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My understanding (an assumption) is that when one national GLO absorbs another it's akin to a local becoming a chapter of a national--on a larger scale. Members, whether alumnae or collegian, must be initiated into the new group.
Frances Hashbarger, the woman who founded Theta Sigma Upsilon, lived at the end of my block when I lived in Pittsburg, Kansas in the early 1980's (hi, Tom!). She was quite elderly. I called on her one afternoon and had a lovely visit. As I recall, she said that in the 1950's the "Theta" leadership realized that though they had been successful as an AES (Assn. of Educational Sororities) organization, they could not be could not be competitive within NPC. Alpha Gamma Delta's ideals and purpose was aligned with TSU's and Frances knew that AGD was the best group for hers.
I wish I'd known more about conducting oral history interviews so I could have taken notes and made a transcription. But I didn't.
When Frances died the Quarterly listed her along with the all the other Chapter Grands. I suggested to someone at IHQ that an obituary would be in order--Frances did something very special!--but they didn't.
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