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|College= Franklin College
|Location= Franklin, IN
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"It would be impossible to record the details," the ''1870-1930 History of Kappa Kappa Gamma'' relates, "without including unhappy personalities which should be forgotten and buried rather than perpetuated in a published history."
Nu Chapter was solicited by [http://wiki.kappakappagamma.org/index.php/Iota Iota] member. Mary Ellen Owen (Wood) from that chapter initiated the six charter members at Franklin College on January 31, 1879. During the next five years, 35 others were initiated, a few after the chapter was lost, but while Nu was pretending to Franklin College and the town of Franklin that Kappa was still on the campus. The members, during those years in the early 1880s, were girls from prominent Franklin families. At the Commencement week banquet they entertained out-of-towners and local society. No case of college discipline was ever directed against a woman of Nu, and during the Commencement of 1883, every prize but one was taken by a Nu Kappa. "The chapter must have felt well satisfied with itself," its correspondent wrote on May 23, 1883, "for we have received very few members, but those whom we have initiated (are)...just splendid...good students and graduated from high school before entering college." How shocking it must have been to such a chapter, "prosperous, peaceful, and happy," to learn that the 1884 Convention had leveled a fine of $10 for not sending a delegate, or an excuse, to national convention; general disregard of constitutional requirements; and the low standard of Franklin College. Shocked, Nu called a meeting of Indiana chapters for October 11, 1884, but no one showed up. An appeal was sent to Grand Council asking for renewal, or a temporary charter, until 1886. The president and faculty of Franklin College sent letters, but to no avail. The temporary charter was refused, but Nu continued to fight. Friendly letters passed between the chapter and Charlotte Barrell Ware, of Phi chapter at ''Boston''
