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The shooting at Virginia Tech took place on April 16, 2007, left 33 people dead. Virginia Tech has a site with bios. On the 10 year…

Pi Beta Phi was founded on April 28, 1867, at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, by 12 young women. Ten of them gathered in the southwest…

On October 15, 1898, Zeta Tau Alpha was founded at the State Female Normal School, now Longwood University, in Farmville, Virginia, by Alice Maud Jones Horner, Frances…

Arizona Cleaver, along with her four friends, Pearl Neal, Myrtle Tyler, Viola Tyler, and Fannie Pettie, are the five pearls of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.…

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. was founded on November 12, 1922 by seven young brave African American women educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. On December 30, 1929, a charter was…

In the early 1900s, Catholics were not always accepted in the other fraternal organizations. Theta Phi Alpha’s roots can be traced to the 1909 establishment of…

Sigma Sigma Sigma was founded on April 20, 1898, at the State Female Normal School in Farmville, Virginia. Today the institution is Longwood University. Tri Sigma’s…

Sigma Kappa was founded on November 9, 1874, by five young women, the only females enrolled at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. They received a letter…

On March 25, 1917, seven young Jewish women founded Sigma Delta Tau at Cornell University. Its founders are Dora Bloom (Turteltaub), Inez Dane Ross, Amy Apfel…

Phi Sigma Sigma was founded at Hunter College on November 26, 1913. Its ten founders are Lillian Gordon Alpern, Josephine Ellison Breakstone, Fay Chertkoff, Estelle Melnick…