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|Image= [[File:Beta_Sigma.jpg|200px]] | |Image= [[File:Beta_Sigma.jpg|200px]] | ||
|Founded= {{start date and years ago|1905|05|20}} | |Founded= {{start date and years ago|1905|05|20}} | ||
− | |College= Adelphi College, now [ | + | |College= Adelphi College, now [http://www.adelphi.edu/ Adelphi University] |
|Location= Garden City, NY | |Location= Garden City, NY | ||
− | |Homepage= | + | |Homepage= http://www.kappa.org |
− | |Media= [ | + | |Media= [http://wiki.kappakappagamma.org/index.php?title=Category:Beta_Sigma Media related to Beta Sigma Chapter] |
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− | ''' | + | '''Some of Beta Sigma’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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'''Fraternity Council Officers:''' | '''Fraternity Council Officers:''' | ||
− | Juliette Hollenback , Grand Registrar 1910-1912; Grace Broadhurst (Robinson), Grand Registrar 1912-1914; Katherine Tobin Mullin, Editor of The Key1914-1922; Rosalie B. Geer Parker Editor of The Key 1922- | + | Juliette Hollenback , Grand Registrar 1910-1912; Grace Broadhurst (Robinson), Grand Registrar 1912-1914; Katherine Tobin Mullin, Editor of The Key1914-1922; Rosalie B. Geer Parker Editor of The Key 1922-926. |
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'''Fraternity Alumnae Achievement Award Recipients:''' | '''Fraternity Alumnae Achievement Award Recipients:''' | ||
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Ruth Fanshaw Waldo, 1952, Vice president of J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency; member of Adelphi College Board of Trustees | Ruth Fanshaw Waldo, 1952, Vice president of J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency; member of Adelphi College Board of Trustees | ||
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'''Additional Outstanding Beta Sigma Alumnae:''' | '''Additional Outstanding Beta Sigma Alumnae:''' | ||
− | + | Marie Beynon Lyons Ray, author and editor of vogue; Ida Poole Brown Pattrick, civic worker; Betty Ann White Selby; B. Geer Parker, active in civic work as well as served as Editor of The Key | |
− | Marie Beynon Lyons Ray, author and editor of vogue; Ida Poole Brown Pattrick, civic worker; Betty Ann White Selby; | ||
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*The Nora Waln Fund for Refugee Children began in 1940, at the suggestion of The Key Editor Helen Bower, Michigan, when she learned that well-known author and Kappa Nora Waln, Swarthmore, would not be permitted to leave war-torn England to speak at Kappa’s 1940 General Convention. | *The Nora Waln Fund for Refugee Children began in 1940, at the suggestion of The Key Editor Helen Bower, Michigan, when she learned that well-known author and Kappa Nora Waln, Swarthmore, would not be permitted to leave war-torn England to speak at Kappa’s 1940 General Convention. | ||
− | + | Helen proposed that the money budgeted to bring Nora to America be used instead as the start of a fund, to be distributed by Nora to children and others in England who had been bombed out of their homes. Donations poured in as the project became a Fraternity-wide cause. After the war, Nora learned while on an assignment for the Atlantic Monthly that many Norwegian babies had only newspapers for swaddling clothes, and immediately promised that Kappa Kappa Gamma would create and send 5,000 layettes. (include electronic link to full story) |