Pi Beta Phi. Colorado Beta Chapter (University of Denver)
Biography
Founded 1867 and closed 1980. DU Chapter possibly numbered Colorado Beta, but cannot identify online.
Citation:
Board of Trustees Minutes – Volume S: page 190.Sources
found: Its Directory of Pi Beta Phi, 1930.
found: Its Alumnae directory, 1984: t.p. (Pi Beta Phi Fraternity) p. iv (Pi Beta Phi)
found: Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women website, Dec. 1, 2009 (Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women; Pi Beta Phi; I.C. Sorosis; f. Apr. 28, 1867, at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois; 1st national secret society for women at a time when only five state universities admitted women; [in] 1888 name changed from I.C. Sorosis to Pi Beta Phi; [in] 1910 establishing a philanthropy in the Appalachian mountains was authorized at convention; Settlement School organized at Gatlinburg, Tennessee [in] 1912; plans for Centennial Project to be called Arrowmont [made in] 1964; [in] 1970 Arrowmont construction was completed at Pi Beta Phi Settlement School)
Biography
First Greek student organization - Pi Beta Phi Sorority in 1885.
Sources
“New Greek Letter Society Organized”, newspaper clipping, U172._.0003, Gamma Phi Beta folder, U172._.0005, Sororities; U172._.0004, Pi Beta Phi.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
1900 Pi Beta Phi
Group portrait of the 1900 Pi Beta Phi sorority. Visible in back row, left to right (according to inscription, 1901 Kynewisbok), Reba Brewster, Isadore Van Gilder, Ellen Anderson, Nanaruth Taggart, Anna Berry, Marguerite Dyer. Bottom row, left to right, Mary Traylor, Alice Richardson, Bertha Brooks, Ethel Antrim, Agnes Glasgow, Grace Cockle, Lida Burkhart, Mabel Wheeler.
Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women, 1974
Members of the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women pose on and around a car parked in the quad outside of Mary Reed, which is visible in the background.