Women were admitted with full status to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in the fall of 1902. The young women who enrolled at Miami University discovered that while the classes were open to them, there were no ready made campus organizations for them such as those enjoyed by the male students.
According to the September 19, 1902 diary entry of Founder Julia Bishop, she and the five other Founders (Alfa Lloyd, Mary Collins, Anna Keen, Anne Simmons and Mabelle Minton) met up that evening at Alfa Lloyd's home to have dinner together and to organize a sorority.
Our first public notice was in the October, 1902
Miami Student newspaper:
"On September 19, six of our progressive co-eds organized a sorority. It is a local organization at present but the girls hope to have sufficient success to warrant them putting chapters in other schools."
I'm pleased to say that they were, indeed, sufficiently successful!
