Beta Alpha - Revision history

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‎Highlights of the 1970s:

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‎Highlights of the 1920s:

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 |Image= [[File:Beta_Alpha.jpg|200px]]
 |Founded= {{start date and years ago|1890|03|20}}
-|College= [http://www.upenn.edu/ University of Pennsylvania]
+|College= [https://www.upenn.edu/ University of Pennsylvania]
 |Location= Philadelphia, PA
-|Homepage= http://www.kappa.org
+|Homepage= [https://www.kappakappagamma.org Kappa Kappa Gamma]
-|Media= [http://wiki.kappakappagamma.org/index.php?title=Category:Beta_Alpha Media related to Beta Alpha Chapter]
+|Media= [https://wiki.kkg.org/index.php?title=Category:Beta_Alpha Media related to Beta Alpha Chapter]
 }}
 '''Beta Alpha Chapter, University of Pennsylvania'''

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 '''Charter Members:'''
 Josephine Feger Ancona, Rose Ancona, Martha Bunting, Kathleen Ryder Carter, Jessie Lippincott Colson. Lois Macy Otis was honorably discharged from Psi to become a founder and charter member of BA.
 Mary Pennington, Grand Treasurer 1900-1902; Rheva Ott Shryock, Grand President 1936-1940;
 Rheva Ott Shryock, 1968
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 '''Fraternity Alumnae Achievement Award Recipients:'''
 Mary Geisler Phillips, 1956, author, educator and editor in home economics
 Rheva Ott Shryock, 1962, authored several publications about parliamentary procedure; director of nursery school Duke University; Pennsylvania state director of Planned Parenthood; president of the Association of Alumnae, University of Pennsylvania; awarded the Norwegian Liberation Medal for her work with the Kappa Layette program; Grand President Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity 1936-1940; Fraternity Parliamentarian; Sarah Lee Lippincott, 1966, astronomer; researcher; lecturer; Jane Stokes Wallace, 1966, fashion and advertising director/editor; Candice Bergen, 1992, TV and film actress, left the University of Pennsylvania during her sophomore year and resigned from the Fraternity as an alumna in the early 1990s; Constance McNeely Horner, 1992, assistant to President Bush and director of presidential personnel

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+'''Charter Members:'''
 '''Some of Beta Alpha’s Outstanding Alumnae:''' (If you have chapter alumna who have received recognition in any of these three categories, please list them with the date(s) of recognition.)

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	University of Pennsylvania’s Alumni Awards of Merit have been given to the following:		University of Pennsylvania’s Alumni Awards of Merit have been given to the following:
−	Doris Bolger, Dorothy Crawford, Helen Keim, Ruth Branning Malloy, Rheva Shryock and Jane Stokes Wallace	+	Doris Bolger, Dorothy Crawford, Helen Keim, Ruth Branning Malloy, Rheva Shryock and Jane Stokes Wallace.
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		+	Carol Allen Baugh, PDC 1979-80; Carol Ann Trimble Nordheimer, PDC 1973-74; Florence Pumyea McCarthy, Province President 1935-38; Lois Wilkinson Bennett, PDC 1973-74; Mary Griffith Canby, Grand President 1906-08; Mary Pennington, Grand Treasurer 1900-02; Nancy Birch Henry, PDA 1976-77; Rheva Ott Shryock, Province President 1932-34, Director of Provinces 1934-36, Grand President 1936-1940;

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 “If you were an incoming freshman of the 1970s, would you choose to become a member of a co-ed living arrangement … or would you join a fraternity?” ) Anne Whitman, Kappa Fellow, Dallas, Texas, Alumnae Award, 1973, anthropology) …  From Wendy Wick, chapter President (May 1, 1970), an ultimatum: “We expect you to be an active member … if (you are) not … you must formally resign from our Fraternity.”
- A Cellar, a room, rented space at St. Anthony Hall (Delta Psi) and (1974–1975) St. Elmo (Delta Phi) followed the 1970 decision …  “I look back … with much greater feeling having been part of the great come-back … such a transition has proved the real strength of our organization … “ (Eleanor Peterkin, 1971).
+A Cellar, a room, rented space at St. Anthony Hall (Delta Psi) and (1974–1975) St. Elmo (Delta Phi) followed the 1970 decision …  “I look back … with much greater feeling having been part of the great come-back … such a transition has proved the real strength of our organization … “ (Eleanor Peterkin, 1971).
 A special award, Beta Province Meeting 1973, “to Beta Alpha for hanging on when it would have been much easier to give up.” … Natalie Huston, President, received award for the chapter.

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 The almost annual house hunting and the occupation of rooms and apartments ended 1921 with the acquisition of 3323 Walnut Street.
- The house at 3323 Walnut Street was acquired “through the kindness of Mrs. Pope Yeatman, mother of Beta Alpha Georgina Yeatman. (Former city architect, North Carolina conservationist) … Mrs. Yeatman held the mortgage that she cancelled in 1928 … “Words are inadequate to express our appreciation,” wrote the 1930 chapter historian—so Georgina was made a life member of the Philadelphia Alumnae Association!
+The house at 3323 Walnut Street was acquired “through the kindness of Mrs. Pope Yeatman, mother of Beta Alpha Georgina Yeatman. (Former city architect, North Carolina conservationist) … Mrs. Yeatman held the mortgage that she cancelled in 1928 … “Words are inadequate to express our appreciation,” wrote the 1930 chapter historian—so Georgina was made a life member of the Philadelphia Alumnae Association!
 The Beta Alpha Blues newsletter was born in 1929. Its 25th anniversary was celebrated with a picnic in the Penn Shakespeare garden.  TEA CLUB was a tradition in the 1920s with tea taken at the old round TABLE at 3323 Walnut Street, and questions from Ask Me Another, asked and answered.
 ==Highlights of the 1930s:==