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The deletion of “grand” from the titles of the officers and from the Council was part of an extensive revision of the Fraternity Bylaws, a process that sparked in Rheva what was to become a lifelong interest in parliamentary law. After her own presidency, she served seven Presidents as parliamentarian (1950-1974). She shared her expertise with other organizations, including the National Panhellenic Congress (1949-1955), the American Association of University Women (1951-1972), and the Girl Scouts (1963-1973), and she wrote several handbooks on parliamentary procedure.
Rheva was genuinely surprised when she was nominated to be Grand President in 1936. She had expected Helen Snyder Andres to run for the office and had thought she would be made director of extension because she had recommended, while serving as Director of Provinces (1934-1936), that such an office be created to divide the director’s workload. (She was also first to propose an Associate Council, composed of Province Officers, and as Director of Provinces,, edited several Province Officer manuals, benchmarks for booklets to come.)
She also served as Vice President of Lambda Province in 1931 and Province President in 1932, and was instrumental in the installation of Delta Beta Chapter at Duke, where her husband, Richard, was a faculty member.
