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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…

Congratulations Miss America 2026 – Cassie Donegan, Miss New York, Alpha Sigma Tau, Belmont University 1st Runner Up – Miss Texas, Sadie Schiermeyer, Kappa Alpha Theta, Belmont University…

Emmy 2025 nominations are out and there are several sorority women among the honorees. They include: Kathy Bates, Alpha Delta Pi Jean Smart, Alpha Delta Pi…

Today, August 6, 2025, the wrecking ball comes down on most of what is left of Greek Row at Southern Illinois University. Various buildings have been…

This past weekend, Chi Phi celebrated its bicentennial at the 159th Special Congress at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. The “special” in the title refers…

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…