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'''Charter Members:'''
Sara McEachin Carter, Mattie Virginia Cary (Mrs. Gentry McCauley), Aubyn Chinn (Mrs. James Watson), Helen Lucile Daugherty, Sarah Rossetter Marshall (Mrs. Thomas J. Wertenbaker), Mary McEachin Rodes (Mrs. C.P Leaphart), Mary Barrett Smith (Mrs. W. R. Ratliff), Alice Cary Williams.
'''Fraternity Council Officers:''' Mary McEachin Rodes (Leaphart), Grand Secretary 1912-1916, Grand Registrar 1916-1920; Elizabeth Kimbrough Park, Fraternity Vice-President 1940-1942; Margaret Trent (Rogers, Kopel), Field Secretary 1943; June Moore (Parrish), Field Secretary 1962-1963; ; Laurie Schmidt (Severino), Field Secretary 1982-1983; Sarah Avril, Traveling Consultant 1984-1985;
'''Additional Outstanding Beta Chi Alumnae:'''
Mary E. Sweeny, Dean of the University of Kentucky's Department of Home Economics, former President of the National Home Economics Association, teaching nutrition and doing research work in Merrill Palmer School, Detroit, Michigan; Aubyn Chinn (Watson), Educational Director, National Dairy Council, Head of the Department of Domestic Science at the University of Kentucky; Helen Bullitt Lowry (Allison), writer of newspaper and magazine articles and of short stories; Nancy Duke Lewis, Dean of Pembroke College and Director of the National Merit Scholarship Program; Fan Ratliff, Gamma Province Vice-President 1925-1927, Gamma Province President 1927-1929; Betty Scrivner (Campbell), Graduate Counselor 1948-1949; Curtis Buehler, Mu Province President 1947-1949, General Convention Chairman 1958-1966; Elise Bohannon Maier, Mu Province Director of Chapters 1953-1955; Ridgely Park, chairman undergraduate scholarships 1964-1965; Eleanor Lee Todd Congleton, Centennial Fund State Chairman 1970; Anne Rush, 1978 Women’s State Amateur Golf Champion of Kentucky; Gretchen Nash-Gardner, Graduate Counselor 1976-1977; Cynthia Converse (Gentsch), Graduate Counselor1978-1979; Margaret Frazier (Henderson), Chapter Consultant 1985-1986; Gretchen Nash-Gardner, Graduate Counselor 1976-1977; Cynthia Converse (Gentsch), Graduate Counselor1978-1979; Margaret Frazier (Henderson), Chapter Consultant 1985-1986; Amanda Filak (Pompilio), Catherine Schroeder Graf Heritage Museum Intern 2004; Carly Dannenmueller, Catherine Schroeder Graf Heritage Museum Intern 2013.
Following closely on the tragedy of the war was a terrible automobile accident in which four University of Kentucky men lost their lives. The influenza epidemic swept over the school in the same year, causing the university to close until January 6, 1919. Therefore, all activities were abandoned. During the break, however, several girls made hundreds of "flu" masks for an emergency Red Cross call and made surgical dressings. Some helped in the collecting and shipping of delicacies to sick boys in nearby camps.
==Highlights of the 1920s:==
