Two-year college sororities

[Lafayette79]

Originally Posted by exlurker

I think that the type of two-year college that Sigma Iota Chi, Eta Upsilon Gamma, and so on existed at / thrived in has nearly or completely disappeared. Up until the 1960s or 1970s there were indeed regions of the country where a form of, frankly, "finishing school" for young women still enjoyed a certain popularity.

Centenary College of New Jersey was one of these schools. It's quite close to Lafayette and before Lafayette went coed, the Centenary women were popular on campus.

Miss America 1937 and Debbie Harry, lead singer of Blondie went there.

From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centena..._of_New_Jersey, Centenary College was founded in 1867 by the Newark Conference of the United Methodist Church. Centenary has evolved from a coeducational preparatory school to a girls' preparatory school (1910), to a Junior college for women (1940), to a four-year women's college (1976), to a coeducational baccalaureate-degree-granting institution (1988) and finally to a master-degree-granting institution (1995).