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:
“Sole and self-commanded works,
Fears not undermining days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape ... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.”
—Marilyn French (b. 1929)