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Originally Posted by ThetaPrincess24
I think it was Phi Chapter at Pacific.
Question: What fraternity was Bette Locke Hamilton's father a member of?
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FIJI or Phi Gamma Delta. I believe her older brother was also a FIJI.
Actually, the first California chapter is Omicron/Univ of Southern California. I love their link with Alpha chapter. Here is the factoid about USC: In 1887, Kappa Alpha Theta’s banner was raised at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles by Jennie Allen, Alpha's sixth initiate, who taught English at USC. In 1887, as the wife of USC’s president, Jennie Allen Bovard helped install Omicron Chapter, the first chapter west of the Rockies. Economic downturn forced the chapter to close in 1895, but the chapter returned to USC in 1917.
But you were VERY close with Phi/Univ of the Pacific. Their factoid: Phi Chapter was formed in 1889 at University of the Pacific in San Jose, California. In 1892 the charter was transferred to Stanford University. Phi remained at Stanford until 1944, when women's fraternities were abolished on that campus. In 1959, Phi was reestablished at University of the Pacific, by then located in Stockton, California.
Phi's 'offspring' chapter @ Stanford is explained thusly: In 1892, Kappa Alpha Theta was the first women's fraternity at Stanford University when Phi’s charter transferred to Palo Alto from the University of the Pacific. In 1944, Stanford banished all women's groups. When the ban was lifted, Theta returned. As a University of the Pacific chapter reclaimed the Phi name, the 1978 Stanford chapter became Phi deuteron, ‘Phi the second’.