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Mignonette “Mignon” Good Eberhart was born on July 6, 1899, in Lincoln, Nebraska. She studied for three years at Nebraska Wesleyan University where she became a…

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…

  Martha Broadus Anderson Winn, a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., was born in 1875 and she was raised in Washington, D.C. In 1898,…

Iris Barrel Apfel died on March 1, 2024, at the age of 102. As an octogenarian she became known as a style icon, although she was…

Carol J. Nemitz, Dean Nemitz,as she was known to legions of Iowa Wesleyan University students, was born in Pulaski, Iowa, on February 25, 1934. After graduating…

March 4, the first Monday in March, is NPC International Badge Day. It is a day for members to wear their respective NPC badges. If  “pin…

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, the first Greek-letter organization for African-American women, was founded on January 15, 1908 by nine young female Howard University students. They…

This week has in it the founding days of three of the four National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) Sororities. All three, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Alpha…

Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, died on December 1, 2023, at the age of 93. Although there are…

One hundred years ago today, the National Panhellenic Conference was meeting in Boston.  Grace Goodhue Coolidge, Pi Beta Phi, had become the First Lady in August.…