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Welcome! Chances are good you found this blog by searching for something about fraternities or sororities.
I was the last person anyone would have suspected of joining a sorority in college. I am sure I would have agreed with them, too.
When I made my way to Syracuse University, I saw the houses with the Greek letters that edged Walnut Park, and wished I could tour them. My roommate suggested I sign up for rush (as it was then called, today it’s known as recruitment) and go through the house tour round and then drop out of rush. It sounded like a plan. I didn’t realize that I would end up feeling at home at one of the chapters. And that I would become a member.
In this blog I will share the history of GLOs and other topics. I wrote a dissertation on “Coeducation and the History of Women’s Fraternities 1867-1902.″ It chronicles the growth of the system and the birth of the National Panhellenic Conference.
My Master’s thesis details the history of the fraternity system at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1948-1960. The dates are significant ones and the thesis is available on the top menu.
I have done research at the Student Life Archives and have written several histories of University of Illinois fraternity chapters for the Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing.
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10 Sorority Women from the Golden Age of Television
Doctors Who Wore Badges: Fraternity Women in Medicine 1867-1902
Female Senators and Their Sorority Affiliation – 2019 Edition
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Fraternity Women Who Were Lawyers, 1867-1902 (When Women Could Not Vote!)
Hidden Figures on Alpha Kappa Alpha Founders’ Day
Sorority Women Writing Stories Whose Characters Are Sorority Women
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Alpha Gamma Delta
Alpha Omicron Pi
Grace Humiston
Alpha Phi
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Alpha Sigma Tau
Elsie Katherine Bergegrun, M.D.
Alpha Xi Delta
Chi Omega
Delta Delta Delta
Dr. “Mattibelle” Boger Shattuck
Delta Gamma
Carlotta Joaquina Maury, Ph.D.
Delta Phi Epsilon
Delta Zeta
Crown Princess Martha of Norway
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Meghan Markle, HRH The Dutchess of Sussex
Phi Mu
Phi Sigma Sigma
Pi Beta Phi
Mary Elizabeth Lasher Barnette
Marguerite “Peg” Lindsley (Arnold)
Sigma Delta Tau
Sigma Kappa
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Theta Phi Alpha
Mildred “Millie” Lonergan McAuliffe
Zeta Tau Alpha
NPHC
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Delta Sigma Theta
Sigma Gamma Rho
Zeta Phi Beta
Category Archives: Men’s Fraternities
July 17, 1969 – To the Moon and Back
Apollo 11 launched on July 17, 1969. Despite internet reports to the contrary of the three men aboard Apollo 11, only one was a fraternity man. Michael Collins and Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr were West Point graduates where there … Continue reading
8/3/1923 – Calvin and Grace Coolidge Become President and First Lady
On August 3, 1923, Americans were waking to the news that Warren Harding had died suddenly, late in the evening on August 2, after he became ill in a San Francisco hotel. The Vice-President, Calvin Coolidge, and his wife Grace, … Continue reading
Thurman Munson, Delta Upsilon, Killed in Plane Crash on August 2, 1979
Thurman Munson, an initiate of Delta Upsilon at Kent State University, was a baseball catcher. He spent his entire 11-year MLB career playing for the New York Yankees. He won Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player awards. Munson … Continue reading
Happy Birthday to a Kappa Sigma Who Was a Chi Omega, Too!
Dr. Charles Richardson, a Fayetteville, Arkansas, dentist, was born on January 8, 1864, in Rich Valley, Virginia. He was one of 11 children. He did his undergraduate work at Emory & Henry College in Virginia and he studied dentistry at … Continue reading
Bob McGrath, Phi Gamma Delta and Sesame Street Icon
Bob McGrath will live on forever as his character on Sesame Street. Robert Emmett McGrath was his given name and Bob Johnson was the name of the role on Sesame Street. He was the human corralling a cast of Muppet … Continue reading
To the Moon and Back
On this day in 1969, three men, the crew of Apollo 11, had just blasted off from the Florida coast and into the great beyond. Despite internet reports to the contrary of the three men aboard Apollo 11, only one … Continue reading
Rest in Peace, Bob Dole, Loyal Kappa Sigma
Robert “Bob” J. Dole, an October 4, 1942, initiate of the Kappa Sigma chapter at the University of Kansas, died on December 5, 2021, at the age of 98. He was the first Kappa Sigma to be named Kappa Sigma … Continue reading
April 19, 1995 – Fraternity and Sorority Members Who Perished in the Bombing of the Murrah Federal Building
April 19, 1995 started off as an ordinary day for the residents of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is etched in the minds of all who were touched by the events of the day or those who watched on television, listened … Continue reading
OTD – Theodore Roosevelt, DEKE, Dies at 60
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, was an initiate of the Alpha Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon at Harvard University. He died on on January 6, 1919, of a coronary embolism. He was 60 years old. His … Continue reading
Fiji Sires and Sons Turns 95 on Phi Gamma Delta’s Founders’ Day
Phi Gamma Delta was founded on May 1, 1848. John Templeton McCarty, Samuel Beatty Wilson, James Elliott, Daniel Webster Crofts, Ellis Bailey Gregg and Naaman Fletcher – the Immortal Six – were students at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, when they founded … Continue reading
