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The Gamma Beta Chapter had a copy of one of the earlier additions - a gift from an alum. It gives a brief history on each chapter - VERY interesting. Here is the entry from UC Santa Barbara as an example:
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In 1948, the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California was reconized for extension by the National Panhellenic Conference member fraternities. Seven of the eight local fraternities sought affilation with Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Phi, Chi Omega, Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Pi Beta Phi, and Sigma Kappa. It was Tau Gamma Sigma, one of the four pioneer groups which had been founded in 1924, that approached Alpha Phi. With strong alumnae chapters in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, the collegiate chapter had prospered throughout the years.
When only two years old Tau Gamma Sigma had moved into a rented chapter house and they continued to live there with local custom. For several years they had occupied a spacious three-story dwelling at 2532 State Street. They remained in this house until the 1960's when the chapter built a house at 840 Embarcadero Del Norte, in Isla Vista next to the UCSB campus.
The formal pledge service was held in the Beta Delta chapter house on the campus of UC Los Angeles on June 4th, 1949. Six months of preparation for membership in Alpha Phi followed. Then dawned the momentous day of the founding of the fraternities fiftieth chapter, January 27, 1950. The fraternities president, Margaret Coshun Hutchinson (Psi) presided over the initiation of sixteen collegiates and then of the thirty-one alumnae members of Tau Gamma Sigma.
The charter members of Gamma Beta chapter were Patricia Bowdey, Donna Clark, Marilyn Collins, Nancy Cramer, Peggy Crooks, Jo Ellen Dryden, Carlene Etter, Juanita Gebb, Ann Irvine, Marilyn Moore, Joan Schlegel, Marilyn Seavey, Elaine Strbel, Charlene Walker, Peggy Ward and Pat Young.
The initiation ceremony was held in the living room of the chapter house, which had been made ready by Beta Delta and Beta Pi girls who brought the necessary equipment with them from Los Angeles. For the banquet they adjourned to the Montecito Country Club where ninety-seven Alpha Phis gathered around tables which were aglow with silver and bordeaux in candles, white stock and red carnations, linked together with interwining branches of ivy. Patricia Bowdey, president of Gamma Beta chapter, graciously accepted gifts showered upon the group and expressed the depth of feelings aroused in the girls by the day's experiences.
The next morning the new initiates were interested spectators at a model chapter meeting conducted by the southern collegiates. In the afternoon they stepped into their role as representatives of Alpha Phi on the Santa Barbara campus when several hundred guests attended the reception given in their honor in their chapter house.
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