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Chapter Notability Ref(s) Jenette H. Bolles: Kansas and Colorado Pi Beta Phi First woman osteopath [7] Anna Lee Fisher: California Epsilon Astronaut and NASA Physician Kathryn Stephenson: Nebraska Beta and Arizona Alpha First female American board-certified plastic surgeon
Many were what Pi Beta Phi then called "Associate chapters", not colonies, but rather 'Community' chapters not linked to a school, or "Alumnae chapters" that did not initiate new members. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Following is a list of I.C. Sorosis chapters from before the name change, which were either Associate (~Community) chapters or Alumni chapters ...
A fraternity is usually understood to mean a social organization composed only of men, and a sorority is composed of women. However, many women's organizations and co-ed organizations also refer to themselves as women's fraternities. This list of North American collegiate sororities and women's fraternities is not exhaustive.
Pi Beta Phi was founded as a secret organization under the name of I. C. Sorosis on April 28, 1867 at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois. Pi Beta Phi is regarded as the first national women's fraternity, although Kappa Alpha Theta was the first Greek-letter fraternity known among women in 1870. [2]
Below is a list of notable members of Zeta Phi Beta sorority (commonly referred to as Zetas). Zeta Phi Beta was founded on January 16, 1920, on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. [ 1 ] The sorority was incorporated in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 1923.
The organization was originally rooted in the philosophy and institutions of the Methodist Church, which actively promoted women's rights and education in America during the 19th century. [4] Further chapters were founded, and in 1883 local chapters of the P.E.O. founded a "Supreme Chapter" to coordinate the Sisterhood on a national level. [5]
Carrie Chapman Catt (born Carrie Clinton Lane; January 9, 1859 [1] – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. [2]
Sibbett is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, where she became a member of the California Delta chapter of Pi Beta Phi, an international women's fraternity. [ 5 ] Career