Famous Events
- First to have a national philanthropy, the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School in Gatlinburg, Tennessee (now the Arrowmont School for Arrow and mountain) From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont
- First to have a Canadian philanthropy, Northern Libraries Project (now Arrow in the Arctic)
- First to have an alumnae department
- First to form Alumnae Advisory Committees (AAC) to support collegiate chapters
- One of seven founders of the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC)
Second organization of college women to be founded as a national fraternity, after that of Kappa Alpha Theta. First to recognize the value of service of the alumnae by organizing alumnae department.
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“A famous theatrical actress
Played best in the role of malefactress.
Yet her home-life was pure
Except, to be sure,
A scandal or two just for practice.”
—Anonymous.
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—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)