Category Archives: Fran Favorite

Miss America 2020 will be chosen tomorrow, Thursday, December 19. More than a third of the state winners are sorority women. I think it’s a win for all of us if a sorority woman wins. A friend asked if I … Continue reading →

Do we decorate our trees with our organization’s ornaments? Of course we do! Wanda Barton Yeatts was housemother at the Delta Zeta chapter at the University of Georgia where this was the chapter’s tree. © Fran Becque, www.fraternityhistory.com, 2013. All Rights … Continue reading →

“Wish I felt better about my own chapter which is now on probation. Received a letter from Nat’l regarding that. So sad!” That message was on a holiday car in yesterday’s mail. The card’s cover had “joy” written on it, … Continue reading →

Sorority woman in Miss Universe Top Twenty Last night, Cindy Marina, Miss Albania, made it to the top 20 in the Miss Universe contest. Marina is a volleyball player for the University of Southern California. She initiated into the Pi … Continue reading →

Alpha Omicron Pi was founded on January 2, 1897, at the home of Helen St. Clair (Mullan). She and three of her Barnard College friends, Stella George Stern (Perry), Jessie Wallace Hughan, and Elizabeth Heywood Wyman had pledged themselves to … Continue reading →

On December 5, 1776, five College of William and Mary students founded the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The first meeting of the organization took place in the Old Raleigh Tavern’s Apollo Room. As the first Greek-letter collegiate society, it led … Continue reading →

December first harkens to the end of the fall semester and the holiday break at most colleges and universities. For three GLOs, it also marks the day on which the organizations were founded. Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc. and … Continue reading →

Delta Delta Delta was founded at Boston University on November 28, 1888. It fell on the day before Thanksgiving that year, just as it does in 2019. Founders’ Day is celebrated on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Its founders are Sarah … Continue reading →

Phi Sigma Sigma’s was founded at Hunter College on November 26, 1913. Its ten founders are Lillian Gordon Alpern, Josephine Ellison Breakstone, Fay Chertkoff, Estelle Melnick Cole, Jeanette Lipka Furst, Ethel Gordon Kraus, Shirley Cohen Laufer, Claire Wunder McArdle, Rose … Continue reading →

Kappa Kappa Gamma will turn 150 on October 13, 2020. On this Founders’ Day, the @MinnieStewartVan left from Monmouth to spend the year visiting Kappa Kappa Gammas across North America. I was lucky enough to visit the when it made … Continue reading →