Tag Archives: Goucher College

Isabel Kline Rock, Gamma Phi Beta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

Isabel Kline Rock grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey. She enrolled at Goucher College where she followed in her sister’s footsteps. Her older sister was a Gamma Phi Beta at Goucher and the biological sisters became sorority sisters. In … Continue reading

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Marjorie Nicolson, Ph.D., Chi Omega, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

Marjorie Nicolson’s introduction as one of three pledges (new members) of the Chi Omega chapter at the University of Michigan noted that “on the afternoon of June 3, we gave a sewing party, and June 4 we entertained at dinner.” … Continue reading

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Janice Martin Benario, WAVE Code Breaker and Pi Beta Phi

Yesterday, a friend sent me a link to this article which appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.  Janice Martin (Benario) was a 1942 initiate of the Pi Beta Phi chapter at Goucher College. As a student, one of her professors recommended … Continue reading

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What Happened to Sororities at Wesleyan College?

Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, is the founding home of Alpha Delta Pi and Phi Mu. About 100 years ago the sororities were forced to close.

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Eva Orrick Bandel Wilson, Alpha Phi, #notablesororitywomen #WHM2017

In 1897, Evalina “Eva” Orrick Bandel graduated from the Woman’s College of Baltimore before it changed its name to Goucher College. During her years there, she joined the Zeta Chapter of Alpha Phi. After graduation, her plans were to study … Continue reading

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From Engraved Announcements to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

I spent the weekend cataloging digital scans of 100+ year old chapter pictures. If I was so inclined, I could write a post on the evolution of the chapter composite. The women who are in the pictures, immortalized as young college … Continue reading

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Researching a Stranger and Finding a Familiar Face

The internet has made so many publications available at the click of a mouse. Last night while looking for some information about a prominent Delta Gamma, I came across, completely by accident, a digitized copy of the Goucher College yearbook. My … Continue reading

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Goucher College – Home of a Once Thriving Women’s Fraternity System

  The Women’s College of Baltimore, today known as Goucher College, was founded in 1885 and graduated its first class in 1892.  It was one of the few women’s colleges hosting chapters of national women’s fraternities.  There is evidence of … Continue reading

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Miss Keller, Iron Dean of Westhampton College, and Her Role in AAUW History

May Lansfield Keller is one of those amazing women who were born before the invention of most things that today’s college women take for granted. From her successful attempt to earn a German Ph.D., to her insistence that Westhampton College … Continue reading

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