Monday, Sep. 03, 1923

Pi Beta Phi

Not the first college graduate to be first lady of the land, but the first college sorority woman to possess that honor is Grace Anna Goodlove Coolidge. Before her. Mrs. Hayes, a graduate of Wesleyan Female College at Cincinnati, and Mrs. Cleveland, a graduate of Wells College at Auburn, N. Y., were college women. But Mrs. Coolidge is a graduate of the University of Vermont, 1902, and a Pi Beta Phi. In fact she is a charter member of her chapter which was organized in her home. (The President is a Phi Gamma Delta of Amherst.)

Mrs. Coolidge's sorority sisters include other prominent women: Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt (Iowa) ; Mary Brodhead Wallace (Iowa) and Ruth Wallace (Iowa and Goucher), wife and daughter of the Secretary of Agriculture; Alma Moser Reinsch (Wisconsin), wife of the former Minister to China.

The pin of Pi Beta Phi is a small gold arrow with the Greek letters on the feather. The sorority cheer is:

Ring, ching, ching,

Ho, hippy, hi,

Ra, Ro, Arrow,

Pi Beta Phi.