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Good News is a musical comedy in two acts with a book by Laurence Schwab and B.G. DeSylva, lyrics by DeSylva and Lew Brown, and music by Ray Henderson. [1] The story is set in the Roaring Twenties at Tait College, where football star Tom Marlowe falls in love with studious Connie Lane, who is tutoring him so he can pass astronomy and be eligible to play in the big game.
Pi Beta Phi was founded as a secret organization under the name of I. C. Sorosis on April 28, 1867 at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois. Pi Beta Phi is regarded as the first national women's fraternity, although Kappa Alpha Theta was the first Greek-letter fraternity known among women in 1870. [2]
In 1947, Kappa Kappa Psi created its first National Intercollegiate Band, a band composed of musicians from universities across the United States.Since 1953, the national chapters of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma have commissioned a new work for wind band to be premiered at the National Intercollegiate Band concert.
Many were what Pi Beta Phi then called "Associate chapters", not colonies, but rather 'Community' chapters not linked to a school, or "Alumnae chapters" that did not initiate new members. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Following is a list of I.C. Sorosis chapters from before the name change, which were either Associate (~Community) chapters or Alumni chapters ...
Rachel Jane "Jennie" Nicol (1845–1881) was a founder of Pi Beta Phi and a physician.In 1867, she cofounded I.C. Sorosis at Monmouth College in Illinois, the first secret collegiate society for women patterned after men's fraternities, which later adopted the Greek name Pi Beta Phi (ΠΒΦ).
Ohio Beta 1922 & 1923 Miss America: Marilyn Horne: California Gamma Opera singer Traylor Howard: Florida Beta Actress, known for her role as Natalie Teeger on Monk: Nancy Kulp: Florida Beta Actress, known for her work on The Beverly Hillbillies: Jacquelyn Mayer: Illinois Epsilon 1963 Miss America: Patricia Neal: Illinois Epsilon
In 2013 and 2014, sorority women from multiple chapters at the University of Alabama – including Delta Delta Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Chi Omega, Kappa Delta, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Omicron Pi, and Phi Mu – alleged that either active members or some of their alumnae had prevented them from offering membership to black candidates because of ...
Horne won a scholarship for the University of Southern California [11] where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. [12] She studied voice under William Vennard and Gwendolyn Koldofsky [13] at the University of Southern California School of Music and participated in Lotte Lehmann's vocal master classes at Music Academy of the West. [14] [15]