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Originally posted by 33girl
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....We did have chapters at larger schools but this was when we were non-NPC. It's very odd to see obits for Bucknell alumnae and see "she was a member of Phi Mu and Alpha Sigma Alpha." There are still chapters of ASA at larger schools...
Alpha Sigma Tau is the other surviving member of the Association of Education Sororities. ... [/B]
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Yes, for a period of a bit over 30 years, from the mid 19-teens to 1947, teachers' colleges had a separate national sorority system, the Association of Education Sororities that 33Girl refers to. The AES sororites were
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Alphga Sigma Alpha
Alpha Sigma Tau
Delta Sigma Epsilon (founded 1914, merged into Delta Zeta 1956)
Pi Kappa Sigma (founded 1894, merged into Sigma Kappa 1959)
Theta Sigma Upsilon (founded 1921, merged into Alpha Gamma Delta 19959)
Pi Delta Theta (founded 1925, merged into Delta Sigma Epsilon 1941)
So the location of some of the chapters of DZ, AGD, and SK can also be explained by taking the prior history of schools as teachers' colleges into account. Of course, many former teachers' colleges are in no way "small" schools now.
And yes, during the period when NPC and the AES were separate, it was acceptable to have dual memberships in one NPC group and one AES group. That could happen when a woman transferred from a teachers' college to a school with NPC sororities, or vice versa.