Serious Posts for the Uninformed, Part 3
by: Rachael Panhellenic
Sorority Women and Suffrage
So you identify as female and you have the right to vote? You can thank these sorority women:
Carrie Lane Chapman Catt (1859-1947), Pi Beta Phi (Iowa State University). Catt was President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900-04 (and 1915-20, too). She was instrumental in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote. It should also be noted that she paid for her own college and worked odd jobs in order to pay her sorority fees. Not unlike many young women in sororities do today…
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Mary Ritter Beard (1876-1958), Kappa Alpha Theta (DePauw University). Ritter was a suffragist and a noted historian.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Ph.D., (1879-1958), Kappa Kappa Gamma (Ohio State University). Fisher was an author, educational reformer, and social activist. After World War I, she did post-war relief work in Europe, enlisting her Kappa sisters’ assistance in helping orphaned children.
Commentby: Rachael PanhellenicAug 17, 2022 8:05:52 PM
Ada Comstock Notestein (1876-1973), Delta Gamma, University of Minnesota. Notestein served as Dean of Women at Smith College from 1921-23. Since 1975, Smith College’s Ada Comstock Scholars Program has helped hundreds of non-traditional age women to complete a Bachelor of Arts. In addition, she served as President of the American Association of University Women from 1921-23 and President of Radcliffe College from 1923-43.
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by: Rachael PanhellenicAug 17, 2022 8:06:22 PM
Edith and Grace Abbott, both Delta Gammas (University of Nebraska). Grace (1878-1939) was the highest ranking woman in the United States government for over a decade as the head of the U.S. Children’s Bureau from 1921-34. She was the first woman to be nominated for a Presidential cabinet position—Secretary of Labor (unfortunately her nomination was not confirmed). Edith (1876-1957) was the first woman to become dean of an American graduate school, the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.
Reverend Doctor Anna Howard Shaw, (1847-1919), Kappa Alpha Theta (Wooster College) An honorary member (alumna initiate), Shaw was a suffragist, physician, first ordained female Methodist minister, and President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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by: Rachael PanhellenicAug 17, 2022 8:06:47 PM
Frances Willard, 1839-98, Alpha Phi (Syracuse University). Willard was an honorary member (alumna initiate) and she served as Alpha Phi’s National President. She was a suffragist, social reformer, and an American educator. She was also instrumental in the establishment of the second chapter of Alpha Phi at Northwestern University in 1881.
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by: so ruthAug 23, 2023 8:57:38 AM
Interesting how you keep bumping this thread along with all of the 2013 and 2014 threads.
lol. So obvious.
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by: so ruthAug 23, 2023 9:25:24 AM
Hey - it looks like you stopped bumping 2013/2014 threads after this comment.
Are you ok?
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by: YesAug 23, 2023 8:46:38 PM
Very interesting lead post by the op and bumped in the middle of a 2013/2014 thread deluge.
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by: PiphiAug 31, 2023 6:14:09 AM
I like to bump this thread for a pro-Piphi lead post.
It is on my media bump list.
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by: @PiphiAug 31, 2023 6:46:32 AM
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by: Rachael PanhellenicAug 17, 2022 8:05:27 PM
Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942), Kappa Kappa Gamma, Barnard College (Phi Beta Kappa, too!). Miller was an ardent suffragist. In the years when women were trying to gain the right to vote, she wrote a column, Are Women People? devoted to the cause of equal suffrage. In 1915, she penned:
“Mother, what is a feminist?”
“A feminist, my daughter,
Is any woman now who cares
to think about her own affairs
As men don’t think she oughter.”
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