Sorority women in the White House

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Lucy Webb Hayes, wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes, was an honorary initiate into Kappa in 1880.

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Grace Goodhue Coolidge was a charter member of the Vermont Beta chapter of Pi Beta Phi. In her official portrait (where she is wearing a red dress with a white dog), she is wearing her Pi Phi badge. According to a Time Magazine article dated September 3, 1923, she was in fact the first sorority woman to be First Lady.