The first sorority to demand equal rights

[ISUKappa]

Originally Posted by barbino

Pi Beta Phi had a famous early feminist, Carrie Chapman Catt, who founded the League of Women's Voters. I know that she was quite well known at the University of Iowa; I believe that there is a building named after her. I did a paper on her a few years ago, I should remember more because it impressed my fem theory prof. I was just excited to know that there was a Pi Phi involved in the movement.

Psst - Carrie Chapman Catt was a member of Iowa Gamma (chartered as Mu chapter of IC Sorosis/Pi Beta Phi) at Iowa State Agricultural College, now known as Iowa State University. Catt hall is a lovely old building that houses Liberal Arts and Sciences and has a beautiful engraved brick "Plaza of Heroines."

Definitely *not* the University of Iowa, as any good Iowa State grad will tell you.

[barbino]

Originally Posted by ISUKappa

Psst - Carrie Chapman Catt was a member of Iowa Gamma (chartered as Mu chapter of IC Sorosis/Pi Beta Phi) at Iowa State Agricultural College, now known as Iowa State University. Catt hall is a lovely old building that houses Liberal Arts and Sciences and has a beautiful engraved brick "Plaza of Heroines."

Definitely *not* the University of Iowa, as any good Iowa State grad will tell you.

Thanks-
I did not do the research over before I posted & thought that it might have been Iowa State - I checked with Wikipedia later & knew that it was wrong- but at least I got the state right. It also seems that Carrie Chapman Catt was an associate of Susan B. Anthony.

[oncegreek]

I couldn't any reference to this anywhere else in this thread, but Kappa Alpha Theta has a very famous, and influential, early member. Julia Morgan was a famous architect in the early twentieth century,and she was a member of the Berkeley Theta chapter. Morgan studied architecture at Berkeley, and later in Paris. She designed the Theta house at Cal (I read this somewhere), and most of the buildings at Mills College in Oakland. Julia Morgan is best known for designing Hearst Castle.