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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]
Kansas and Colorado Pi Beta Phi First woman osteopath [7] Anna Lee Fisher: California Epsilon Astronaut and NASA Physician Kathryn Stephenson: Nebraska Beta and Arizona Alpha First female American board-certified plastic surgeon
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).
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Its second chapter was established at the University of Illinois Chicago in 2008. [1] [2] By 2013, it had initiated 130 members. [2]Kappa Pi Beta established its first colony outside of Illinois at the University of Missiouri in Columbia, Missouri in 2013, and charter a chapter at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana in 2019.
At formation it was known briefly as Pi Beta Phi professional fraternity, but changed its name because a woman's fraternity also known as Pi Beta Phi had prior claim to that name. [ 1 ] Its Beta chapter was established at the University of Michigan on April 1, 1898, with its first national general assembly in Ann Arbor on January 6, 1900.
The following historically African American fraternities and sororities at Vanderbilt are members of the National Pan-Hellenic Council. [4]Alpha Kappa Alpha (sorority); Alpha Phi Alpha (fraternity)