At the bottom of this page is a list of the founding dates for GLOs for the current month. To be honest, my intention early on was to write about each organization on its founding date. I have been somewhat successful for the National Panhellenic Conference organizations, the National PanHellenic Council sororities and somewhat less successful with the other groups. I realized this morning Mu Sigma Upsilon turns 35 today, and that deserves a shout out.
On November 21, 1981, Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority, Incorporated was founded by five women studying at Rutgers University New Brunswick. The founders of first multicultural sorority are Eve Bracero, Lillian Sierra, Karinee Candelario, Ruth Gonzalez, and Sylvia Vigo.
Today, there are more than 50 chapters, most of them in the northeast. Chapters are not named by Greek letters, but by names of the chapter’s choosing. According to the website, names are “chosen by their founders for its significance to their story and within the fabric of the organization.”
The National Governing Council Executive Board selects a national philanthropy to support for the Board’s five-year term. To Write Love On Her Arms is Mu Sigma Upsilon’s National Philanthropy for 2016-2021. The mission of To Write Love on Her Arms is “dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.” (See https://twloha.com/)
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I’ve been meaning to congratulate two women whose stories were pointed out to me in the last two weeks.
Amal Abdi recently became the first Somali-Canadian recruit to graduate from the Edmonton Police Service academy. She is a member of the Alberta Alpha Chapter of Pi Beta Phi and the University of Alberta.
Amal Abdi
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A Facebook post by my Chi Omega Archivist friend, Lyn Harris, reminded me that I need to compile the updated list of sorority women serving us in Congress. But until then, I’d be remiss not to mention this.
Stephanie Murphy, a initiate of Chi Omega at the College of William & Mary. Murphy will represent Florida’s 7th Congressional District. She is the first Vietnamese-American woman elected to Congress, according to an NBC News article.
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