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Irene Simpson Van Brunt attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts but graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. There she became a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She…

Charlotte Herman Kerr, M.D., was born on May 25, 1920, in Champaign, Illinois. Her father worked for printing service at the University of Illinois. That may…

Beverly Danielle Boston was born in Baltimore, Maryland on April 28, 1939. In 1957, she graduated from Frederick Douglass High School. While in high school, she…

Isabel Kline Rock grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey. She enrolled at Goucher College where she followed in her sister’s footsteps. Her older sister was…

Margaret Sawyer grew up in Tuscola, Illinois. She was initiated into Kappa Alpha Theta in 1914 as a student at the University of Illinois and was…

Born on November 1, 1888, in London England, Rhoda Muriel Ivimey came to America when she was three years old. After graduating from Morris High School,…

On March 25, 1917, seven female Cornell University students founded Sigma Delta Tau. Their organization was originally called Sigma Delta Phi, but when they discovered the name…

Marjorie Nicolson’s introduction as one of three pledges (new members) of the Chi Omega chapter at the University of Michigan noted that “on the afternoon of…

Hazel Taft Nimmo was raised in North Carolina. Born on May 28, 1925, in Greenville, she graduated from North Carolina College for Negroes (now North Carolina…

Courtesy of the Boulder Public Library Carmel LaTorra was born on November 17, 1894 in Boulder, Colorado. She graduated from Mount St. Gertrude Academy, a Catholic…