Thank you for the well wishes, everyone!
everyone who gave them, that is
I dug up the article on ISM that Nora Ten Broeck (our current national prez) wrote for the Phoenix several years ago. ISM was "elected to sorority membership" by Alpha and Pi Tau (later to be the Alpha Alpha) chapter in 1913, so yes, I would say she was initiated.
In the late 20s let's just say that she did some things that weren't the coolest and made several of the institutions where we had chapters question ASA as an entity. (I personally think her health problems played a part in some of the poor decisions she made.) In 1930 she was removed as president.
Yep it's not pretty, but I liken it to Donald Trump or someone coming in and saving your company when you're in trouble. (We had lost many of our earliest chapters in the South and were down to 4, three of which we surrendered to other groups. I believe ZTA also lost chapters at some of the same schools, due to the anti-Greek sentiments at the time.) It's hard for them to give it up and give it back to the members to run. I would never want to forget or sweep this part of our history under the rug, though - to me it fits perfectly with our symbol of the Phoenix rising from the ashes.
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