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Phi Mu was founded on January 4, 1852, at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. Originally known as the Philomathean Society, it and Alpha Delta Pi, also…

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…

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…

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…

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…

How in the world can it be 50 years? I was initiated into Pi Beta Phi on January 20, 1976, but it seems like a day…

Elvis Presley was an honorary member of the Arkansas State College chapter of  Tau Kappa Epsilon. Today, Elvis would have turned 91. In late 1960, some…

Alpha Sigma Phi was founded on December 6, 1845, at Yale University (it was then known as Yale College). The Yale of 1845 was worlds away…

When a friend asks for a favor, it’s hard for me to say “no,” because friends who can make me laugh are a treasure. So many…

About 15 years ago, I was asked to write an article for the P.E.O. Record. I did not consider myself the best person to write said…