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Cutie Pie,
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Here are the answers to your other questions. I’m home now and have full access to the book.
1.) University of Washington: The advisability of going into the far Northwest with a chapter at Washington absorbed a session of heated debate. It was Susie Wegg Smith, Omega-Wisconsin, a name familiar in connection with the expansion question in earlier days, who had officially inspected the group and presented the case which won for the petitioners their charter. Delta Alpha, the local petitioning, had been organized in 1900 by Eleanor Hancock, a transfer from Michigan, with the express purpose of petitioning Delta Gamma. Finding the very active Delta Gamma, Mrs. Smith, was a happy discovery and probably the reason Delta Gamma was, by a few hours, the first national to enter the campus in 1901. This action too was to pave the way for our entering other fields in the far west.
After Convention, Susie Wegg Smith returned to Seattle to install Beta chapter – so named to honor Mrs. Smith’s and Mrs. Priest’s (the chapter patroness) Beta Theta Pi husbands.
2.) The University of Southern California was the Delta chapter from 1887 to 1897. Interestingly, the Delta chapter was first at Trinity College in Texas from 1880-1881 and then at Hanover College in Indiana from 1881-1887. So USC was the third Delta chapter. The current USC chapter, Alpha Nu, was formed from a local group called Beta Pi, which was established in 1902, five years after the Delta chapter was withdrawn from the USC campus. In 1909 Beta Pi became owners of their first house “The Pines.” By the early twenties, California’s potential for the future was apparent, and the Fraternity welcomed the opportunity to re-establish itself on the Southern California campus. And so Alpha Nu chapter was installed in 1922.
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