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Chapter Notability Ref(s) Laurie Monnes Anderson: Oregon Gamma Oregon State Senator Barbara Bush: Texas Eta Alumna Initiate 2003 41st First Lady of the United States and wife of George H. W. Bush [1] Iris Calderhead: Kansas Alpha Suffragist and member of the National Woman's Party [2] Carrie Chapman Catt: Iowa Gamma Founder of the League of ...
The Sisterhood was founded on January 21, 1869, [1] as a seven-member sorority at Iowa Wesleyan University in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. It was the second sorority to be founded in the U.S., after I. C. Sorosis (now known as Pi Beta Phi) in Monmouth, Illinois in April 1867. [2]
The following table lists chapters formed under an I.C. Sorosis charter, which went dormant about the time of the adoption of the state naming system. 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]
(Women Always United) Active Omega Phi Beta: ΩΦΒ: 1989 National NALFO: Multicultural Active Omega Phi Chi: ΩΦΧ: 1988 National NMGC: Multicultural Active Phi Alpha Mu: ΦΑΜ: 1926 Local McDaniel College: Traditional Active [13] [14] Phi Beta Chi: ΦΒΧ: 1978 National Independent Lutheran Amor Via Vitae in Christo (Love through Life in ...
Vicki Miles-LaGrange, born in 1953 in Oklahoma City, was the first woman U.S. Attorney in Oklahoma, according to the Oklahoma Historical Society.. After she graduated from the Howard University ...
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]
In 1869, Roads and a college friend, Hattie Briggs, sat upon the fence surrounding the Wesleyan campus and discussed the recent formation of I.C. Sorosis, a secret society for women today called Pi Beta Phi and regarded as the first college sorority. Roads and Briggs conceived of forming their own secret society.
In 2013 and 2014, sorority women from multiple chapters at the University of Alabama – including Delta Delta Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Chi Omega, Kappa Delta, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Omicron Pi, and Phi Mu – alleged that either active members or some of their alumnae had prevented them from offering membership to black candidates because of ...