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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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Alpha Chi Omega
Mary Master Needham
Agnes Nixon
Dr. Condoleezza Rice
Blanche Skiff Ross
Eleanor Jones Wauchope
Alpha Delta Pi
Jeanette Barrows
Doris Holmes Blake
Dr. Sara Branham
Gladys Gilpatrick
Lois Miles Zucker
Alpha Epsilon Phi
Barbara Barrie
Lillian Copeland
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and http://wp.me/p20I1i-1Mj
Gertrude Friedlander Markel
Charlotte Rae
Dinah Shore
Alpha Gamma Delta
Dikka Bothne Brown
Emily Helen Butterfield
Elizabeth Corbett
Judy Baar Topinka
Alpha Omicron Pi
Mary Donlon Alger
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
Clara Bradley Burdette
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
- 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
Olga Achtenhagen
- 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
Mimi Baird
Mildred McCann Balfour
Mary Elizabeth Lasher Barnette
Lucinda Smith Buchan
Barbara Pierce Bush
Carrie Chapman Catt
Flora Richardson Colman
Grace Goodhue Coolidge
Imogen Cunningham
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
NPHC
Alpha Kappa Alpha
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
Zeta Phi Beta
Violette Anderson
Julia Carson
Ophelia Settle Egypt
Madame Lillian Evanti
Zora Neale Hurston
Dr. Deborah Cannon Wolfe
