Yesterday, a friend sent me a link to this article about Genevieve Forbes (http://trib.in/20Igkng). She was sure Forbes, a Northwestern alumna, was a sorority woman. I started googling, and what did I find? There was a mention of her in a post I did on the Roosevelts – “Genevieve Forbes Herrick, Kappa Alpha Theta, Northwestern University, was a noted reporter of the day and several histories talk about Herrick being part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s inner circle.”
Another friend, on her way to the installation of the Georgia Beta Chapter of Pi Beta Phi at Emory University, left from the Columbus, Ohio, airport. She posted this picture of the statue of Jerrie Mock, a Phi Mu, who was the first woman to fly solo around the world. I wrote a post about Mock last month (http://wp.me/s20I1i-9737).
The statue of Jerrie Mock at the Columbus, Ohio, airport. (Photo courtesy of Penny Proctor)
Another photo from the Georgia Beta installation made me smile. It features Pi Phi staffers, who are also Pi Phis, Ashley Karth and Alex Roark, along with two Pi Phi legends, Carol Warren and “Sis” Mullis. You know a fun time was had by all if those two women were involved!
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Pet Day was last week and I missed it, but one of my offspring posted a picture of my two dogs and my two granddogs. The dark brown ones are my granddogs. All four have instagram accounts (full disclosure – I have nothing to do with those instagram accounts).
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For those of you who enjoy movie reviews, I offer this one done my my daughter, http://news.wsiu.org/post/siu-reviews-zootopia. If you enjoy it, there are others by Simone Becque at http://news.wsiu.org/programs/siu-reviews. I just listened to a few of them for the first time and I love that one she quoted my father’s line, “a true story that never happened” in the one about the Steve Jobs biopic.
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