The dates are significant ones and the thesis is available on the top menu. My Master’s thesis details the history of the fraternity system at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1948-1960. 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. In this blog I will share the history of GLOs and other topics. I didn’t realize that I would end up feeling at home at one of the chapters. 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.
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. I am sure I would have agreed with them, too. I was the last person anyone would have suspected of joining a sorority in college. Welcome! Chances are good you found this blog by searching for something about fraternities or sororities. © Fran Becque Leave This Blank: Leave This Blank Too: Do Not Change This: They were added because the original badge looked too much like Alpha Delta Pi’s badge. It is a badge from the years after Iota Alpha Pi joined NPC because it has the roses on the horizontal points. The estimated total membership in was 6,300. Its flower was the red rose and its colors were red and black. Syracuse University purchased it and it became Whitman Cottage, a small group residence for women. It was Alpha Iota’s Pi’s home until 1972 when the organization disbanded. Brockway designed and built for himself in 1912. It had been the home Syracuse architect Albert L. The group purchased a home at 403 Comstock Avenue, near the corner of East Adams. The Pi Chapter was installed at Syracuse University (my alma mater – Go ‘Cuse!) in 1942. Mu Chapter was installed at the University of Manitoba in 1932. The organization went international in 1929 with the installation of the Kappa Chapter at the University of Toronto. The Eta chapter was founded in 1925 at the University of Denver.
These campuses were Hunter College, Brooklyn Law School, New York University, New Jersey Law School, and Adelphi College.
The first six chapters were all in the metro New York area. It took on Greek letters when a second chapter was founded in 1913. Sanua does not believe the name is in any way connected with the current meaning of those letters. Sanua for her book Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the United States 1895-1945, J.A.P. It began as a local organization, J.A.P., pronounced “Jay-ay-peez.” According to a 1942 initiate interviewed by Marianne R. Zellermayer’s brother Maurice was a founder of Zeta Tau Beta she married Rose Delson’s brother. The founders were Hannah Finkelstein (Swick), Olga Edelstein (Ecker), Sadie April (Glotzer), Rose Posner (Bernstein), Rose Delson (Hirschman), May Finklestein (Spiegel), and Frances Zellermayer (Delson). Iota Alpha Pi, the first college sorority for Jewish women, was founded on March 3, 1903, at the New York Normal College (now Hunter College). That number has been constant since 1971 when Iota Alpha Pi disbanded. In 1957, NPC reached an all-time high of 32 members but by the next meeting in 1959, the number was reduced to 29 due to the union of several of the groups.
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At the 1951 meeting, the six Association of Education Sororities (AES) and five other groups received full membership. In its first ten years, additional groups joined quickly. The National Panhellenic Conference began in 1902 with seven founding members.
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