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(from ''The History of Kappa Kappa Gamma 1870-1976'')
If Nu Chapter had been allowed to live beyond her five years, the whole philanthropic history of Kappa might have been changed, for the Nu member who promised to be the liveliest, Emma Harper Turner, begged honorable dismission in 1888, became a member of [httpshttp://wwwen.pibetaphiwikipedia.org/pibetaphiwiki/ Pi_Beta_Phi Pi Beta Phi], and the originator of that fraternity's famous settlement work among the southern mountaineers. She became grand president of Pi Beta Phi in April, 1890.
It's a fact that she fought hard for Nu. The unpleasantness began before the 1884 Convention when the charter was revoked, in what seems to have been a class of personalities, misunderstandings, some laxity, and a switch in Fraternity policy.
Friendly letters passed between the chapter and Charlotte Barrell Ware, of [http://wiki.kappakappagamma.org/index.php/Phi Phi] chapter at ''Boston'', Grand President, and in 1886 Emma Turner attended the convention in Akron to continue the battle. After an appeal by the Phi delegate in Miss Turner's behalf, it was moved that a chapter be placed in Franklin College. However, by then the feeling against the chapter had become a feeling against small colleges and the motion lost.
Nu became a local society for a couple of years and Miss Turner became a [httpshttp://wwwen.pibetaphiwikipedia.org/pibetaphiwiki/ Pi_Beta_Phi Pi Beta Phi]. Franklin Nu Alumnae Association was formed on September 9, 1910, when, according to a story in the December issue of ''The Key'', 14 members of Nu; "charter revoked...met on Franklin's beautiful campus for a reunion." Progress was reported in finding addresses for Mary Scattergood, [Beta Alpha], ''Pennsylvania'', Kappa's director of catalogue;