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'''Some of Beta Alpha’s Outstanding Alumnae:''' (If you have chapter alumna who have received recognition in any of these three categoriesJosephine Feger Ancona, Rose Ancona, Martha Bunting, Kathleen Ryder Carter, please list them with the date(s) Jessie Lippincott Colson. Lois Macy Otis was honorably discharged from Psi to become a founder and charter member of recognitionBA.)
'''Fraternity Loyalty Award Recipient'''
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!
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).
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'''Beta Alpha Chapter, University of Pennsylvania'''
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'''Charter Members:'''
'''Fraternity Council Officers:'''
Mary Pennington, Grand Treasurer 1900-1902; Rheva Ott Shryock, Grand President 1936-1940;
'''Fraternity Loyalty Award Recipient'''
Rheva Ott Shryock, 1968
'''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
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. 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;
The almost annual house hunting and the occupation of rooms and apartments ended 1921 with the acquisition of 3323 Walnut Street.
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:==
“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 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.