Tag Archives: Johns Hopkins University

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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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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“Bro. (Woodrow) Wilson, our Delegate to Washington”

Phi Kappa Psi was founded on February 19, 1852 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, at Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania). Phi Kappa Psi’s founders are William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore. Phi Kappa Psi is … Continue reading

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The First American Graduate School? Johns Hopkins University

It’s February and all over the country, college seniors are thinking about their plans after graduation. Grad school will be the default for many of them. Do those young people realize that there was a time when going to graduate … Continue reading

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Remembering a Theta and a Pi Phi, Their Lives Cut Short, Both Trying to Help Afghan Women and Children

Within the last ten months, two young American women were killed in Afghanistan. Both were trying to help make Afghanistan a better place for women and children. Anne Smedinghoff, an initiate of the Kappa Alpha Theta chapter at Johns Hopkins … Continue reading

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