First Ladies
 

I was curious: you always hear about this president or that one belonging to one GLO or another, but you don't hear about many First Ladies. I know that Laura Bush (and daughter Jenna) are Kappa Alpha Thetas - are/were any other First Ladies members of a sorority?

Calvin Coolidge's wife was a Pi Phi and her pin can be seen in many portraits of her!

Lou Hoover (Mrs. Herbert Hoover) and Lucy Webb Hayes (Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes) were Kappas.

So is daughter Barbara, as well as Second Lady (?) Lynne Cheney.

Ivy

ZTA doesn't have any first ladies but we do have some president's daughters.
Susan Ford Bales, Gerald Ford's daughter, was a ZTA and so was Lynda Johnson Robb, Lyndon B. Johnson's daughter.

My wife's a first lady. After all, I'm married and I'm the President. :)

I like your style!

honeychile

When I was in high school, there was a girl down the road who was a Zeta at UT at the time--when Lynda Johnson was. The stories she would tell about the Secret Service being in the house 24/7--boy, they really screwed up some chapter functions!

Isn't would-be first lady Elizabeth Dole a Tri-Delta ??

I'm not surprised...

Makes you wonder how the chapter would handle ritual, if the Secret Service has to be around whomever they're protecting 24/7. "Sorry, ladies, but we're going to have to search that locked closet" :eek:

I don't think Jackie Kennedy was Greek, but she should have been! ;)

Yep, she is :D

Isn't Elizabeth Dole a Senator-elect? D Phi E counts Senator Barbara Boxer among our alumnae. :)

I heard that Jackie Kennedy either pledged Phi Mu or was an honorary Phi Mu. I don't think she ever initiated from what I heard.

Not First Lady
 

Elizabeth Dole is not a would-be first lady, her husband is a hopefully first gentleman. :D

Make that the first first gentleman!

Six First Ladies are honorary Beta Sigma Phi's:

Eleanor Roosevelt
Patricia Nixon
Rosalyn Carter
Nancy Reagan
Barbara Bush
Hillary Rodham Clinton

awesome
 

That is so awesome Betarose (except for the Hillary part-don't get me started....) I LOVE Elenore Roosevelt and Babs Bush.

maybe she pledged and wasn't initiated, but she's not an honorary member as far as i know

Re: Not First Lady
 

I could handle Senator-elect Elizabeth Dole becoming President Elizabeth Dole - but I'm not sure we want to do political battle here. I got a real charge out of the Bob Dole-Britney Spears commercial!

To my knowledge, Jackie Kennedy went to Vassar, which doesn't have GLOs. Any GLO affiliation she would have would be honorary.

Did Mrs. Wilson or Mrs. Coolidge go greek? I think they both went to college.

honeychile

Re: Re: Not First Lady
 

Yup, Mrs. Coolidge was a Pi Phi (see carnation's earlier post).

And, there were two Mrs. Wilsons.

And (as far as I could find) neither was Greek.

For what it's worth (and I think it's worth a lot), Eleanor Roosevelt was an Alpha Kappa Alpha.

Does anyone know if Hillary Clinton is in a sorority?

Hillary Rodham Clinton went to Wellesley, which was an all-woman's college at the time. No sororities there. So unless she's an honorary member, I doubt it.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is an honorary Beta Sigma Phi.

To paraphrase an old Smith College Tshirt (Barbara Bush and Nancy Reagan are Smith women):

There's got to be a better way to get a sorority woman into the White House.... :D

Beta Sigma Phi
 

Here are some of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority's Honorary Members: Barbara Bush,Rosalynn Carter, Hillary Rodham Clinton,Senator Muriel Humphrey, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Dole. That's all I could find, but one of the older members tells me there's a complete list somewhere I'm trying to find it.

That seriously impresses me! But then again, she was an awesome woman.

honeychile

As it still is. It has several "societies," some of which have Greek-letter names, and which have a good deal in common with the original societies that grew into national sororities.

I don't know whether Hillary was a member, though. Many campus leaders are.

Ivy

I wasn't sure. I knew that some of the Seven Sisters have gone co-ed, but I wasn't positive about Wellesley.

From what I've read (including a book of bios from people in Hillary's class at Wellesley, Hillary was pretty anti-establishment protester-type in the 60s. I don't know if that would have gone along with the societies of that time. She was a leader on campus, though. It's possible.

There was NO WAY that Mrs. Kennedy was in ANY sorority. Someone already mentioned Vassar, and people of her social standing (ie, the very very very wealthy old money in the 1930s and 1940s) didn't do Greek-letter organizations. Her tight group of childhood friends from boarding school and college, as well as social and family connections, basically filled the role that a sorority does for women not of her background.

Hillary went to Wellesley during the 60s. Not exactly the Greeks' finest hour.

If I'm not mistaken, Eleanor Roosevelt is an honorary AKA.

Re: The Wilsons
 

I don't know about First Lady Wilson being Greek, but a Wilson daughter was a Gamma Phi Beta and was the first woman married in the White House!

My assigned parking space was next to Hillary's in the seventies. There is no way that woman would have been Greek. She was a TOTAL hippie--long dark and frizzy hair, coke-bottle glasses, hippie clothes, very angry attitude.