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'''2,367 initiates (as of June 2015)'''
'''Charter Members:'''
Elizabeth Antoinette Ely, Amanda Frank, Carrie Elizabeth Joslin, Nettie Oskamp.
'''Deuteron Charter Members:'''
Clara Lucinda Ballentine, Eugenia Catherine Bardes, Hilda Christine Baum, Dorothy Davies Farrar, Freda Louise Gleason, Ruth Barbara Guhman, Elizabeth Charlotte Linnard, Anne Laurie McGregor, Alice Virginia Stephens, Helen Catherine Taylor, Alice Elizabeth Toms.
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==The Early Years (From The History of Kappa Kappa Gamma 1870–1976)==
The University of Cincinnati, the second oldest and the second largest municipal university in the United States, was founded in 1907. This date represents the establishment of the Cincinnati College and the Medical College of Ohio. In 1870 the city, under a state act, absorbed these colleges and established the University of Cincinnati. In 1967, by statute and Cincinnati Charter amendment, the university became the country's first municipally sponsored, state affiliated university. Enrollment in 1974 was 30,332; faculty, 1,032; buildings, 110. In 1914, when Beta Rho Deuteron was chartered, these same statistics were: 2,298;575; and 13.
The Kappa Kappa Gamma charter granted to the second (Beta) Rho on June 6, 1885, had been mysteriously surrendered a few months later. Alpha Phi Psi, a local group, was organized in 1904 and immediately petitioned Kappa Kappa Gamma. Finally in March 1914, after inspection by Florence Burton Roth, Michigan, Grand President, the petition was granted, and on May 19, the Installation of Beta Rho Deuteron was announced in the Cincinnati newspapers.
The loyalty and devotion of the Alpha Phi Psi members were remarkable. When Beta Rho Deuteron became a reality, the alumnae—many of whom were married, and often busy with children—registered for classes, became eligible for membership in Kappa, and were initiated. The Cincinnati Alumnae Association was quickly organized, and alumnae opened their homes for meetings, rush parties, teas and even slumber parties. They remembered Alpha Phi Psi, too. and one sentence from that ritual was incorporated in the Kappa ritual that is used today in Beta Rho Deuteron ceremonies.
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