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:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematising the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray’s Anatomy.”
—J.G. (James Graham)