My welcome arrow with wine and blue morning glories, purely accidental on my part.
Welcome to my blog. There are more than 1,100 post here. I’ve written about fraternity and sorority history for years and most GLO members should be able to find at least one post about their respective GLOs by using the little search box. Use ” ” around the GLO’s name to refine the search.
I have previously quoted the song, Nine People’s Favorite Thing from [title of show]. I’d like to publicly thank those nine people for reading this blog. You know who you are.
This summer has flown by. Most of it was spent in Florida. Most of what I saw in Florida was doctor’s offices, the grocery store, and a particular neighborhood where I walk the dogs. Being a caretaker is not an easy job, and especially when one lives 1,000 miles away.
On the last drive to Florida, my husband parked the car in the hotel parking lot and when I opened the car door this U-Haul greeted me. Mount Pleasant, Iowa, is a place I’ve visited many times, and Mount Pleasant in 1869 is a place I wish I could visit. It was there that the P.E.O. Sisterhood was founded. For the past few years, I’ve been working on a book, We Who Are Sisters – 150 Years of the P.E.O. Sisterhood. The project is in the final stages and it’s exciting to see it come together.
Yesterday, I stopped in at the Pi Beta Phi Headquarters, and some surprises awaited me in the archives.
An early “Rush” favor purchased on eBay by my wonderful friend Susan Bruch and sent to the archives.
A framed Pi Beta Phi Symphony from the 1920s. Someone kept this her entire life and someone else thought it important enough to send it to the archives. Pi Phi does not have an open motto or creed, but our Symphony can substitute.
Convention items sent by someone who attended the 1954 Pi Beta Phi convention in Miami, Florida.
These are ordinary items that members kept for decades. What will today’s members keep? And what will they send to their GLO’s archives? It’s important to preserve our respective histories and we each have a role in it.
