I was looking at the Alpha Epsilon Phi website and came across this wonderful tribute to Margery Rosen Mendelson, a 1938 initiate of the AEPhi chapter at the University of Missouri. She became a member because of the “wonderful stories she heard from Alpha Beta collegians and alumnae. She lived in the house all four years and remembers the closeness and loving friendships of her sisters.” After graduation, she married and moved to Texas. There, she was asked to be an advisor for the chapter in Austin. That experience led her to being and involved alumna for her entire life. She held many positions, including as a member of AEPhi’s National Council, I sense she was the person collegians flocked to at conventions. She died in 2017 at the age of 96. Her sentiments can be applied to the experiences found in any sorority – the universality that the more you give of yourself to your organization, the more that will be returned to you. May she rest in peace and may her memory be treasured by her sorority sisters.
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About four years ago, the The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation attended the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity Convention in Washington D.C. This video about the ZBT chapter at New York University was shown. It’s a wonderful story about the chapter and a young boy named Christian. This should have gone viral, but only the awful videos seem to do that.
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I will confess I did not read this article when I flipped through my issue of The Arrow. It was brought to my attention on social media. Emily Hsieh, a graduate of the Pi Beta Phi Elementary School in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, is a member of the Pi Beta Phi chapter at Emory University. How fun is that! She suspect she a student at the school when Pi Beta Phi celebrated its Centennial of Literacy in Gatlinburg in 2012. I’d love to include a picture of Emily Hsieh and the statue of Miss Dell, so I hope she will send me one.
From the Summer 2018 issue of The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi
Hsieh’s story reminded me of the story of the first Pi Phi who was a graduate of the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School. Her name was Mattie Huff (Clabo) and she was a 1931 initiate of the Iowa State chapter of Pi Beta Phi.
