Graves of your Founders...
 

I've been doing research over the last several years as to where each of our Fraternity founders is buried. (the most recent one died about 20 years ago) . One was MIA in World War II, but we know where he is commemorated in Britain. Ideally, we'll be able to find them all and leave wreaths on their graves as part of the 100th anniversary celebration in 2025.

Presuming your founders are deceased, how has your Fraternity/Sorority interacted with the gravesites of your founders?

(Current situation for Alpha Phi Omega. Nine of fourteen gravesites are known of the student founders, one was WWII MIA and we know where he is commemorated, and one we know is buried on Barbados, no information for the remaining three. All Six Founding advisors, the gravesites are known)

Delta Gamma's 3 Founders were all from the same small town in MS and returned there. So all 3 are buried there. There is a Founders Room in the local cultural center which is the former Presbyterian Church they attended in Kosciusko, MS.

A state by state list of known Founder final resting places is here:

https://www.franbecque.com/state-sta...tour-npc-glos/

All seven of the founders of Sigma Chi have large memorials at their gravesites. Sigma Chi has booklet covering our monuments and memorials.

Since our undergraduate officer training happens in Ohio each year, many of the brothers (undergrad and alumnus) will stop and visit the site of our founding in Oxford, OH either on their way to Workshop or on their way home.

http://drupal.sigmachi.org/sites/def..._Sigma_Chi.pdf

An Alpha Phi founder is buried in a cemetery not too far from my alma mater. I know the Alpha Phi chapter sometimes visited the gravesite as a part of their Founders Day Celebration, I’m not sure if it was an annual tradition but some of my friends in the chapter would talk about it when they got home after the fact, I know it was a meaningful experience for their chapter and they were grateful to have the opportunity so close.

Remember when that psycho was perping ADPi and she had pictures of herself making diamonds by their founders' graves

All too well.

Phi Tau Founder William H. Shideler is buried in Oxford, Ohio. He's interred in Section 63, the the Miami University section. The defunct Western College for Women has a burial section too.
http://www.oxfordcemetery.org/intern...mi.1.BB-16.png

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...henry-shideler

Our other three founders are buried in other areas of the USA.

I believe that most, if not all of our Founders' gravestones have a medallion noting that they are Founders.

Helen M. Dodge - https://www.gammaphibeta.org/gpb/cdb...e-Last-Founder

E. Adeline Curtis - https://www.gammaphibeta.org/gpb/566...Gamma-Phi-Beta

Mary A. Bingham - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...ary-willoughby

Frances E. Haven - https://www.gammaphibeta.org/gpb/5b6...bering-Frances

Phi Mu
 

The graves of our three founders are each marked with a marble memorial in the shape of our badge. The three chandeliers in the dining hall of Wesleyan College also honor our three founders.

I've always liked that the graves of some of the Alpha Delta Pi and some of the Phi Mu founders are near each other in Macon, Georgia.

All SAI founders have a plaque at their gravesite that includes their name and designates them as a founder.

Mary Storrs Andersen
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/.../mary-andersen

Georgina Potts
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...georgina-potts

Elizabeth Campbell
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...eth-a-campbell

Frances Caspari
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...nces-e-caspari

Leila Farlin Laughlin
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...leila-laughlin

Nora Crane Hunt
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...ora-crane-hunt

Minnie Davis Sherrill
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...innie-sherrill

Founder Mother Fitzgerald, Alpha Delta Pi
 

https://www.kappaalphapsi1911.com/wp..._headstone.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...PXbmv9Zm4&s=10

Here’s one of The Ten Illustrious Founders of the greatest Fraternity on Earth.