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Happy Birthday to My Favorite First Lady, Grace Coolidge!

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Fran Becque, Ph.D.

January 3 is the birthday of Grace Goodhue Coolidge. Gracious and humble, she was a dedicated member of Pi Beta Phi, having been a charter member of the chapter at the University of Vermont. She also served as Alpha Province … Continue reading →

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    Eleanor Jones Wauchope

     

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    Doris Holmes Blake

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    Lois Miles Zucker

     

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    Lillian Copeland

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    Emily Helen Butterfield

    Elizabeth Corbett 

    Judy Baar Topinka

     

    Alpha Omicron Pi

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    Dr. Achsa Bean 

    Gertrude Falkenhagen Bonde

    Margaret Bourke-White

    Mary Ellen Chase, Ph.D.

    Mary Donlon

    Madeleine Z. Doty

    Jessie Wallace Hughan

    Grace Humiston

    Florence Lucas Sanville

     

    Alpha Phi

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    Mary Lockey

    Ruth Peale

    Jane Marie Bancroft Robinson

    May Hurlburt Smith

    Eileen Stevens

    Annie Marie Tremaine, M.D.

     

    Alpha Sigma Alpha

    Marianna Obermiller

    Elva Doyle Reed

    Dorcas Bates Reilly

    Freida Joy Riley

    Sarah Ida Shaw Martin

    Denise Swanson

     

    Alpha Sigma Tau

    Elsie Katherine Bergegrun, M.D.

    Mildred Doran

    Gwen Frostic

    Lucy Morgan

    Grace Erb Ritchie

     

    Alpha Xi Delta

    Theo Fenton Bird

    Alice Babb Ewing

    Persis Dwight Hannah

    Ella Boston Leib

    Lulu Runge 

    Charlotte West

     

    Chi Omega

    Mary Love Collins

    Wiley Denis 

    Lin Dunn

    Harper Lee

    Rowena Longmire

    Claudine Van Cleave Mason

    Pat Summitt

    Grace Wilkie

     

    Delta Delta Delta

    Nellie A. Brown

    Etta May Budd

    Winifred B. Chase

    1. Louise Fitch

    Sarah Ida Shaw Martin

    Bessie Leach Priddy

    Ivy Kellerman Reed

    Dr. “Mattibelle” Boger Shattuck

     

    Delta Gamma

    Edith and Grace Abbott

    Ada Comstock (Notestein)

    Mary E. Gladwin, R.N.

    Carlotta Joaquina Maury, Ph.D.

    Alice Shepard Riggs

    Mary Thompson Stevens, M.D.

     

    Delta Phi Epsilon

    Stephanie Abrams

    Phyllis Kossoff

    Ida Bienstock Landau

     

    Delta Zeta

    Julia Bishop Coleman

    Edith Head

    Florence Henderson

    Helen Johnston, M.D.

    Crown Princess Martha of Norway

    Gail Patrick

    Marcia Wallace

     

    Gamma Phi Beta

    Mary Knight Wells Ashcroft

    Grace Banker

    Florence Patterson

    Mary Gray Peck

    Grace Smith Richmond

    Lillian Thompson

     

    Kappa Alpha Theta

    Dr. Placida Gardner Chesley

    Edith Schwartz Clements

    Anna Botsford Comstock

    Violet Ruth Crumbine

    Lida Mason Hodge

    Charlotte Northcraft Malotte

    Virginia Marmaduke

    Julia Morgan

    Dr. Olga Neymann

    Dorothea Holt Redmond

    Julia Warner Snow

    Eliza Hamilton Woodruff

     

    Kappa Delta

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    1. Estelle Angier

    Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

    Jenn Winslow Coltrane

    Ruth Johnson Colvin

    Myrtle Fahsbender

    General Claudia Kennedy

    Effie Moncure

    Cara Mund

    Janet Marie Smith

     

    Kappa Kappa Gamma

    Elizabeth Gowdy Baker

    Nora Stanton Blatch Barney

    Madelyn Pugh Davis

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher

    Tade Hartsuff Kuhns

    Meghan Markle, HRH The Dutchess of Sussex

    Alice Duer Miller

    Alexine Marion Mitchell

    Shelley Smith Mydans

    Jean Nelson Penfield

    Betty Robinson Schwartz

    Katharine L. Sharp

    Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch

    Robin Wright

    Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman

     

    Phi Mu

    Grace Lumpkin

    Jerrie Mock

    Dorothy Carruthers Swift

    Hazel Hartzog Tow

    Mary Ellen Weber, Ph.D.

     

    Phi Sigma Sigma

    Evelyn Blankstein

    Pessa Polasky Kandinoff

    Bella Maisel Rock

     

    Pi Beta Phi

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    Mildred McCann Balfour

    Mary Elizabeth Lasher Barnette

    Lucinda Smith Buchan

    Barbara Pierce Bush

    Carrie Chapman Catt

    Flora Richardson Colman

    Grace Goodhue Coolidge

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    Minnie Freeman

    Elizebeth Smith Friedman

    May L. Keller, Ph.D.

    Jen Lancaster

    Maria Leonard

    Marguerite “Peg” Lindsley (Arnold)

    Jane Tunstall Lingo

    Esther Lloyd-Jones, Ph.D.

    Jennie Nicol, M.D.

    Madge Oberholtzer

    Amy Burnham Onken

    Louise Pellens

    Barbie Tootle

    Emma Harper Turner

    Emilie Margaret White

     

    Sigma Delta Tau

    Dr. Joyce Brothers

    Jacquie E. Hirsch

    Kate Arlene Goldstein Kamen

     

    Sigma Kappa

    Mary Ann Newcomb Cornwell

    Anna McCune Harper

    Ellen Bertha Person

    Elydia Foss Shipman

    Clara Dockum Van Auken

     

    Sigma Sigma Sigma

    Meta Turley Goodson

    Marguerite Hearsey, Ph.D.

    Edwyl Reddings

    Carrie Underwood

    Mabel Lee Walton

    Bess Bower Willis

     

    Theta Phi Alpha

    The Andersch Sisters, Ph.D.s

    Louise Kelly Bailey

    Esther Funke

    Rowena Harvey

    Mildred “Millie” Lonergan McAuliffe

     

    Zeta Tau Alpha

    Beulah Armstrong, Ph.D.

    Betty Buckley

    Dr. Janet Pierson Cooper

    Julia Peachy Harrison, Ph.D.

    Dr. May Agness Hopkins

    Helen Marlowe

     

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    Marian Anderson

    Etta Moten Barnett

    Debra Clayton

    Althea Gibson

    Eleanor Roosevelt

     

    Delta Sigma Theta

    Mary McLeod Bethune

    Aretha Franklin

    Leontyne Price

     

    Sigma Gamma Rho

    Maritza Correia McClendon

    Hattie McDaniel

    Ruth Whitehead Whaley

     

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    Violette Anderson

    Julia Carson

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