So I was just going through some old emails and I stumbled upon one from a couple of years ago. One of my great-grandmothers and her sister (my great aunt) were Theta's at Newcomb College of Tulane in the teens of the 1900s. Anyway, I went to the current website of Theta at Tulane (Alpha Phi Chapter) and I read that they use to be a local before they were absorbed by Theta in 1914. The Alpha Phi chapter was a chapter of Phi Mu Gamma. From Baird's "Phi Mu Gamma was founded at Hollins College, VA October 17th 1898 by Maud M Johnson, Elizabeth Cooley, Pearl S. Penn, Mona House, Daisibelle Cooley, Lois K. Sykes, Lizzie Leigh Wood, and Daisibelle Estes. The Tulane chapter started in 1910. The Tulane chapter entered Kappa Alpha Theta, the Brenau chapter united with a chapter of Beta Sigma Omicron to form a local Phi Beta. The Judson chapter entered Delta Delta Delta. The periodical journal of the fraternity is called the Argaliad and is published quarterly. The badge of the fraternity consists of three graduated shields superimposed one above the other. The largest is of gold and is set with pearls and turquoise. Upon this rests a shield of black enamel and upon the latter another of gold bearing the Greek letters of the fraternity's name in black enamel. The colors are turquoise blue and black the flower is the forget-me-not."
Anyway, I just thought this was interesting and I wanted to share. Here is the information about my great-grandmother and great aunt that were Theta's. My great-grandmother died when I was about 14 and I wish I would have asked her about her days in Theta. I never knew my great-aunt, but she was apparently very involved with Theta after college.
My great-grandmother was initiated on 10/14/1916, Alpha Phi Chapter. There are a few references to her in the Kappa Alpha Theta Magazine. (Theta Headquarters was kind enough to send me copies of this and about my great aunt!)
My great aunt was initiated on 9/22/1920, Alpha Phi Chapter. She served as District President from 1929-1933. The accompanying article reflected her active life at that point – playing athletics in college and continuing as an alumnae basketball and baseball player. It says that she was also very active in the Girl Scouts.
ETA: Found a picture of Phi Mu Gamma at Shorter College
http://www.archive.org/stream/argo912rich
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