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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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or events:
“Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.”
—Alan Bennett (b. 1934)
“When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)