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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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Grace Humiston
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Elsie Katherine Bergegrun, M.D.
Alpha Xi Delta
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Dr. “Mattibelle” Boger Shattuck
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Carlotta Joaquina Maury, Ph.D.
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Crown Princess Martha of Norway
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Meghan Markle, HRH The Dutchess of Sussex
Phi Mu
Phi Sigma Sigma
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Mary Elizabeth Lasher Barnette
Marguerite “Peg” Lindsley (Arnold)
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Theta Phi Alpha
Mildred “Millie” Lonergan McAuliffe
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Delta Sigma Theta
Sigma Gamma Rho
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1 in 5 Does Not Equal 6.1 in 1000, Prayers for Hokies, and a Jeopardy! Question
Recently, I was speaking with a sorority woman who was ready to graduate from a large midwestern state university. We began chatting about that 1 in 5 women statistic which has been bandied about in Congress and throughout all sorts … Continue reading
Was Lincoln in a Fraternity? and More
Today is Tax Day. It’s also the day on which Abraham Lincoln died in 1865, after having been shot the night before at Ford’s Theatre. Was Lincoln in a fraternity? The answer is no. Lincoln did not attend college. One … Continue reading
Write a Letter to An Advisor Today
April is Advisor Appreciation Month. When I was a chapter member, I thought that our chapter advisor was 110. She wasn’t; she’s only a few years older than I am. For the first year or two in the chapter, I did not … Continue reading
2:15 p.m., April 9, 2015 – Bells Across the Land
On April 9, 1865, at 2:08 p.m. General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant met at the Appomattox Court House. The two agreed to end the hostilities which had gripped the nation for four years. Today, 150 years … Continue reading
A ΦΓΔ and an AΦ Meet at Syracuse – Ruth and Norman Vincent Peale
From the “Did I know about this?” file. One of the readers of this blog sent me an e-mail: I was watching Turner Class Movies last night and stumbled onto “One Man’s Way”, a biopic about Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. … Continue reading
Monday Morning Musings – GLO Style
A Pi Phi friend sent me an e-mail this morning telling me that she just read that Ann Turner Cook, the Southern Methodist Pi Beta Phi, whose face became the “the face that launched a billion spoons,” was the subject … Continue reading
On Chi Omega’s Founding Day – A Chautauqua Grounds Convention
Chi Omega was founded on April 5, 1895 at the University of Arkansas. Ina May Boles, Jean Vincenheller, Jobelle Holcombe, and Alice Simonds, with guidance from Fayetteville dentist, Dr. Charles Richardson, a Kappa Sigma, created the organization. Dr. Richardson was known … Continue reading
Sigma Lambda Beta, Delta Tau Lambda, and Alpha Sigma Rho
Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity founded at the University of Iowa. During the start of 1985-86 academic year, Baltazar Mendoza-Madrigal thought about establishing a Latino-based fraternity and started to research the possibility. A meeting held on March 7, 1986. The plans for the … Continue reading
100 Years of Sisterhood – A Centennial Celebration K-State Style!
I spent the weekend celebrating a wonderful Centennial. Pi Beta Phi’s chapter at Kansas State University turned 100. I would venture to guess that no college woman going through recruitment makes her decision based on an upcoming chapter anniversary. Yet, chapter anniversaries … Continue reading
Happy Founders’ Day Sigma Delta Tau, Especially the Chapter at 1104 West Nevada Street
On March 25, 1917, seven female Cornell University students founded Sigma Delta Tau. Their organization was originally called Sigma Delta Phi, but when they discovered the name belonged to another Greek-letter organization they changed the “Phi” to “Tau.” Sigma Delta Tau’s … Continue reading
