I have done research at the Student Life Archives and have written several histories of University of Illinois fraternity chapters for the Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing. The dates are significant ones and the thesis is available on the top menu. My Master’s thesis details the history of the fraternity system at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1948-1960. I wrote a dissertation on “Coeducation and the History of Women’s Fraternities 1867-1902.″ It chronicles the growth of the system and the birth of the National Panhellenic Conference. In this blog I will share the history of GLOs and other topics. IN the early-morning hours of that Friday in February 2011, at around 3 a.m., George Desdunes and another Cornell sophomore. I didn’t realize that I would end up feeling at home at one of the chapters. ![]() My roommate suggested I sign up for rush (as it was then called, today it’s known as recruitment) and go through the house tour round and then drop out of rush. When I made my way to Syracuse University, I saw the houses with the Greek letters that edged Walnut Park, and wished I could tour them. I am sure I would have agreed with them, too. I was the last person anyone would have suspected of joining a sorority in college. Welcome! Chances are good you found this blog by searching for something about fraternities or sororities. Donlon made partner in 1928, and was the first and only woman to do so for decades. law school.Īfter graduation, she was hired by Burke & Burke, a Wall Street law firm. This gave her the distinction of being the first woman to serve as editor of a law review at any U.S. Donlon was elected Editor in Chief of the Cornell Law Quarterly from a field of 13 men and herself. She was tapped for Raven and Serpent, a junior women’s secret society based on extracurricular activities, and Mortar Board. While at Cornell, she was president of Student Government and played an active role in several organizations. ![]() She recounted that in 1915 someone may have told her “the professions, especially the law, were very difficult for women,” and she wanted to challenge that theory. Years later, she was asked why she chose to study law at a time when that was not done often. Her older sister Joanna, who was two years ahead of her, was a member of the chapter, too. She spent one year doing general classes and the following three as a law student, when Cornell’s law school only required one year of college study to enroll as a law student. Mary Donlon (Alger) joined Alpha Omicron Pi at Cornell University.
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