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1953 Bowling Green State University (OH)
1958 Eastern Michigan University
1962 University of Bridgeport (CT)
*** 1967 Formation of the national organization ***
1970 Texas A&M University
The jump from Bowling Green, OH to Ypsilanti, MI seems very natural. They're only a couple of hours apart. And even the migration to Connecticut doesn't seem unusual. What I couldn't figure out was how those three little chapters wound up with a colony way down in Texas before the dawn of the digital age.
I finally got the answer to that question just a few years ago when I met the founder of that Texas A&M chapter. Apparently one of the APO brothers at TAMU was from New Jersey. After spending the summer at home and hearing about OPA from his girlfriend (who attended U Bridgeport), he came back to school and advised the APO Sweetheart to start one of those OPA sorority chapters at A&M.
That APO Sweetheart was the woman who told me the story 40 years later and she's still a sweetheart! I'm particularly grateful that APO wasn't coed for a few more years, because Pam would definitely have joined APO with her two older brothers. Even worse, she probably would not have founded the OPA chapter at A&M… the one where I first discovered OPA years later.
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