Category Archives: Monmouth College

Tade Hartsuff Kuhns on Kappa Kappa Gamma’s Founders’ Day

On October 13, 1870, Kappa Kappa Gamma was founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois. Having walked the Monmouth campus and downtown many times, I always try to envision what life was like for those 1870 coeds. It never fails … Continue reading

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Happy Founders’ Day, Pi Beta Phi!

Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, opened in 1856. Students who did not live in town needed to find lodging and board with local families. Ada Bruen and Libbie Brook, friends from Henderson County, found a room to share in Jacob … Continue reading

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Phi Kappa Psi’s Monmouth Connection on #PhiPsi167

Happy 167th to Phi Kappa Psi! It was founded on February 19, 1852 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, at Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania). Phi Kappa Psi’s founders are William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore.  … Continue reading

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George H. W. Bush, R.I.P.

George Herbert Walker Bush, our 41st President, died yesterday at the age of 94. His wife, Barbara Bush, died this past April. President Bush became a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter while he was a student at Yale … Continue reading

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Elizabeth Gowdy Baker on Kappa Kappa Gamma’s Founding Day

Kappa Kappa Gamma was founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois on October 13, 1870. Its six founding members walked into chapel wearing small golden keys in their hair. The Alpha chapter was disbanded by the mid 1870s when Monmouth … Continue reading

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Congratulations and Explanations

My posts have been few and far between recently and I apologize. I’ve been away from home. Congratulations to two special NPC women who were honored at the recent NPC meeting in Denver: Betty Quick, Gamma Phi Beta, and former … Continue reading

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Kappa Kappa Gamma + Peggy Kirk Bell

I have been to Monmouth, Illinois, many times and on each trip, I try to envision Monmouth College as it might have been in 1870. I walk past the spot where it is said two women talked about forming an … Continue reading

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A Fabulous 150th Pi Beta Phi!

The women of I.C. Sorosis are in St. Louis celebrating a century and a half. One hundred and fifty years is a long time and the world of 1867 is vastly different from the one of 2017. The young women … Continue reading

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Reaffirming My Faith in the Fraternity World

Despite belief to the contrary, it has never been easy to be a member of a Greek-letter organization. Anti-fraternity sentiment has been around since about the time of the founding of the first chapter of the first fraternity. I like to … Continue reading

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Sometimes You Can Go Home Again and a Happy Founders’ Day Phi Gamma Delta

I spent Friday and Saturday in Monmouth, Illinois, where Pi Beta Phi was founded on April 28, 1867. I was able to stand in the very room where the organization came to life 150 years ago and I shared that … Continue reading

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