Categories
-
There are many posts on this blog. Use the search button to find the posts about your organization.
Welcome!
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.
Thanks for stopping by.
Subscribe to Blog via Email
Pages
- #notablesororitywomen ALL IN ONE PLACE
- BIO AND PUBLICATIONS
- Fraternity and Sorority Members Competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics
- GRACE GOODHUE COOLIDGE – A LOYAL PI BETA PHI
- HERE’S TO THE FRATERNITY HAT BANDS!
- PANHELLENIC HOUSE TO BEEKMAN TOWER HOTEL
- POSTS ABOUT THE P.E.O. SISTERHOOD
- SORORITY WOMEN COMPETING IN MISS USA 2026 AND MISS TEEN USA 2026
- SORORITY WOMEN ON THE ROAD TO MISS AMERICA 2027 (2026 STATE WINNERS)
- SORORITY WOMEN WHO HAVE WON EMMY AWARDS
- SORORITY WOMEN WHO HAVE WON MISS AMERICA AND MISS USA
- STATE GOVERNORS WHO HAVE BEEN SORORITY WOMEN
- THE ILLINOIS STATE CHAPTER OF P.E.O. AND THE LULU CORKHILL WILLIAMS FRIENDSHIP FUND
- The State by State Tour of Graves, Founding Sites, and HQs for NPC GLOs
- U.S. PRESIDENTS AND FRATERNITY MEN – FIRST LADIES AND SORORITY WOMEN
Posts about #NotableSororityWomen
10 + 2 Sorority Women with Pulitzer Prizes
10 Authors Who Are Sorority Women (Hint – Caddie Woodlawn, Kinsey Millhone, Atticus Finch, Too)
10 GLO Authors for Children’s Book Week
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
For International Women’s Day, Another 10 Amazing NPC Women!
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
NPC
Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Epsilon Phi
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and http://wp.me/p20I1i-1Mj
Alpha Gamma Delta
Alpha Omicron Pi
Grace Humiston
Alpha Phi
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Alpha Sigma Tau
Elsie Katherine Bergegrun, M.D.
Alpha Xi Delta
Chi Omega
Delta Delta Delta
Dr. “Mattibelle” Boger Shattuck
Delta Gamma
Carlotta Joaquina Maury, Ph.D.
Delta Phi Epsilon
Delta Zeta
Crown Princess Martha of Norway
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Meghan Markle, HRH The Dutchess of Sussex
Phi Mu
Phi Sigma Sigma
Pi Beta Phi
Mary Elizabeth Lasher Barnette
Marguerite “Peg” Lindsley (Arnold)
Sigma Delta Tau
Sigma Kappa
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Theta Phi Alpha
Mildred “Millie” Lonergan McAuliffe
Zeta Tau Alpha
NPHC
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Delta Sigma Theta
Sigma Gamma Rho
Zeta Phi Beta
Category Archives: Fran Favorite
News From GLO Land
It’s been a while since I’ve done an update post, but now seems as good a time as any. Enjoy! One of my favorite GLO paintings is of Tade Hartsuff Kuhns who served as Kappa Kappa Gamma’s first Grand President in 1881. … Continue reading
Happy Founder’s Day Alpha Delta Pi!
Alpha Delta Pi was founded as the Adelphean Society on May 15, 1851 at Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia. In 1905, the Society changed its name to Alpha Delta Phi and installed its second chapter at Salem College in … Continue reading
GLO Mother’s Pins for Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is this weekend. This post by Herff-Jones led me to try to figure out when Mother’s Pins became a thing. Since I am not home and don’t have access to my library, this might be edited at some … Continue reading
Fraternity and Sorority Housing, Miss USA, and Giving Feedback
I have an affinity for the fraternity and sorority houses at the University of Illinois. The campus has enamored me from the first time I saw it in the early 1990s as a Province President for the Pi Beta Phi … Continue reading
Silent Cal, My Favorite Phi Gamma Delta, on Its Founders’ Day
Calvin Coolidge is my favorite Phi Gamma Delta, hands down. It is my feeling the press did not understand the Vermont zeitgeist of the 30th President, but that is neither here nor there because it is Fiji’s Founders’ Day. On … Continue reading
Happy Founders’ Day 2019, Theta Phi Alpha!
Theta Phi Alpha was founded on August 30, 1912, at the University of Michigan. However, it celebrates Founders’ Day on April 30, the Feast Day of St. Catherine of Siena.* St. Catherine is the sorority’s patroness and her motto, “Nothing … Continue reading
152 Years of Pi Pi Beta Phi, P-I-P-H-I Pi Phi!
A few days ago I was in the room where it happened. I held on to the banister as I walked up the stairs to the second floor southwest bedroom Ada Bruen and Libbie Brook rented the room from “Major” … Continue reading
On the Road to Monmouth
On my birthday in 2017, I realized that my father’s memory was failing. For 26 months, I lost him in little pieces, mentally and physically, and watching him slide downhill was heartbreaking. He passed away in early March in our … Continue reading
Happy Founders’ Day Alpha Kappa Lambda!
Alpha Kappa Lambda was founded at the University of California, Berkeley on April 22, 1914. It was the first fraternity to be founded west of the Rockies. Alpha Kappa Lambda’s roots go back about eight years before that. Four men … Continue reading
Happy Founders’ Day, Tri Sigma!
Sigma Sigma Sigma was founded on April 20, 1898, at the State Female Normal School in Farmville, Virginia (now Longwood University). It was a member of the Association of Education Sororities (AES) until the AES groups joined the National Panhellenic … Continue reading
