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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
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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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Elizabeth Finch West, Kappa Delta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2022
Elizabeth Finch West became a member of the Sigma Delta Chapter of Kappa Delta at Trinity College (now part of Duke University). She was only at the college for a year, but an obituary in the Duke University Alumni Register … Continue reading
Carole Ashkinaze, Pi Beta Phi, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2022
Carole Ashkinaze was raised in Malverne, New York on Long Island. It was said she wanted to be a journalist from the time she was in grade school and worked on a camp newsletter. Like many Long Islanders, she went … Continue reading
Beryl Bonner Meyers, Chi Omega, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2022
Beryl Bonner Meyers was born in Leadville, Colorado and attended the University of Colorado. There she became a member of the Zeta Chapter of Chi Omega. She was the second woman to graduate from the University of Colorado’s law school. … Continue reading
Ada Lou Reed Duacsek, Alpha Chi Omega, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2022
Ada Lou Reed Duacsek was born in 1925. A friend of her father had an small plane and she was hooked on flying before she could drive a car. Duacsek attended San Jose State University where she became a member … Continue reading
Dr. Aldora Tyler, Kappa Alpha Theta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2022
Dr. Aldora Tyler spent almost her entire life in Clinton, Illinois. Born on April 20, 1862, she became a member of the Delta Chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta in 1881. At that time, the Delta Chapter was located at Illinois … Continue reading
Mary Antorietto McKay, Theta Phi Alpha, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2022
Mary Antorietto McKay was born in Italy on January 1, 1897. Her family immigrated to the United States and settled in Athens, Ohio. She graduated from high school in Athens and enrolled at Ohio University. There she became a member … Continue reading
Carlotta Corpron, Alpha Sigma Alpha, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2022
Although Carlotta Corpron was born in Blue Earth, Minnesota, she spent her formative years in India, where her doctor father was a medical missionary. In 1920, she returned to the United States and became a student at Michigan State Normal … Continue reading
Clara Backus Floyd Gehan, Phi Mu, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2022
Phi Mu was founded on January 4, 1852 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. It was riginally known as the Philomathean Society. It was founded by Mary DuPont (Lines), Mary Myrick (Daniel) and Martha Hardaway (Redding) and it was publicly … Continue reading
Arizona Cleaver Stemons, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHW2022
Arizona Cleaver (Stemons), along with her four friends, Pearl Neal, Myrtle Tyler, Viola Tyler, and Fannie Pettie, are the five pearls of Zeta Phi Beta. They are the organization’s founders. The idea for the organization happened several months earlier when … Continue reading
Laura Kuykendall, Delta Delta Delta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2022
Laura Kuykendall spent most of her adult life at Southwestern University. In the 1904 Southwestern yearbook, on the Alpha Delta page, she is listed as a member in faculty. It was a local organization established in 1903. On December 5, … Continue reading
