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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