March 2, the first Monday in March, is NPC International Badge Day. It is a day for members to wear their respective NPC badges. If “pin attire” is not worn, then it is perfectly acceptable to wear letters, those articles of clothing sporting the Greek letters.
The National Panhellenic Conference’s International Badge Day began in 1997. In the spring of 1996, Nora M. Ten Broeck wrote an article about her experience after she wore her Alpha Sigma Alpha pin to work one day. The article appeared her sorority’s magazine, The Phoenix, and was titled “A Simple Solution – Wear Your Membership Badge Today.” Her NPC colleagues loved the idea and endorsed the project. The month of March was chosen because it is also National Women’s History Month.
I’m mentioning this today because I spend the month of March, Women’s History Month – #WHM2026, profiling #NotableSororityWomen. It will also look a little different this year. I am currently finishing up the fifth of a five-year commitment to P.E.O. I’m president of the Illinois State Chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood. Illinois has 304 chapters and 11,000 members and running the state chapter leaves me little time for much else. But please know that I can’t wait to get back to what I love best – writing the history of fraternities and sororities.
But I must say that in my P.E.O. travels these past four and a half years, I have met many sorority women who are also members of P.E.O. and that makes it even more fun.
Use #BadgeDay26 and #IWearABadge across social media.
