpha Theta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2023
Elva L. Bascom, was a librarian. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta.
Crowdsourcing a New Baird’s Manual of American College Fraternities
William Raimond Baird published the first edition of Baird’s Manual of American College Fraternities in 1879. Baird’s death, others took on the job of editing Baird’s Manual. The twentieth and last edition, edited by Jack Anson, Phi Kappa Tau, and … Continue reading
“The Duchess” on Kappa Alpha Theta’s Founders’ Day
Kappa Alpha Theta was founded on January 27, 1870. In 1867, 17-year-old Bettie McReynolds Locke [Hamilton] was the first female to enroll in Indiana Asbury University (now DePauw University) in Greencastle, Indiana. Although the first decision to allow women to … Continue reading
Ola Babcock Miller, P.E.O.
On January 21, 1869, the P.E.O. Sisterhood was founded by seven young women. They were among the 85 or so collegiate level students enrolled at Iowa Wesleyan University. Legend has it that some, but not all of the seven had … Continue reading
