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Originally Posted by AGDAlum
According to WorldCat ( www.worldcat.org), at least 153 libraries own it.
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I did get the book via ILL. It's most interesting. Though it was published in 2003, the author focuses on the years 1895-1945. Some of the Chapter rolls (an appendix) go to 1968, with the statement, "Economic challenges of the 1930s and 1940's, and, to an even greater extent, the impact of the Vietnam War, student protest, and general campus upheaval in the late 1960s helped to bring about the expiration or consolidation of several of these groups....Several that do survive were nonsectarian in spirit and ritual from their origins or else can no longer be considered specifically Jewish groups. For the most up-to-date information available, readers should consult the national headquarters of the surviving groups."
I also noted this (p. 80): the first Jewish college sorority was founded in 1903...Called at first by the initials J.A.P. (the "Jay-ay-peez" and by 1913 renamed Iota Alpha Pi. "If [the term Jewish American princess] was used in conjuncition with J.A.P., howeever, it would soon have become incongruous, for the group's seniority in the sorority hierarchy did not guarantee it a reputation for affluence or outstanding social prestige....In 1942 a young woman about to be initiated...awaited the moment when the true secret meaning of the initials J.A.P. would be revealed to her. 'We are "Just a Plain Sorority,"' she was finally told--...in other words, just a group of good friends." So much for mystic mottoes!