Category Archives: Alpha Gamma Delta

Mignon Good Eberhart, Alpha Gamma Delta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2024

Mignonette “Mignon” Good Eberhart was born on July 6, 1899, in Lincoln, Nebraska. She studied for three years at Nebraska Wesleyan University where she became a member of Alpha Gamma Delta. Her sister, Lulu Good Vogelsang, was also a member … Continue reading

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Skiouros the Alpha Gam Squirrel on Squirrel Appreciation Day, January 21

Alpha Gamma Delta was founded at Syracuse University on May 30, 1904 at the home of Dr. Wellesley Perry Coddington, a Syracuse University professor. By 1901, all seven of the founding National Panhellenic Conference organizations had chapters at Syracuse. Coddington, who … Continue reading

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Jacqueline Jenkins-Nye, Ph.D., Alpha Gamma Delta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2022

Jacqueline Jenkins-Nye moved to Baltimore, Maryland when she was a young child and her father started teaching at Johns Hopkins University. After high school graduation, she enrolled in Goucher College, which was then located in downtown Baltimore. There she became … Continue reading

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Happy Founders’ Day, Alpha Gamma Delta!

Quick. Name an Alpha Chapter of a National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) organization whose chapter house was designed by a founder of the organization. There’s only one. It’s the Alpha Chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta. Alpha Gamma Delta was founded at … Continue reading

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Dr. Nora Brandenburg, Alpha Gamma Delta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2021

Born in Lindsay, Nebraska, on July 10, 1900. Nora Brodball (Brandenburg Johansen) studied at Nebraska Wesleyan University where she was a member of Alpha Kappa Delta, a local sorority. In 1927, it became the Beta Alpha Chapter of Alpha Gamma … Continue reading

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Dr. Helen Binnie Zank, Alpha Gamma Delta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2020

Helen Archibald Binnie was born in 1882. Her father was a physician. While a student at the University of Wisconsin, she became a member of the Beta chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta. Her sister Nora Belle, who became a teacher, … Continue reading

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#WhatsMyName

How does one write about loss, especially the loss of one so young? College students should not die while in college. It breaks my heart every time I read of college students whose lives are cut short. The death of … Continue reading

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Elizabeth Corbett, Alpha Gamma Delta, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2019

When I was deciding upon an Alpha Gamma Delta to profile, I took a look at the Wikipedia page. There appeared the name of English author and suffragist Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett as an Alpha Gam. I know it’s Wikipedia after … Continue reading

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Emily Butterfield, Alpha Gamma Delta, #WHM2018, #notablesororitywomen

Emily Helen Butterfield is a name revered by Alpha Gamma Deltas. Butterfield was a founder of the organization, but she was much more than that. She studied architecture at Syracuse University in a time when a female architect was an … Continue reading

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Monday GLO Mailbag

A friend who attended the AAUW convention sent me a note about Julia T. Brown, the newly-installed Chairman of the AAUW Board (no longer President). Brown in a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. *** I also realize that … Continue reading

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