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. Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., the first international fraternal organization founded on a historically Black college campus, is celebrating its 110th anniversary. 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. Later that day, out of town guests were treated to a buffet supper at the Xi chapter house at Temple University. She told how grateful she was that the War Project had come to fruition. Markowitz, Grand Archon, spoke about Phi Sig’s philanthropic purposes. Luncheon chairman Kitty Bralow, who had served as National Philanthropy Secretary, led the War Project. Clarisse H. The event took place at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.įorty-five collegians, alumnae and national officers attended. The check covering the cost of the Phi Sigma Sigma Clubmobile was presented to the American Red Cross on February 20, 1944. The Phi Sigma Sigma Clubmobile was assigned to follow troops in the North African invasion. It was reported that the women who drove and staffed the Clubmobiles made and served 20,000 donuts per day. Women drove the Clubmobiles which looked somewhat like today’s recreational vehicles.
The Clubmobiles supplied coffee and donuts to the soldiers who were in isolated and remote areas. Its goal was to provide a Red Cross Clubmobile as a way to assist the men who were fighting on the front lines. In the 1940s, during World War II, Phi Sigma Sigma began a fundraiding drive. Its 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 Sher Seidman and Gwen Zaliels Snyder. When it was discovered that the name was already in use, it became Phi Sigma Sigma. Phi Sigma Sigma was founded at Hunter College on Novemas Phi Sigma Omega.
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