Goucher College - One of the few women's colleges to have had NPC chapters

[OleMissAnchor]

(1) I am from the deep south ('bout drivin' distance to Louisiana), so when researching DG's chapter there I thought it was pronounced GO-SHAY, a-la-Cajun French. My Northern alumnae sisters had quite a giggle at my expense.

(2) If you're not a DG or a Greek history buff, you may not know Delta Gamma's original chapter was the Psi chapter, formed at the Lewis School for Girls in Oxford, MS. The original chapter closed in 1889. The DG chapter at Goucher received the mother chapter's letter, Psi. It is usually referred to as Psi II-Goucher. Unfortunately the chapter closed in 1950. The University of Mississippi chapter had already been formed (1927) and was not able to receive the letter, as Goucher was still active. So we settled for Alpha Psi, a nice compromise between Alpha (traditional name for a mother chapter) and Psi, our original founding chapter's letter, while also acknowledging that the Ole Miss chapter is a sort of "legacy," but not the true original chapter.

[nyapbp]

Originally Posted by OleMissAnchor

(1) I am from the deep south ('bout drivin' distance to Louisiana), so when researching DG's chapter there I thought it was pronounced GO-SHAY, a-la-Cajun French. My Northern alumnae sisters had quite a giggle at my expense.


(2) If you're not a DG or a Greek history buff, you may not know Delta Gamma's original chapter was the Psi chapter, formed at the Lewis School for Girls in Oxford, MS. The original chapter closed in 1889. The DG chapter at Goucher received the mother chapter's letter, Psi. It is usually referred to as Psi II-Goucher. Unfortunately the chapter closed in 1950. The University of Mississippi chapter had already been formed (1927) and was not able to receive the letter, as Goucher was still active. So we settled for Alpha Psi, a nice compromise between Alpha (traditional name for a mother chapter) and Psi, our original founding chapter's letter, while also acknowledging that the Ole Miss chapter is a sort of "legacy," but not the true original chapter.

My mother-in-law, the GO-SHAY alumna, insisted her granddaughter tour the school. I mentioned it to my sister, who had never heard of the school. She immediately called it Gaucho, like the peanut butter cookies (perhaps once made by Burry, but I could be wrong about that), and couldn't fathom why we would even go out of our way from Illinois to Connecticut to tour the school. We did the tour on a Saturday morning and never once got out of the car. We never saw anyone during our auto tour, but we could honestly say we toured it. When my daughter and I talk about Goucher, we refer to it as Gaucho. (My apologies to all Goucher alums who read this - make all the jokes you want to about my alma mater.)

Thanks for the added info about Alpha Psi!