Tag Archives: University of Nebraska

Irene Simpson Van Brunt, P.E.O. (and Kappa Kappa Gamma), #NoteableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

Irene Simpson Van Brunt attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts but graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. There she became a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She married Winslow M. Van Brunt, Jr., a Phi Kappa Psi, who also graduated from … Continue reading

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Gladys Wilkerson Lawrence, Gamma Phi Beta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2020

Gladys Wilkinson was born in Nebraska on May 30, 1894. She travelled abroad in 1910 and 1913. As a student at the University of Nebraska, she was a charter member of the Pi chapter of Gamma Phi Beta when it … Continue reading

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Nettie Wills Shugart, Delta Zeta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2020

Nettie May Wills Shugart was born in Milton in Pike County, Illinois. She went to Nebraska as a young woman and graduated with a B.S. from Doane College (now University) in Crete, Nebraska. On October 11, 1906, she married Charles … Continue reading

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Edith and Grace Abbott, Delta Gamma, #WHM2018, #notablesororitywomen

March 15 is the date upon which Delta Gamma celebrates Founders’ Day. The organization was founded by Anna Boyd Ellington, Eva Webb Dodd and Mary Comfort Leonard, students at the Lewis School for Girls. Due to inclement weather and difficult … Continue reading

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#WHM – Edith Schwartz Clements, KAΘ

Edith Gertrude Schwartz was born in 1874. She entered the University of Nebraska and became a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1898. As an undergraduate, she was junior class president, a member of Sigma … Continue reading

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The Fraternity House Transformation, Cornhusker Style

Anyone who has ever served on the alumni/alumnae chapter advisory committee or on a housing corporation board knows how difficult it can be to take care of a Greek-letter organization chapter house. Housing built in the heyday of fraternity house construction … Continue reading

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Shout Outs to ATO at UNL, Sig Ep at Ohio U, and the Gerber Baby!

The Alpha Tau Omegas at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln helped make one little boy’s summer dreams come true. The eight-year-old with special needs had entered a contest to win a bicycle adapted to his needs. He didn’t win the contest. When … Continue reading

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The University of Nebraska Women’s Fraternity System through 1902

After autumn 1882, 12 female students at the University of Nebraska formed a club they called T. T. T., an acronym for the “The Tempest Tossed.”  The club disbanded at the end of the school year and two of the … Continue reading

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