![]() Jobelle Holcombe, Chi Omega Founder and NPC Chairman 1907, -, Bluff Cemetery, Springdale, AR It is a replica of the Theatre of Dionysus at the foot of the Acropolis in Greece.)Ĭhristina “Ina May” Boles Morton, Chi Omega Founder, -, Brearley Cemetery, Dardenelle, AR The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Charles Richardson, Chi Omega Founder, 1864-1924, Fairview Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Fayetteville ARĬhi Omega Founding Campus, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, ARĬhi Omega Greek Theatre, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (It was a gift to the university from Chi Omega, completed in 1930. The Chi Omega Theatre at the University of Arkansasĭr. Octavia Andrew Rush, Alpha Delta Pi Founder, -, Oak Hill Cemetery, Plot 1572, Prattville, AL Gladys Pugh Reed, Kappa Delta, NPC Chairman 1933-35, Pine Rest Cemetery, Foley AL Send any corrections or additions to franbecque at hotmail. I’d love to add information for the other GLOs. She was NPC Chairman, so I’ve added her, too. She was Pi Phi’s Grand President for more than years. After all, last month I wrote about my quest to find Amy Burnham Onken’s grave. That made me start on having the NPC Chairmen listed here, too. My Chi Omega friends managed to find Mary Love Collins’ grave in a small town in Pennsylvania. I also have a column for states in which she lived, if I found that info. On my spreadsheet, I have a column for husband and marriage date, if I came across that information. Sometimes I only found one, so the other is an x “x-1942” means that I do not know when she was born, but she died in 1942. ![]() I added birth and death dates, if I could find them. Who would guess that in a cemetery in Pasadena, California, far from Farmville, Virginia, and Syracuse, New York, are the graves of a Kappa Delta founder and Alpha Phi founder? Nor did I have to visit the grave of Frances Haven Moss, the Gamma Phi Beta founder who is buried in the cemetery near campus. I was surprised to find out that one of the Alpha Xi Delta founders is buried there, too.Īlthough I just returned from a visit to the Student Life Archives at the University of Illinois, I was on another mission there and did not have time to research this question. I knew some of the Kappa Kappa Gamma founders were buried in the small cemetery in Monmouth, Illinois, where a number of Pi Phi founders are laid to rest. Twelve for certain I knew, those being the Pi Beta Phi founders. I asked for help from friends with access to the information for their own GLO. I found myself in many findagravecom and ancestrycom rabbit holes. ![]() I started by putting together a spreadsheet of all the founders of all the National Panhellenic Conference organizations. My goal was to compile a state by state guide to all Greek-letter organization (GLO) related sites. The point comes somewhere in the midst of spending too much time in research having too little to show for it, with a mound of unanswered questions smack dab in the middle of the road to the end. In the process of compiling large amounts of information, there is a moment when I question my sanity. ![]()
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